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  Speaker 3: So we'll start in Vegas, right? Doesn't that make sense?
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  Speaker 3: Ben Maler meet and greets going to be in Vegas.
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  Speaker 3: We'll start the show with a Vegas storyline. How about
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  Speaker 3: Fernando Mendoza? So Mendoza was in preseason action again and
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  Speaker 3: struggled again. He was only seven for 14, had an interception.
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  Speaker 3: And in my mind, it's further proof that it's the
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  Speaker 3: right move not to start him. To start off the
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  Speaker 3: season and him be behind center in week one. I
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  Speaker 3: think it's a smart approach by the Raiders to go
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  Speaker 3: with Kirk Cousins. That's been their plan all along. All
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  Speaker 3: Mendoza has done the last two games has shown that
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  Speaker 3: it's the right decision. And I think that the long
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  Speaker 3: game is the right way to approach this whole thing.
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  Speaker 3: If you look at Mendoza, his first preseason start, he
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  Speaker 3: looked really good. Against the Arizona Cardinals, he played on time.
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  Speaker 3: He played behind center. This is the thing. He hasn't
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  Speaker 3: played under center most of his college career. He only
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  Speaker 3: took 3% of his snaps under center in college. Last year,
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  Speaker 3: quarterbacks averaged about 35% under center. So this is a
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  Speaker 3: whole different thing. For Mendoza, he's learning on the job.
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  Speaker 3: And so to have him start week one, I just
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  Speaker 3: don't think it's the right approach at all. There are
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  Speaker 3: many that say, oh, if he's ready, start him. I
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  Speaker 3: don't look at it that way. There are many reasons
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  Speaker 3: I would not start him week one. If you look
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  Speaker 3: at some of the bullet point reasons not to start
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  Speaker 3: the guy, for one, I just think if you start
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  Speaker 3: week one as a rookie... Most rookies are just treading water.
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  Speaker 3: Most rookies are just trying to keep their head from
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  Speaker 3: going under. And you're just trying to stay afloat. The
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  Speaker 3: speed of the game is so fast. These plays are
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  Speaker 3: a mile long. You're swimming in information. There's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of swimming references in this whole point here. But it's true.
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  Speaker 3: And so to start week one, when the optimism is
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  Speaker 3: at its peak, all these– glowing comments throughout the preseason
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  Speaker 3: from every team in the NFL. Every team starts off
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  Speaker 3: zero and zero and they're like, man, this year, everything's
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  Speaker 3: looking good. The offense is looking good. Defense is showing
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  Speaker 3: some positive signs. And then all of a sudden the
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  Speaker 3: teams that stink start to lose games right away. And
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  Speaker 3: the hope is dead, right? All hope is gone. And
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  Speaker 3: for Fernando Mendoza, He's supposed to symbolize hope for the
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  Speaker 3: Raiders going forward. The last thing you want to do
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  Speaker 3: is have that balloon popped immediately. If you look at
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  Speaker 3: the first seven games for the Raiders, a lot of
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  Speaker 3: tough teams in there. This is not like a soft
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  Speaker 3: launch to the schedule. You've got in the mix at
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  Speaker 3: the Chargers, at the Saints, Chiefs, at the Patriots, Bills, Rams,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of L's in those first seven games. I
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  Speaker 3: think the right approach is starting Kirk cousins and you
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  Speaker 3: pivot to Fernando Mendoza. I think the worst case scenario
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  Speaker 3: for the Raiders, and this goes for any team with
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  Speaker 3: a quarterback that they took very high in the draft.
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  Speaker 3: I think the worst case scenario outside of like a
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  Speaker 3: significant injury or something, right? Like just putting that to
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  Speaker 3: the side, the worst case scenario would be you start
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  Speaker 3: off with your quarterback in week one, And then you
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  Speaker 3: got to bench him. He stinks. The team's losing games.
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  Speaker 3: They're not even, you know, they're not even functioning at
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  Speaker 3: a legitimate NFL level. And you have to bench your
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  Speaker 3: number one overall pick. You got to bench your top
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  Speaker 3: quarterback prospect. That's just not a position that the Raiders
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  Speaker 3: want to be in. I look at it like this, man.
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  Speaker 3: If you look at the Raiders, I draw a parallel
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  Speaker 3: with the Saints last season. If you look at Tyler Shuck,
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  Speaker 3: he didn't start right away. Now, granted, he wasn't the
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  Speaker 3: number one overall pick. He was a second rounder. But
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  Speaker 3: just walk down this path with me because there are
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  Speaker 3: a lot more similarities than differences between Shuck and Mendoza.
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  Speaker 3: If you look at Shuck, he didn't start the first
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  Speaker 3: eight games. The Saints were 1-7. Spencer Rattler was in there.
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  Speaker 3: They lost a bunch of games. And then the Saints
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  Speaker 3: pivoted to Tyler Shuck. He was the starter the final
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  Speaker 3: nine games. And all things considered, he played pretty well.
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  Speaker 3: He won five games. His record was five and four.
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  Speaker 3: They actually had a four-game winning streak at the end
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  Speaker 3: of the season. And now this offseason, it's nothing but
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  Speaker 3: positive things about Tyler Schuch. I've heard conversations about him
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  Speaker 3: maybe being an outside MVP candidate. The betters, I always
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  Speaker 3: listen to the betters, shows, podcasts, all that stuff. And
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  Speaker 3: some betters are like, oh yeah, I got bets on
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  Speaker 3: Tyler Schuck to win MVP. If you look at Tyler
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  Speaker 3: Schuck's rookie season, he threw 10 touchdown passes, six interceptions.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't anything outstanding, but compared to Rattler and all
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  Speaker 3: the games that the saints were losing, Tyler Schuck's performance
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  Speaker 3: looks even better. That's what you want. If you're the
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  Speaker 3: Raiders that you want the exact same thing with Fernando Mendoza.
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  Speaker 3: And so I think that puts them in a better
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  Speaker 3: position to, to achieve that. I don't think this season,
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  Speaker 3: I know this season isn't about wins and losses, making
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  Speaker 3: a playoff push, making a super bowl push. That's not
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  Speaker 3: where the Raiders are. They're not ready for that. They
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  Speaker 3: need to see positive signs that Fernando Mendoza is their
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  Speaker 3: franchise quarterback. It's just like the saints last season. The
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  Speaker 3: saints weren't They weren't vying for a playoff spot and
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  Speaker 3: a deep playoff run. They weren't like, Hey man, if
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  Speaker 3: things go right, we could win it all. That's not
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  Speaker 3: where the saints were, but it was a very successful
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  Speaker 3: season for the saints because Tyler shock showed signs that
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  Speaker 3: he might be their quarterback of the future. So it
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  Speaker 3: turned out to be a very successful season for them
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  Speaker 3: last year. That's where the Raiders are. So for Fernando
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  Speaker 3: Mendoza to have great confidence going into year two, I
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  Speaker 3: don't think it's starting him week one. I think it's
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  Speaker 3: starting him midway through the season. You let Kirk Cousins
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  Speaker 3: take the bullets for the first half of the season,
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  Speaker 3: however many games that is. I think maybe the first
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  Speaker 3: seven games, you look at November 1st, week eight, or
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  Speaker 3: somewhere thereabouts, to start Mendoza and he's your guy going forward.
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  Speaker 3: I think that puts Mendoza in a much better position
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  Speaker 3: to have success, to gain confidence, for things to grow
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  Speaker 3: in the positive direction instead of the negative. We looked
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  Speaker 3: at what Tyler Shuck did well last year instead of
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  Speaker 3: what he didn't do well. You think it was all perfect?
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't. It was just better than Spencer Rattler. And
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  Speaker 3: there were more wins than the first half of the season.
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  Speaker 3: And I think the Saints benefited from that greatly. I
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  Speaker 3: think that's what the Raiders want. I mean, I know
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  Speaker 3: that's what they want, but I think they believe their
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  Speaker 3: best path toward that is to not start Mendoza week one.
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  Speaker 3: And I agree with that. I think that Mendoza is
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  Speaker 3: like baby number one. For anybody who has kids, you
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  Speaker 3: can probably relate to this. The first baby, it was just... oh,
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  Speaker 3: we got to have everything set. We got to have
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  Speaker 3: the crib. I heard that this formula, like the better,
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  Speaker 3: the more advanced formula, there's all kinds of benefits to this.
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  Speaker 3: We want to make sure there's nothing, childproof everything, right?
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  Speaker 3: Make sure everything's childproof. The Rattler can't, the little baby
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  Speaker 3: toy can't hurt him. That's how the Raiders, I believe,
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  Speaker 3: need to be with Fernando Mendoza. You know, it's not
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  Speaker 3: starting week one, right? There's a lot expected, a lot
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  Speaker 3: of pressure. There's a downside with that. Let's not do that.
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  Speaker 3: Let's make sure everything is as childproof as possible. It's
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  Speaker 3: a risk-reward thing. The risk of Mendoza being in over
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  Speaker 3: his head in week one and the beginning of the
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  Speaker 3: season where the pressure is at the greatest, right? that's
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  Speaker 3: a baby toy that could hurt him.
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 3: Like, I don't think that the reward of having him
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  Speaker 3: starting week one outweighs the risk of this could go
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  Speaker 3: really wrong. So let's just hold off a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think that's a much, much better approach,
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  Speaker 3: but Mendoza, he struggled again in the preseason and I
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't bank everything on the preseason, but again, it's another
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  Speaker 3: sign last week against the Texans. There was a throw
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  Speaker 3: late across the middle pick six, you know, Those growing
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  Speaker 3: pains are going to happen. I get it. But I
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  Speaker 3: would rather those growing pains happen in week eight compared
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  Speaker 3: to week one. And I'm sure there are some people
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  Speaker 3: listening like, where's Ben? I think Ben would add a
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  Speaker 3: better monologue. There are some people out there that will
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  Speaker 3: think that. And there are some people that will think,
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  Speaker 3: what's the difference between week eight and week one? Are
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  Speaker 3: you kidding me? Like, that's the thing, man, is when
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  Speaker 3: you are trying to hit the ground running... As a rookie.
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  Speaker 3: That's very very difficult to do. One.
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  Speaker 4: And it's.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to mess with your confidence. Way more. If
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  Speaker 3: you are screwing up. Right away. The season is brand new.
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  Speaker 3: We're hopeful that this could be at least a good
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  Speaker 3: season or a much better one than the previous year
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  Speaker 3: if you were a sucky team, right? And all of
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  Speaker 3: a sudden, you're throwing interceptions in week one, week two.
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  Speaker 3: You're losing games out of the gate. That's a much
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  Speaker 3: different deal than... you know, than the middle of the season.
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  Speaker 3: I would liken it a little bit to, you know,
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  Speaker 3: playing in prime time. It's one thing if you're playing
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  Speaker 3: a 1 p.m. Eastern time zone game, you're one of
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  Speaker 3: nine at that time and you throw an interception. A
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  Speaker 3: lot of times that's going to get lost in the shuffle.
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  Speaker 3: You compare that to playing on Sunday night football and
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  Speaker 3: they have the fancy intros where you're introducing yourself. You
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  Speaker 3: throw an interception that it's just a different deal. That's
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  Speaker 3: how I look at the season. Throwing an interception week
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  Speaker 3: one in a painful loss is a lot different than
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  Speaker 3: doing that in week eight. That's why I would wait.
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  Speaker 3: I would wait with Fernando Mendoza. I think it makes
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  Speaker 3: sense to just bide your time just a little bit
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  Speaker 3: because I do think it's much different and lands differently.
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  Speaker 3: It landed differently with Tyler Shuck. His screw-ups, not front
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  Speaker 3: and center, right? His achievements, his good plays, all of
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  Speaker 3: a sudden we're looking at that a lot closer. I
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  Speaker 3: think that's where the Raiders are with Mendoza. But four
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  Speaker 3: preseason games were played on Thursday night. And not anything
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  Speaker 3: too crazy. Justin Herbert got in there for the Chargers
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  Speaker 3: just a little bit. Just a little bit. Not a
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  Speaker 3: ton of playing time. But it's kind of interesting when
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  Speaker 3: you look at that where Herbert got in there for
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  Speaker 3: a few plays here and there, but no Mahomes there.
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  Speaker 3: No Patrick Mahomes in this entire preseason. Herbert completed two
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  Speaker 3: passes for 74 yards. Pretty decent stat line, including a
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  Speaker 3: touchdown in there. But no Mahomes. I think that I
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  Speaker 3: think it shows a bit right. Mahomes is not going
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  Speaker 3: to play in the Chiefs preseason game tomorrow. They play
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  Speaker 3: the Seahawks on Friday night and Mahomes is not going
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  Speaker 3: to be out there. Hasn't been out there for the
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  Speaker 3: preseason at all. Which is different because Andy Reid always
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  Speaker 3: has gotten Mahomes out there. But now coming off the
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  Speaker 3: ACL toward two knee ligaments, he's not going to be
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  Speaker 3: out there for any preseason action. And to me, if
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  Speaker 3: you ask yourself, is this a small thing, big thing,
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  Speaker 3: no thing at all? I think it's at least a
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  Speaker 3: small thing, right? I don't think this is nothing. I
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  Speaker 3: think it shows that Andy Reid is going to err
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  Speaker 3: on the side of caution and that Andy Reid doesn't
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  Speaker 3: have full, complete confidence in something goofy not happening. Andy
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  Speaker 3: Reid has always had confidence to put Mahomes out there
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  Speaker 3: in the preseason. Mahomes has played way more in the
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  Speaker 3: preseason than any NFL quarterback in this day and age.
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  Speaker 3: He gets out there a lot. For a superstar like
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  Speaker 3: Mahomes is, superstars just don't get the playing time that
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  Speaker 3: Mahomes routinely does in the preseason. But absolutely Zippo this
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  Speaker 3: preseason coming off the two torn knee ligaments, kind of interesting.
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  Speaker 3: I think Mahomes is going to, I know he's going
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  Speaker 3: to play week one. That was the funniest thing from
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  Speaker 3: this offseason is like, do we know if Mahomes is
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  Speaker 3: even going to play week one? No, we know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we know.
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  Speaker 3: We know that guy's going to rehab his genitals off,
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  Speaker 3: and he'll be ready to go week one. And he
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  Speaker 3: absolutely will. It's just no preseason action. It's different. I
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  Speaker 3: know there are people that will think, oh, this is
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  Speaker 3: a non, you know, this is no big deal whatsoever.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not saying it's a big deal. I'm just saying
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  Speaker 3: that the Chiefs have deviated from what they've always done.
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  Speaker 3: They've always gotten Mahomes numerous reps in the preseason. So
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  Speaker 3: I don't think this shows that Mahomes is going to
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  Speaker 3: be super choppy and very rusty when he hits the
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  Speaker 3: ground running in the regular season. I'm not saying anything
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  Speaker 3: like that. I'm just saying it shows that Andy Reid
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  Speaker 3: doesn't have full confidence in the knee, in goofy things
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  Speaker 3: not happening. He's like, you know.
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  Speaker 3: It would really suck to lose Mahomes for extended time
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  Speaker 3: in the regular season if something weird happened in the preseason.
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  Speaker 3: So let's not. And some of this is tied to
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  Speaker 3: he didn't have all five of his starting offensive linemen
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  Speaker 3: healthy and playing. And so that ties into Mahomes not
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  Speaker 3: playing either. But it does show it shows that. There's
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  Speaker 3: not that same. No, I feel good. I don't think
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  Speaker 3: anything weird is going to happen. Put him out there.
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  Speaker 3: Get him a whole half. Get him a whole first
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  Speaker 3: quarter of action. Andy Reid hasn't felt like that in
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  Speaker 3: the preseason. So it's just something that's been different than
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  Speaker 3: what we've always seen from Mahomes, the Chiefs, Andy Reid's
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  Speaker 3: preseason approach. Completely different this year. So we'll see what
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  Speaker 3: happens come week one against Koops Broncos. I know Coop
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  Speaker 3: is ready. You're ready for Nick Benito and Zach Allen
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  Speaker 3: and company to just tear into my homes come week one. Superstars.
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  Speaker 3: Superstar Zach Allen. That's right. Superstar Nick Benito. Patrick Sertan
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  Speaker 3: is a legitimate superstar. What other superstars do you have
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  Speaker 3: on defense over there, Coop? Anybody else come to mind?
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  Speaker 3: Let's see here. Let's check it out. Jonathan Cooper. Jonathan Cooper, superstar. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: What else we got? Let's see. Let me look at the...
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  Speaker 3: Riley Moss. certainly the white guy, cornerback Riley Moss, tearing
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  Speaker 3: it up right there. Superstar. Let's see it. Can we
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  Speaker 3: say Alex Singleton superstar is that? Oh yeah. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I thought Talanoa who Fonga. Yeah. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. A superstar, right?
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  Speaker 3: That one, that one might be legitimate. Might be. How
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  Speaker 3: about Malcolm Roach superstar on that D line? Former saint. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's legit as well. Superstars all over the performer. Dolphin.
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  Speaker 3: brandon jones right free safety yeah most former dolphins are
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  Speaker 3: automatically superstars for being honest with ourselves over here but
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  Speaker 3: yeah that broncos defense that's gonna be a fun week
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  Speaker 3: one matchup man yeah i joke about the broncos defense
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  Speaker 3: quite a bit because of coop coop coop thinks that
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  Speaker 3: you know zach allen's a superstar which you know another
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  Speaker 3: former dolphin right there that's crazy it's crazy talk right
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  Speaker 3: there but You know, they have a lot of talent.
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  Speaker 3: And week one against Mahomes, recovering from an injury, that's
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  Speaker 3: going to be fun. That is a great matchup. Monday
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  Speaker 3: night football at Kansas City. I cannot wait for it.
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  Speaker 3: Can't wait. All right, so we've got Coop. We've got
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  Speaker 3: Lorena here. These late night festivities. We're going to stretch
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  Speaker 3: our feet out and talk to them here right around
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  Speaker 3: the corner. I'm excited about that. Also, we have a
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  Speaker 3: lot of ball on the menu, lots of ball. I
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  Speaker 3: want this. This is actually not just a football question because.
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  Speaker 3: Your guy was in attendance on Thursday evening for one
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  Speaker 3: of the biggest games that we saw on Thursday. I
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  Speaker 3: was there. I'm here in Atlanta right now. I'm doing
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  Speaker 3: this baseball tour. I'm driving around like a freaking crazy
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  Speaker 3: person seeing all these baseball stadiums I haven't seen before.
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  Speaker 3: And so I was at the Braves game on Thursday night.
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  Speaker 3: Chris Sale was unbelievable. A CG shut piece, right? Shut out.
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  Speaker 3: Complete game. Didn't give up any runs. Only gave up,
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  Speaker 3: I think, four hits, 11 strikeouts. He was sensational. He
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  Speaker 3: was outstanding. It was a great game to be at.
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  Speaker 3: Old school pitcher's duel. Yamamoto, the hard luck loser. He
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  Speaker 3: pitched great. Chris Sale just pitched better. I was there
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  Speaker 3: for that. But it got me thinking a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the X machine would be good for this.
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  Speaker 3: At the no show, if you want to chime in.
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  Speaker 3: What was your best I was there moment?
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 3: What game have you been to where you all I
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  Speaker 3: was there? Whatever it was, the Minneapolis miracle comes to mind.
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  Speaker 3: I got screwed on that. I had the Saints live
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  Speaker 3: to win the game, and they should have. And then
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  Speaker 3: the Minneapolis miracle happened where Stephon Diggs caught the pass
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  Speaker 3: on the sideline, went in for a touchdown, Saints safety
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  Speaker 3: with the ole. I go, oh, shoot, I could have
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  Speaker 3: just tackled you or hit you out of bounds, pushed
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  Speaker 3: you out of bounds, and the game's over. But nope, nope,
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  Speaker 3: that's just not– or tackled them inbounds, I should say.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they could have, you know– it would have
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  Speaker 3: been a different scenario, but yeah, if you're at that game,
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  Speaker 3: that's a good, I was there moment, especially if you're
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  Speaker 3: a Vikings fan, maybe a couple of our Minnesota people
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: were there. I don't know, but that'd be a great.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: I was there moment. I'm curious what your greatest. I
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: was there. Moment was, I've got one. Was that sale?
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: Was that a wall nation right there? Was it, what
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: was that in the background? Oh yeah. Okay. It was
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: the skull thing. You know what? Fun fact. That is
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: a Scott Shapiro's text tone. Our boss here at Fox,
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: whenever he texts me, he's a big Vikings guy. All
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: things Minnesota.
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: You and your text tones.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: I take my text tone seriously. I don't have a
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: boring iPhone. I can do fun things like that with
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: a Droid. There's personality involved over here, not just white
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: and blue screens, and that's it. That's all you get.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: That's all you get. Enjoy it, iPhone users. No, I
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: have a little personality with my phone, so I take
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: my text tones seriously. I've got sweet pea for Coop.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: He's always used that for his intro, right? Like when
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: we introduce him on the late night hours. Lorena's cookie monster,
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: the om nom nom. That's what her. It's a great ringtone.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: It's a great, great text tone right there. But Scott's
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: is skull. It's, I'm sorry, it's doom, doom, skull. And
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: they do the skull thing. That's him. So when that
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: comes through, I'm like, oh, we got to fill an
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: opportunity over here, Scott? Is that what's going on over here?
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: It's what happened a couple of days ago.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: And hence, I'm here.
• 19:50
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• 20:30
  Speaker 3: We got a lot of ball. Got a lot of
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: ball to get to. A lot of season outlook type stuff.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: Week zero, which I entitle Week Suck. I don't know
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: why college football does this every single year. We're all
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: excited for football to be back and college football is
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: like Eh, about a bunch of mediocre or less than
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: mediocre teams to start the party over here. I don't
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: know why. It's like clockwork. Every year, they don't get
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: us a star-studded game at all. I don't get it.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: I don't get it. But we're excited for Ball to
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: be back. I don't want to bury the lead over here.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: But Week Zero is not going to do anything to
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: get you really revved up for the season. Week one
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: in college football will. There's some great games week one
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: in the NFL. Certainly will. So with that, we'll look
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: past week suck, a.k.a. week zero, which is a dud.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: And we will look toward real football and real results
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: and all that good stuff. I'm going to get to
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: a couple of no-mosses. Remember the old Roberto Duran right there? No-moss.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: We got a couple of no-mosses in the sports world.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: One that I'm totally in favor of. One I'm not
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: in favor of whatsoever. But I will say, not to...
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: you know, like delay the point anymore. I was saying,
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: cause it'd be fun tonight. You know, we had, uh, uh,
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: we had one call earlier where, let me get the
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: Chandler was in Minnesota and he was talking about his,
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: I was there moment. He was there for game seven
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: of the 87 world series. Very cool. Very nice. This
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: is twins beat my Cardinals, which was the unfortunate thing
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: right there, but he was there. I was there. Remember
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: the old Chris Berman line right there. And, uh, I
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: just said, cause I was at the Braves game on
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: Thursday night. I'm doing this crazy baseball tour. And I'll
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: give you a very, very brief, you know, like, I
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: don't know, description of my touring ways. So last week,
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: I started in Indiana. So I went up to the
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: Twins game, then cut over to Denver. I drove all
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: the way over to Denver to see the Rockies take
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: on the Dodgers, then hit a Royals game. Then I
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: went out east. I went to Camden Yards, never been
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: there before. Saw the... the Orioles and then I hit
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: a Phillies game hadn't been to Citizens Bank ballpark either
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: so I went there on Saturday so that was the
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: first week I hit five games in six days and
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: then this week I resumed the tour on Tuesday I
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: drove to DC saw Nationals game Wednesday I drove to
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: Miami so that was a that was a hectic day
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: of driving started off in upstate New York I started
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: in Albany, New York, drove to D.C., saw the game,
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: then drove to Miami, which is a long freaking drive.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: It's 15 hours plus just from D.C. to Miami. But
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: I made it. Then I drove up to Atlanta last night, Thursday,
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: saw that game, and I'll go to Tampa after this show.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: Maybe I'll take a brief nap for an hour and
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: then get back in the car. So it's been fun.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: It's been a lot of fun. But the point of
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: this whole baseball tour is I was at the game
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: last night. That was the best game I've seen during
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: this trip, by far. It was the pitcher's duel, Chris
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: Sale against Yamamoto. And Chris Sale was absolutely fantastic. I
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: do love a couple of his sound bites. I love
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: this one, going deep in games, right? Complete game, threw
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: over 100 pitches. And I was there, I can confirm.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: His arm did not fall off. His arm is still attached.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: I know if a pitcher reaches triple digits. Oh, my gosh.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: This is a cruel and unusual punishment. This is like,
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: what are we? He's fine. He's fine. He's good. He's
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: all right. Chris sale is just fine. He's prides himself
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: going deep in ball games. Here's Chris sale after his
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: complete game. Shut out. And you just say, shut out.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: You don't need both, but I started complete game and then,
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: you know, zero runs given up. Here you go.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: Anytime I take the ball, I pride myself in going
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: deep into games.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: Those guys have been working their butts off all year, man.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: You know, anytime you can give them a day off.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: It's awesome. So just thankful.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: Now this was the highlight. This is This is the
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: best comment by far. Listen to the question and the
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: initial response from Chris sale. You threw a pitch over.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: A hundred miles per hour for the first time in
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: eight years.
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: How?
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: With my arm. How'd you do it, man? Like I just,
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: my arm, you know, I got to credit my arm
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: right there. You know, I was pretty strong. His first
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: pitch over a hundred miles per hour since 2018. That's
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: what he did on Thursday night. But, yeah, he credits
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: his left arm for being able to pitch that fast. No,
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: this is a full sound bite. Check it out. You
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: threw a pitch over.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: 100 miles per hour for the first time in eight years.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: How? With my arm.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: A little adrenaline.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: This atmosphere was unbelievable.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: You know, so I guess it's that.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: There you go. All right. There you go.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: My arm.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: That's how I did it. So I made it to
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: that game. That was a lot of fun. That was good.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: It was a great atmosphere. Beautiful ballpark, too. Very nice.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: The one downside is I do like to get one
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: of the mini helmets. Get a little ice cream, get
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: a mini helmet. Nice little keepsake right there. I love
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: the mini helmets. The guy... That I went in like
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: the top of the sixth inning because I like to
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: be there for take me out to the ballgame.
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: Like I'll take a video of it. I'll send it
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: to my dad. It's just one of those father son things.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: So if I'm at a game and I'm not with him,
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: I'll take a video of that and send it to him.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: And so I was getting my ice cream helmet. And
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: the dude was taken for life. Like he was an
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: NWO from back in the day. He was taken forever.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: And I'm like, this is not happening. It's not happening.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: So I left that stand and I just, most ballparks,
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: you can just walk over and see the scoreboard and
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: no problem. That's not how truest park or field. I
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: don't know what a truest, that's not how it is.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: Cause if you're on the, like the 100 level, they
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: have the bleachers from above you everywhere. Like you can't
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: see the scoreboard unless you go to your seat. You
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: can't see it. And so I took a video and
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: it's the worst video you've ever seen in your life.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: That's even what I sent my dad. I'm like, sorry,
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: I was trying to get ice cream and food and
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: I didn't get back to my seat. And this is
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: the worst video I've ever sent you by far. So
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: that was the downside is the guy on the ice
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: cream helmets, a little slow, a little slow on the,
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: the uptake right there. But it was fantastic. It's a
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: beautiful stadium. Very nice ballpark right there. But the most
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: famous I was there moment, it was actually as a
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: diehard Notre Dame fan. So I'm from South Bend, Indiana.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: All I've known my whole life is Notre Dame football.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: I love Notre Dame football. I was on the sideline,
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: which was really, really cool for the Bush push game.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: That was in 2005. And so I was doing like
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: the radio pregame stuff. And what was cool is you
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: would go to the game and then you could go
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: down to the field for the final five minutes. So
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: I was on the field and it was the famous
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: USC come from behind win. They had this just famous
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: drive at the end. And Reggie Bush pushed Matt Leinart
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: into the end zone for the winning touchdown. And I
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: was right there on the field. And it was just
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: like tear your heart out type stuff because I'll never
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: forget the way that went down. You know, I'm going
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: to get you lost in the details, but it won't
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: be too painful here. I'll go quick. It was third
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: and 20. I'll never forget this guy, Trevor Laws. He
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: was the defensive lineman for Notre Dame, and he sacked
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: Matt Leinart. It's third and 20. USC is the number
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: one team in the country at the time. I think
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: Notre Dame was ranked ninth. They're both top 10 teams.
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: Notre Dame is on the cusp of beating the number
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: one team in the country, right? Defending champs, the whole thing.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: The crowd is going berserk. Third and 20 sack, all
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: the energy, all the emotion. And then Matt Leinart, that's
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: the play that gets overlooked all the time. He found
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: Reggie Bush out of the backfield and he kind of
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: scoots for 11 yards, sets up fourth and nine. But
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: it was fourth and manageable. And then Matt Leinart hit
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: Dwayne Jarrett He burned Ashley Ambrose, a former Notre Dame corner,
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: just torched him and almost took it to the house,
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: but he got tackled from behind, and the rest is history.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: USC eventually got the ball in the end zone, and
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: Reggie Bush pushed Matt Leinart into the end zone, which
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: technically was illegal. I've never whined about that. I don't
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: know what it is in me. I just can't bring
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: myself to, that was actually an illegal play, and it
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: should have... I don't know, man. It's a shoulder shrug.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: You know, it's like I can't argue with technicality right there.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: USC won the game. I know technically was illegal, but
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: I don't know, man. I just can't whine about that one.
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: But I was at that game and it was by
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: far the most well-known game that I was in attendance for.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: It was like Joe Montana was on the sideline. I
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: didn't bug him. Probably I should have. But I don't
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: bug people. They got people bugging them all the time.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: I should have went up and been like, hey, Joe,
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: can I get a quick picture over here? And he
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: probably would have been cool with it. But it was
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: like a star-studded event. It's one of the most famous events.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: Notre Dame USC games ever. It's got to be the
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: most famous one. So I was in attendance for that one.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: I was there for that one. If you have any,
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: I was there moments that you want to share, feel
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: free to hit me up on X at the no show.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: Now I did mention there are a couple of no
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: mosses in the sports world. No more pro bowl. It's gone.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: NFL will not have the pro bowl anymore. No game.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: They will have, they will name pro bowlers, which is cool.
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: I think that's cool. They're going to be 88 players.
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: And so you get the distinction of being a pro bowler.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: There'll be a distinction of being an all pro, which
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: is just a more, I don't know, distinct list to
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: be on, right? You're not one of three quarterbacks from
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: each conference. You're the quarterback and that's it. So all
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: pro is just a more distinct list to be on. But,
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: The Pro Bowl rosters will continue. We just don't want
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: to have a goofy game or we're not going to
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: play who can do the most jumping jacks or whatever
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: they're doing. The Pro Bowl games is just ridiculous. And
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: the NFL was like, yeah, this is dumb. They're still
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: getting ratings. They're still getting 5 million plus people to
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: watch that stuff, which is not nothing. There are leagues
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: that would kill for ratings like that. I watch the
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: WNBA all the time. I love basketball. And I just
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: saw there was a little... There was a little stat
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: here where it was the most watched regular season game
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: of all time. It was the Indiana Fever and the
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: Atlanta Dream recently, right? You know, Caitlyn, Angel Reese, the
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: whole thing. But it was 3.3 million people watched the game.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: Shout out to them. It was the most watched regular
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: season game in WNBA history, to make sure, since the
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: league's inaugural weekend in 1997. So it was the most
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: watched since then. Um, and, uh, you know, 3.3 million
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: viewers on NBC and Peacock. So like shout out to them.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: This is not, it's going to sound like a, a
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: compliment diss, right? Like I'm dissing them while giving them
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: a compliment. I'm really not meaning to do that. Like
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: that's great for the WNBA. They're making more strides. It's great.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: But something that is like the peak of a league.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: is like throw away for the NFL. Like, yeah, I
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: know we get 5 million people for these goofy pro
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: pro bowl games, but you know, let's just say the
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: hell with it. You know, we don't even need to bother.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: It's kind of dumb. Like a dumb event for the
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: NFL still gets 5 million plus in terms of viewership.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: That's insane. Like there are playoff games, playoffs, right? There
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: are Stanley cup final games where they're like, we would
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: kill for 5 million people. Like There are MLB games galore.
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: They would kill for 5 million people. It's a goofy
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: Pro Bowl games event that the NFL is just like, yeah,
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: we're better than this. This is just dumb. So they're
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: doing away with it. No more Pro Bowl, which is fine.
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: I do like this. We're not going to get the
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: goofy alternate Pro Bowlers anymore. That was the dumbest thing ever.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: And that goes for the NFL, goes for MLB, goes
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: for any league. to have the distinction of being a
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: pro bowler just because nobody else wants to go. That
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: that's not a real pro bowl. That's not, you're not
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: a real all-star in baseball. If there are guys that
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: are like, yeah, no, I just, I'd rather not. There
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: was a pitcher for the Phillies this year that was like, Oh,
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: like I'm the fifth or sixth choice. No, I'm good.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: And so then the next guy goes and he's an
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: all-star that it shouldn't be the case. We've got in
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: the NFL, quarterback, Snoop Huntley. He, he was a pro
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: bowler one year. He was an alternate, you know, like
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: they're just asking the next guy, like, Hey, you want
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: to go? No, I'm good. Do you want to go? Nah,
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: I'm fine. Can you make it?
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: No.
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: And then it was, they all got all the way
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: down to Snoop Huntley and Snoop's like, hell yeah. And
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: he was a Pro Bowl alternate. So if you go
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: on his Pro Football reference page, it'll say, Snoop Huntley,
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: Pro Bowl, one time. It's like, what? He was a
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: Pro Bowler? That's insanity right there. So I love that
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: the alternates are a thing of the past. That was
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: just dumb from the beginning. But, you know, the actual
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: distinction of being a Pro Bowler will remain. And that's cool.
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: I'm looking at Tyler Huntley's, yep, one time Pro Bowl.
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: Right there. It's like, what? Yeah, that's the thing. He
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: has the distinction as a one-time pro bowler because he
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: was the alternate of the alternate of the alternate of
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: the other alternate who was the original alternate of the
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: secondary alternate who was the third alternate of the fourth alternate. Yeah,
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: he's a pro bowler. It's crazy. This is wild right there.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: The other no mas, how about this? No more ESPN ticker.
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: during college football games, you know, the bottom line where
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: they flash the scores of other games, they're not doing
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: that anymore. Not going to have it. They just think it's,
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: I don't know, like too much clutter or they don't
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: want to promote a game that isn't on ESPN or
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: just it could invite you if you're like, oh my gosh,
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: LSU is in trouble right now. Who's got that game?
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: Or probably a bad example because the SEC is on ESPN,
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: but I don't know. It's it promotes a Notre Dame game.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: You know, Notre Dame is, is trailing by three points
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: right now. We're in the third quarter and it's like, well,
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: Holy cow. Notre Dame's down. What channel NBC? Let's flip
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: over to NBC. Maybe ESPN came to the realization. That's
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: probably not good. Probably not good to promote other games
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: on other networks. So let's not do that anymore. Maybe
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: that was part of the thinking, but I don't like
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: the change. I do like the scores just flipping up there.
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: And anytime there's a score, I'm not watching my phone
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: throughout games. I'm not sitting there just staring at my
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: phone to see if there is a scoring update. I
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: rely on the bottom line for that, you know, and
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: if it's in real time, you're watching a play and
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: the play ends. And instead of watching the replay, your
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: eyes go down and look at the ticker and you're like,
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: Oh shoot, they scored, man. They're only down by three
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: points now or whatever. You stay on top of those games,
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: you're not going to be able to do that this year.
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: I don't like that change. Not a fan of that change.
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: No more ticker on ESPN college football games.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific.
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: I was getting ready for the show tonight, and I
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: was at the Braves game. Saw Chris Sale throw a
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: CG shut piece. Went shut out. No runs. Complete game.
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: Whole thing. Out-dueled Yamamoto. But I was reading a story
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: on the weight of the game. And I just clicked
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: on the story, and it's a golf story. And I'm like,
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: all right, Callaway ends their relationship with Good Good Golf.
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: I'm like, I've never heard of Good Good Golf. Why
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: do I care about this story? And then all of
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: a sudden, it got pretty interesting. So Good Good Golf
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: produced a video. And in the video... There is a
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: guy who shoves a girl to the ground. The context
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: is that there's this golf club, right? And they're promoting
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: this golf club. And this golf club is so outstanding
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: that anyone who touches the club becomes obsessed. It's a
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: spoof of the movie Obsession. Okay, that's what they're going for.
• 37:41
  Speaker 6: Very poorly depicted.
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: Horrible.
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: Like, horrible job, Lorena.
• 37:45
  Speaker 6: I actually have a soundbite of the commercial.
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: I do too, but I want to hear yours. That's
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: almost like mine. Let's see. Which one do you like better?
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: Do not touch my new driver.
• 38:06
  Speaker 6: Damn, they're both pretty good.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: They're both the exact same thing, Lorena. You know, I
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: don't know.
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: But yeah, that's it. Okay. They're promoting this golf club.
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: This golf club is amazing. You become obsessed with the
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: golf club. And that's the whole concept of this video.
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: The girl goes to grab the club and this guy
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: shoves her to the ground. Don't touch my golf club.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: And then he's just obsessed with this golf club throughout
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: the rest of the ad. Horrible idea, like poorly executed
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: a disaster. And it's become this whole story. So this, Callaway,
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: like I said, they ended their relationship with good, good golf.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: Apparently Callaway reposted the original video and then they take
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: heat for this. And rightfully so. There's just I don't
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: know how many things you could come up with. that
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: are just funny when it comes to domestic violence, right?
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: There are not too many things where you're like, ha,
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: that was actually a good one.
• 39:09
  Speaker 6: I can't think of any, actually.
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: You what?
• 39:11
  Speaker 6: I can't think of anything funny when it comes to
• 39:13
  Speaker 6: domestic violence.
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's going to be a hard thing to
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: sell anytime you go down that road. And they just
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: did a horrible job. It's not even close to being funny.
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: It's a bad Saturday Night Live skit is what it is.
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: It's just clunky and... executed poorly. It's not even close
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: to being funny. But anyway, Callaway reposted this video, and
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: they took heat for it. And the funny thing is
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: their quote made me laugh, where Callaway said, it has made, quote,
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: appropriate internal corrective actions, end quote, right there. which means
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: they fired the bum who was dumb enough to repost
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: that original video.
• 39:55
  Speaker 6: That's really what it made it. Who started it? Who
• 39:58
  Speaker 6: edited it? Whose idea was it? How did it get
• 40:00
  Speaker 6: past all those board members?
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, it was good. Good golf came up with
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: it originally. And it was the creators are, I'm going
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: to butcher these names. Oh gosh. It's Garrett Clark. I
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: got that.
• 40:12
  Speaker 6: It was like the founder of good, good.
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: And then it's Alexa, man, you did your research on this.
• 40:16
  Speaker 6: I've already reported on it.
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: It's a Garrett Clark and it's, Alexis.
• 40:23
  Speaker 6: Jumowski. Jumowski.
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: Mistowski.
• 40:26
  Speaker 6: Mistowski.
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: Something with a ski. Shout out Polish. You know, my
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: mom is a Saradski.
• 40:32
  Speaker 6: And she is one of the four female founders of
• 40:35
  Speaker 6: the Female Good Good branch.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: So we got founders and secondary founders and. They went
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: with something that, I don't know, they thought would either
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: get some traction, maybe get a laugh or two, get
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: some eyeballs on it. It certainly did, but this is
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: not the old any publicity is good publicity thing. This
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: is very bad. Callaway ended its relationship with Good Good Golf.
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: There's not a whole lot that's good happening here. Now,
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: the interesting twist of this whole thing is that one
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: of my buddies from home, he texted me while I
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: was at the Braves game, and he sent me a tweet.
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: And so the tweet is referencing an old Snickers ad
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: involving Betty White. OK, so now to jog your memory,
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: you remember how Snickers had the whole ad campaign.
• 41:24
  Speaker 6: Where, you know, not you when you're hungry.
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, right. Like hungry. Eat a Snickers. So you act
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: like somebody else due to your hunger.
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: And this was the portion of the Betty White. snickers
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: ad that you know the tweet is talking about here's
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: the ad to jog your memory first.
• 41:41
  Speaker 6: Mike what is your deal man come on man you've
• 41:45
  Speaker 6: been riding me all.
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: Day you're playing like betty white out there that's not
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: what your.
• 41:49
  Speaker 6: Girlfriend said.
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: It's actually funny so this tweet uh whoever it was
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: posted by i don't know but uh my friend sent
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: it to me it just says So it's okay for
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: Snickers to put out a commercial where an old lady
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: gets smashed running over the middle, but it's not okay
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: for Callaway Golf to put out a commercial where a
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: woman gets pushed. What the bleep is going on in
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: our society right now? It's such a horrible comparison. It's
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: not even close.
• 42:17
  Speaker 6: I think that is the worst comparison ever.
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: It's awful.
• 42:20
  Speaker 6: I haven't even heard that comparison.
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's, yeah.
• 42:24
  Speaker 6: For one, that was a football scrimmage that Betty White
• 42:27
  Speaker 6: was playing and where she got tackled, where this was
• 42:29
  Speaker 6: a girl reaching for a golf club. And it looks
• 42:31
  Speaker 6: like her boyfriend came over and was like.
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: Don't touch my stuff. Pushed her in the back.
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 42:37
  Speaker 6: Shoulder checked her to the ground. The whole vibe, the
• 42:40
  Speaker 6: music behind it. Like, listen again. The music behind this
• 42:43
  Speaker 6: is so dark.
• 42:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: Do not touch my new driver.
• 42:49
  Speaker 6: Like, that's like a horror movie.
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just weird. And you're right. That's what I...
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: I don't know who tweeted it originally, but I was like,
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: this is a horrible comparison, man. It's not even close
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: to the same thing. They're playing football. Playing football in
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: the first one. And the second one, it's literally, you're
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: upset and you just shove someone to the ground.
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: Dingus.
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: You don't see the... The difference in those two, that's crazy.
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: This was the end of the Betty White commercial. And
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: I don't know this old actor's name, but he got
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: hit in the commercial as well. God hurt. You're not
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: you when you're hungry. And it was just funny, right? Like,
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: you're not, we get the concept and the concept of
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: the golf ad. Okay, you're obsessed with this club. That's
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: the context. But it's like, it's still dumb. Like context
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: is supposed to kind of like clear things up for you.
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: You know, if I if I make a statement and
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: it sounds like totally out of place, you're like, well,
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: the context is this. You're like, oh, OK, I get it.
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: It's not that bad. The context for this golf ad.
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: It makes the ad even dumber. If you just watch
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: the ad, my reaction is like, that's really poorly done.
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: And then if you're like, no, no, no. Well, it's
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: this golf club and you're obsessed with it. And that's
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: why it's like, well, that's even dumber. It doesn't make
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: any sense whatsoever. So anyway, some people are, you know,
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: it's just weird how things unfold these days where you
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: get this, where, you will get like the pearl clutching,
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: if you will, where there are some people that they're
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: so offended and they take it so far that the
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: other side is like, okay, that's a bit much. And
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: then that turns into, it's not that bad. And it's like, no,
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: it is. It is that bad. It's a horrible idea.
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: It's poorly executed. I just think that your opinions shouldn't
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: become reactions because And I think that's what's happening. That's
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: get too deep with this whole philosophical thing. But I
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: think a lot of people's opinions are more reactionary than anything.
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: You hear an opinion that you disagree with. And now
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: your opinion is so much stronger and like way over
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: the top and way different than what it originally was.
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: I just feel that's strange these days, but it's just
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: a dumb ad. It was, it was, Not very well done.
• 45:26
  Speaker 6: Poorly done.
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: Poorly done.
• 45:27
  Speaker 6: Don't abuse women.
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: It's not, or make light of it. There's really not
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: a whole lot to make light of right there. Really.
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: That's the thing for anyone who's like, Oh gosh. All right,
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: here we go with overreaction city. No, like really put your,
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: put yourself in the shoes of someone that was actually
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: abused in a real situation. And maybe repeatedly, or maybe
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: it was just one time and it was so awful
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: that It takes years to get over that.
• 45:57
  Speaker 6: So, Brian, that's actually how I found this story. I
• 46:00
  Speaker 6: was on threads and I didn't even know what it
• 46:02
  Speaker 6: was about. It just said the first thing I saw
• 46:04
  Speaker 6: was Callaway has been taken off of Costco shelves. And
• 46:07
  Speaker 6: I'm like, right.
• 46:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 46:09
  Speaker 6: And then I saw a girl who was like, as
• 46:11
  Speaker 6: a woman whose husband beat her with his golf clubs,
• 46:15
  Speaker 6: this commercial was absolutely horrible. And I was like, what
• 46:18
  Speaker 6: are you talking about? So I had to go look
• 46:20
  Speaker 6: it up.
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: Think about how triggering that would be. I mean, it's
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: just funny. We got to be reasonable in this day
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: and age, you know, and you'll hear these buzzwords and
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: there are people are just going to roll their eyes
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: like triggering, you know, sensitive. It's like, bro, put yourself
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: in that position. All right. You got abused by someone
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: with a golf club and now you're going to watch
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: this ad and kind of making light of that whole concept.
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: Are you supposed to laugh at that? You're not going
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: to look at that and be like, is this what
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: we're really doing right now? Are you kidding me right now?
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: Do you realize what that's like, what you go through?
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: You just got to be smarter, man. And good, good.
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: That was bad, bad. That was not even close.
• 47:11
  Speaker 6: Yeah, their stocks are going to see it too.
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was not well executed. Something that Coop told
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: me about off-air kind of goes hand-in-hand with this. Drewski,
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: who I think is very funny, he made a video,
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: and he's taking heat for this, Coop, about making fun
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: of CTE. So the concept is he's a football player,
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: and he gets hit hard, and he's cross-eyed, and then
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: all of a sudden he's driving on the highway, and
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: it's like a high-speed chase, and he's yelling CTE. It's
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: just dumb. It's just... I love Drew ski. I think
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: he's funny. I think it is a lot of things
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: that are really, really funny. This is not one of them.
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: I don't think this was very good at all.
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: Coop.
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: What do you think about it? Do you think that,
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: you know, there might be a part in it where
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: you're like, that's kind of funny, but the overall concept,
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: what do you think? Thumbs up, thumbs down on that
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: thing from juice ski.
• 48:04
  Speaker 5: I mean, look, it's, it's not, I saw a, a
• 48:09
  Speaker 5: tweet from somebody. I can't remember who it was. I
• 48:12
  Speaker 5: think it was an athlete. Oh, I think it was T.J.
• 48:16
  Speaker 4: Ward, actually.
• 48:17
  Speaker 5: Former Denver Bronco T.J.
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: Ward. Yeah, he's the guy who hurt Gronk, remember? He
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: went low. He was with the Browns and went low
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: and hit Gronk and jacked up his knee. Very hard hitter.
• 48:27
  Speaker 5: And he said something that I thought was, and I
• 48:29
  Speaker 5: thought about it, and I was like, yeah, that's kind
• 48:31
  Speaker 5: of true. He's like, why is CTE the only disease
• 48:35
  Speaker 5: that's okay to make fun of? Would you be doing
• 48:39
  Speaker 5: this sketch about cancer or HIV.
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: Great point.
• 48:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: Great point by TJ word. I like that point.
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: It's got like dudes are killing themselves who are suffering
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: from CTE. You know what I mean? Like, I don't,
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: that's a tough one to make fun of. And for
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: it to be like, ha ha good one. Drew ski,
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: you know, like, I don't know, man, that that's a
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: tough one for me as well, where, uh, I don't know.
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: I didn't think very much of that one either. I
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: don't know. It's funny because there are some comedians, they
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: will take some sensitive subjects and they'll they'll say something
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: that's just flat out hilarious. And so I understand there
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: are going to be some swings and misses. There are
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: going to be some things that land, there are going
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: to be some things that miss the mark entirely. And, uh,
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: I thought Drewski missed the mark. I thought good, good
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: golf for sure. Missed the mark in a big way,
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: but that's just my two cents. And I know that
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: story might be just completely off the radar for you.
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: But I did as good a job as I could with,
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: you know, I'm sure someone's hearing this for the first
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: time is like, wait, what's going on here. So I
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: think you at least get the gist of the commercial.
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: It's a tough subject to just jump into and think that,
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: People are going to take it well. I remember, and
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: this isn't just because I think the standards have gotten better.
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: And with standards getting better, there's going to be comments
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: that you think are going way too far. But I
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: don't think that should sway you from a reasonable position.
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: If you hear someone like way over the top, I
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: don't think your original position should be swayed. If your
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: original position is like, that's a bad idea. And then
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: you hear someone saying good, good golf. They should, their
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: company should be null and void from this point on.
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: And you hear over the top things and you're like, okay,
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: that's no, that's okay.
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: Fine.
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: But I don't think you should sway from your original
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: point of view. And I think that happens quite a bit.
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: There's one thing I'll take a call real quick. There
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: was one thing that came to mind, and I can't
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: remember what NBA teams. I tried to search for it.
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: I could not find it. I want to say it
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: was the Cleveland Cavaliers. But you know how they have
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: the Jumbotron stuff, and they have entertainment throughout these games. Baseball, football, basketball,
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: what have you. Constant entertainment during timeouts, innings, inning ended, whatever.
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: There's always entertainment. I saw Mr. Freeze at the Braves game.
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: That's a good one. Racing in the outfield. but they
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: had some, I believe it was Cleveland Cavaliers. I apologize
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: if that's wrong, but it was something along those lines.
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: It was supposed to be a joke, but it was
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: about domestic violence. And I can't remember the context exactly,
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: but it was something to do with, there was this couple,
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: they were talking and the girl, I don't know, like
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: reached for his Jersey or something, something like that. And
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: then the camera switched and she had a black eye.
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: And everyone was just like, that's a horrible idea. And
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: that was years ago. I don't know when it was.
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: I think it was the Cavs. It could have been
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: somebody else. But it didn't land, you know, not shockingly
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: didn't land then either. So we got Mark on the
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: north end. He's got a comment on this golf commercial.
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: I'm curious what he thinks. What's going on, Mark? You're
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: on Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, what's happening, guys?
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  Speaker 3: Hey, bud.
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  Speaker 4: So I agree that the commercial was tasteless, but. I
• 52:23
  Speaker 4: was hoping somebody on sports radio brought this up. What
• 52:27
  Speaker 4: if it was the other way around? What if, like,
• 52:29
  Speaker 4: it was a commercial for, I don't know, Lady Schick,
• 52:33
  Speaker 4: and the guy was in the shower, and he was
• 52:35
  Speaker 4: using her razor blade, and she saw him, ripped the
• 52:39
  Speaker 4: shower curtain open, threw him to the ground and said,
• 52:42
  Speaker 4: don't touch my razor blade. Would that be funny?
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 4: Just asking.
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  Speaker 3: No, it wouldn't be funny.
• 52:50
  Speaker 6: Random commercial idea.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's going to land differently.
• 52:54
  Speaker 4: It would definitely land differently, and you would have to admit,
• 52:57
  Speaker 4: women would crack up laughing if they saw that commercial.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I don't know. Maybe some would, but
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: you've got to understand the context, Mark. Like, it's not
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: the same thing.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, the power dynamic there is ridiculous.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly. That's all it is. It's the power dynamic. It's
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: not like women far and wide are– misusing their power
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  Speaker 3: and abusing guys physically. Like that's not a thing. So
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  Speaker 3: that's why it would be completely different, right?
• 53:28
  Speaker 4: Like actually in today's world, it actually is a thing.
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  Speaker 4: Just men don't report it because why it's embarrassing, but
• 53:37
  Speaker 4: it is a thing.
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  Speaker 3: It's not a thing on the same scale, Mark. That's
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: the whole point.
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  Speaker 4: I was one of those guys that I was in
• 53:45
  Speaker 4: an abusive relationship and I wasn't the abuser.
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 53:50
  Speaker 6: No, it's definitely, it's not unheard of, but it's also
• 53:52
  Speaker 6: not something to make light of.
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  Speaker 4: You're right.
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  Speaker 6: No matter which way you put it, a woman pushing
• 53:56
  Speaker 6: a man or vice versa should not be highlighted. And
• 53:58
  Speaker 6: that's the issue with this commercial.
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  Speaker 4: Wait, but all I'm saying is I don't think there
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  Speaker 4: would be as much controversy if it was the other
• 54:06
  Speaker 4: way around.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, I agree with you, Mark. And look, man, I'm sorry.
• 54:10
  Speaker 3: You went through whatever you went through. Yeah. You know,
• 54:13
  Speaker 3: you know, I take that seriously also, but, um, It's
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: not going to be the same thing because, like Lorena said,
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: the power dynamic is completely different. It's just a different deal. So, yeah.
• 54:25
  Speaker 6: But abuse is wrong on all sides.
• 54:27
  Speaker 4: It is.
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: Absolutely it is.
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  Speaker 6: Keep your hands to yourself.
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 54:30
  Speaker 5: What's the old TV show where he was always, like,
• 54:35
  Speaker 5: threatening to hit his wife? You don't want to talk?
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: To the moon, Alice!
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: Um.
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 54:44
  Speaker 5: To the moon Alice.
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: Do you know what I'm talking about? We're both Googling
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: to the moon Alice. I can feel it right now. Honeymooners.
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: I'm not familiar with that one.
• 54:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: To the moon Alice. I mean, but what year was that, Coop?
• 55:01
  Speaker 4: The 50s.
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: 50s television.
• 55:03
  Speaker 6: I have some stats here on domestic abuse as well.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: What do you got?
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  Speaker 6: Sorry.
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Do you want me to say them?
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 55:12
  Speaker 6: So one in three women have experienced domestic abuse. One
• 55:16
  Speaker 6: in nine men have experienced domestic abuse.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 6: Including, you know, assault in sexual ways.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Right.
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  Speaker 3: Sure. It happens.
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  Speaker 6: Women are roughly six times more likely to experience severe
• 55:29
  Speaker 6: injuries and about 74 to 75% of domestic violence victims
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  Speaker 6: recorded by law enforcement are female. So there's that.
• 55:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: Well, hey man, you know, it's, Anybody misusing their power
• 55:43
  Speaker 3: is is wrong and it's a horrible thing. But the
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: stats that you rolled out there, Lorena, that's why it
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  Speaker 3: would land differently. And you would have to understand that context.
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  Speaker 3: Even if you're a guy and you're a victim of
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: domestic abuse. Right. You would have to understand the reasons
• 56:01
  Speaker 3: why it would land.
• 56:02
  Speaker 6: And if you are a victim, you should be even
• 56:04
  Speaker 6: more against the commercial.
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: Right. Exactly. Whether it's. you know, the way it was
• 56:10
  Speaker 3: or the opposite of what it was in that ad.
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  Speaker 4: No doubt.