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Brian Urlacher | Pro Football Hall of Fame Linebacker Speaks Out Against Trans Athletes in the WNBA · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: If the WNBA's goal is to become the most inclusive
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  Speaker 1: league in the history of ever and to hit a
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  Speaker 1: pretty big payday, then they just got the opportunity of
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  Speaker 1: a lifetime thanks to Clay Travis introducing the Nashville Balls,
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  Speaker 1: the most inclusive team and all of WNBA history. Clay
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  Speaker 1: Travis vows to make it a one hundred percent trans team,
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  Speaker 1: meaning all players would be men identifying as women. He
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  Speaker 1: tweeted this, I'm prepared to buy WNBA expansion franchise and
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  Speaker 1: locate them in Nashville. I pledged to have a one
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent trans team, all men who identify as women.
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  Speaker 1: I will also employ a one hundred percent trans coaching staff.
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  Speaker 1: Most inclusive team in history. But Clay's not just saying it,
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  Speaker 1: He's putting his money where his mouth is. He offered
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  Speaker 1: the WNBA ten million dollars for a head to head
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  Speaker 1: basketball game between the defending WNBA champions of the Las
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  Speaker 1: Vegas Aces and a boys high school state title team
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  Speaker 1: of his choice. If the boys win, he'll give them
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  Speaker 1: ten million dollars to distribute as they see fit to
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  Speaker 1: their team members. The game on pay per view, with
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  Speaker 1: all profits donated to Tunnel to Towers to provide mortgage
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  Speaker 1: free homes to families of decease soldiers, police and first responders.
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  Speaker 1: If the Aces were to beat the boys team, he
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  Speaker 1: would give the WNBA ten million dollars. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: think he's kidding because he just gave Vanderbilt Law School
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  Speaker 1: ten million dollars. So the WNBA gets to own the
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  Speaker 1: title of most inclusive league, they get to showcase their
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  Speaker 1: women's ability, and the proceeds go to a good cause.
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  Speaker 1: We've heard from virtually every WNBA coach at this point
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  Speaker 1: and the league itself that inclusivity is in fact the goal.
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  Speaker 1: So what say you, WNBA? Just know if you decline
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  Speaker 1: the offer that makes you bigoted transphobes, buy your own standard.
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  Speaker 1: I'm ready to buy my Nashville Balls merch.
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  Speaker 2: Talking about this all morning long with Joe Beningo, Jason Whitlock.
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  Speaker 2: The WNBA, the all inclusive WNBA says, if you've got
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  Speaker 2: a penis, you can play. My next guest has a penis.
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  Speaker 2: And for thirteen years he distinguished himself as one of
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  Speaker 2: the greatest linebackers in the history of the National Football League.
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  Speaker 2: Between two thousand and twenty twelve, the great Chicago bear
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  Speaker 2: my buddy, Brian Urlacker. Hey, Brian, good news. You can
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  Speaker 2: play in the WNBA. You're ready to play.
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  Speaker 3: I'm on an field balls or Tennessee balls. I'm in.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not. I can't run anymore. Does it matter? Don't
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  Speaker 3: have to do it? Adkay, I just got to show
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  Speaker 3: up because I have a penis. Like you said, so
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  Speaker 3: I'm good. Say Travis as the man, by the way,
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  Speaker 3: that's amazing. His ideas are awesome.
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  Speaker 2: He's great. He was on this show Thursday, was on.
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  Speaker 2: He storific. He really is. And but you know it's
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  Speaker 2: a joke, and it's not a joke, it's actually a
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  Speaker 2: really sad commentary. Brian, or where we are in this
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  Speaker 2: country that the most common sense of things that boys
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  Speaker 2: should just not compete with girls. That was still arguing
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  Speaker 2: over that. Can you believe that I can't?
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  Speaker 3: Why is't that so controversial? I don't get it. You know,
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  Speaker 3: associally said it and she got so much better. How
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  Speaker 3: about like, I mean, WNBA should But this is the
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  Speaker 3: only way they get any national attention is when something
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  Speaker 3: like this happens, when one of their star players says
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  Speaker 3: something that they don't think they should say. Then they
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  Speaker 3: get him backlash and now all the coaches that no
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  Speaker 3: one knows who they are. The coaches are the other teams.
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  Speaker 3: I have no idea. These women are speaking out against her,
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  Speaker 3: wearing trans Kids Matter shirts or like stuff you would
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  Speaker 3: never hear of. But they want, you know, it's a
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  Speaker 3: story now. So they got to get their name in
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  Speaker 3: there because otherwise you have no idea who they are.
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  Speaker 2: It's true. And then as if the trance up is
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  Speaker 2: not bad enough, Brian, you played the National Football League,
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  Speaker 2: so that is predominantly black. But I don't think there's
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  Speaker 2: a huge race should I. Every once a while I
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  Speaker 2: hear a white guy tell me that you said it's
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  Speaker 2: not easy in the locker room, but right it does exist.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I'll tell you what. We had a great
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  Speaker 3: locker room. I had a blast with all my teammates.
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  Speaker 3: Never had any issues in that. In that element right there,
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  Speaker 3: it was always fun. It is predominantly black, but that's
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  Speaker 3: just what they That's just the way it is. But
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  Speaker 3: I've never had any issues in the locker room. Man,
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  Speaker 3: We had great teammates. It was always fun.
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  Speaker 2: For the most part. That's the case. I mean, again,
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  Speaker 2: I did have isolated guys come up to me and
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  Speaker 2: say said, you'd be surprised, but you're right. Overwhelmingly everybody
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  Speaker 2: loves it. You were there in Chicago for thirteen years,
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  Speaker 2: you had no issues, no surprise. But when you look
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  Speaker 2: at this league specifically and the way they treat Caitlin Clark,
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  Speaker 2: if you don't come out and say flat out this
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  Speaker 2: is a race issue, because that whole league is a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of black girls, and they are jealous, really jealous,
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  Speaker 2: and they are physically physically out of line with this
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  Speaker 2: crawled up you can't tell that's a racist situation. You're
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  Speaker 2: not being honest.
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  Speaker 3: They're so jealous. It's amazing to me how they treat
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  Speaker 3: her and they get away with them, and until they
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  Speaker 3: stop them, they're gonna keep doing it, right, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I don't the WMA does nothing about it. That's how.
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  Speaker 3: And Sophie cunning Ham is on now now she's on
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  Speaker 3: the hit list. You know she got elbowed in the
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  Speaker 3: faces what two days ago? She just called for the
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  Speaker 3: foul and they even reviewed it and still gave her
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  Speaker 3: the foul. It's amazing to me, Caitlyn. I really hope
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  Speaker 3: that they find it some play her and Sophie goes
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  Speaker 3: somewhere else and play like in the overseas or something.
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  Speaker 3: I still follow them because I just want that wnaac
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  Speaker 3: how valuable they are to their league, and they don't care.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they're getting a lot of attention because those
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  Speaker 3: two girls are getting a lot of a lot of
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  Speaker 3: hate throwing their way, so brings attention to the WNBA.
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  Speaker 2: Well, here's the good news, Brian, your beloved Chicago Bears,
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  Speaker 2: where you started for thirteen years. If Caitlin and Sophie
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  Speaker 2: don't move anytime soon, the Bears and the Fever may
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  Speaker 2: be playing their home game games in the same state.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, right, right, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think we're still along with On that said, we
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  Speaker 3: got long ways to go for the Bears to be
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  Speaker 3: down there, but many everything I see right now is
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  Speaker 3: pointing towards Indiana still with the way that tranancially, it
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  Speaker 3: just makes sense for the Bears to go. You know
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  Speaker 3: that the owners want to make money, that's their goal,
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  Speaker 3: and they'll aprobably make the most money in Indiana when
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  Speaker 3: it comes to the stadium. How much that costs to
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  Speaker 3: build it. And I don't like it, but that's that's
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  Speaker 3: what let's talk right now.
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  Speaker 2: I hate it. But you made the good point on
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  Speaker 2: this show too, that look, there's still the New York
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  Speaker 2: Giants and the New York Jets even though they both
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  Speaker 2: play in East Wether in New Jersey. Right, how far
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  Speaker 2: are whatever they're going to be in Indiana? Because my
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  Speaker 2: news guy asked me this, No, how far is that
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  Speaker 2: where they be playing in Indiana from let's say Soldier.
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  Speaker 3: Field from Soldiers Show that I believe it's twenty minutes
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  Speaker 3: further south.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's all it is.
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  Speaker 3: It's not crazy. It's literally so I guess they call
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  Speaker 3: it downtown or Chicago West or something like that down there,
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  Speaker 3: so it's not too far, but still not in Illinois,
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  Speaker 3: you know. And I think the hotel situation is gonna
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  Speaker 3: be there's it's gonna be a little harder for people
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  Speaker 3: to get to the games because of the you know,
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  Speaker 3: the lodging, all that ges stuff, But the Bears fans
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  Speaker 3: will go, I know that's there no matter where they play,
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 2: But it's yeah, it's still gonna be weird.
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  Speaker 3: It needs to be. It's gotta be the only it
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  Speaker 3: has to be.
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  Speaker 2: It has to be. I mean, is this fat stupid?
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  Speaker 2: I'll say, you don't have to say it, this fat
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  Speaker 2: stupid governor JP. You know, matter way Pritzker is he
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  Speaker 2: gonna do? Does he care about the Bears? Does he care?
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  Speaker 3: I know who does care about it is legal immigrants.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. He's given all that money, that two
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  Speaker 3: point eight billion dollars to them, So I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: He said, you know, they gave him money to them.
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  Speaker 3: They were gonna they didn't want to raise taxes for
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  Speaker 3: the to give the Bears the stadium whatever, but he
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  Speaker 3: raised them anyway. So I don't know. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. If it's up to him, I think
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  Speaker 3: they'll leave, but I think someone else is gonna step
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  Speaker 3: in and get it done.
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  Speaker 2: Horrible. Well, talk about the NFL. You do reside now,
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  Speaker 2: Brian and Arizona, the beautiful state of Arizona, and one
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  Speaker 2: of my good buddies lives there, and he just won
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  Speaker 2: last week. It made me so happy. A guy that
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  Speaker 2: you played with in the league, he played for a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of teams. While you're in Chicago, place kicker, J Peely,
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  Speaker 2: I know you've got with him. You guys are buddies.
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  Speaker 2: He gets a big win in Arizona last week.
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  Speaker 3: Trump was I think seven for seven or eight right
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  Speaker 3: here in Arizona. The guys, did he back to the
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  Speaker 3: candidacy backed all one? Awesome? Yeah, I mean it's finally
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  Speaker 3: we're going back to Arizona the way he used to be.
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  Speaker 3: You know, there's a couple of years there where we
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  Speaker 3: were kind of teetering a little bit, but I think
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  Speaker 3: we're getting back to where we need to be now
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  Speaker 3: another red state. Our governor is a Democrat, but I
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  Speaker 3: think that might be changing for Ash as well. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's good. Jay's a good dude. Man. I played against him.
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  Speaker 3: He did play a lot of stop story by the
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  Speaker 3: way he played like, yeah he did. But yeah, he's
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  Speaker 3: a smart guy, you know. He he's doing really well.
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  Speaker 3: He's very dappered up all it, talks well. So it's
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  Speaker 3: good to see him get over that first hurdle.
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  Speaker 2: I think his college whomate ready for this, Brian was
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  Speaker 2: Tom Brady at Michigan Brady. Yeah, yeah, pretty cool.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I play golf with it with Jay. Everyone.
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  Speaker 3: If anyone knows Tom, they let you know all he's
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  Speaker 3: the greatest of all time. He got seven rings something
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  Speaker 3: like that.
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  Speaker 2: Seven last night Jacks, six with the Patriots, one with
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  Speaker 2: the Buccaneers final thirty seconds. You know, the Bears have
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  Speaker 2: this rich history of linebackers, and you're a Hall of
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  Speaker 2: Famer and you got like Buckis and Single Terry and
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  Speaker 2: loaded with all these great defensive players. But offensively, outside
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  Speaker 2: of Walter, not a lot of names come to mind
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  Speaker 2: right away, not especially quarterback. Even Jim McMahon wasn't considered
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  Speaker 2: an all time great during those great years. But this guy, now,
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  Speaker 2: Caleb Williams. They say this guy, after last year's vast improvement,
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  Speaker 2: could be on his way to being a really great quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have any anything, any opinion on Caleb Williams.
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  Speaker 3: Could not agree a Nimore. I think he's gonna be awesome.
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  Speaker 3: His ability to throw the football, he makes every throw,
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  Speaker 3: his escapability, his leadership. I think he takes it seriously.
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  Speaker 3: You know Ben Johnson's wonders for him as well. That's
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  Speaker 3: why Ben took the job. He said, I want that
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  Speaker 3: Bear's job because I think you saw how that Taylor
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  Speaker 3: could be after his rookie year of the improvement last year.
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  Speaker 3: I think he'll get just keep it getting better and better.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think he was pretty and did last year.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm excited they finally have a quarterback. The Bearers
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  Speaker 3: finally have a quarterback they could have for fifteen years.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the Packers have had three in the last
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  Speaker 3: what foty years ahead, Brett Aaron and now the kid
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  Speaker 3: they have. Now, it's unbelievable how lucky they are we have.
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  Speaker 3: I had twenty one different starting quarterbacks in my thirteen years.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeez, that's what I said. Yeah, twenty one
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  Speaker 2: and thirteen years. And the Lions have golf that the
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  Speaker 2: vision is pretty good. The Vikings are hurting with the
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  Speaker 2: kid from Michigan, and now they've also got it Kyler
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  Speaker 2: Murray was.
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  Speaker 3: You know Kyler Murray. When he's got some flashes of
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  Speaker 3: being good. I think their head coach up there will
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  Speaker 3: get him as a Kevin O'Connell. He'll get him. They
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  Speaker 3: get him some good looks. I think they're gonna be
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  Speaker 3: better than people think.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the good news is now that you and I
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  Speaker 2: are buddies. Hopefully you'll come on during the football season
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  Speaker 2: and talk about these games. I can't wait to talk
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  Speaker 2: to it.
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  Speaker 3: And the time change will be three hours then and
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  Speaker 3: only be two or do we go permanent? Are we
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  Speaker 3: staying on the time change? That we are right now.
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  Speaker 2: Oh fantastic, Plassic fantastic. What are you doing today? You're
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  Speaker 2: playing golf today.
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  Speaker 3: I know I'm about to work out and then I
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  Speaker 3: have to do chores around the house.
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  Speaker 2: Ah By, you're beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: Bank did you to do list?
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  Speaker 2: I love it. That's how you stay married. I be
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  Speaker 2: married thirty five years and jo and I get it.
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  Speaker 2: Brian o'locker, thank you. You're amazing man. We love having
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  Speaker 2: you on this show. We really do. Keep coming back
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  Speaker 2: another great appearance. Enjoy your day. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks taking God bless you. Brian Olaco right there.
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