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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour from Canna City, the home
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  Speaker 1: of the Ben Mallard Chicken Fingers in Kansas City, right
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  Speaker 1: there the landing. We had a great Mallard meet and
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  Speaker 1: greet a couple of years back there. It was awesome. I
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  Speaker 1: had a couple of Mallard meet and greets in Kansas
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  Speaker 1: City over the years. Well, Travis Kelcey, Yeah, did he retire? No,
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  Speaker 1: he did not retire. He did not supposedly. The latest
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  Speaker 1: is Travis Kelcey and the chiefs are in deep conversation
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  Speaker 1: about the plans for the twenty twenty six season. Have
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  Speaker 1: you been following this now because you have a life,
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  Speaker 1: you're not following this. Let me fill you in, so
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  Speaker 1: I have you missed it now? Kansas City expects Travis
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  Speaker 1: Kelcey to play, supposedly, although they haven't gotten the official word.
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  Speaker 1: Oh the drama, so they haven't gotten the official word.
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  Speaker 1: They want a decision by the end of the week.
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  Speaker 1: By the end of the week, and they want to
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  Speaker 1: desis okay? So good? Okay? Now, that would give them
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  Speaker 1: if Kelsey decides to say X nay on the football
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  Speaker 1: a that would give them time to go out and
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  Speaker 1: turn over some rocks and try to find another tight
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  Speaker 1: end and look at the draft, the twenty six NFL
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  Speaker 1: Draft if they need to find a Success's kind of
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  Speaker 1: obvious there. But wait, there's more, as every great infomercial,
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  Speaker 1: the late night staple, the classic. But wait, there's more
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  Speaker 1: from Ron po Appeal, who was supposed to appear on
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  Speaker 1: my podcast and he decided not to do it and
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  Speaker 1: then died. How dare him anyway? State funded NFL Media.
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  Speaker 1: State funded NFL Media tells us that the Chiefs General Manager,
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  Speaker 1: Brett Veach, Brett Veach the GM there now he wants
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  Speaker 1: to make sure that Travis Kelcey is all in if
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  Speaker 1: he does end up playing in twenty twenty six. So
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  Speaker 1: that is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss
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  Speaker 1: the question. The Chiefs, according to this report, saying they
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  Speaker 1: want full commitment from Travis Kelcey for the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: six NFL season. How are you interpreting this? So I've
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  Speaker 1: got subpoena jello salad and dodgeball, and we will combine
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  Speaker 1: all of these things together and we are going to
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  Speaker 1: have a delicious grilled these sandwiches. What we're gonna have
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  Speaker 1: with the cheese on the outside and the inside of
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  Speaker 1: the grilled cheese. Now a looking at the situation in
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  Speaker 1: Kansas City, the Chief's Kingdom as they call it, from
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  Speaker 1: thirty thousand feet looking down here and then getting a
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  Speaker 1: little closer, and a little closer and a little closer.
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  Speaker 1: I see a house divided. Oh the drama I do.
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  Speaker 1: I see a house divided. To me, this one doesn't
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  Speaker 1: pass the smell test. Now, to the average consumer, you'll say, wow,
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  Speaker 1: what are you talking about, mallor you have big donkey,
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  Speaker 1: You don't know what you're talking about. There is just nothing.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's something there because I have a better
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  Speaker 1: schnaz than you do. I can smell. I can smell
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  Speaker 1: better than you. So this smells like the scent of
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  Speaker 1: passive aggressive behavior. See power play, power play if you
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  Speaker 1: will at one arrowhead drive there before they move to Kansas.
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  Speaker 1: Now the chiefs she am here, Brett V the man
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  Speaker 1: of the hour. He's out there playing mister nice guy.
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  Speaker 1: It's good cop, bad cop. He's being the nice guy,
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  Speaker 1: you know, good cop and all that. However, if you
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  Speaker 1: listen between the words, if you read between the lines,
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  Speaker 1: shall we what do you say here? When the jam?
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  Speaker 1: The general manager of an NFL team comes out and
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  Speaker 1: announces says, listen, I need this player to be a
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  Speaker 1: thousand percent all in. I need this player to be there.
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  Speaker 1: That is not a compliment. That is not a compliment.
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  Speaker 1: That is like issuing a subpoena, is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, hey, think about it seriously, when you peel
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  Speaker 1: back the onion, what do you get? Right? You don't
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  Speaker 1: have to ask the guy who's already in the gym
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  Speaker 1: at six in the morning if he's committed to the team.
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  Speaker 1: So by doing this, the obvious conclusion you connect the
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  Speaker 1: dots on this one, and the obvious connection is that, listen,
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  Speaker 1: you ask this guy who spent the last couple of
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  Speaker 1: years jet setting where it was the era's tour, traveling
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  Speaker 1: around the Globe game show, cheesy game shows, bad acting
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  Speaker 1: with Adam Sandler, all that stuff, right, and he spent
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  Speaker 1: more time, got more miles, more air miles than he
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  Speaker 1: did yards. His numbers say a lead balloon. It was
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  Speaker 1: not good. It was not good. So you know, you
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  Speaker 1: look at the tight end twenty twenty five, Travis Kelce
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  Speaker 1: was not good enough. He was multitasking and the brand
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. And so the chiefs, if you
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  Speaker 1: want to get next level dramatic, they're in the swifty standoff,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, ooh, because that big celebrity wedding coming
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  Speaker 1: up in the spring here and we're home, I mean
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  Speaker 1: not that far away, right, we're closing in on that,
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  Speaker 1: and so they need the tailor effect. The business side,
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  Speaker 1: they need that, right. The balance sheet says, let's go
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  Speaker 1: for it, let's do it. The football side, Yeah yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the football side, see's a thirty six year old or
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  Speaker 1: something like that, asset that's running on fumes. Whatever Kelsey is.
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  Speaker 1: He's getting up there, and the GM's essentially saying the
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  Speaker 1: way I use the Mallard Dakota ring. The general manager,
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  Speaker 1: Brettviach there is essentially saying, hey, Travis, yeah, it's it's me.
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  Speaker 1: I am the GM of the Chiefs. Okay, hey, what's
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  Speaker 1: going on the rock Star Live? Or the first hubby
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  Speaker 1: of the rock Star Life? That can wait, right, So
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  Speaker 1: either you put the glitter away, put the glitter away, uh,
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  Speaker 1: hit the hit the weights and all that stuff, or
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  Speaker 1: go be the first hubby full time. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: It's an awkward pickle, is what it is. There's never
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  Speaker 1: really a good pickle, So it's an awkward pickle. But
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  Speaker 1: Kansas City, you know, they want the after glove, the Chiefs.
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  Speaker 1: They want to continue this as long as they can
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  Speaker 1: of the Taylor's swift effect. However, they need an upgrade
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  Speaker 1: on the field. That's the problem. That's the conundrum. That's
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  Speaker 1: the conundrum right there, it's time to decide to need
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  Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame career. Blah blah blah blah blah
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  Speaker 1: blah blah. Hadn't been a Hall of Fame level player
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  Speaker 1: the last couple years, though, Kelsey, and so what are
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  Speaker 1: you gonna do? What are you gonna do? Meanwhile, speaking,
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  Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? Now? When I saw this,
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  Speaker 1: I thought, well, this must be satire, this story out
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  Speaker 1: of Minnesota. But there's a lot of stories out of
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota that make me roll my eyes, but this one
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  Speaker 1: in particular. So the Vikings are window shopping for a
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  Speaker 1: savvy veteran starting quarterback, at least a former starting quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: so they they know they need some insurance. They need
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of insurance there for McCarthy. Actually need
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  Speaker 1: a lot of insurance for JJ McCarthy, not a little
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  Speaker 1: bit a lot of insurance for JJ McCarthy. And the
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  Speaker 1: story that was very arrogant. It was like, Wow, they
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  Speaker 1: think that they're they've got had such great coaches and
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  Speaker 1: they've got justin Jefferson that they can pretty much bring
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  Speaker 1: in any Schmo and whatever dingle Berry they pick will
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  Speaker 1: put up big numbers and lead them to victory because
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  Speaker 1: they've got talent, they've got coaching and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And the name that popped up here, the name that
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  Speaker 1: popped off, I saw that you see this, No Geno Smith?
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  Speaker 1: Geno Smith? Is that not comedy gold? My god? So good? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the Raiders score. So the quarterback Gino Smith, who was
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  Speaker 1: not very good in Seattle and approved, he wasn't very
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  Speaker 1: good with the Raiders, and he is a person of
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  Speaker 1: interest for the Purple people eaters all right question. So
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  Speaker 1: the Vite, if you believe the chatter, are interested in
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  Speaker 1: Raiders quarterback Gino Smith, who will likely be released, better
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  Speaker 1: known as fired from his job there in Vegas. So
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  Speaker 1: how does that taste? How does that the fact that
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  Speaker 1: the Vikings are being connected? Get your skull out right
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  Speaker 1: now to Geno Smith. So you're telling me that's the
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  Speaker 1: grand plan. Come on, like, that's the big Nordic reboot
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  Speaker 1: in Minnesota. This is what you're gonna do, and you
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  Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy, but well, we're gonna bring in Geno Smith? Really?
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  Speaker 1: Is that right? You know what that tastes like? That
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  Speaker 1: tastes like liverwurst and in jello salad, is what it
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  Speaker 1: tastes like. Right, It's stomach turning. It's absolute stomach turning.
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  Speaker 1: It's puke in your mouth. And I got nothing. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not a Viking guy or anything like that. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: a Viking fan, and I have friends in Minnesota and
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  Speaker 1: all that, but my god, like this is so over
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  Speaker 1: the top. You want to believe that this was one
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  Speaker 1: of those stories that was put out there by the
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  Speaker 1: agent hoping that it leads to something. Right, that the
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  Speaker 1: agent leaked it, and that says hey, float the Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: connect it to Gino Smith. Maybe someone will bite there
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  Speaker 1: in Minnesota and say that's a good idea. Now the
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  Speaker 1: alternative is also ridonculous. Kyler Murray yep, fun sized quarterback
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  Speaker 1: Kyler Murray. He comes with a booster seat. If you
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  Speaker 1: get him in a trade, the Cardinals will throw that
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  Speaker 1: in the booster seat. So there is that. So can
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  Speaker 1: you imagine choosing if those are your options? You've got
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  Speaker 1: Kyler Murray and Geno Smith. So what I'd rather have
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  Speaker 1: the mutant fungus which is over here? Or do I
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  Speaker 1: want the bubonic plague bacteria which is over here? Which
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  Speaker 1: one would I like? That is such a horrific combo
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  Speaker 1: dish if those are your options you're considering. If you're
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  Speaker 1: the Vikings, my unsolicited advice would to go out and
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  Speaker 1: get Kirk Cousins and bring him back. Not that he's
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  Speaker 1: any good, but I'd rather have him than Gino Smith
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  Speaker 1: or Kyler Murray. At least he likes football, unlike Kyler
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  Speaker 1: Murray and Gino Smith's just bad at least occasionally. Kirk
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  Speaker 1: Cousins is halfway decent and Geno Smith. You think about
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  Speaker 1: his signature marmot with the Raiders, it was giving the
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  Speaker 1: bird to Raider fans. That was it. And then in Seattle,
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  Speaker 1: his signature moment was after the first game he played
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  Speaker 1: against the Broncos when he gave this big speech about
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  Speaker 1: how nobody believed in me and all that, and then
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  Speaker 1: the rest of his time in Seattle proved that those
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  Speaker 1: people were right by being a middling quarterback. So good anyway.
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  Speaker 1: So that's where we are. That's where we are, Gino Smith.
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  Speaker 1: When the pocket collapses, he is gift wrappeding turnovers. It's
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  Speaker 1: like he's Santa Claus there. You get a turnover, you
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  Speaker 1: get a turnover, you get a turnover. Good luck on that.
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  Speaker 1: And the decision making, which melts faster than the ice
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  Speaker 1: over there on Lake Minnetonka in April. So, and he's
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  Speaker 1: been bad, Genos with the last year was like the
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  Speaker 1: new level of bad. It was the new level of bad.
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  Speaker 1: Fewer yards, more interceptions. Team was terrible. He was horrific.
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  Speaker 1: And so they say, well, he's a bridge quarterback. I
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  Speaker 1: love when people say Gino Smith is a bridge quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: It's a drawbridge to nowhere with a hole in it.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the kind of drawbridge quarterback. He's meanwhile to Motown.
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  Speaker 1: We go. We got a trade. We got to trade
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  Speaker 1: hours after we did a Mallard monologue least part of
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  Speaker 1: a Mallard monologue about David Montgomery. He's a running back,
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  Speaker 1: David Montgomery. He's been traded bye bye to Detroit, say
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to be traded. Lions trading running back David
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  Speaker 1: Montgomery to the Houston Texans for offensive lineman Juice Scrugs.
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  Speaker 1: Any relation to newist Scrugs, I don't know. Juice Scrugs
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  Speaker 1: and a couple of draft picks. Nothing really worth our time.
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  Speaker 1: A fourth round pick. If you're into fourth round draft picks,
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  Speaker 1: I recommend a nice therapist is what I recommend. Also
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  Speaker 1: a seventh round draft pick. Well, that's even better, and
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  Speaker 1: that's not till twenty twenty seven. So Montgomery on the move. Question,
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  Speaker 1: who got the better of this David Montgomery trade between
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  Speaker 1: the Lions and the Texts. So after eight minutes long
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  Speaker 1: deliberation of the available information, I've seen some people saying, Wow,
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  Speaker 1: the Lions got the better of the trade. I'm like, really,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see it that way. It's cute, Like the
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  Speaker 1: whole trade, it's not a big trade. Or anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: Let me talk about it for a couple minutes. Because
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  Speaker 1: we talked about David Montgomery in a previous episode of
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  Speaker 1: the show. This comes after he had said that the
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  Speaker 1: report was he wanted out of Detroit, and he said, nah,
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  Speaker 1: he refuted that, and then hours later he's traded. And
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  Speaker 1: so the winner's corner to me, the arrow is pointing
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  Speaker 1: towards Houston. It's a slight lean. It's not like this
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  Speaker 1: is going to change all that much, but the slight
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  Speaker 1: lean there. David Montgomery is not some spare part that
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  Speaker 1: Houston found in the trunk next to the spare tire.
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  Speaker 1: It's not that. The moment, and this is what really
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  Speaker 1: leaned it the direction of the Texans for me, the
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  Speaker 1: moment I saw the messaging from the Lions front office,
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  Speaker 1: the whispers of salary cap relief and we save some money,
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  Speaker 1: gotting rid of David Montgomery. That is called playing dodgeball
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  Speaker 1: with the truth. And anytime I hear a team say
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  Speaker 1: we got rid of this player because of the salary cap,
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  Speaker 1: I know bull crap. I know it's bull crap. It's
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  Speaker 1: the magic phrase that you can use to justify anyone
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  Speaker 1: leaving your team anything that maybe will be deemed unpopular,
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  Speaker 1: that might be unpopular. Well, you know, it's the perfect boogeyman.
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  Speaker 1: You go, yeah, but Sara Cap, you have it, you
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  Speaker 1: have it, you have it, they have it, Rabbit, you
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  Speaker 1: have it, Salary Cap, Saba Cap. And then dumb people
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  Speaker 1: they just believe it. They accept it, they move on
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  Speaker 1: and they say that's that. And listen, do I think
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  Speaker 1: Detroit believes that Montgomery's cooked? Absolutely? They don't want to
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  Speaker 1: say that. So when they say they said, ah, Salary Capp,
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  Speaker 1: believe no. If they thought he was still good, he'd
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  Speaker 1: be on the team. They think he's done. Do you
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  Speaker 1: trust the Detroit Lions? Do they know what they're doing?
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  Speaker 1: Do they know? I would think he can still be
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  Speaker 1: at least a short yardergh goal line guy and get
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  Speaker 1: touchdowns that way and be a wrecking ball type running
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  Speaker 1: back David Montgomery. I think he's twenty nine next season.
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  Speaker 1: So the Lions again, the cap excuse. This is just
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  Speaker 1: my default programming. When you hear the cap excuse dead,
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  Speaker 1: you whit dead. You're right that they are resh the narrative.
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  Speaker 1: They're they're manipulating the narrative to fit it because they're
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  Speaker 1: a little scared. I said, well, we'll just say the Salvarycap,
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  Speaker 1: Salvy Cap, Sabcap, Salvy Cap, Savcap, Salbycap. All right, So
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  Speaker 1: the Texans traded also the the offensive lineman they traded.
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  Speaker 1: According to the the scouting report, juice sugs. The cops
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  Speaker 1: on him are an orange traffic cone would be as effective.
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  Speaker 1: So that's good luck. I'm sure he's a nic good name.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you can play. We don't really
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  Speaker 1: break down offensive lineman other than the draft or when
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  Speaker 1: they're terrible, and he sounds, accordingly what I read, he
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  Speaker 1: was not very good.
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour from pro bouncy Ball. What
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  Speaker 1: are you talking about basketball? For Mike, I calm down.
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  Speaker 1: We have other things playing, but I wanted to start
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  Speaker 1: with basketball. I thought this was interesting. The story out
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  Speaker 1: of the Bay Area as the Golden State Warriors are
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  Speaker 1: morphing back to the Adonal Foyle Warriors. Where is Mike
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  Speaker 1: Montgomery bring him back as the coach? My god, horrific? Horrific.
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  Speaker 1: The Warriors were leading the Clippers at one point by seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: They ended up getting out scored by twenty seven points
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  Speaker 1: in the second half. On a random, random Monday night,
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  Speaker 1: got smoked by the People's team and the Clippers end
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  Speaker 1: up winning that game going away. Now, Steph Curry is
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  Speaker 1: some chat he's gonna be shut down for another couple
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  Speaker 1: of days and there's a talk that he's not gonna
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  Speaker 1: play again this year. What's the point by the time
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  Speaker 1: he gets back, the Warriors are going to be charbroiled.
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  Speaker 1: It's a mess. It's a mess. So if you haven't
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  Speaker 1: heard the latest though on how to fix the mess
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  Speaker 1: in San Francisco and the adjacent area there. So if
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  Speaker 1: you have not as the world turns in pro bouncy ball,
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  Speaker 1: who are Steph Curry and Draymond Green expected to put
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  Speaker 1: a full court press on to try to recruit ding
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  Speaker 1: Ning Ning Ning Ning, Yes, Lebron, James, Lebron, Gabe, come
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  Speaker 1: on down, Lebron, Come on down. Yes, here you go
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  Speaker 1: as much sour no bread as you want. Come on down.
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  Speaker 1: You need any fentanyl, just go to anywhere you want. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you're in LA you can get fentanyl there too, But there,
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  Speaker 1: come to San Francisco, Lebron, Come on, man, what's not
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  Speaker 1: what's not the like about that? So, as Lebron most
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  Speaker 1: think is done with the Lakers, he'll be leaving at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the year, and he enters the free
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  Speaker 1: agent marketplace. The rumblings are that Steph Curry and Draymond Green,
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  Speaker 1: who's already buddies, Draymond's buddy buddy with Lebron, right, they
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  Speaker 1: love each other, yeah, best friends, And so they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: put the pressure on Lebron to come play in northern California.
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  Speaker 1: So that is a good jumping off point. Let's play
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: some make believes sports talk radio. What do you say?
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: That's fun? Right? All right, So let's discuss the question
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: what would Lebron James going to Golden State look like
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: with Steph Curry and Draymond Green. So I've got Gia
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Delli Peek a Boo and Marie Antoinette, and we will
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: combine all of these things together and we are going
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: to go ABC and one, two three. But you always
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: have to start with number one. I said number one number.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: So it would look like a remake of a film
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: that's already been remade at least once, if not twice.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: You remember this came out about ten years ago. There
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: was a film called Going in Style. Do you remember?
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: That was a bank heist movie. You don't remember that.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: So it had Morgan Freeman and Michael Kine were the
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: headliners in that movie, and some other old dude. But
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: you know they went around and rob banks. You know,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: a bunch of legends. In this case, instead of going
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: in Style, it would be let me bring my AA
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: RP card in terms of at least basketball, and you'd
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: have Lebron, Steph and Draymond Green rolling down Lombard Street
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: in a rented convertible yelling we still got it, We
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: still got it, No, you don't, we still got it. No,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: you don't. In football if you're an old timer. There
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: was a team called the Washington Redskins that had a
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: big fan base, won Super Bowls, and then the Wolkesters said,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: you can't be called that, so they changed the name.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Now nobody knows who's on the team. Nobody knows who
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: the team is, but they spelled the Redskins. And his
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: co coach, who loved old time players, he brought all
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: those old players from the Rams, George Allen, to the Redskins,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: and they were nicknamed the over the Hill Gang. So
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: this would be the basketball version of the Over the
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Hill Gang meets the Silicon Valley Venture capitalists be the
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: way to go, and you three either completely washed up
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: or close to washed up. Players trying to chase one
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: last giant bag of Gearedelli chocolate down near Fisherman's Wharf
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: and Gharededelli Square. Just trying to get that one last
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: big bag of chocolate sounds great, sounds wonderful until someone
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: has a hammy go whammy, and then it's a problem.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: In the fog. Their hammy goes whammy right in the fog.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: It's not good. This, for my purposes, would be a
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: great Mitzvah. I think about it. These guys get together,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, these knuckleheads, a highly combustible situation, highly canstible situation.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: If these guys get together one bad loss and then
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Draymond goes on that podcast and all of a sudden
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: he starts ranting, and it's like a hostage situation. It's
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: not right. It's just a mess basketball. From a basketball standpoint,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: it's about as bad as it could possibly get. Right.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Three guys trying to outthink Father Time in the NBA
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: in the shadow of the bay bridge right there. Okay,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: so we have the opening scene. I will take like
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: a drone shot down the bay Bridge down and then
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: round where the arena is. That's the opening shot. We
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: do know that Lebron, I don't know if you heard
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: about this kind of has a big ego. You didn't
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: know that. Oh my god, you did not know that. Yeah,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: so Lebron, And to be fair, I think most people
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: like to be recruited Lebron in particular, to be courted
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Lebron James being courted by Steph and Draymond Green putting
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: the razzle dazzle on these guys and recruiting them to
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: a Cooper Tino startup, you know, fundraising thing. Hey, Lebron,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: come out, there's some tech people. Okay, I'll go out,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: why not? What the hell?
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: There?
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: You go? Now when the dust settles, though, I am
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: not changing my position. I am locked in and I
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: am not changing my position that all roads for Lebron
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: lead back to Cleveland, that he's going to complete the circle.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: And you complete the circle by going back there and
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: forcing the Calves to take Bronnie James on, because that's
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: the only way Bronni will stay in the NBA. Otherwise
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: he'll be never play another game in the NBA without Lebron,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: So bring him in there. And the reason you go
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: to Cleveland is even though they got James Harden, he'll
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: be gone after this year. But you bring you bring
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Lebron in there because they got Spider Mitchell. He got
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: some younger guys and they're they're more in the prime
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: ability athletically, so that would be the way to go.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Fresher lets eggs generally works out pretty well in that business.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: The whole warrior thing, the thing of a jig with
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: the Golden State Warriors, like you toss Lebron in there
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: and again it would be wonderful from my job because
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: these guys would be at each other's necks. They'd be
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: be complete chaos, and chaos is good talk radio. Again,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: a terrible idea in terms of actually trying to win,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: but if you're just trying to get headlines, boy, that
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: would be the way to go now. Page two, tal
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: La Land follow up follow up a story the other
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: night as Lebron's buddy there who got they're not really friends.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: In fact, it looks like they don't like each other
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: at all. But Luca Luka Hooka, Luca Hooka, Luca not
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: having a lot of fun right now in Lakerland. Remember
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: those stories that were planted by Lucas people before the year.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: He's in the greatest shape of his life. Oh my god,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Luca Luca. Yeah, he was in like the health magazines.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: He went to a Yankee game, went in the booth
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: with Michael Kay and they were all bragging and all that.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: And while the stats are pretty good for Luca, he's
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: not in any of the conversations for the MVP Award,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: and it appears he's not having much fun. He's not
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: having much fun, So we didn't get too much into it.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: In a previous episode of the show. But during a
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: recent Laker game, LUKEA. Doncik and JJ Reddick appeared to
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: get into a dust up as Luca was not having
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: any of what JJ Reddick was serving. You had to
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: have somebody step in as a peacemaker between those two. Now,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: immediately the basketball community rallied around and most of the
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: talk was it's not done, big a deal, What are
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: you doing it? What was wrong with you? Now? Others
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: were concerned about this argument. This is not this is
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: not a great look. This is not a great look.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Luca the star player and JJ Reddick. So agent Rich
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Paul Lebron's tody, the guy that's ridden Lebron's coattails and
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: made a fortune from the Lebron True True train. Yes,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: so Rich Paul claimed that the interaction between Luca and
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: jj Reddick, he claimed, was part of a healthy relationship.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm not making this up, all right. So question,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: You've got Luka Doncik and JJ Reddick clearly beefing during
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: a Laker game, during a Laker game, and the agent
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: for Lebron's like, oh no, this is all healthy? Here?
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Is this something or is this nothing? Is it something
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: or nothing. So the errow on this one is pointed
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: at something. It was the Rich Paul quote it was
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: profound respect. He said, it was profound respect. That was
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: one of the quotes he gave there. So this becomes
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: a Peekaboo special. It's a Peekaboo special, as in a
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: peak behind the curtain, pinkaboo behind the curtain. And what
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: I saw from years and years of watching similar situations
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: in basketball and other sports, I saw two dudes who
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: cannot stand each other, and this was a flashpoint. This
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: was a flashpoint. Didn't like each other, and for a
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: few seconds, I don't know if it was six, ten,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: twelve seconds, whatever it was, these two guys forgot that
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: the red light is always on the camera. They're always
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: on camera. And what you saw there was reality. Luca
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: look like he had just had enough. He wanted no
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: more of podcast coach guy, the guy that got the
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: job because he's up to Lebron more than anybody. JJ Reddick,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: who should not be an NBA coach. I think he's
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: proven he shouldn't be an NBA coach by the job
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: that he's done with the Lakers. So Lucas, I don't
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: want to do with this guy. And Reddick also had
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: he give He just gives the punch me in the
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: phase vibe, doesn't he He's like, he's like the entitled
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: trust fund baby rich guy. Punch him in the face. Guy,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: that's JJ Redick. That's how he comes across. So and
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Reddick's like pouring gas on the fire. Yeah, the other
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: people it's like a you know, Villian thing where they
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: got to come in and interrupt these guys. So, my
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: theor is, you don't publicly snap like that knowing you're
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: on camera. You're it's in a game. Unless the wires
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: were already frayed. The wires were already frayed. And so
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: a healthy relationship, my fat ass healthy relationship. Come on,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: that's what you say when you go out there. You
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: punch a hole in the drywall, And he said, I
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: just remodeling, you know, just no, you were angry, you
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: punched the drywall. There's a hole in the drywall, get
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: it fix? Noh, no, no, no, I was just remodeling.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: It was I'm not sure what I'm gonna do with it,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: but I just want to remind well, no, that's what
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: you're doing. So if it's so healthy. If this is
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: so healthy between these two guys, right, why did they
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: go public with it? Right? Why did they go public?
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: I mean it's not they're not whispering, it's it's snarling. Right,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Normally you do this stuff behind closed doors. There are
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: people that hate each other all the time. In sports,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: you got to live together for six seven months, depending
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: on the sport there. You travel together planes, trains, and automobiles,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: and you don't like people normally you put up with.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Eventually you get fed up and you have a point
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: where you snap, or you're like Juan Soto of the
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Mets and you just have everyone you don't like traded
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: and Francisco Lindor because you don't like their politics or whatever,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: so you haven't traded other teams. That's what the Mets did.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: But the Lakers they just had a They had a
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: meltdown right there, and just Luca had that. He didn't
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: look inspired, let's put it that way. He looked irritated.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: He looked irritated to me. And sometimes you say it's passion.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: I didn't get the vibe. This was passion. I did not.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: It was contempt of podcast coach guy, contempt of podcast
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: coach guy. And so there you go. And the good
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: news is rhetical be fired, Lebron will be gone, Htic
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: will be back on television, and then some other JABBRONI
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: will be coaching the Lakers next year. All right, now,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: final point, I wanted to mention this. Several people have
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: sent me emails on this. We did not talk about
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: it in the previous episode of the show, but we'll
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: talk about it here because I just so you stop
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: sending me messages about it, because I'll address it. So
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: we go to baseball Saint Louis, Missouri, where the Cardinals
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: the Redbirds announced over the weekend a new ticket option
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: that offers bottomless soft drinks and various ballpark foods. Yeah, yeah,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: including in the price, which I believe it is twenty
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: nine dollars. You get a seat in Big Macland, they
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: give you a wristband. Now this has happened. Dodgers used
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: to do this back in the day, and it allows
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: the fan to return to a specific concession stand as
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: many times as they want at no additional charge. Now
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: they have a variety of food items that are available. However,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: you have to limit it to three items. So twenty
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: nine dollars you get three items and you get your
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: standard hot dog, popcorn, you've got soft drinks, you got
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: all this stuff on there, chicken fingers, all that. But
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: you can only choose three per game. So that's it.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Three items. That's an art question. Can you explain what
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: signal the Saint Louis Cardinals are sending their fans by
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: adding this all you can eat section? Yeah, so this
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: is the signal. Is a flare gun from the Cardinals
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: right in the night sky. It's a dog whistle, is
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: what it is. It's not not just for the canines
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: on the field, because I'm old enough to remember when
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: the Cardinals used to win a lot and they had
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: good teams, and they don't anymore. They suck, they're bad.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: You know that roster does not look like a playoff roster,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: and they might want to give fans as they leave
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: the stadium a flea bath when you leave the stadium
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: because you're likely covered in fleas watching that Cardinal team
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: out there playing baseball. But this is the baseball version
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: when you announce and all you can eat section. It's
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: the baseball version of a white flag in March. It
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: is The Dodgers used to have this when they weren't winning.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: They got rid of it and they started winning the
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: World Series. Of course they bought all the good players,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: but they got rid of it. When your team, this
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: is a malarism, when your team starts pushing bottomless, broughtworst
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: and ice cream cups. Dead Dear Wight, Dead, dear Wight. Yeah,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: it's a long standing belief of mine. When teams suck,
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: you lean into this kind of stuff. You cannot put
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: a competitive team on the field, so you lean into
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Ring of Honor. You retire numbers from the glory days,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: you have more bobblehead nights like the Angels do. Because
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: the moms in Orange County don't care if they win
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: or not. They just want to take their kids to
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: a ball game, and they don't really care who wins
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: because it's Anaheim, it's Orange County. And then I toss
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: in that same family the all you can eat, but
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: the all you can eat ticket, which is it's like
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: the Marie Antoinette of Major League Baseball. Let them eat winners,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: let them eat notcho cheese from a pump. It's probably
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: older than your kids and your grandkids and all that.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: That's cardinal baseball. Baby, there you go, you show up
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: the size of a small pony, and by the time
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: you're done with the all you can eat, you leave
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: as big as one of those bite Budweiser Clydesdale's. You're
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: just massive. They have to roll you in a wheelbarrow
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: out of the state. You're that big, right, and they're
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: still gonna make money. I'm not gonna do the rant
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: here you I've done it on my podcast The Fifth Hour,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: like how buffets make money and what's the business model
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: and all that. It's mostly cheap filler food. It's mostly
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: cheap filler food, high calorie, low cost, and they know
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: that you really only have a finite time Like buffets
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: used to have endless there was no time limit, and
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: then they added a time limit. So you go to
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: like these buffets and it's like you got two hours
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: or two and a half, three hours to eat, Well,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: it's about the time of a baseball game, and it
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: could be even less than that. Baseball now has a
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: clock and sometimes these games end in less than two hours.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: So you better go there, and you've got to starve
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: yourself for a day or so, do that interminute fasting
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: and then go for it.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
• 34:51
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• 34:56
  Speaker 1: How about that?
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: To the third degree is one big?
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: Ben gets quiet.
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: TMZ recently caught up with Michael Irvin, who had a
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: bold prediction for his alma mater. He thinks that Miami
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: will go undefeated in twenty twenty six, Ben, what odds
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: do you give that up?
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Happening? Let's go with what is less than zero? They're
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: not gonna go under. And asking Michael Irvin about the
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: University of Miami football team, come on, isn't he a
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: part of the cheerleading squad there at Miami? They'll have
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: a good team and they're not gonna go undefeated. No
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: one's gonna go undefeated.
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: Next, it's impossible to deny that Zion Williamson his injury prone. However,
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: the narrative that bothers him the most is that he
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: doesn't care about not being on the court. He said,
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: quote as much as my critics hate it, I hate
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: it more.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: Ben. Do you believe him? No, your actions speak louder
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: than your words to say, well, I hate this, I
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: don't like this. But the things that he does have
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: indicated he doesn't care that much. Does he care more
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: than Anthony Davis? Yes, he does, But you know there's
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: this gray area there. And look at when Zion he
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: only played a few games at Duke and he was
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: awesome to watch him play. And you thought about this
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: guy's going to take the NBA by storm, and uh,
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: the only thing he's taking by storm has been the buffet.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: That's it. Next.
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: The former longtime MLB umpire Jim Joyce, was recently asked
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: about the implementation of the ABS challenge system this season.
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: He said he thinks the system will actually prove how
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: great umps are. What's an incredibly difficult job?
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: Is he right? Well, so far, the umps have been
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: getting absolutely cooked in spring training, so we'll see when
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: the regular season starts. There's a lot of like minor
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: league umpires and all that. I'm going to go that
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: the umps are not gonna like this by the time
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: we're done. How do we know? How do we know?
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: Pass cod I cover that combien a comida.
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• 36:55
  Speaker 1: All right, are these the guys we're gonna have played
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: the game? I don't know. I don't know, but we'll see.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: I guess they want to play, so we'll have him play.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: All right, let's introduce them real quick here, and let's
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: see who do we have. We've got d Block in Miami. Hello,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: d Block in Miami. Welcome sir, Good morning, sir, Happy Tuesday,
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: Happy too, Happy Tuesday. This is a very important game
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: to me. You're not gonna hear. You're not gonna fights
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: around with this, right, You're gonna try. You know your sports,
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: You're ready to go. Yes, I'm one. Let's go on,
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: and what is your level of confidence that you're going
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  Speaker 1: to win the game. Let's do this? Okay? All right?
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Who would you like to partner up with their D block?
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: You got me Ben or the Kooper Loop? All right,
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: it's a good choice by you. And we have a
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Jed who actually was online to play Mallards Mount of Money.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: Hello Jed, welcome back. I mean Ice is a metaphor
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: for Mitchell Crip sad of me? Am I not supposed to.
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  Speaker 2: Go to the agency or what?
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  Speaker 1: All right? Come down?
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  Speaker 3: Are you?
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  Speaker 1: Was't mintioned, I'm sorry, I like you as a guy hockey. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: what are the categories? Not?
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  Speaker 4: Okay? Okay, uh, this is Malard's Mountain of money. The
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  Speaker 4: method Man edition method Man not not meth Man, Jed
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  Speaker 4: method Man. He turned fifty five years old on Monday.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yes, double Nichols.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 4: The categories are protect your neck cream or c r
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  Speaker 4: e A M. I believe that's a cash rules everything
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  Speaker 4: around me. I love that song Judgment Day and still
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  Speaker 4: on it?
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  Speaker 1: And de Block on the air hold on sec punch
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  Speaker 1: this guy and d Block? Hello, d Block? Which category
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  Speaker 1: would you liked? Block? All right? And Jed? How about you? Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I is near Sky's Judgment Day? All right, all right, gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: you say, do not up or you will be you
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  Speaker 1: will lose. Do not curse or you will lose. So
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: those are the rules, very simple rules, not that deep.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: It's not that deep. Okay. We are malmons away minutes
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  Speaker 1: away from having this amazing competition. You got Jed whu
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  Speaker 1: fled from the Redneck Riviera, and then d Block's in.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: It's an all Florida matchup, a Floridian matchup here, so
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: we will guarantee someone from Florida is going to win
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  Speaker 1: this game. Someone from Florida's gonna win the game. You
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: got Jed who fled with Coop. The team is gonna win.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: D Block in Miami and myself and we will get
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: to that and we will do it next.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Malors
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  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now,
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: Malor's Mountain of money. Do you have what it takes
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  Speaker 2: to get to the top. Probably not.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Let's get right back to the game. The matchup is set.
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  Speaker 1: D Block is in Miami, Miami, Miami, and he's teamed
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  Speaker 1: up with with me and he's gonna pla. He's talking
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  Speaker 1: to someone else right now, but he's on the air,
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  Speaker 1: and we have Jed who fled. Hello, Jed, Okay, I'll
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: put you on hold man, that's a good point. You'll
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  Speaker 1: chowby treat okay, all right, let's do it. Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: It's the Method Man Edition and D Block You picked cream? Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: all right, very good. These athletes all held out for
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: more money. We put forty five seconds on the clock.
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  Speaker 1: Are you ready to block? Yes, all right, let's do it.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: Here we go. Quarterback, he just came out of retirement
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  Speaker 1: to play for the Colts this year at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the year. Yes, all time NFL leading rusher for
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. Yes. Uh, Pittsburgh Steeler running back. He
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: missed an entire year to go hang out in your
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: town of Miami and right, Jet Skis Yes, the greatest
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: left handed pitcher for the Dodgers played with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: There is also the La Dodgers Jewish guy. Yeah, good job,
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: but you Chiefs linebacker Currently he's with the Chiefs. Defensive
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: star held out for a big contract a couple of
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: years ago. Generic name fab five guy. He coached the
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Washington Wizards for a while. Coach he got an yeah,
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  Speaker 1: too late, too late, too late. Chris Jones was the chance.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, alright, alright, uh jee there, all right.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: With my guy? Hold Jed, we have judgment day. Is
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: that correct? Yes, it is alright, alright.
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: These athletes will be Hall of Fame eligible next year.
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: So twenty twenty seven, they will be Hall of Fame eligible.
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: H forty five seconds on the clock.
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  Speaker 1: Let's begin.
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: H Super Bowl winning quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Yes,
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: this guy was the power forward for the Clippers during
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: the Lob City days. Yes, this guy was the catcher
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: for the Giants like forever.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: This guy was a cornerback for the Seattle Seahawks during
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: the Legion of Boom era.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: Richard Richard Yep, yep, uh.
• 42:19
  Speaker 4: This guy beat cancer. He was a pitcher for the
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: Red Sox and the Cubs. One World Series with both
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: of them.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: Chris Tay No, all right, we'll skip that one.
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: This guy had the same all right. He was with
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: the seventy six ers. Originally he won finals MVP with
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: the Warriors.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: Oh man, how many was that with raina not good? No,
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: it was sheet Look at that. My god, Oh my god.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: We're tired. All right, we'll all right. Oh. I was
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: trying to come up with ways. He kind of came
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: up with answered, Hey, hey, you're you're a woman. Okay,
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: calm down, let's see d block. We have protect your
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: neck and still on it, protected neck, all right, protect
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: your neck? Very good. Are these athletes all had major
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: neck injuries? Major neck injuries? Are you ready? Yeah? All right,
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: we're forty five seconds of the clock where we did
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: first and last name, and we are on our way
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: and go here we go all right. Uh, Colts quarterback
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: who played for the Broncos at the end of his career,
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: won a Super Bowl. Come on, uh, the playmaker for
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Yes, uh. Cecil's son baseball player, played for
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: the Brewers and the Tigers. Did a lot of home boutsfielders. Yes,
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: former Pittsburgh senior defensive back. He's a loudmouth on ESPN.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: Now he's a talking head. He does a podcast. He
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: thinks he has answered all wise problems. No, uh, not Shannon,
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: but the other brother who played for the Packers. Yes,
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: good job. You a third base jump the third baseman.
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: Alright, alright, alright, Jed, all right, Jed, we have still
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: on it.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: Uh. These athletes are some of the oldest. These are
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: some of the.
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: Oldest All stars of all time. All right, forty five
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: seconds on the clock. Let's begin. He's the king on
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: the Lakers right now, Yes, the all time hit king.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: This guy was the Sandman closer for the Yankees. This
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: guy was a quarterback for the Baltimore Ravens. He won
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: a Super Bowl with them. He's still playing in the NFL.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: Yes, god, yeah, oh right.
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: This guy's a left fielder for the Red Sox. He
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: played twenty three seasons back in the day, three thousand hits.
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: Uh, all right, this guy was a point guard.
• 45:20
  Speaker 4: This guy was a point guard for the Celtics in
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: the fifties.
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: Oh, Jed joke, Jed who fled? Joke? I'm absolutely means that.
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: Joe Flacco, Joel de Block, you won, d Block, You
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: getta gol the decad. You gotta go the deca. You
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: getta goll the decade. Good jump by you. D Block.
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: Yeh shot, you took down Jed? Who fled?
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: Jed?
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: How embarrassed? What do you? What do you?
• 45:54
  Speaker 4: What is?
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: What are you yelling about? What do you? I said,
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: you go back and check it. I definitely said Joe Bryer.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: You did not say You did not say you said John,
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: you said name. I think he said Jim. Even if you,
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: even if you did, that wasn't enough points, even if
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: you did see that. All right, shut upbout g Block.
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: Anyone you want to thank d Block for this win,
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: unbelievable win. Go bear is the whole city at Chicago,
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: all right, all of Chicago. Look at that. He's in Miami.
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: His heart's back in Chicago. There