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  Speaker 1: this hour from Foxborough as that was the stage. The
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  Speaker 1: curtain went up on Week eleven. We're in the week
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  Speaker 1: eleven now. The NFL season was billed as an AFC
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  Speaker 1: East mismatch. If you go by the gambling line, you
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  Speaker 1: had Justin Fields, who's pretending to be an NFL quarterback
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  Speaker 1: flying the Jets with but the Jets it's not like
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  Speaker 1: a jumbo jet. It's more like a prop plane where
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  Speaker 1: you have to pedal for the thing to take off
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  Speaker 1: and a hop skipping a jump to the Commonwealth there
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  Speaker 1: for a date with Drake May and the Patriots. You
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  Speaker 1: had the Venerable Al Michaels, good old Al and Herbie
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  Speaker 1: on the call on the Amazon. I'm not sure if
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  Speaker 1: you were watching this game or not. It did not
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  Speaker 1: seem like a game you had to watch. It was
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  Speaker 1: a mismatch coming in we watched, had no choice. Rookie
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  Speaker 1: Trayvon Henderson, he's a Buckeye from Ohio States with three
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  Speaker 1: touchdowns so like he was playing Northwestern again, two on
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  Speaker 1: the ground, one via catch, and Drake May and the
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  Speaker 1: Patriots get to win eight in a row. Is eight enough?
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  Speaker 1: Twenty seven to fourteen over the lowly pathetic Jets in
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  Speaker 1: the Thursday night game. So the Pats at nine and two,
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  Speaker 1: they matched their longest winning streaks. And some guy named
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  Speaker 1: Brady in his final season before he defected to Tampa.
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  Speaker 1: I was in twenty nineteen. And they've now, as we said,
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  Speaker 1: they've won their first eight. That year they won their
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  Speaker 1: first day Patriots three to zero in the division. There's
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of numbers. I don't even really care about
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  Speaker 1: any of that stuff. But the good jumping off point
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  Speaker 1: is just the wide angle lens in honor of the
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  Speaker 1: Jets from thirty thousand feet up in the airs that
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  Speaker 1: normally we start with the losers. The Jets are so bad.
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  Speaker 1: How bad are they that Jet? They're so bad that
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  Speaker 1: we're not going to start with them. That's so bad
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  Speaker 1: they are. We'll start with New England. The debts aren't
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  Speaker 1: even really compelling at this point. So let us discuss
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  Speaker 1: the question. Give me your impressions of the Mike Vrabel
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five Patriots as they played the Island game.
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  Speaker 1: Here where now eleven weeks into the NFL season. So
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  Speaker 1: my thoughts on this. I've got sorcerer's workshop, giant inflatable
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  Speaker 1: pizza slice, and aromatherapy, and we will combine all of
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  Speaker 1: these things together, and we are going to start from scratch,
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  Speaker 1: is what we're going to do. So a this one
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  Speaker 1: is simple. My impressions of the Patriots. I've seen him
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  Speaker 1: play a few times, but just focused in on this game,
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  Speaker 1: not flipping to any other game because there's nothing else on.
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  Speaker 1: The NBA is unwatchable. So a work in progress is
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  Speaker 1: the way I will describe it. And when I mean work,
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  Speaker 1: like you know, assembly line. There might be some bolts
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  Speaker 1: missing there, but you don't really know yet. You don't
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  Speaker 1: know yet. And the Patriots compared to years past, the
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  Speaker 1: Gerrod Mayo year, not years. He was only there for
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  Speaker 1: one year. The Patriots obviously have taken a quantum leap
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  Speaker 1: year and Mike Rabol going into the sorcerer's workshop and
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  Speaker 1: essentially recreating It's kind of like Tom Brady's dog. You
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  Speaker 1: know tom Brady had his dog copied. Well, that's what
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  Speaker 1: Rabel's doing. He's like, all right, let's go in there,
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  Speaker 1: and I want to recreate the secret recipe we had
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  Speaker 1: in Tennessee. Not that they won, not that they won.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't win in Nashville, but they had competitive teams
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  Speaker 1: a year after year for the most part, solid well
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  Speaker 1: coached football and all the hokey lines control the controller
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  Speaker 1: bowls and all that. Well, Mike Rabel has cloned his
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  Speaker 1: old Titan teams. It would appear a disciplined, somewhat physical,
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  Speaker 1: coachable button dof they all had two penalties in this game.
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  Speaker 1: They had no turnovers. And that's the Mike Rabels starter
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  Speaker 1: pack right there. No dumb penalties. The eight straight wins
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  Speaker 1: is kind of cool. But let's not get too carried
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  Speaker 1: away here. I'm not gonna be Benny Bright's out in this.
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  Speaker 1: He played the Jets a full blown three ring flying
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  Speaker 1: clown plane the Jets, and the Jets unloaded the few
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  Speaker 1: name brand defensive players they had and they rolled out
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  Speaker 1: a defense that had I think there were some uber
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  Speaker 1: drivers in the secondary. There were some cfl Rejets that
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  Speaker 1: were out there little flotsam and then Jets them flats
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  Speaker 1: them on the right, jets them on the left. And
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  Speaker 1: they had people that were likely one of you, like,
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  Speaker 1: where's the locker room when they arrived at the stadium,
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  Speaker 1: where do I go? I don't know where that is?
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  Speaker 1: And they were still the Jets mathematically in the game
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  Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter of New England did not even
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  Speaker 1: cover the line. The line was thirteen and a half.
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  Speaker 1: I know some places it was twelve and a half
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  Speaker 1: or thirteen. If it was thirteen, it was a push
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  Speaker 1: and we got it at thirteen and a half on
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  Speaker 1: benny versus the penny. So we lost that but at
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  Speaker 1: home in an Island game short week all that against
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  Speaker 1: the team that Let's be honest here, the way the
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  Speaker 1: Jets have gone, the joke that Aaron Glenn as a coach,
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  Speaker 1: they probably should have been euthanized back in week four
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  Speaker 1: the Jets, but they're still playing. The Jets roster looks
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  Speaker 1: like they have decided to collect and a group of
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  Speaker 1: spare parts from a garage sale and some free stuff
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  Speaker 1: on offer up and Craigslist and there they are now. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: we also heard that Mike Rabel was handing out blue
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  Speaker 1: collar shirts to players before the game. If you saw
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  Speaker 1: that or not, it was a cute, little adorable thing,
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  Speaker 1: very pinterest coachable, subliminal message kind of thing. We're hard
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  Speaker 1: working all that stuff, of course, just the whole bs stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Like the reality is, these guys wouldn't last five minutes
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  Speaker 1: if they were with the factory boys listening in El
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  Speaker 1: Paso or the heavy machinery guys there in Ohio would
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  Speaker 1: kick them into Lake Eriie right away. They tap out.
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  Speaker 1: And it's always amusing to me when it's more of
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  Speaker 1: an NFL thing. We see it in basketball somewhil too.
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  Speaker 1: We don't see it in baseball. But when he hear's, oh,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to be a blue collar team and all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff, and I'm like, okay, that's that's cute. But like, no,
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  Speaker 1: the average Patriots player is making three point two million
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  Speaker 1: dollars this year. The actual blue collar guys that Mike
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  Speaker 1: Rabel was trying to invoke twenty five dollars and ninety
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  Speaker 1: cents an hour. They get twenty five dollars and ninety
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  Speaker 1: cents an hour. The annual salary for most who work
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  Speaker 1: in the factory is about fifty four thousand dollars a year,
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  Speaker 1: So very blue collar if you're making three point two
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  Speaker 1: million versus fifty three, eight hundred and seventy two dollars,
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  Speaker 1: but very very out there. Nothing screams working class like
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  Speaker 1: a twenty five year old defensive back who was also
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  Speaker 1: making a million dollars in college and missus a tackle
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  Speaker 1: while getting paid two point eight million dollars. Nevertheless, hey, listen,
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  Speaker 1: Mike Rabel does have structure, the cupcakes and doughnuts schedules
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  Speaker 1: working well. They're steamrolling through this thing as they should.
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  Speaker 1: There's no real haunted houses out there for the Patriots
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  Speaker 1: down the line. They're doing what they're supposed to be doing,
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  Speaker 1: and the real acid test will be down the line
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs. And meanwhile, page two, you've got Drake
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  Speaker 1: May who was being serenaded with envy pete MV pete
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  Speaker 1: rhythmic chanting of MVP New England obviously winning this game.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Mike Vrabel. Mike Rabel, the coach who was asked
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  Speaker 1: about the expectations and the rhythmic chanting take a listen.
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  Speaker 3: And we have high expectations for high expectations for himself.
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  Speaker 3: Phil continue to improve. I know that he'll stay humble
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  Speaker 3: through this all. And you know again, and as far
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  Speaker 3: as the performance tonight, I thought it was you know again,
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  Speaker 3: in first view, you know, pretty pretty good. He was
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  Speaker 3: good enough to win. I mean he took care of
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  Speaker 3: the football.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's a ringing endorsement. Okay, So question does this
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  Speaker 1: win help elevate Drake May the campaign of Drake May
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  Speaker 1: for the MVP Award? Does it help him in the
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  Speaker 1: MVP race? So I watched the entire game and I
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  Speaker 1: wrote on my scorecard, No, I don't believe that would
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  Speaker 1: be acting. Know you this, you're a fanboy, Okay, congratulations,
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  Speaker 1: but this was this is not a bad performance. It
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  Speaker 1: was more about I consider it a lateral move. That's
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  Speaker 1: what I thought it was. It was like treading water
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  Speaker 1: and the kiddie pool. You're lying on a giant inflatable
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  Speaker 1: pizza slice and you're sipping a cocktail with one of
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  Speaker 1: those umbrellas in it, and that's kind of what this
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  Speaker 1: was a little chillier than that, but that's where we
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  Speaker 1: are with Drake May on This game played one of
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  Speaker 1: the NFL's you know not I don't say all time wars,
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  Speaker 1: but they traded their top players. That's not not a
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  Speaker 1: good defense with the names they have out there, the
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  Speaker 1: Jets right now. And he didn't really go turbotastic. It
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  Speaker 1: was a mixed bag. He completed a lot of passes
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  Speaker 1: averaged eight yards, had a bunch of explosive plays, but
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  Speaker 1: only one touchdown pass And and if you want MVP votes,
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  Speaker 1: these are the kind of games where your stat bandito
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  Speaker 1: and you fatten up your stat sheet and you have
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of fireworks and everything's great. And this was
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  Speaker 1: more like it wasn't a dud, but it was more
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  Speaker 1: like a couple of sparklers, And sparklers are cool, dude,
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  Speaker 1: you love sparkles. Who doesn't like sparks, safe and sane,
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  Speaker 1: safe and sane, safe and san But it wasn't like fireworks.
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  Speaker 1: Wasn't like illegal fireworks you got from Mexico or something
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  Speaker 1: like that. Wasn't that? And uh, anyway, so can we
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  Speaker 1: address also the fire breathing dragon of the room. If
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  Speaker 1: my malor math is correct, Drake May somehow has played
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  Speaker 1: now a year plus basically a year and a half
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  Speaker 1: over year and a half now, and he still hasn't
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  Speaker 1: thrown for three hundred yards in an NFL game. We're
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  Speaker 1: talking about the modern NFL here, where teams throw the ball.
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  Speaker 1: If they're up, if they're down, if they're tied, if
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  Speaker 1: they're hungry, if they're sleepy, whatever, they just they throw
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  Speaker 1: the ball. The league practically forces you to get three
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  Speaker 1: hundred yards by accident, and Drake May has two hundred
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  Speaker 1: and eighty yard performances piling up like empty boxes from
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  Speaker 1: Amazon and not crossed over the rubicon, so that three
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  Speaker 1: hundred hasn't gotten it. It's one of those bizarro quirky
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  Speaker 1: things that's out there. But May failing to lead the
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  Speaker 1: Patriots again to cover against the Jets. That's not great.
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  Speaker 1: It's not great. A nice little quarterback developing. We'll see
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  Speaker 1: where this ends up when the real games begin. Down
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  Speaker 1: the line. Patriot's playing a lot, a lot of week
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  Speaker 1: of it's here and Drake May has not. He's not
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  Speaker 1: yet found that higher, higher gear. It's like it's like
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  Speaker 1: he's in second gear and' humming along and he's going
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  Speaker 1: fifty five or sixty and he's in the right lane.
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  Speaker 1: He's got the hazards flashing and you think MVP, right,
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  Speaker 1: that's Autobahn territory. That's one hundred and ten miles an
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  Speaker 1: hour passing Ferraris and Porsches and things like that. So again,
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  Speaker 1: this game, it keeps him where he already was. It's
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  Speaker 1: not like he goes any lower and continues to be
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  Speaker 1: a wide open race as it's too early. Not all
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  Speaker 1: precincts are reporting in and Drake May still promising in
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  Speaker 1: the town.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, you're such a hater Baler. That's what you're doing
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  Speaker 4: the overnights. You're supposed to get the knee pads out
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  Speaker 4: for Drake May. Okay, stop stop stop, stop, stops up
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  Speaker 4: all right. Last word for the j e Ts suck, suck, suck.
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  Speaker 1: Where quarterback Justin Fields yet again was held in check. Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 1: he did go over one hundred yards passing for him,
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  Speaker 1: that's a big accomplishment. Weillive him a puffy sticker congratulations.
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  Speaker 1: Normally he's been around fifty yards passing, so he doubled that.
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  Speaker 1: And the Jets did come out and matriculate the ball
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  Speaker 1: down the field. They had a nice opening drive, most
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  Speaker 1: of it on the ground, and the rest of the game, Eh,
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  Speaker 1: let's see here, Dan see Justin Fields he fumbled deep
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  Speaker 1: in his own territory in a one score game in
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. Here's just we have just Here's Justin
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  Speaker 1: Field's commenting on his performance for the Jets. Take a list.
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  Speaker 1: Not good enough. You know, we lost the game, so
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't good enough. Every time we lose, my performance
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  Speaker 1: isn't good enough. Okay, thank you. How about the coach
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Glenn give the state of the Jets address? Can
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  Speaker 1: you please help us out? Coach Aaron Glenn, let's hear
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  Speaker 1: this again.
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  Speaker 5: We're all accountable for that, you know, as far as coaches.
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  Speaker 5: Make sure we put our guys in the right position,
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  Speaker 5: the receivers to make sure they catch the ball, and
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  Speaker 5: then we can say Justin make sure he getting the
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  Speaker 5: ball to some other guys. But to me, that was
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  Speaker 5: really there were some players out there to be made.
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  Speaker 5: I thought he had some really good throws. We got
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  Speaker 5: to finish those things.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, thought he had some really good throws. Later on
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  Speaker 1: he said there are some really good things in general
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  Speaker 1: for the quarterback. So the question quickly Jets coach Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Glenn saying the quarterback Justin Fields did some really good things.
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  Speaker 1: How do you process that. It processed that one. So
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  Speaker 1: my first thought on this is, I think this is
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  Speaker 1: the highest level of football. This is not a kindergarten
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  Speaker 1: parent teacher conference. We're not We're not doing that. You
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  Speaker 1: don't need to coddle anyone. And Justin Fields was able
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  Speaker 1: to wipe his own tushy. Congratulations, and he rode the
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  Speaker 1: vomit comet and that's great and wonderful. And they had
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  Speaker 1: that scripted opening drive where they ran the ball most
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  Speaker 1: of the time, and he ran a couple of QB
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  Speaker 1: keepers and he had some success and the only attempted
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  Speaker 1: two passes overall. Justin Fields is the same suck bag
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  Speaker 1: quarterback he was with Chicago and with Pittsburgh. The guy blows.
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  Speaker 1: That's just it. He averaged four point five yards per pass.
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  Speaker 1: He threw a ball off alignman's helmet. If you saw that,
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  Speaker 1: there was that intentional grounding thing where he I think
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  Speaker 1: killed the worm was out on the field. He killed that.
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  Speaker 1: And then the masterpiece of this that should be hung
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  Speaker 1: in an art museum. Fumbling the snap in a one
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  Speaker 1: score game deep in your own territory, which, oh, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, the Patriots should have scored a touchdown they
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  Speaker 1: would have covered the spread, not that I'm bitter about that,
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  Speaker 1: but they did not. They got the ball the eleven
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  Speaker 1: yard line of the Jets. So really good stuff, terrific.
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  Speaker 1: Let's have a parade right through the Canyon of Heroes.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to have a parade. And so what is
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Glenn doing? Well again, he's gaslighting, is what he's
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  Speaker 1: doing here. Aaron Glenn treating the seven Jets fans that
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  Speaker 1: are left like there are a bunch of dingle berries
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  Speaker 1: who can't see what's happening with their own eyes. If
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  Speaker 1: the Jets wanted a running back, I'm sure they could
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  Speaker 1: have found one somewhere. They're not that expensive. They're everywhere,
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  Speaker 1: they really are. It's like sand on the beach that
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  Speaker 1: you don't really need to worry about it. There's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be more sand. And if Aaron Glenn truly believes that
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  Speaker 1: there were some really good things out there with this quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: justin Fields, if Glenn's going that direction, then someone needs
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  Speaker 1: to call for a fifty one fifty a seventy two
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  Speaker 1: hour cycle because that is deluge. You know, that is delugional,
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  Speaker 1: is what that is. And Fields, like he was a
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  Speaker 1: CFL quarterback playing an NFL game, which I think is
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  Speaker 1: insulting to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. So I guess he's
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  Speaker 1: actually not that one of those minor league UFL Arena
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  Speaker 1: League whatever they're calling those minor league outfits now. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think he could play for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
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  Speaker 1: I don't or the Montreal Alouettes or the Argonauts or
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  Speaker 1: the BC Lions. I don't think you play for them.
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  Speaker 1: I know. And the Jet fans, while some of them
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  Speaker 1: are dumda dumb, dumb dumb, they're not all rubs. They're
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  Speaker 1: not all rubs. And those that watched, and so I
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  Speaker 1: would advise Aaron Glenn, do not blow smoke up the
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  Speaker 1: backside of the Jet fan and tell them it's a
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  Speaker 1: romatherapy because they know it's not. And Justin Fields didn't
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  Speaker 1: do really good things. He did Justin Field's things. And
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  Speaker 1: that's exactly the problem with Justin Fields. Heaven knows he
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  Speaker 1: does Justin Fields things, and that's exactly the problem. It's
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  Speaker 1: every time he's playing, it's happy hour for the other team.
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  Speaker 1: It's happy hour for the other team. When he's out
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  Speaker 1: there playing quarterback.
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  Speaker 6: on YouTube and subscribe. So I lead this hour from Minnesota.
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: We'll get back to the Thursday night game. Patriots win
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: a workmanlike effort. They did not cover the spread, at
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: least the big spread. It was up to thirteen and
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: a half. But our lead is from Minnesota. Not all
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: is right on the shores of Lake Minnetonka. If you
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: did not see this, Perhaps not.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: The most decorated in terms of money receiver in the NFL.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson is not exactly getting it done at a
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: high level so far this season, at least not with
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: his current quarterback and justin Jefferson's saying that he is
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: trying to work back, he said, trying to work back
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: to the level that he reached a couple of years
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: back in twenty twenty two, which inspired him. That was
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: the spark to get paid the big money. Jefferson said
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: he wanted to return to when he called what he
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: called his savage mode. Well, I can just give you
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: the whole sound bite, but why don't we go to
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: the audio tape. Take a listen. Here's Jefferson who wants
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: to have a different mentality. Here's mister Jefferson.
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: Take a list personally, mentally, just wanting to get back
• 20:32
  Speaker 7: into to that mode into I like to say, savage mode.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Savage mo, I mean, it's just going.
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: Out there with that fit mentality and just going out
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: there and just killing it.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: I want to thank him for saying ef it and
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: not the full F word. Normally we have to bleep that,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: but he said ef it. We don't have to bleep effort.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: He meant funn it. I think he meant fun it
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: right or fudget. He could have said fudget, but he
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: didn't say what you thought he said then. But wait,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: there's more Justin. Jefferson, Viking receiver, was asked why things
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: haven't been the way they were before. Take a listen life.
• 21:05
  Speaker 7: You know a lot of different things going on in
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: my life, and just wanting to get back to that
• 21:10
  Speaker 7: kid phase of loving I still love football, but overly
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: loving football and overly loving just being out there on
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: Sundays and making the big plays and just being a
• 21:22
  Speaker 7: part of this great organization.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: So he claimed, Jefferson that he was inspired because of
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: clip I remember that famous catch he had. I say famous.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: It was a regular season game against Buffalo, but he
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: had that leaping, one handed grab against the Bills. Remember
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: the catch. It was a pretty big deal whendn't happened.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: And so the anniversary of that it was this week,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: and a bunch of people who were engagement farming sent
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: that out on social media and Jefferson saw it, and
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: so he brought that up as a point of reference.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Now we should point out that in his last game,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: dud Jefferson against the Baltimore football team JJ McCarthy, who's
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: drowning at quarterback, two of his passes that were intended
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: for Jefferson were intercepted by the Ravens and on both occasions,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: not once, but twice, Jefferson did not seem all that
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: interested in making a play on the defender who had
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: intercepted the pass. On the interception return. Now, there are
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: many close observers with magnifying glasses out that have seen signs.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: I see the sign They have seen signs that Jefferson
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: is not on board. No, no, no, he's not on
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: the happy train Drew. No, no, he's not that interested
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: in developing the young quarterback. Now, he attempted to push
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: back on that. In fact, in that same interview session,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: he called JJ McCarthy a quote great player and added
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: he's a great quarterback and he's a great kid. The
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: word is great. Okay, So that is a good jumping
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: off point. Let's dive into this one, the question, what
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: are your impressions of Justin Jefferson not appearing to be
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: all that happy with the vikings and mainly with the
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: quarterback JJ McCarthy. So my observations on this, I've got babysitting, Vermont,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: maple syrup, and mad ants, and we will combine all
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: of these things together and we are going to be
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: in the lap of luxury, is what we're going to
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: be in the lap of luxury. So number one. So
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: justin Jefferson can say all the right things, right, I
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: can say all the right things, But the man's body language. Remember,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: most of communication is body language. The body language is
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: writing a completely different book. It's a much different novel
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: body language versus the words that are coming out of
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: his mouth. You don't need to watch the All twenty
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: two like JJ and Renton. You don't need some nerdy
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: analytical dork on YouTube or buried behind a paywall on
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: a shady football website to break it down for you.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: The lolli gagging, that's the word, lolli gagging. On the interceptions,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: no hustle, no chase, just a kind of a shrug
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: emoji type effort. Day give it, Dack give it. That
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: is a superstar saying I'm really not into this. I'm
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: not into it. Jefferson knows what it's like to have
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: a quarterback that can get him the ball on a
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: regular basis and provide him the opportunity to become an
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: elite wide receiver and all that stuff. He was elite,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: and a couple of years there he was a walking
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: cheat code for the Minnesota Vikes. Right now, when JJ
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: McCarthy is quarterbacking, he's giving that Wendell Ubinson level production,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: giving the Michael Pittman Junior level production. Jefferson producing in
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: four starts with red shirt rookie JJ McCarthy an average
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: of four point two catches per game for fifty two
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: yards per game. Now that's fine if you're Wanda Robinson.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Robins is a good player, not a great player. Michael
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Pittman Junior, good player, not a great player. It's fine
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: for those guys. However, when you're the guy that got
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: the one hundred and forty million dollar contract, you're supposed
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: to be the greatest player on the planet, and it
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: doesn't look that way right now. It's bad. It's real bad.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: When McCarthy's out there, I say, it's a small sample size,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: but we have a show to do today. And this
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: is the the vibe I got from Jefferson watching some
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: of those clips from the Baltimore game is I don't
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: like the new toy that I got. I don't like it.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: I don't you know the energy like when a kid
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: gets a toy on Christmas or honok or something. The
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: open up up and it's like the wrong gift. And
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: do we have the receipt. I gotta return this. I
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: don't want to now. The Vikings problem is that they
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: obviously drafted McCarthy in the first round. There was a
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: lot of moving parts to get McCarthy. Let some people
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: go to get him and all that stuff, and they
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: need a booster rocket to help boost the quarterback at
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: this point, and instead Jefferson's giving the vibe of why
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: am I babysitting this guy again? Like I got paid,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: this is the prime of my career. I'm never going
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: to be better than I am right now, and you're
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: cramping my style because this guy didn't know what he's doing,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: and so that's it. He's twenty six. He's giving off
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: the vibes like he's middle aged. Body language says I'm grumpy.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Body language says I'm annoyed. Body language says I'm not
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: hiding it. And then he comes out with the he's
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: a great quarterback, great kid line. Now the problem with
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: that is too many greats. He kept repeating the word great,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: So it looks to me, after a minute long deliberation
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: of the available evidence, like he was pulled aside by
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: the PR people. The PR war trying to win the
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: pr culture war. The spin doctor said, all right, listen,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: let me give you some flashcards. Here's what you say
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: about the quarterback, and the media will be fine. You
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: just say this, and if you don't say this, you're
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: gonna start a wildfire. And we don't want to start
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: a wildfire. So just just go through the point by point.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Use the word great. Just call him great, great, great,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: great great. Okay, ill call him great, great, great, great great,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: great player, great quarterback, great kid great. You know, makes
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: a mean omelet, really good omelet. Toast not so good.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: He's working on the toast, but he's working. You know,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: he's doing. He's doing as good as he can do.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Bacon needs a little work as well. The bacon needs
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: a little work. But listen, here, here's the deal. The
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: tape does not lie Justin Jefferson when he's played with McCarthy.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: There are plenty of eclips. You can find them yourself. Even
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: the blind listeners like Stevie Meatballs can see them. Justin
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Jefferson is disconnect. Looks a little checked out there, and
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: so you really don't need to bring in some kind
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: of special investigator to decode what's going on. It's not
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: much of a mystery. Jefferson is not happy doesn't mean
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: he's good. To demand a trade doesn't mean that. It
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: just means he's frustrated with JJ McCarthy. He's annoyed with
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: his lack of opportunity. And the more he says everything's fine,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: the louder the body language gets that it's not fine.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: And he's even though financially living a high on the hog,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: not so much the rest of the way. Now. Meanwhile,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: to Seattle we go what kind of ess? Actually an
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: LA storyline? The Rams and Seahawks get together on Sunday
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: and a massively important NFC West slobber knocker. That matchup
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: not just a game, it's a slobber knocker. So the Rams,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: we have learned, are planning a full blown Hallmark movie
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: on the JumboTron as a tribute for the emotional return
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: of Cooper Cup. Yeap, oh, it's so sad he now
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: plays with the Seahawks, not much because he's often hurt.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: And Cooper Cup was asked about the Rams showing a
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: tribute video and what did he say? What did Cooper
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Cup say? Hmmm, what do you think he said? Well,
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: he said, I don't know I didn't die. I'm here,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: is what he said. It's a great quote. It's a
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: really good quote. I didn't die, he said, I don't know.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: I didn't die. I'm still here, all right. Question, how
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: did you react to that clip? The money quote from
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: wide receiver Cooper Cup letting the Rams know that his
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: heart is still ticking. What's good. We're happy that his
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: heart is still ticking. He does not need an ambulance.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: There's no need for paramedics to come and help him out.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: I didn't die. That is what a line. It's perfection.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: He nailed it. He nailed it. That's exactly how these
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: tribute videos feel, if you've ever seen one, and how
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: could you miss them? It's I've been to a lot
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: of funerals as I've gotten older, a lot of people
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: have dropped dead in my life, and I've seen a
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: lot of these videos and stuff, and it's like that.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: It's like you're memorializing a player who's about to go
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: out there and play. It's like, so I say bravo
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: to Cooper Cup. The man spent eight years with the Rams.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: He could ram it all day, could ram it all night.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: He had that cheat code season back in twenty twenty one.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Offensive Player of the Year almost won an MVP. Was unstoppable,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: a great ram great player. Not anymore. It's washed up.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: But regardless of that, he's also a grown adult with
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: the pulse, as he pointed out, very much alive. And
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: he doesn't need confetti. Cannons doesn't need the party favors
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: and all that stuff, the big screen validation because I
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: used to work there, like I used to work the
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: league has learned as a business, the end NFL. They've
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: turned this into the Vermont maple syrup business with lots
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: of sap, lots of SAP. Now, I do give the
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Cowboys credit because they didn't do that when Micah Parsons
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: came back. But very rarely does this not happen? Very
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: rarely is this not happen. Every guy just about that
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: leaves town ends up getting a video package on the scoreboard,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: roll the montage, roll them on. It's smaltzy. It's the
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: smaltzy inflation, is what it is. Everyone needs a cake
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: and balloons and a little social media video. And they
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: got to get Morgan Freeman to narrate their goodbye. Let's
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: pay Morgan Freeman. A couple of grand and we'll do
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: a very emotional read and enough already. Now wait, wait
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: till the guy retires. If you want to do something
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: like that, bring him back, you can cry and save
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: the nostalgia for the main the main event, which is
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: when the career is over and all stuff. It's sy
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: odd because I think Cooper Cup's gonna play with he
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: has been injured. But if he does play, ass I mean,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: he was circling that game on the schedule. He's gonna
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: try to get one hundred yards and a touchdown and
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: all that stuff. And he had the proper response, simple, dry, perfect,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: I'm not dead. Translation, you play the game to win
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: the game. Knocked off the drama, O rama. And he's right,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: He's right, Hard is still ticking the rams. Don't need
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: to throw him a little ash scattering at sea ceremony
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: just because he happens to be playing for the Seahawks.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: And let's put the pause on the jumbo tron sympathy parade.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: We're good, all right now, final point, we go back
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: to the Twin Cities basketball story. Appearing on some fledgling
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: NBA podcast, The very rarely interesting coach of the basketball
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: team in Minnesota Chris Finch is his name. He's the
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: tim tim Wolves coach. So Chris Finch was discussing the
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: art of podcasting on a podcast and somebody took a
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: stray shot. Yeah, collateral damage, Yeah, downrange that person.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: J. J.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Reddick, Chris Finch said, quote on a podcast about podcasting.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: He said, quote, I mean it'll qualify you to coach
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: the Lakers, Chris Finch said in a deadpan delivery. And
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: it's no secret that Reddick JJ Reddick the most pompous
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: man in the world. If you don't believe me, just
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: listen to him talk. With no prior coaching experience. JJ
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Reddick was hired last before last season by the Lakers
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: ahead of the twenty four to twenty five campaign. And
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: he had spent the years since retirement primarily as a broadcaster,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: but mostly as a podcaster, and he hosted a podcast
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: alongside Lebron James and they were podcast buddies. And then
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: he gets the job. So the question, give me your
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: reaction to a sitting NBA coach Chris Finch of the
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Timberwolves taking a jab actually more than a job at
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: JJ Reddick's resume. So my reaction to this is how
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: sweet it is. How sweet it is, man, that's how
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: you do it. That is a professional assassination, is what
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: that is. You're talking about podcasting and then boom goes
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: to dynamite. You'll qualify it to coach the Lakers. You
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: do that, oh podcast, and that's not again, not even
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: a jab. That is a big jug of tru serum
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: and a body blow, body blow, body blow. The Lakers
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: turned the sport into a content house. Forget about paying
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: dues in Sioux Falls. Forget about those long nights with
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: the matt Ants on the Boss or the Vipers. No, no, no,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: no no. All you have to do is have a
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: podcast with Lebron and you talk about the pick and
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: roll even if you're picking your nose. You talk about
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: the pick and roll angles for five or six episodes
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: of the podcast, and abracadabra, hocus pocus presto, here are
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: the keys to a franchise. It absolutely humiliated the coaching brotherhood.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: It did you know a bunch of dudes that are
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: grinding it out in the G League in high school
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: sized gymnasiums, eating lukewarm chicken tenders out of a steam
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: tray at one in the morning in Fort Wayne with
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: America's favorite crossing guard in Fort Wayne while breaking down
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: film on a cracked iPad. And then you've got JJ Reddick,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: who shows up because he brought Lebron some homemade chocolate
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: chip cookies before they recorded the podcast, and Lebron loves
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: chocolate chip cookies. Like, what are we doing? Seriously? Like
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: Finch said, what everyone else in the league was whispering?
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: What most knowledgeable people understand that JJ Reddick, him taking
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: over his job with the Lakers is embarrassing. Right, the
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Lakers didn't care. They were like, Okay, we'll emasculate ourselves,
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: We'll emasculate the entire NBA. He in so many words, said,
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: experience is optional, friendship with the stars mandatory. And this
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: is anyone else that does a podcast with Lebron. Those
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: are the other candidates. Now, Sigmund Freud was right, every
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: joke carries some truth. Now I imagine that Chris Finch will say, hey,
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: I was just kidding the Timberwolves coach. But again, Sigmund Freud,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: every joke carries truth in it. So Finch did not
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: accidentally say that that was a coded message. Dots and
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: dashes dots and dashes. The whole thing was a circus
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: clown show, and we know it. We know and listen.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: Good for JJ Reddick getting to the playoffs or whatever
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: and then playing all of his starters the entire second half.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: It doesn't change the optics. And by the way, I
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: have a path to salvation. Big news. Heero and announce
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: on the radio that I am planning on starting a
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: podcast with ant man Anthony Edwards, and I'll be doing
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: that and then I'll be coaching the Minnesota Timberwolves. I
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: make some really good cookies, so I'm gonna bring those
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: to the podcast, and then Anthony Edwards is gonna say,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: I want that guy to coach me, and they'll hand
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: me a clipboard with the Timberwolves logo on it, and
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: there we go. What's that, Oh, you're saying that only
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: works for the Lakers. Okay, all right, that's fine.
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  Speaker 1: weed Man, Here we go. Sounds like you need to
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  Speaker 1: take him to dinner first. Next time we Man. You
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: gotta hi weed Man. I don't know if there'll be
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: another date, weed Man? All right, here we go? What
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: is weed Man? These are actual jokes by actual listeners.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: What is weed Man's favorite arcade game? What bong?
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: Uh?
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: That's Jeffardy Al sent that one in very funny Man,
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: I'm glad Jeopardy Al's back sitting jokes and every so
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: and every now and again. Georgia and Uvaldi, Texas sent
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: this one in how did Lisa react when weed Man
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: Hippie told her that he was addicted to viagra? Wow? Well,
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: I mean apparently she took it very hard. I don't
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: know why, but there you go. All right, that's an
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: old joke. Eric Eric in Kansas sent this one in
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: what's weed Man's favorite clothing company? What bam Equipment? A
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: big fan? Big fan's idea? Did you hear that weed
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: Man got a seasonal job as a handyman at his
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: apartment complex. Wow. Cool, Yeah, apparently the boss says that
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: you're you're really high on maintenance? Is really what you're
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: doing there? That's Tom and Indiana. Good joke by Tom
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: and Indiana, Good job by you. Drew in Minnesota sent
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: these next couple jokes in. He said, hey, weed Man, no,
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: why do you keep ignoring your doctor's phone calls? Why? Well,
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: anyway he calls, there's no cure for your peen balls.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: He said, there you go, all right, man? What is
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: weed Man's definition of the LBC? What litter, back alleys
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: and cockroaches? That's a druid Minnesota. It's Big Ben's lame
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: jokes a week. If you'd like to send jokes in.
• 40:18
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• 40:21
  Speaker 1: of the show, send it care of at Ben Mahler
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: Show or Benmler Show at gmail dot com. Benmlan Show
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. How many weed Mans does it
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: take to set up an email account? I can't do it?
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: How many it takes ten one to hold the lighter
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: while the other nine dismantle the computer and sell it
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: for parts. Wait ah. Wait, hold now, Chip in Maine
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: checks in, Chip says, why can't the Malard Militia send
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: weed Man money?
• 40:51
  Speaker 7: Why?
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: Because his email inbox is cardboard. That's a joke. How
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: does weed Man teach how does we man teach on
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: skill share? Or what? What does weed Man teach on
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: skill share? How? How to beg and panhandles? What he teaches?
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: That's Noah in Austin. All right, here's a political sporty joke.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: What's the difference between the Venezuelan drug boats and Eagles
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: receiver AJ Brown? What the drug boats are being targeted? AJ? Brown?
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: Is not? That's a Gordon in Tacoma when we sent
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: that one in a right good have Gordon back? Gordon's
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: a longtime joke. Writer's right as often anymore? What is
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: Ben Mahler's new name after he becomes a vampire?
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: What?
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: Ben Pallor from George and Uvalde, Texas? Well? Big news here,
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: weed Man, hippie hollering James was recently held overnight when
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: he visited the zoo there in Minnesota. Wow. Why, Well,
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: apparently the people who worked there thought he was a
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: wildebeast that had escaped its cage, and so very concerned.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: So Mike, Mike the Leprechaun, Well, some exciting news for
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: the Malin Militia. Marriage records in Florida show that Jed
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: who fled our very own Jed who fled recently got
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: married Weed Man. How about that? Wow? How about that? Yeah,
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: he's changed his name. He's now known as Jed who wed.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: So congratulations Jed. That's Eet in Roseville, Minnesota. How is
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: blind Scott? How does blind Scott have a have one
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: up on Aaron Rodgers?
• 42:35
  Speaker 6: Wow?
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: Well, Aaron's jealous of blind Scott because for blind Scott
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: every day is a darkness retreat. Wow, come on, Dan,
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: that's not wrong. What does Blair's podcast, Blair in Man's podcast,
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: and a tree falling in the forest have in common?
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: What nobody is listening to either one? Nobody. That's from
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: Fargold Pete, who also said this one in. What does
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: Lenny Clark and blind Scott? What do they have in common?
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: Comedian of Lenny Clark and blind Scott? What they both
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: like playing with the golden banana? That's Fargo Pete. There,
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: there you go, Mike, Fargo Pete. Well, interesting news out
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: on Jed. According to Jeopardy out. Jed who Fled took
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: an online DNA test. You hear about that weed Man? Yeah,
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: he wanted to hear his heritage. Heritage. He found out
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: that he's actually methaicon is what he is there, So
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: there we go. He's a Methican American meth. Yeah. What
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: is Jed who Fled's favorite arcade game?
• 43:36
  Speaker 6: What?
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: Crack Man? Big fan crack Man? That's Jeopardy. Al we
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: sent that one in. Why was Michael Leprechawn confused when
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: the rainer wished him an informal goodbye? Why because no
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: woman has ever said so long to him before, ever, ever, ever, ever?
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: All right, one more? Why is Malo show caller Danny
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: DeVito a better housekeeper than Poppy in San Diego? Why
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: because at least Danny DeVito knows when to take out
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: the trash. There's Jeopardy, Oh fects weed Man? There he
• 44:11
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• 44:14
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• 44:29
  Speaker 1: Blame weed? Blame Week? Wo It's Big Ben's lame joke
• 44:33
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• 44:37
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• 44:42
  Speaker 1: from my Billy Hollywood.
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: I love you, I love you, Thanks for Monday.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: All right? Well, I mean the way you said that
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: sounded kind of dirty, but I had a good time,
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: so it was. It was a lot a fu. All right,
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: weed Man, here we go. Sounds like you need to
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: take him to dinner for next time.
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: We Man.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: You gotta hi, weed Man. I don't know if there'll
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: be another date, weed Man. All right, here we go?
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: What is weed Man? These are actual jokes by actual listeners.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: What is weed Man's favorite arcade game? What? Bong? Uh?
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: That's Jeffardy Al sent that one in Very funny man.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: I'm glad Jeopardy Al's back sending jokes in every so
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: and every now and again. Georgia and Uvaldi Texas sent
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: this one in. How did Lisa react when weed Man
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: Hippie told her that he was addicted to viagra?
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: Wow?
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean apparently she took it very hard. I
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: don't know why, but there you go. All right, that's
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: an old joke. Eric Eric in Kansas sent this one in.
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: What's weed Man's favorite clothing company? What BAM equipment? Big fan,
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: Big fan, that's a good idea. Did you hear that
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: weed Man got a seasonal job as a handyman at
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: his apartment complex? Wow? Cool? Yeah, apparently the boss says
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: that you're you're really high on maintenance? Is really what
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: you're doing there? That's Tom and Indiana. Good joke by
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: Tom and Indiana, Good job by you. Drew in Minnesota
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: sent these next couple jokes in. He said, Hey, weed Man, no,
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: why do you keep ignoring your doctor's phone calls? Why? Well,
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: anyway he calls, there's no cure for your pinballs? He said,
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: there you are all right? What is weed Man's definition
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: of the LBC? What litter, back alleys and cockroaches? That's
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: a Drew in Minnesota. It's Big Ben's lame jokes a week.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: If you'd like to send jokes in, If you want
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: to send jokes into a future episode of the show,
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: send it care of at Ben Mahler Show or Ben
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: Maler Show at gmail dot com. BENMLA Show at gmail
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: dot com. How many weed Mans does it take to
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: set up an email account? I can't do it? How
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: many it takes ten one to hold the lighter while
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: the other nine dismantle the computer and sell it for parts. Wait,
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: all right, hold now, Chip and main checks, and Chip says,
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: why can't the Malard Militia send weed Man money? Why?
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: Because his email inbox is cardboard. That's a good joke.
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: How does weed Man teach how does we man teach
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: on skill share?
• 47:30
  Speaker 6: Or what?
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: What does weed Man teach on skill share? How to
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: beg and panhandles? What he teaches that? That's Noah in Austin.
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: All right, here's a political sporty joke. What's the difference
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: between the Venezuelan drug boats and Eagles receiver? AJ? Brown?
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: What the drug boats are being targeted? AJ? Brown? Is not?
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: That's a Gordon in Tacoma. We sent that one in?
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: All right? Did have Gordon back? Gordon's a longtime joke,
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: right right? Is often anymore? What is Ben Mahler's new
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: name after he becomes a vampire?
• 48:06
  Speaker 6: What?
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: Ben Pallor from Georgia and Uvalde, Texas? Well? Big news here?
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: Weed Man hippie hollering James was recently held overnight when
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: he visited the zoo There in Minnesota. Wow. Why, Well,
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: apparently the people who worked there thought he was a
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: wildebeast that had escaped its cage, and so you're concerned
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: some Mike, Mike A Leprechaun. Well, some exciting news for
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: the Malord Militia. Marriage records in Florida show that Jed
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: who fled our very own Jed who fled recently got
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: married weed man. How about that? Wow? How about that? Yeah,
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: he's changed his name. He's now known as Jed who wed.
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: So congratulations Jed. That's eight in Roseville, Minnesota. How is
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: blind Scott? How does blind Scott have a have one
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: up on Aaron Rodgers? Wow? Well, Aaron's jealous of blind
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: Scott because for blind Scott every day is a darkness retreat. Wow,
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: come on, Dan, that's not wrong. What does Blair's podcast,
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: Blair in Maine's podcast, and a tree falling in the
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: forest have in common? What nobody is listening to either one? Nobody.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: That's from Fargold Pete, who also said this one in
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: What does Lenny Clark and Blind Scott? What do they
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: have in common? Comedy of Lenny Clark and blind Scott?
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: What they both like playing with the golden banana. That's
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: far gold pete. There there you go like Fargo Pete. Well,
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: interesting news out on Jed. According to Jeopardy Out, Jed
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: who fled, took an online DNA test. You hear about
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: that weed man? Yeah, he wanted to hear his heritage.
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: He found out that he's actually methaicon is what he is? There?
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: So there he he's methicon American meth. Yeah. What is
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: Jed who Fled's favorite arcade game? All right, crack man,
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: big fan, crack man, that's Jeopardy. Al we sent that
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: one in. Why was Michael leppercun confused when the rainer
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: wished him an informal goodbye? Why because no woman has
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: ever said so long to him before, ever, ever, ever ever?
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: All Right, one more, Why is Malo show called Danny
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: DeVito a better housekeeper than Poppy in San Diego? Why
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: because at least Danny DeVito knows when to take out
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: the trash. There's Jeopardy. Oh thanks, weaed man. There he
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: goes Billy in Miami or Hollywood