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  Speaker 1: You gotta love the bad guy, gotta love it. Wel come,
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  Speaker 1: in the beginning of another night of the Ben Mahler Show.
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  Speaker 1: right out of the gates here immediately in a bad mood.
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  Speaker 1: Immediately in a bad mood here. Now, I left yesterday
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  Speaker 1: the equipment was not working properly, so I let Loraina know.
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  Speaker 1: I said, Loraina, the equipment's not working. And we have
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  Speaker 1: a major engineering department here, people that know how to
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  Speaker 1: fix things. So I assume by the time I came
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  Speaker 1: back into the studio everything would be working. And you
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  Speaker 1: hear that. I don't know if you can hear that,
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  Speaker 1: but that's the piece that's broken, which is still broken,
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  Speaker 1: which was not fixed. So I don't know why it
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  Speaker 1: was not. I have no idea. I mean, maybe the
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  Speaker 1: guys out having coffee or something. I don't know what happened.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, there you go. So the equipment still still broken.
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  Speaker 1: So I'll let you know, like to learn all the
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  Speaker 1: affiliates down the line, the knob, the knobby thingy not working.
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  Speaker 1: So you're worried about Dad, That's fine, but the show
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  Speaker 1: must go on, so our lead. This hour is from
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  Speaker 1: Soup super Bowl fifteen night. Now, super Bowl fifty nine
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  Speaker 1: is not being played this weekend, as you know. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: it won't be played until the following Sunday. However, the
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  Speaker 1: calm before the storm, the dreaded dead week. Now there
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  Speaker 1: is no such thing as a dead week. There was
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  Speaker 1: a point in time when you did have the dead week,
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  Speaker 1: but that doesn't exist anymore. So the things picking up
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  Speaker 1: the next couple of days. Now, we already had a
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  Speaker 1: couple of nuggets, golden nuggets that were tossed out there
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  Speaker 1: as we get cranked up the full blast now in
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  Speaker 1: the meantime, before we get into all that, Travis kelce
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  Speaker 1: the gift that keeps on giving, the tight end of
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  Speaker 1: your cans City Chiefs, Travis kelce He has filled the
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  Speaker 1: sports take collection plate. Now what has he done? What
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  Speaker 1: has he done here? If you didn't hear this, maybe
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  Speaker 1: not Bobbly didn't The tight end Travis kelcey saying recently
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  Speaker 1: that he and his teammates they have embraced the villain role.
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  Speaker 1: They've embraced being the bad guys as they attempt to
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  Speaker 1: win that third Super Bowl in a row. Kelsey, on
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  Speaker 1: his Fledgling podcast said, I love it. He said, it
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  Speaker 1: makes us even more of a family. Yes, it's all
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  Speaker 1: about that. Yeah, f A M I L Y fam
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  Speaker 1: A Lee all day all right now. Kelsey added that
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  Speaker 1: he thinks the outside noise. You know, people that have
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  Speaker 1: opinions that caused the NFL to make all this money,
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  Speaker 1: that the outside noise is helping to galvanize, helping to
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  Speaker 1: galvanize the Chiefs as they are on their quest to
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  Speaker 1: get three championships in row. He said, you just circle
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  Speaker 1: the wagons and blah blah blah blah blah. Alright, so
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  Speaker 1: let us discuss now. I added the blah blah blah
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  Speaker 1: blah part that he didn't actually say that. I added
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  Speaker 1: the blah blah blah blah blah. That was not what
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  Speaker 1: he said. He said, we'll circle the wagons and you
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  Speaker 1: just do that, all right. So the question for the
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  Speaker 1: esteem panel Travis Kelcey saying that he and his teammates
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  Speaker 1: are embracing villain status for this Super Bowl run here,
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  Speaker 1: and what is your viewpoint on that? So I have
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  Speaker 1: Darth Vader, Charlie Chaplin, and Hot Dog on a stick,
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  Speaker 1: three things that have never been combined together in the
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  Speaker 1: history of radio, but here they are, all right, So
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  Speaker 1: and we'll combine these things together and then we'll actually
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  Speaker 1: make a knob that will be fixed. The knob will
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  Speaker 1: be fixed because we put those things together. The broken
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  Speaker 1: equipment in the studio. Not then I'm complaining. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: merely pointing it out because maybe if I point it out,
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  Speaker 1: someone will fix it. But it'll be all taken care
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  Speaker 1: of because we'll combine those things together. So my first
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  Speaker 1: thought here is that Travis kelcey and the Chiefs are
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  Speaker 1: laughing all the way to the bank the uproar. I
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  Speaker 1: thought it would calm down. We are several days out,
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  Speaker 1: several days out, we're heading into a Thursday now, and
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  Speaker 1: we're still hearing the noise. It's rigged. It's fixed by
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  Speaker 1: dumb people. A lot of dumb people out there. That's rigged. Yess.
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  Speaker 1: The NFL is very worried about market number thirty one.
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  Speaker 1: But it hasn't calmed down, right, It hasn't calmed down.
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  Speaker 1: But this has been an absolute gold rush, an absolute
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  Speaker 1: gold rush for Travis Kelce. Nobody in the NFL has
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  Speaker 1: monetized themselves more than Travis kelce in recent years. You
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  Speaker 1: talk about being the beneficiary writing the coattails of the
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  Speaker 1: Taylor Swift fame train. Jew Yeah, right there, and all
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  Speaker 1: this bad blood for the Chiefs. There is no such thing.
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  Speaker 1: I heard this years ago. It is true. There is
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  Speaker 1: no such thing as bad publicity. As long as they
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  Speaker 1: make sure you know everything's right there, they get your
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  Speaker 1: name out there because people react. It's all about the name,
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  Speaker 1: and Travis Kelcey and the Chiefs. It's like the famous
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  Speaker 1: words of Darth Vader in Star Wars. You don't know
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  Speaker 1: the power of the dark Side. You don't And the
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  Speaker 1: Chiefs are embracing the power of the dark side at
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  Speaker 1: this point. And I've always said sports hate is the
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  Speaker 1: greatest kind of hate. I love good sports hate. I
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  Speaker 1: love it now misplaced sports hate's kind of silly, like
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  Speaker 1: when the Bill's Mafia were so upset with my Friend's
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  Speaker 1: sports with Coleman. How embarrassing was that for Bill's Mafia.
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  Speaker 1: But this is like, fine, the Chiefs are winning all
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  Speaker 1: the time, your team blows and so you're upset and
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  Speaker 1: you're convinced. It's that illusionary truth phenomenon where you keep
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  Speaker 1: hearing over and over the games are rigged, and you
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  Speaker 1: start looking for things that back that up, even when
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  Speaker 1: they're not there. Now page two, So, Travis kelce also
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  Speaker 1: says that Kansas City's locker room all Right has never
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  Speaker 1: ever discussed three peating. That's not been talked about at all,
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  Speaker 1: not one time during the season or the playoff run.
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  Speaker 1: He says, it has not been mentioned at all. It
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  Speaker 1: has been asked about only by the media, but not
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  Speaker 1: brought up by the players in the room. All right,
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  Speaker 1: So that's what he's saying. So let's discuss Travis Kelce
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  Speaker 1: claiming that the Chiefs have not have not taken the
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  Speaker 1: three pete mantra inside the locker room. They have not
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  Speaker 1: done it one time ahead of the matchup as they
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  Speaker 1: played the Eagles in the Super Bowl. So your thoughts
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  Speaker 1: on that. So my thought is this is true, perhaps,
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  Speaker 1: but it's irrelevant. It's like, maybe that's true. I find
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  Speaker 1: that hard to believe, know how the human mind is wired.
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  Speaker 1: I have one. I think you do too, and find
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  Speaker 1: it impossible to believe that it didn't come up at
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  Speaker 1: some point, like what would it be like? And if
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  Speaker 1: we win, we're golden for life, or are probably already
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  Speaker 1: golden for life, but we want another one. So think
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  Speaker 1: of this like the early Hollywood star Charlie Chaplin who
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  Speaker 1: made his fame in silent films, Right's silent movies and
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  Speaker 1: all that. It is a tacit approach that I have
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  Speaker 1: here that the historical run is understood, so you don't
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  Speaker 1: have to like talk about it, even if it's unstated.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone's aware of what's going on. And it's been shadow
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  Speaker 1: boxing the Chiefs all season. It hasn't mattered in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: They've been they've been winning these games, and they're going
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  Speaker 1: to win the super Bowl and they'll win the championship
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  Speaker 1: and all that. And then I will guarantee you after
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  Speaker 1: the Chiefs raise up the Lombardi Trophy that they will say, well,
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  Speaker 1: nobody thought we could do it. You know, if we're
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  Speaker 1: going where no one's gone before. Blah blah blah. They'll
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  Speaker 1: be yapping, although they claim now I don't really listen
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  Speaker 1: to the outside noise and they didn't bring it up,
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  Speaker 1: but you you will, one hundred percent. No, if this
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  Speaker 1: does end with the Chiefs winning the Super Bowl, it
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  Speaker 1: is going to be NonStop patting themselves in the back,
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  Speaker 1: overcoming the adversity, all that stuff, because every team that
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  Speaker 1: wins does the same thing. They all have the same
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  Speaker 1: playbook when they win. Now, last word here, so making
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  Speaker 1: the media rounds. Making the media rounds, Andy Read did
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  Speaker 1: several interviews. Now, Andy does not do a lot of
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  Speaker 1: these interviews locally in Kansas City, but he does pop
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  Speaker 1: up on national shows. It's odd because in Philadelphia he
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  Speaker 1: was on the radio a lot when he coached the Eagles.
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  Speaker 1: He had a coaches show every week. He had to
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  Speaker 1: go on with Angelo Cataldi in Philadelphia, and I know
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  Speaker 1: he hated it, but he had to do it. Now
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't have to do it. In Kansas City. There's
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  Speaker 1: no coaches show. There's not even a coach's podcast. As
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  Speaker 1: far as I know, that does not exist. But Andy
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  Speaker 1: Reiding knowledge in an interview this week that the Chiefs
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  Speaker 1: are working on some exotic plays in the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: So the question is, why would Andy Reid confirm that
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  Speaker 1: they are planning on using some trick plays in Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl fifty nine? How do you benefit from that? And
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  Speaker 1: this is obviously the antithesis of Bill Belichick, right, but
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  Speaker 1: you'd ask Bill Belichick what time it was, he'd be
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  Speaker 1: looking at the clock. He says, I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: answer that question. I have no answer. I can't comment
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  Speaker 1: on that. But in comparison, Andy Reid is side by
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  Speaker 1: said he's an open book. But anybody next to Bill Belichick,
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  Speaker 1: I would say, is an open book. And Belichick who
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  Speaker 1: kept everything close to the vest, even the vest itself
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  Speaker 1: was close to the vest. It was fascinating how he
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  Speaker 1: was able to do that. But the benefit to answer
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  Speaker 1: the question why would you do this if you're Andy Reid, Well,
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  Speaker 1: the benefit is obvious because it is a friendly reminder,
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  Speaker 1: a friendly reminder being strategic that hey, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: do this a lot, and we're probably going to do
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  Speaker 1: it again, and we love trickeration. And so hey, Nick
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  Speaker 1: Siriotti and all you Philadelphia Eagle types, Uncle Vic Fangio
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  Speaker 1: and all you clowns over there when you're preparing you're
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  Speaker 1: doing that cramming session to get ready for the Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 1: getting everything lined up and all that. Here's one more
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  Speaker 1: thing to worry about and give you anxiety, one more
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  Speaker 1: thing you have to concern yourself with. And Kansas City
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  Speaker 1: has done it in these last couple of Super Bowls.
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  Speaker 1: They have used the go go gadget play if you
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  Speaker 1: will in the Super Bowl, right, Andy Reid the hot
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  Speaker 1: dog on a stick philosophy, and we know he loves
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  Speaker 1: a hot dog on a stick. And the team from
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  Speaker 1: Kansas City using the play, they called it the the
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  Speaker 1: corn dog become iconic. Who doesn't like a corn dog?
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  Speaker 1: That's delicious. So they've used that last couple of times,
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  Speaker 1: and so they'll probably pull out some play from like
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  Speaker 1: nineteen forty seven or nineteen forty six or something like
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  Speaker 1: that that was used like one time by a team
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  Speaker 1: that no longer exists, and Andy Reid heard about it
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  Speaker 1: reading a book somewhere on the toilet, and he was
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  Speaker 1: inspired to bring the play back in the modern era.
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  Speaker 1: And they'll run like the Flying Wedge, which unfortunately is illegal.
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  Speaker 1: The decision is in wel come. In the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour from Los Angeles, NFL News.
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  Speaker 1: NFL News Decision twenty twenty five. Matthew Stafford. Now, you
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  Speaker 1: might remember Matthew Stafford at the end of the Rams
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  Speaker 1: season when they were eliminated by the Philadelphia football team,
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  Speaker 1: despite actually competing and going to blow to blow with
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  Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles and having a chance to win the
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  Speaker 1: game in the fourth quarter. But that aside, that aside.
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  Speaker 1: After that playoff loss in Philadelphia, Matthew Stafford was rather
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  Speaker 1: vague on whether or not he would be back with
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  Speaker 1: the Rams. He had to ponder why would you even ponder?
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  Speaker 1: If he had to ponder his future, he was debating
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  Speaker 1: the drama. Will he continue to make forty plus million
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  Speaker 1: dollars a year or will he step away to not
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  Speaker 1: make forty million dollars a year? These are very tough
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  Speaker 1: decisions to decide, what do you want to do? So
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  Speaker 1: he has made his decision. I assume you know by now,
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  Speaker 1: but maybe not. Maybe you're a little late to the party.
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  Speaker 1: The show starts when you turn the show on, and
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  Speaker 1: the show ends when you turn the show off. It's
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  Speaker 1: amazing how that works. So it turns out that we
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  Speaker 1: are told Matthew Stafford says I'm back. He's planning on
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  Speaker 1: returning to the Rams for another season. NFL state sponsored
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  Speaker 1: media reporting that Stafford has informed the team that he
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  Speaker 1: plans on returning next season. It has been communicated in
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  Speaker 1: so many words to the Sean McVay brain trust in
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles. So let us discuss the question. Matthew Stafford
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  Speaker 1: planning on coming back running it back with the Rams
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  Speaker 1: at twenty twenty five. That's what he says. It's a
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  Speaker 1: he said, he said situation does that Garon t that
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  Speaker 1: Stafford will be back with the Rams in twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: So I've got doctor It, sund and Donnie Wahlberg, three
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  Speaker 1: things that have never been combined together, and through the
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  Speaker 1: hocus pocus, the abra cadabra of talk radio, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to combine all these things together. So number I said,
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  Speaker 1: number yeah, mallor sports book ods. Now, we got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of guys in Vegas that listen to the show,
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  Speaker 1: and this is not an official sports book. These are
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  Speaker 1: the malar of sportsbook odds, which are much more important,
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  Speaker 1: much more important. It's like an offshore sportsbook type thing.
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  Speaker 1: So the malar of sportsbook odds minus three hundred, okay,
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  Speaker 1: minus three hundred. That implies a seventy five percent chance
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  Speaker 1: that Stafford is with the Rams, but a twenty five
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  Speaker 1: percent chance that there is impass and they can't get
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  Speaker 1: past their difficulties and Stafford does not return to the Rams.
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  Speaker 1: He's dude to make twenty seven million dollars next year,
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  Speaker 1: which is good work if you can get it. However,
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  Speaker 1: none of that money is guaranteed. Remember we told you
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  Speaker 1: a couple weeks back in a previous episode of the
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  Speaker 1: show that Stafford had signed essentially a one year contract
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  Speaker 1: to come back and then they would figure things out
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the year. Well, now the year's
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  Speaker 1: over for the Rams and everyone other than Philadelphia and
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  Speaker 1: Kansas City. So the Rams are trying to figure things
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  Speaker 1: out what they want to do going forward, and they
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  Speaker 1: have to renegotiate. But from a business perspective, a guy
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  Speaker 1: call up last hour, nice gentleman, you ps driver, right,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think Stafford's worth forty million, And I would
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  Speaker 1: argue that most of these people are not worth the
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  Speaker 1: money they're making. But that's not the point. It's not
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  Speaker 1: our money. Who cares, We're just sitting there watching this crap.
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  Speaker 1: It's on the people that work in that business. It's
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  Speaker 1: their money. Stan Kronki, the owner of the Rams, is
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  Speaker 1: married into the Walmart money and he made a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of money on his own in real estate at one point.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if this is still true, but the
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  Speaker 1: RAMS owner, Stan Kronk, you know, owns a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: teams in Colorado as well. But stan Kronki was the
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  Speaker 1: largest in non government landowner in America the entire country.
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  Speaker 1: No one individual owned more land. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: that's still true. It was true as of a number
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  Speaker 1: of years back. I have not seen if somebody's passed
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  Speaker 1: him by or not. And he's an introvert. One of
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  Speaker 1: my old radio friends back in the day, Joe McDonald,
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  Speaker 1: knew him a little bit, and he didn't like talking
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  Speaker 1: to the media very much, kept to himself. And all
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  Speaker 1: that was years ago, and you don't see him on TV.
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  Speaker 1: He's not one of these guys Jerry Jones, Robert Kraft.
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  Speaker 1: They demand that television show them certain owners are attention
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  Speaker 1: wrees and Stan Cronkey is not that. But it's his money.
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  Speaker 1: It's his money. The problem is Stafford is thirty seven
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  Speaker 1: years old. The Rams over the last couple of years
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  Speaker 1: have picked up a doctorate in kicking the can down
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  Speaker 1: the road right in just waiting to get things done.
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  Speaker 1: Mainly Sean McVeagh when it comes to the quarterback position,
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  Speaker 1: is tiptoeing around land mines because the Rams have put
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  Speaker 1: everything into Stafford and there's no one else. There's no
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  Speaker 1: heir to the throne for the Rams, there's not and
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  Speaker 1: in many ways that's a dared devil approach. I don't
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  Speaker 1: really hate it because the Rams are like, well, figure
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  Speaker 1: it out. Remember they picked up Baker Mayfield when he
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  Speaker 1: was on death's doorstep from Carolina and he actually did okay,
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  Speaker 1: and briefly briefly as the as the Rams quarterback, and
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  Speaker 1: so they figure they can go get somebody in. Sean
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  Speaker 1: mcvay's the quarterback whisperer, and he can coach up some
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  Speaker 1: second rate quarterback and they'll figure it out as they go.
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  Speaker 1: But it's not like they've drafted anyone realistic. I know
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  Speaker 1: they drafted the quarterback out of Georgia, who's got issues
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: and that's not really grooming someone for the future. So
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: the draft is in April. Will the Rams actually try
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  Speaker 1: to find someone they can plug behind Stafford? When the
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  Speaker 1: inevitable Stafford my, oh, my aching knee, all my elbow
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  Speaker 1: and he gets hurt and they don't have anybody all
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: right now, page two, we go to Philadelphia. There's an
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  Speaker 1: underlying story as the Eagles prepare to take on Kansas
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: City in Super Bowl fifty nine, and it involves a
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: postgame quote that has been highlighted from Jalen Hurts. Now
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts, his quote still has legs. Several days later,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Jalen Hurst was asked about having the three touchdown performance
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: against the Washington football team after some real duds. Let's
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: be honest, you didn't play very well. It wasn't much
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: of a factor at all in terms of what the
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Eagles were doing offensively in a positive way, Jalen Hurts.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: And so he's asked about that and he said, let
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: me they let me out of my straight jacket a
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: little bit. That was the quote, let me out of
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: my straight jacket a little bit. So right away we
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: all saw that, and what do we say we said
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: ding dong. That's what we said, ding dong exactly. That's
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: the money quote. That's the money quote raised some eyebrows. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the head coach of the Philadelphia football team, Nick Sirianni,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: he was asked about this now he said, he just
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: dismissed it. Nick Sirianni said, listen, Jalen Hurst was just
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: quote having fun close quote just having fun with the
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: straight jacket comment. Is there more to the story? Malords
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: show investigation? Is there more to the story. After several
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: minutes of contemplation and deliberation, we have determined yes, there
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: is more to the story here. Jalen Hurts is annoyed
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: with Nick Sirianni. He's annoyed with Sirianni. And it's not
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: to the point where like, ah, this guy should be
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: firing the option of the super Bowl. But when Sirianni said,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Hurts is just having fun, right, that is the point.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: That is the point. Of course, he was having fun.
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  Speaker 1: But as we know from studying human nature that there
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  Speaker 1: is a Colonel kernel of truth. It's wrapped in every joke.
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  Speaker 1: Right that Sigmund Freud said that the joke's really just
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: truth wrapped in a smile is the joke, So there's
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: truth in there. Yeah, he's annoyed. It's like it is
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: emasculating for Jalen Hurts. He has been marginalized. Now it's working,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: and I wouldn't change it. If I was the Eagle,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? I would ride Sekwon Barkley's back
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: all the way to the Promised Land. If that's how
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: it's gonna go. I don't think it's gonna work, but
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: you're certainly not gonna change things now, and you're not
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: gonna go to a passing office. That was That's what
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: spags in Kansas City are gonna want. They're gonna want
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts to throw the ball thirty five times and
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: you feel like you're gonna win the game. He's throwing
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: the ball thirty five times. You're in good shape. But
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Hurts is a glorified game manager. It's unbecoming. Right, So
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: the straight jacket joke was a way to send a message.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: All right, final point, we going out of the marketing world.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: That's right, the marketing world. Now. I read this week
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: that the Commanders a team with a very weak nickname.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: What a dumb nickname? That is the Washington Commanders, though
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: their rookie quarterback Jaden Daniels, the star of the show,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: the bell of the ball. He has the top selling,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: top selling jersey across all of the North American Sports League,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: so all the big sports leagues in America, and he's
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: at the very top. He's number one right there at
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: the top top selling jersey according to the people over
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: there at fanatics. And so the Commanders also have announced,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: as they're trying to pump up the reputation of Jade
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: and Daniels, that of course he has the top selling
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: jersey since the playoffs started in the NFL. So how
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: does Commanders quarterback Jaden Daniels have the highest jersey sales
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: across all all of sports in twenty twenty five. I
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: know we're not even a month in, but well, the
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: answers right in front of you. He is like back
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: in his day, Donnie Wahlberg, new kid on the block,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: the new kids on the block. He's the new flavor
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: in the NFL, Jaden Daniels. And for a couple of weeks,
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: it was a magic carpet ride, beating Tampa Bay, taking
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: the Lions the Mighty Mighty Detroit lions and taking them
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: to the woodshed, and so nobody. The other thing is
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: nobody had any merch who is nobody wants to buy
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Washington Commanders merchandise. The team logo sucks, the jersey sucks, right,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just bad. And so you never you
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: never underestimate these shiny object syndrome. That's a big part
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: of it. And then the Commanders and back going back
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: to when they were the Redskins. They haven't had many
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: name brand players in the last ten years, So just
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: the disease of attraction, right, like, hey, this guy's actually good.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Haven't had a good player in a while. And plus
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: the other thing is it's the trendy train. Sure, the
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: trendy train band wag nerve. People like to jump on
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: the bandwagon. Band wagon effect is a real thing that
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: if you start a restaurant and you pay people to
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: wait online for the restaurant, people will wait online with
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: those people, even though they don't know anything about the restaurant,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: because they think it's popular. They want to be part
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: of it. That's just the way it is. So it's
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: human nature. So the perception is that Jayden Daniels is
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: going to be great for the next fifteen years and
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: all that, and so there you go. Imagine how much
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: more merch though they would sell if they actually had
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: a good logo and a good nickname. It's a fashion
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: faux paws at commander's uniform.
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• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Here we go. It's not how you do it right.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: It's a terrible call. This is one big Ben gets
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Grill Kupol.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: New York Giants GM Joe Shoon said in an interview
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: this week that the Giants are a quote open to
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: anything at the number three overall pick in this year's draft.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Then what direction do you think the Giants will go? Well,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Joe Shane, who is probably gonna lose his job after
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: this this offseason night for the Giants, I would trade
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: the pick. From what I've read I've tried to study
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: up on the draft, doesn't seem like there's a bunch
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: of impact players in this draft. So if you can
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: get multiple picks and have multiple shots at it, I
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: would trade down. The Giants obviously need a quarterback. My
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: sense tells me they actually will draft Shradar Sanders will
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: likely be the pick there, but I would trade to
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: pick it was up to me, because the Giants have
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: many holes. I would try to get quantity over necessarily
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: quality because not only there's like great quality and who knows,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: these scouts are probably completely wrong.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: Next, former Colts head coach Chuck Pagano is coming out
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: of retirement to join the Ravens coaching Staffah, my guy, yes,
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: senior secondary coach. Sure, Ben, do you think Pagano is
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: looking to move back up the ranks? Ors here just
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: helping out Harbaugh.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Well, we need Chuck Pegano to come back as a coach.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Two of my favorite quotes over the last twenty years
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Chuck Pegano when he said it's not trigonometry and there
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: was some quarterback for the Colts who was playing kind
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: of sick, and he said he was literally on his deathbed.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: We need I support Pegano back as a head coach.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: He a little too old, but I support him.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: Next, all right, Anthony Davis put out some put some
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: pressure on the Lakers' front office this week, saying I
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: think we need another big I feel like I've always
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: been at my best when I've been at the four
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: We know it worked when we won a championship with
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: JaVale and Dwight at the five and me at the four.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Bench to the Lakers listened to ad No, Lebron and
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: a d these guys bitching, Oh, we don't have enough talent.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Stop with the excuses. Stop what do you do? You're
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: never gonna have enough talent. Just go out there and
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: win some damn playoff games. And that's his way of
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: saying that the team blows. How do we do? Koop?
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: You passes and put it on the board. So sick
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: of though all read more talent oo oo.
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  Speaker 3: Helloop, Now, this is a good question, but I don't
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: know if it's if it's one that's easy to come
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: up with on the spot. So we'll see Emmett the
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: Blind see how I've heard of him. He wants to note,
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: do you guys have any weird food weird food combinations
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: that you like.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: I don't think they're weird, but like we had the
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: listeners send a bunch of snacks, and I like cheese
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: balls and chocolate. Wonderful, right, I mean that's weird. I
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: don't think that's weird. Cheese balls and chocolate. Yeah, the
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: salt from the cheese balls, and then the pretzels and chocolate.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: I do pretzels as well, but cheese balls and chocolate.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: I think that's a little weird. It's not weird at all.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: It's fine, Lorena. You want to add any you do
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: a lot of weird things, Lorena, I.
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: Do a lot of great things. If you ask me, man,
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: uh huh.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: You struggle the two donuts the other day.
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, But then there's some things that really hit Like
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: I like dipping my popcorn and mustard.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, that's right. I love doing that.
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: It's one of my favorites.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: It's not cool, not good. I coope any weird. I'm
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: having trouble thinking of it.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: The only thing I can think of, and it doesn't
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: It's probably not weird to a lot of people because
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: it's kind of like so when I go to Rosco's.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: I like chicken and waffle place. If you're not familiar, yes.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: I'm I'm surprised how many people don't eat all of
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: it in the same bite. But I'm a I'm a waffle,
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: syrup chicken. Oh, you're a You're all in the same bite.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: You're a mixer, Yes, you're a mixer. Yeah, I'm not
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: usually a mixer. I eat my each part of the dish,
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: you know, but separate.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah. My wife's a mixer too, she likes she gets
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: very upset. She's like, she won't eat everything in a bowl,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: you know. And I'm like, I'm not a dog. I
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: don't know anyway, what is next year? What do we have?
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: It's ask bang. Your questions are answers. On a nubie night,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: a very good.
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: Nubie night, ferd Dog would like to know Hi, fergie.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: Do you sneeze into your hand, your arm, or in
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: the air everywhere?
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Well, it depends by myself. I'll just sneeze in the
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: air everywhere. But no, no, I usually cover because if
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: I'm like on my computer or something that there's nothing
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: worse than yes, getting mucus all over your screen and
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: all that stuff. Uh. Yeah, I normally use my hand.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: I think you're supposed to do the elbow thing like this, right,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: You're supposed to go like that, but I usually do
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: the hand.
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the hand is bad because then you go and
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: touch other things with your hand, thus spreading the germs.
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: Where if you go into your elbow, you don't touch me.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Like Jonas knocks over there. That's wrong with you.
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: You got to teach your kids how not to spread germs.
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: Ben anyways, Yeah, no, I always try to cover my
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: mouth because I've seen my spit go super far when
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: I've sneezed before. I'm like, how did you reach that far?
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: Like it's crazy how far it goes.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've seen those videos on YouTube where they they yeah, man,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: you have power human being your mucus.
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: I got a big sneeze too, so you know you
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: gotta hold that baby in Do.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: You goot like that guy on f S one? Cool?
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: So when I was a teenager into young adults, I
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: like held my sneezes all the time, and then I
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: was told that that's bad.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: You can die. I don't know if that's true. Yeah,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: but uh.
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: Now I am like you, Ben. If I'm alone, I
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: just turned my head and let it fly.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh. But when I'm not alone, I go into
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: the elbow. Okay, you're an elbow guy. Yeah. During the
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: COVID thing they said elbow. They were big elbow people. Anyway,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: what is next year? To ask?
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: Ben?
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: the King Rory, Hi, Rory.
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: You would like to know do you keep an open
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: box of baking soda in your fridge?
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Yes, we have two boxes of baking soda. We have
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: one that I actually use for baking in the cupboard,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: and then we have one in the fridge because you know,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: sometimes stuff starts smelling pretty nasty. What about you, Larena.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: I like to don't cook.
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: I like to keep my fridge clean, Ben, So I
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: don't keep.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: You don't keep. You don't keep food in there? No
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: food is hard I just told you guys, I don't
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: cook Yesterday's.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: I know, Goop, I do not because my fridge has
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: this fancy air filtrations cycle, saying the usually Hollywood have
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: to change filter every sing must the kitchen remodel.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: Huh yes, okay, that seems like a lot of stuff
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: that could break on it, though I don't know.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, you do have to replace the filter,
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: and that's kind of a pain in the ass.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, how often do you replace I get water
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: for my fridge. How often do you replace the water
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: in the fridge. You're supposed to do that, like every
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: other month or something, the water filter. I think i'd
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: do it every six months.
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: I've never changed the water filter on my phone.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Oh boy, thing, Oh boy? All right, Yes, what is
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: next year? To ask? Ben? Your questions are answers for
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: the rest of the hour.
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: All right, Ben, this is a question just for you,
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: all right, Just Josh, hi, Josh. He wants to know.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: He says, my wife is about to have knee replacement surgery.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: Oh boy, does this take doggy style off the table?
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Why is he asking? Why am I the expert on it?
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Actually, it says it's for Bill Miller, Sorry for Billy.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Bill Miller would say, invest in a nice pillow, is
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: what he would He would say, quick way, what more?
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Quick way?
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: Oh god, do you have any interest in visiting Punk
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: Satani for Groundhog's Day?
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah? I love that movie, Lorena, Yeah, why not? Come on?
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: You know there's more than one. There's more than one
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: groundhog thing. That's the most famous, though, in Pennsylvania.