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Hour 2 - Shooting Your Shot · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Boom shack a Laca. It's our nuer two hour two
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Speaker 1: of the original Recipe podcast. As we embrace the overnight hours,
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Speaker 1: we accommodate you on demand with this podcast, and this
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Speaker 1: hour we start out with Joe Burrow, who's continuing to
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Speaker 1: pressure the Bengals to pay their top players. He even
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Speaker 1: talked about the salary cap gymnastics that would be in play.
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Speaker 1: What are the chances of that happening? Also, do you
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Speaker 1: believe there will be a sports media bidding war to
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Speaker 1: hire Travis Kelce if he retires? And the Patriots coach
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Speaker 1: Mike Vrabel was voted the NFL's top head coach over
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Speaker 1: the top head coaching higher over Bears genius Ben Johnson
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Speaker 1: by NFL Gurus. Is this a big deal, a little
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Speaker 1: deal or no deal? We'll talk about all of that
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Speaker 1: as we hang out with you the embodiment of overnight
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Speaker 1: gas Baggerie. It's our number two shooting your shot.
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Speaker 2: Well.
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Speaker 1: I know Mallard prop guy loves the number ten thousand.
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Speaker 1: He's done ten thousand pieces of art. And he was
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Speaker 1: in here for the Mallard Palooza last year. He was
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Speaker 1: in the in the house for the Mallard Palooza. Nothing
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Speaker 1: Mallory I know. Was the was the Was it the
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Speaker 1: Bennies or the Mala It was Malapalooza. I confuse. I
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Speaker 1: conflate the Bennies with the the Mallary. You were not here,
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Speaker 1: then you were away that day. Well, he was in here,
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Speaker 1: We met him, he hung out with us. So anyway,
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Speaker 1: our lead this hour is from the speculation machine. The
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Speaker 1: speculation machine in Cincinnati where the skyline Chile is fresh.
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Speaker 1: Not up to the palette of Justin and Cincinnati or
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Speaker 1: just Josh. But the Bengals, the Bengals who had if
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Speaker 1: you would describe their season in one word, what would
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Speaker 1: it be? Clunker? That would be my word, clunker. They
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Speaker 1: had a clunker of a season. They missed the playoffs,
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Speaker 1: and now the parlor game of who's staying and who's
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Speaker 1: going has begun. Game of musical chairs and Joe Burrow
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Speaker 1: kick things off here a runner up quarterback lost to
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Speaker 1: that great La Ram team in the Super Bowl a
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Speaker 1: couple years back. So Joe Burrow kick things off with
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Speaker 1: a declaration situation. See I don't if you heard this
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Speaker 1: or not. Maybe not, but quarterback Joe Burrow recently said
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Speaker 1: that the Bengals have the cap space to keep the
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Speaker 1: core of the roster together. In fact, just to prove
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Speaker 1: that I am not making this up, we have a
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Speaker 1: little audio here is Joe Burrow going into detail on
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Speaker 1: what he would like to see the Bengals do with
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Speaker 1: their many big name players who could leave. Listen to
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Speaker 1: Burrow explain.
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Speaker 3: You could convert some of the money to a signing bonus.
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Speaker 1: Okay, well, okay, lower to cap hit. That's right.
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Speaker 3: You can push some of the money to the back
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Speaker 3: end of the contract that lowers the cap hit. And
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Speaker 3: then when you get to the back end, of the contract,
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Speaker 3: you can restructure it and converted to a signing bonus.
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Speaker 3: You understand the cap, I mean not really kind of,
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Speaker 3: because we don't think that it exists way more than
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Speaker 3: we do. Well, definitely, some teams seem to make it
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Speaker 3: feel that way.
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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I mean the Saints have just pretended it
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Speaker 1: doesn't exist for.
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Speaker 3: A while, and the Eagles are paying everybody. Yeah yeah,
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Speaker 3: so it seems like the way whatever they're doing, right.
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Speaker 1: So that's Joe Burrow there, and the Bengals have Jamar
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Speaker 1: Chase who's looking for a payday, t Higgins who could
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Speaker 1: say bye bye, he's looking to get paid, Trey Hendricks
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Speaker 1: in the defensive end. There's some other ones as well,
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Speaker 1: but those are the biggest names, the big three there
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Speaker 1: that could be well, two of them will likely be gone,
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Speaker 1: maybe one stays in Cincinnati. So let us discuss. As
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Speaker 1: you heard, Joe Burrow laid it all out. He's willing
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Speaker 1: to restructure his contract. So the question for the esteem panel,
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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow continuing to put pressure, got to put pressure
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Speaker 1: on the Bengals to pay their top players. What are
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Speaker 1: the chances of this working? One of the chances, So
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Speaker 1: I've got family business, infectious disease and nk ka nka.
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Speaker 1: Well could buy all of these things together, and we
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Speaker 1: are going to take a joy ride, is what we're
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Speaker 1: going to do, and take a joy ride. So num
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Speaker 1: Burn I said, Num Burr, Yeah, Joe Burrow. The chances
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Speaker 1: are slim and none, right, isn't the old line slim
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Speaker 1: and nun And I believe slim right now is on
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Speaker 1: standby at the airport ready to get out of town here,
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Speaker 1: and he's politicking. He's campaigning. He's the politician out there
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Speaker 1: trying to get the fan base behind this campaign to
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Speaker 1: keep the band together and all that. And so he
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Speaker 1: is really Joe Burrow. The word I will use is weaponizing.
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Speaker 1: He's weaponizing the Cincinnati fans here. He also has a
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Speaker 1: great understanding of how fugazi the salary cap is. We
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Speaker 1: have long been salary cap truthers on this show, and
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Speaker 1: it is something that is used much like in radio.
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Speaker 1: It's like anybody I've worked. I've told the story before.
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Speaker 1: There was a morning guy here years ago that did
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Speaker 1: pretty well, made a lot of money, and he had
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Speaker 1: a decent following, pretty good crowd, but he wanted more money,
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Speaker 1: and so they didn't want to the company didn't want
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Speaker 1: to pay him, so they they're like, ah, we just
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Speaker 1: can't afford it. We don't have the budget. But mainly
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Speaker 1: because his audience had gone down a little bit. If
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Speaker 1: he was keeping the same audience, and then they would
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Speaker 1: have kept the show and that would have been that.
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Speaker 1: But you're deputizing the Bengal fan, all three of them,
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Speaker 1: the diehards that will do the bidding for you here.
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Speaker 1: And it is really fun with numbers. It's fun with
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Speaker 1: numbers there. You move a few decimal points over, you
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Speaker 1: cook the books, you get those Enron accountants, look it
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Speaker 1: up if you don't know who that is. You get
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Speaker 1: these Bernie Madeoff types in there, and it's a Ponzi
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Speaker 1: scheme and manipulated, and Burrow laid it out pretty good.
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Speaker 1: You push money to the back end of the contract
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Speaker 1: and you convert signing bonuses into other thing. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's all manipulation, much like major companies do all the
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Speaker 1: time with the tax code, and you know what workarounds
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Speaker 1: and you don't have to worry about it. And the
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Speaker 1: problem with Cincinnati is they could certainly do all those
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Speaker 1: things that Joe Burrow wants. They could do everything right
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Speaker 1: they could convert some money into a signing bonus, they
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Speaker 1: could kick the can down the road, as Travis Kelcey
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Speaker 1: likes to say, and they could do all those things. However,
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Speaker 1: the reason they're not likely to do that is because
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Speaker 1: the Bengals are a family business. It's old family money.
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Speaker 1: The people running the Bengals now did not do anything
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Speaker 1: to earn that money day to day. They just are
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Speaker 1: in the right place. Either they married into the family
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Speaker 1: or they won the genetic lottery. That's it, right, And
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Speaker 1: all of that extra cash that the Bengals would spend
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Speaker 1: on player payroll would come out of the rainy day.
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Speaker 1: And I don't know about you, but those private planes
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Speaker 1: to the South of France and those yachts and the
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Speaker 1: crew on the yacht are not cheap. And so if
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Speaker 1: you're paying t Higgins, that's one lass day that you
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Speaker 1: can spend in the South of France. Do you really
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Speaker 1: want that hardship on the Bengals ownership group? Do you
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Speaker 1: really want them to suffer? I mean they're barely skating
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Speaker 1: by these NFL teams. They never make any money at all.
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Speaker 1: All right now, page two I mentioned Travis Kelsey. I
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Speaker 1: want to go back to that story. We talked about it.
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Speaker 1: There's our lead store at the top of the show,
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Speaker 1: back in our number one number. So do you believe
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Speaker 1: that Travis Kelcey will have a bidding war for his services?
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Speaker 1: There are some chatter that Kelsey's likely to retire. That
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Speaker 1: speculation is he's done, and that the TV networks are
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Speaker 1: going to be lining up the high Travis Kelcey as
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Speaker 1: a football commentator starting in twenty twenty five. So do
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Speaker 1: you believe that to be true? Unfortunately, my answer is yes.
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Speaker 1: I don't like saying that. I hope I'm wrong, but
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Speaker 1: Travis Kelcey will benefit from an infectious disease that has
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Speaker 1: affected the television world for probably at this point sixty
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Speaker 1: years give or take. That infectious disease is called jock oquacy.
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Speaker 1: The great doctor Howard Cosell. Doctor Howard Cosell came up
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Speaker 1: with the clinical diagnosis of jockoquacy. It is a violent illness.
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Speaker 1: It seems to only affect television executives and a guy
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Speaker 1: like Travis Kelcey. Let's be honest. I suppose the other
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Speaker 1: times we're not being honest, but Travis Kelsey is a
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Speaker 1: dime a dozen. He's not that interesting. He's just another
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Speaker 1: meathead athlete, that's all he is. Right, However, you and
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Speaker 1: I both know, in fact, every man, woman and child
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Speaker 1: knows the way this works. That because he happens to
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Speaker 1: be well known because of the football, the success the
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Speaker 1: Chiefs have had, and he's sleeping, he's stooping the most
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Speaker 1: famous woman entertainer in the world. You put those two
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Speaker 1: things together, and you don't have to be Nostradamus or
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Speaker 1: in my case, a distant relative of Nostradamus and friend
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Speaker 1: of Nostradinas to understand that CBS, Fox, Amazon, ESPN, NBC,
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Speaker 1: NFL Network, and some football channel in timbucktoo will try
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Speaker 1: to get their hands on Travis Kelsey and he's not
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Speaker 1: gonna get three hundred and seventy five million dollars like
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Speaker 1: Tom Brady got, and he will get a lot of
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Speaker 1: Mickey mouse dollars. I could see Kelsey and Kelsey the
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Speaker 1: Remember they tried to give Jason Kelcey that late night
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Speaker 1: show and it was a debacle. How about Kelsey and
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Speaker 1: Kelsey sounds like a morning show, and Travis Kelsey can
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Speaker 1: get on there and just spew cliches and platitudes much
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Speaker 1: like Tom Brady just do that right. It is wild.
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Speaker 1: And I've dabbled a little bit over the last couple
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Speaker 1: of years in television, so I now have some TV friends,
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Speaker 1: and I have talked to them. I'm not just a
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Speaker 1: blowhard on this, but I've talked to some of the
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Speaker 1: people that work over there, and I'm like, you don't
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Speaker 1: understand how much money these places are wasting on ex
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Speaker 1: jocks who don't bring any audience to the table. It's
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Speaker 1: what like a radio People tune into a radio show
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Speaker 1: in theory because you want to hear what the host
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Speaker 1: tests to say. No one watches an NFL game to
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Speaker 1: hear what an ex jock has to say during an
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Speaker 1: NFL game, whether that's Tony Romo, Tom Brady, anybody. And
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Speaker 1: the great test of our time was when Fox lost
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Speaker 1: Troy Aikman and Joe Buck. They're a football team for
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Speaker 1: gazillion years. They left, They became Fox refugees. They went
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Speaker 1: to ESPN and Fox was waiting for Tom Brady. But
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Speaker 1: Brady decided he wanted to be like a college professor
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Speaker 1: and take a sabbatical and he didn't want to work,
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Speaker 1: and so they were scrambling and they just slopped together.
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Speaker 1: Kevin Burkhardt and Greg Olsen, a couple of nobody's right, nobody's,
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Speaker 1: And the ratings were exactly the same. When Fox had
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Speaker 1: the Cowboys, people watched. If Fox had a great NFC game,
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Speaker 1: people watched. If they didn't, the ratings were down. And
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Speaker 1: yet here we are. Tom Brady is nothing. The ratings
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Speaker 1: were higher because of Tom. Nobody's watching because of Tom Brad.
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Speaker 1: In fact, Tom Brady's the reason not to watch. Tom
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Speaker 1: Brady's the reason for the mute button. He's so bad
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Speaker 1: at that. But it is fascinating. You just put any
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Speaker 1: flotsam and jetsum on there, and if it's a good matchup,
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Speaker 1: people are gonna watch. And yet guy like Kelsey, Now,
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Speaker 1: how much is he gonna want to work? He's got
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Speaker 1: to be loaded at this point with all the endorsement
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Speaker 1: money he's gotten and the football money. And I'm sure
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Speaker 1: Taylor Swift's taking care of him a little bit as well.
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Speaker 1: There's some kind of financial agreement. Listen, all right, now,
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Speaker 1: final point we pivot away from that and we go
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Speaker 1: to the NFL coaching carousel, which came to an end
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Speaker 1: the other day. No more coaches will be hired unless
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Speaker 1: somebody is surprisingly fired and a story making the rounds said, well,
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Speaker 1: now that it's all done, we've determined that Mike Rabel
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Speaker 1: the Patriots head coach. Mike Rabel was voted at the
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Speaker 1: very top of this round of twenty twenty five coaching
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Speaker 1: carousel that the Patriots won it. That Rabel beat out
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Speaker 1: Ben Johnson, the Bears offensive genius who came over from
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Speaker 1: the lines and is now they head coach in Chicago.
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Speaker 1: So I asked the question based on an unscientific survey
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Speaker 1: of the NFL insiders. They say that Mike Rabel the
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Speaker 1: top NFL coach hard So is this a big deal,
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Speaker 1: a little deal, or no deal? I have this firmly
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Speaker 1: in no deal, no Dale, no deal, no Dale. It's
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Speaker 1: no deal right now. Keep in mind, I like the hire,
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Speaker 1: I like the coach. I believe Mike Vrabels will do
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Speaker 1: a good job with the New England Patriots and is
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Speaker 1: perfect he played for the team. He's got an edge
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Speaker 1: to him. He's not going to be a pushover like
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Speaker 1: Gerrod Meyo appeared to be when he was coaching the team.
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Speaker 1: And so I think it's a good fit. And I do,
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Speaker 1: But unfortunately, the popular opinion by popular people otherwise known
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Speaker 1: as the consensus is almost always wrong. They're almost always wrong.
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Speaker 1: You go back to last ten years or so, and
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Speaker 1: I recall when the Lions hired Dan Campbell. The race
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Speaker 1: baders in the media were upset he wasn't you know,
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Speaker 1: they just hired him because he's a goofball and all that.
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Speaker 1: They should have brought Caldwell back as the coach. The
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Speaker 1: race baders were all up in arms over that. Now
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Speaker 1: he's loved doing Applebe's commercials and the Lions are a
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Speaker 1: playoff team every year. Sean McVay when he was hired,
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Speaker 1: that was a make a wish situation by the Rams.
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Speaker 1: When they hired Sean McVay, they're like, oh, this guy McVeigh,
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Speaker 1: come on now, and now Sean McVay is the gold standard,
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Speaker 1: and now you want to hire someone who cleaned the
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Speaker 1: toilet in mcvay's house gets a head coaching job. It's fascinating.
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Speaker 1: And Nick Sirianni's another one. Listen, we criticized Nick Sirianni.
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Speaker 1: We thought it was funny when Sirianni was hired. You
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Speaker 1: remember what he did around the NFL Draft. He was
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Speaker 1: playing rock paper scissors, Rock paper scissors, with draft prospects
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Speaker 1: to see if they were competitive or not. And that
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Speaker 1: seems to have panned out, although he was on the
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Speaker 1: hot seat after a year ago when things did not
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Speaker 1: go well in Philadelphia. And so the moral of the story,
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Speaker 1: get to the point, please, the moral of the store
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Speaker 1: here it is, I'm gonna put a bow on this.
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Speaker 1: Put wrapping paper in a bow, is what I'm gonna do.
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Speaker 1: Expert analysis, expert predictions only slightly better, only slightly better
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Speaker 1: than a random guess, a random guess. Experts analysis only
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Speaker 1: slightly better than that, and way worse, mind you, way
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Speaker 1: worse than a statistical model like AI or something like that.
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Speaker 1: It just is and pretty much the theory is that
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Speaker 1: everyone's just flying by the seat of their pants, and
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Speaker 1: it's it's all a it's all a guessing game, right
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Speaker 1: and nka, nobody knows anything, right, Nobody knows anything. And
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Speaker 1: quarterback in the NFL does not get a vote of confidence.
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Speaker 1: A rather surprising tale. We'll go to there that story
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Speaker 1: as well. We'll do that coming up in a little bit.
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Speaker 1: Mister Luciano says eleven out of ten on the opening
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Speaker 1: male monologue this hour. An extra point on Enron reference.
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Speaker 1: It's a dated reference. And Ron and Bernie Madoff, they're
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Speaker 1: all gone. Inca Terror writes in from the Flower City
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Speaker 1: Rochester says, Hey, Benny, if Taylor Swift dump Travis Kelsey,
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Speaker 1: would his stocked plummet as disastrously as the chiefs did.
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Speaker 1: Greetings from Seattle, Oh, incoterras in Seattle. He goes to
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Speaker 1: Seattle a lot. They love incoterror in Seattle. He's big.
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Speaker 1: He plays big in Seattle, he does clearly. Who else
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Speaker 1: we have? O? G rt? Puffins says, I think Cincinnati
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Speaker 1: football ownership. They got a grip, is what he says.
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Speaker 1: That's that's his point. Who else do we have? Page Nan,
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Speaker 1: I can't read that on the air. Let's go to
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Speaker 1: Alfred's and Edmonton is this al Yes?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's Alfred and Edmonton, h Alfred Alex. So what's
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Speaker 5: the temperature outside of Edmonton, Alberta? Right now? Just looking
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Speaker 5: out the window. You know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: I understand, Yeah, you wouldn't. You would know better than me, Alfred,
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Speaker 1: because you're you're right there. You're in Edmonton, yeah, freasingly.
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Speaker 5: So you've been doing this live entertainment and Alberta for
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Speaker 5: Edmonton for about four hours a night for the past
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Speaker 5: couple of months. Now, I'm you know, I'm really enjoying it.
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Speaker 5: We're actually a pretty big city, Edmonton. I'm coop head
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Speaker 5: of Long Last wrong the last Actually, some powder just
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Speaker 5: flew up my nose accidentally. Please excuse me.
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Speaker 1: What can you understand? Well, it's a very snowy there. Yeah.
20:59
Speaker 5: Yeah, looking out the window right now, I have something
21:01
Speaker 5: to say to Don Lemon two. I didn't know, like
21:03
Speaker 5: if he works there like healthy, doesn't shaping up, he
21:08
Speaker 5: might end up on the view. You know, this angry
21:12
Speaker 5: this angry bill guy too. I'm glad that rash like
21:15
Speaker 5: curried his hand that time, but I wish you'd put
21:18
Speaker 5: some of that stuff in his mouth to shut him up,
21:20
Speaker 5: you know what I mean? Yeah, Yeah, Victoria cool, when
21:26
Speaker 5: you come visit Edmonton on your cruise. You know I
21:28
Speaker 5: slept with Victoria in high school. So when you come
21:31
Speaker 5: and your boat shows up, I'm going to bring you
21:33
Speaker 5: all around. You know, our leading export at Edmonton is
21:36
Speaker 5: actually hockey pucks. I'm I'm a big fan of this.
21:39
Speaker 5: Went to Classic going on right now. We had Edmonton
21:42
Speaker 5: played Sweden actually and went to Classic tonight. It was
21:46
Speaker 5: in uh, you know, it was a big game. We
21:48
Speaker 5: beat uh, we beat Sweden in overtime. Ben Crisby scored.
21:51
Speaker 5: He scored the overtime goal. You know, you know, I
21:56
Speaker 5: just want to say something to Don Lemon again. I
21:59
Speaker 5: think I think his partner is blind. Scott the transgender
22:03
Speaker 5: Eskimo for the bottom.
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Speaker 1: Wow, oh man, interesting, that's why. What a wild take. Well,
22:08
Speaker 1: thank you, Alfred. Unbelievable, shocking. So I looked it up
22:12
Speaker 1: here the top things to do in Edmonton. Let's see
22:16
Speaker 1: if we want to go to Edmonton. These are the
22:17
Speaker 1: top things that we're on at Edmonton right now. But
22:19
Speaker 1: to actually physically go to Edmonton, it says the the top. Now.
22:24
Speaker 1: I don't do lists. This is this is a big board.
22:26
Speaker 1: It's not a list. Big board, not a list. Big
22:30
Speaker 1: Ben's big boo, Big Ben's big board. That's right. Number
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Speaker 1: five is to admire the gardens at the Muttart Conservatory
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Speaker 1: mud Art. It's a botanical garden. Yeah, it's like a
22:46
Speaker 1: it's like a pyramid. It's so cold in Edmonton. I
22:50
Speaker 1: guess nothing grows in this time of the year, so
22:52
Speaker 1: they have a botanical garden there. It's the number five
22:55
Speaker 1: thing to do in your town to go through a garden.
22:59
Speaker 1: Number four is to take a brewery tour, smell the
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Speaker 1: beer and all that. Do we get to drink it too,
23:08
Speaker 1: or to give you samples at those brewery tours. That's
23:11
Speaker 1: Canadian beer, that's different. You can ice skate at Castle
23:14
Speaker 1: Downs Park. That's the number three thing to do in Edmonton.
23:18
Speaker 1: That sounds like fun. Then they say the number two
23:21
Speaker 1: thing is to hang out on White Avenue. About that racist,
23:27
Speaker 1: that's what it says. And the number one thing to
23:30
Speaker 1: do number like David Letterman's top ten things. Number one
23:35
Speaker 1: thing to do in Edmonton is to shop at the
23:37
Speaker 1: West Edmonton Mall. Really, you know that is a happen
23:43
Speaker 1: in town. That was at the very top right there.
23:47
Speaker 1: The West Edmonton Mall. They have over eight hundred stores
23:52
Speaker 1: and restaurants, twelve world class attractions, and two hotels. This
23:55
Speaker 1: sounds like a Mall of America type thing. That sounds
23:57
Speaker 1: like where we should have to meet, we should just
23:59
Speaker 1: go hang out. Yeah, this doesn't sound like just your
24:02
Speaker 1: normal run of the Mill mall. This is more than that.
24:05
Speaker 1: We could do a Mallard scavenger hunt. They have a
24:08
Speaker 1: water park in the mall. How about that? A water
24:11
Speaker 1: park in the mall. There's a Galaxy Land that's like
24:15
Speaker 1: an amusement park thing. Do it eh, sign me up, Manna,
24:19
Speaker 1: I'm gonna move to Edmonton. Screw that, I'm moving to Edmonton.
24:23
Speaker 1: I'm out of here. I'm gone is I got my
24:27
Speaker 1: cars loaded up. I'm ready to go. I hit the
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Speaker 1: road right now.
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Speaker 2: Man.
24:31
Speaker 1: We are on X at Ben Mallard. That's at Ben
24:35
Speaker 1: Mallor if you'd like to be part of the program
24:37
Speaker 1: coming up later this hour. We have asked Ben your
24:39
Speaker 1: questions are answers. I'm Gon'll be coming up for a
24:42
Speaker 1: good chunk of time this hour on the show and
24:46
Speaker 1: you can be part of it there if you would
24:49
Speaker 1: like this. Go back to the phones and we'll say
24:51
Speaker 1: hello to eeny meany miny Moe. Let's say hello to Adrian,
24:58
Speaker 1: who's in Inver. Welcome?
25:02
Speaker 6: Why hello, Ben? How are you this seasoning or morning
25:06
Speaker 6: or wherever you are?
25:07
Speaker 1: If I was any better, I'd be a Rocky, but
25:10
Speaker 1: not a Colorado Rocky, because then i'd be in the cellar.
25:14
Speaker 6: Oh god. See, so here's where this is all going
25:17
Speaker 6: to come full circle. So I used to work in
25:19
Speaker 6: sports radio back in Pittsford for ninety three seven the Fan,
25:23
Speaker 6: which is awesome. Then I moved to Denver, Colorado, and
25:26
Speaker 6: ninety two to five altitude is out here.
25:29
Speaker 1: Yeah.
25:29
Speaker 6: So the one common thing is Clint Hurdle, and I'd
25:33
Speaker 6: like him as a person as a manager, and he
25:35
Speaker 6: actually came out with a book called Hurdleism, so that's
25:38
Speaker 6: kind of bringing it all together. But yeah, I'm glad
25:41
Speaker 6: I'm not a Rocky fan either.
25:42
Speaker 1: Well I actually have This is going to blow you away.
25:44
Speaker 1: I know you you worked in our business, so you
25:46
Speaker 1: know how dysfunctional sports radio is. But I saw the
25:50
Speaker 1: other day Clint Hurdle there was he did some speech,
25:54
Speaker 1: so I guess maybe because he's promoting that book, but
25:56
Speaker 1: he was. He said he was asked by a kid
25:58
Speaker 1: what his walk up music right when he was playing
26:01
Speaker 1: baseball back in the day, and he had a great line.
26:03
Speaker 1: He said his walk up music was the national anthem
26:05
Speaker 1: and God God bless America in the seventh Day. Because
26:08
Speaker 1: they didn't do walk up music back then. They didn't
26:11
Speaker 1: do it.
26:11
Speaker 6: See that's what. That's what I'm saying. God bless America.
26:14
Speaker 6: I le's why I like Clint Hurdle and also like
26:18
Speaker 6: so obviously binging in Denver. They we didn't have basketball
26:23
Speaker 6: in Pittsburgh. So I'm a huge Nuggets fan. I just
26:25
Speaker 6: went to the game tonight, so I'm in my Nuggets.
26:27
Speaker 1: Double Nichols, fifty five points, double Nichols. There you go,
26:31
Speaker 1: Jamalmer his career.
26:32
Speaker 6: Thank you for there you go on behalf of knowing that.
26:35
Speaker 1: And now I have to ask have you eat? Have
26:38
Speaker 1: you eaten the local delicacy? Now you're in Denver, the
26:40
Speaker 1: Rocky Mountain Oysters. Have you partakeed in the Rocky Mountain Oysters?
26:43
Speaker 6: No, I've been.
26:44
Speaker 7: Here over a decade.
26:45
Speaker 6: So actually twenty thirteen, Well have.
26:47
Speaker 1: You been there a long time? And I know you've
26:49
Speaker 1: been there forever? What are you talking about? They're a
26:52
Speaker 1: local at this point. You've been there for over a decade.
26:55
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, so I only I see I know
26:57
Speaker 6: twenty thirteen. Just going back to like the one postseason
27:01
Speaker 6: games Tyrates had, So I had my shirt for that
27:04
Speaker 6: walk down today to the Altitude Sports radio station and
27:07
Speaker 6: just go be like, hey, look here's my pass from
27:09
Speaker 6: twenty eleven when I was an intern, and how much
27:12
Speaker 6: radio still.
27:13
Speaker 7: Sports radio still.
27:14
Speaker 6: Is in my life because I listen to you guys.
27:16
Speaker 1: O God, God bless so you miss it, you miss
27:19
Speaker 1: it one sports radio gets in your blood. You can't
27:23
Speaker 1: get rid of it. It's you can't. It's in your bloodstream.
27:25
Speaker 1: You can't get rid of sports radio. It's in your passion,
27:28
Speaker 1: right I know.
27:29
Speaker 6: And then here so if you if you have a
27:31
Speaker 6: few minutes, not a few minutes, I know how radio,
27:33
Speaker 6: let's let's keep it short, boys and girls.
27:35
Speaker 1: Yes, I love that.
27:37
Speaker 6: By the way, Alfred and Edmonton, he sounds like we
27:40
Speaker 6: should have an AA meeting like A and Adrian and Alfred.
27:43
Speaker 6: I would totally go to Edmonton and just bold with him.
27:48
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you can't say that.
27:51
Speaker 6: Being so cold, because it's six degrees in Denver right now.
27:54
Speaker 6: So I thought i'd step out of the car show.
27:56
Speaker 6: You wouldn't hear my heater. But now my hands are
27:58
Speaker 6: a little.
27:59
Speaker 1: Were You better give me your warm up there. But
28:01
Speaker 1: we're here. Everything I call whatever you want. Where if
28:03
Speaker 1: you call a lot, you know how we give nicknames
28:05
Speaker 1: out to people, so if you call a lot, we'll
28:06
Speaker 1: give you a nickname and all that, and we'll let you.
28:09
Speaker 1: You'll be able to you'll be able to scratch your
28:11
Speaker 1: itch for sports radio. You will allow you to scratch
28:14
Speaker 1: the itch for sports radio.
28:16
Speaker 6: They did that today on sports radio. And the one guy, see,
28:20
Speaker 6: I can already just call him out now because I
28:21
Speaker 6: think I'd be better than he would. Then he is
28:23
Speaker 6: on the show. So it's Columbus Hastings in do or
28:27
Speaker 6: d Mac. It used to be a guy named over,
28:29
Speaker 6: but now this guy d Mac. I was on the
28:32
Speaker 6: radio today and he was like, she's boring, and I
28:33
Speaker 6: was like, oh my god, I you come.
28:36
Speaker 7: I will come.
28:37
Speaker 6: Down right out of the station and be like, I'm
28:39
Speaker 6: the lead boring person.
28:40
Speaker 1: You're like, you go down there. You're like, listen, I will.
28:42
Speaker 1: I will hit you over the head with a bottle
28:44
Speaker 1: of whiskey. And I would be more entertaining, is what
28:46
Speaker 1: I will be.
28:46
Speaker 6: Yes, exactly right, And I'll have my sponsors from my marketing.
28:50
Speaker 1: Yeah. Look at that rolling in money? All right, all right,
28:53
Speaker 1: I gotta go thank you, Adrian. Though. Look at that
28:56
Speaker 1: big star there in Denver found our show calling in
29:00
Speaker 1: there for the mile Eyed City. I should ask her
29:03
Speaker 1: if she's had the Ben Mallard food dish there at
29:05
Speaker 1: the sports Book Bar and Grill in Denver, a food
29:08
Speaker 1: We have a food item named after us in Denver.
29:10
Speaker 1: But I didn't ask her. I forgot because I was
29:12
Speaker 1: trying to end the phone call. But when she calls
29:15
Speaker 1: back next time, if she remembers this phone call at all,
29:18
Speaker 1: I will, I will bring that up. But they are
29:21
Speaker 1: both locations. I know one there was like a fire
29:24
Speaker 1: or something at it, but I think they reopened it now. Yeah,
29:27
Speaker 1: if you're listening in Denver, you visit Denver the Sportsbook
29:30
Speaker 1: Bar and Grill. There's a couple of locations. And if
29:33
Speaker 1: you look at the menu there they have the Mallard
29:35
Speaker 1: chicken sandwich, the Mallard sandy right there. That sounds so good. Yeah,
29:41
Speaker 1: it's a wonderful sandwich. It's so good. That's bilephones and
29:44
Speaker 1: we'll say hello to weed Man, hippie and man still
29:49
Speaker 1: trying to recover. He's in Miami. He was expecting a
29:53
Speaker 1: great awakening, a great epiphany. The Kansas City Chiefs were
29:57
Speaker 1: going to win the Super Bowl, and then Poppy had
29:59
Speaker 1: to pick Kansas City, and so Kansas City lost. And
30:01
Speaker 1: didn't just lose, they get their their bell rung. And
30:04
Speaker 1: so now weed Man is now picking up the pieces. Wow,
30:09
Speaker 1: I can't open his belieble Okay, go hey what what? What?
30:16
Speaker 1: What I have? All day?
30:19
Speaker 7: Right?
30:19
Speaker 1: God bless you?
30:20
Speaker 7: It craze to Miami Heat game? All right, I had
30:28
Speaker 7: the game.
30:35
Speaker 1: Well, weed Man, your your phone continues to be a problem.
30:37
Speaker 1: Is there any way you can contact someone to get
30:40
Speaker 1: a new Obama phone? There's something going on with your phone.
30:44
Speaker 1: That's a little better. That's a little better.
30:46
Speaker 7: How about that? How about that?
30:47
Speaker 1: Shocking?
30:49
Speaker 7: So did Heat plays?
30:52
Speaker 1: I thought you were listening to the game. We man,
30:54
Speaker 1: you were not listen.
30:54
Speaker 6: I was. I was listening.
30:56
Speaker 1: He were playing the Thunder.
30:58
Speaker 7: Thank you for his for three quarters? Okay, okay, I
31:05
Speaker 7: hate the Heat. I hate you. I hate.
31:09
Speaker 1: I know you hate the fact that we're on the
31:12
Speaker 1: radio station. The Miami Heat games areund which seems like
31:15
Speaker 1: a big deal. I would think that's to be a yes,
31:17
Speaker 1: So you're referring to the fact that Miami Heat had
31:19
Speaker 1: a twenty one point lead over the Oklahoma City.
31:23
Speaker 7: Thunder thirty eight.
31:26
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, Now I didn't play in the NBA. I
31:30
Speaker 1: don't think that's good when you get out scored thirty
31:32
Speaker 1: two eight, right.
31:36
Speaker 7: I can't believe I listened to that.
31:38
Speaker 1: I'm oh, you guys, yeah, I know you got your
31:42
Speaker 1: own issues there. Yeah, but at thirty two to eight.
31:44
Speaker 1: The Miami Heat took eighteen shots in the fourth quarter
31:47
Speaker 1: of that game with okay see made three of them
31:50
Speaker 1: a professional basketball team. They had six turnovers, one every
31:53
Speaker 1: other minute in the fourth quarter of that game. And
31:57
Speaker 1: let's see who's the worst. To see here, Andrew Wiggins
32:00
Speaker 1: was one of five in the fourth quarter. Some name,
32:03
Speaker 1: someone named Alec Burks was over three. I mean they
32:05
Speaker 1: were all bad. Obviously, they all sucked, you know, three eighteen.
32:08
Speaker 7: I remember John Stalks one time going three freight oh.
32:12
Speaker 1: In the NBA Finals. Didn't have a terrible game in
32:15
Speaker 1: the NBA Finals where he missed like every shot against
32:17
Speaker 1: the Spurs.
32:18
Speaker 7: I think it was was That's where it was.
32:21
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, if it makes you feel any better, it
32:25
Speaker 1: could be worse. You could have listened to the Chicago Bulls. Bulls.
32:29
Speaker 1: Didn't the Bulls? They were yeah, yeah, the Bulls. The
32:36
Speaker 1: I think it was the other night, was it tonight?
32:38
Speaker 7: They were down seventy one?
32:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was that was the game. I was sorry, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
32:44
Speaker 1: how do you do that. Yeah, it's like you again.
32:48
Speaker 1: I go, I go back to my my guy, uh
32:51
Speaker 1: Bill Fisch the Hall of Fame. He's dead now, but
32:53
Speaker 1: he told me he was Both teams were playing hard
32:56
Speaker 1: and all that you're not gonna lose by that many
32:58
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be in the game and if you're
33:01
Speaker 1: putting an honest effort, and there's not that big a
33:03
Speaker 1: difference between the top team and the worst team. And yeah,
33:07
Speaker 1: that that bull squad, I saw the halftime thing. What's
33:11
Speaker 1: that we've made?
33:11
Speaker 7: Why the ball goes back and forth? They should score
33:15
Speaker 7: pretty close together, back.
33:17
Speaker 1: And forth, back and forth. Yeah, I mean, I mean,
33:19
Speaker 1: I want to highlight just because I mentioned it. So
33:21
Speaker 1: I'll highlight the Chicago Bulls in the game now. Not
33:25
Speaker 1: not on Wednesday, this is back on Tuesday. The Chicago
33:29
Speaker 1: Bulls in the first half were down seventy one to
33:32
Speaker 1: twenty nine. Uh yeah, yeah, they shot twenty three percent.
33:37
Speaker 1: They were down by forty five points. Now they ended
33:41
Speaker 1: up and by the time the game in, I think
33:42
Speaker 1: they were down at one point by forty nine points,
33:45
Speaker 1: which is tremendous mouth seasons by the by the Chicago Bulls.
33:50
Speaker 1: That is outstanding. My god, wow, all right, well weed man,
33:54
Speaker 1: thanks for checking in. We what why wha wha wha
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Speaker 1: wha wha wha wha wha wha wha wha wha wha
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Speaker 7: Jail is not a good thing at all. I'd rather
34:05
Speaker 7: be dead than be in jail.
34:07
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I know what. You've done enough time? How many?
34:10
Speaker 1: How many times? How many times you've been arrested? Weed man?
34:14
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, weed Man's rap sheet goes on. It's like
34:16
Speaker 1: it's like the old phone books back in the day.
34:19
Speaker 7: There's no relaxation. Loreno, it's not a relaxing place to be.
34:24
Speaker 7: It's a very stressed out place to be.
34:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, got a thank you.
34:29
Speaker 2: But if you put up enough of a fuss that
34:31
Speaker 2: you get put into one of those walls with the
34:33
Speaker 2: cushy white you know, one of those rooms at the
34:34
Speaker 2: cushy white walls, then that's then it's relaxing, right, just
34:37
Speaker 2: because it's all padded and cushy. What you stump, weed Man,
34:44
Speaker 2: he's never been in a Oh he's never he's never been. No,
34:47
Speaker 2: you're he's never gone to the looney ben weed Man.
34:49
Speaker 2: You're in general pop right when you go to no
34:52
Speaker 2: weed man. But when you when you I do a
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Speaker 2: TV show with a looney bin.
34:56
Speaker 1: But when you go to jail, weed man, you're in
34:57
Speaker 1: the general pop, right, You're in general population.
34:59
Speaker 7: You're not here crazy. You know there is a crazy
35:03
Speaker 7: part of jail.
35:04
Speaker 1: Yeah, that part's probably comfortable. Right, all right, all right,
35:10
Speaker 1: I gotta go, I gotta thank you.
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Speaker 6: All right.
35:12
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35:34
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35:39
Speaker 1: don't we just do season? They'll do season totally. Here,
35:41
Speaker 1: how about that Blank leads the entire NBA in turnovers
35:46
Speaker 1: this season. This guy's turned the ball over more than
35:48
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Speaker 1: Stupid from the military. Blank leads the entire NBA in
37:03
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Speaker 1: this season. That is the question. What is the answer.
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Speaker 1: Does anyone know the answer? Here, we'll go page down.
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Speaker 1: Scrooge in the Bay Area, going with jose Canseco Gooby
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37:22
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Speaker 1: from Late Night drug Testers forty four Today, Lorraine, Now,
37:46
Speaker 1: do you have an answer? It is not Zion Williamson
37:48
Speaker 1: guests by Rudy. Yeah, it's obviously Kyrie Irving. No, this
37:56
Speaker 1: is that you don't want to leave the league in
37:57
Speaker 1: How about Trey Young of the Atlanta Hawks two hundred
38:01
Speaker 1: forty seven turnovers. That's twenty one more than James Harden
38:06
Speaker 1: of the people seem Lebron, by the way, is tied
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Speaker 1: for fourth. Here we go, Here we go, blah blah
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Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah,
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Speaker 2: Carl Anthony Towns has put up back to back forty
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Speaker 2: point double doubles and wins for the Knicks, and many
38:25
Speaker 2: are starting to believe that Cat is the X factor
38:28
Speaker 2: that New York has needed. Ben are Jalen Brunson and
38:31
Speaker 2: Karl Anthony Town's a championship caliber duo.
38:35
Speaker 1: Well, they have to prove it in the place. The
38:36
Speaker 1: problem with Karl Anthony Towns and our friends in Minnesota
38:38
Speaker 1: know this that he often would vanish at times in
38:41
Speaker 1: the playoffs. And you do that in New York, You'll
38:43
Speaker 1: never hear the end of it. But if you gave
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Speaker 1: me right now in the Eastern Conference the Celtics and
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Speaker 1: the Knicks, and you could have the field. I would
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Speaker 1: take the Celtics and the Knicks that one of those
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Speaker 1: two will at least win the East, and I'll give
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Speaker 1: you the Bucks, I'll give you the Paces. I'll even
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Speaker 1: give you the Cavaliers who have the top record. So
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Speaker 1: I believe in the Knicks more than I believe in
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Speaker 1: the CAFs.
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Speaker 2: Next Wow billboard has gone up in Pittsburgh calling for
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Speaker 2: the firing of Mike Tomlin was paid for by a
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Speaker 2: Steeler super fan.
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Speaker 1: Apparently he's a waste of money. Ben, Do you think
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Speaker 1: Tomlin is on the hot seat this season? No, No,
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Speaker 1: that's a distraction. That is a disturbance. But no, how
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Speaker 1: many monologues have I done over the You're saying, Mike
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Speaker 1: Tom's gonna lose his job. They have had three coaches
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Speaker 1: since like the sixties in Pittsburgh. And the way Tomlin
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Speaker 1: leaves is if Tomlin decides he's tired of coaching, he
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Speaker 1: wants to retire, or he gets a TV job or
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Speaker 1: something like that's otherwise, he's got lifetime employment. He's a
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Speaker 1: made man. He's in. He's not going anywhere. I don't
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Speaker 1: know how many billboards you put up next.
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Speaker 2: Top prospect that dual Carter out of Penn State tweeted
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Speaker 2: out after the Eagles lost Defense wins championships.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I've never heard that before.
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Speaker 2: Number one overall pick Yeah. Ben, Do you think there's
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Speaker 2: any chance of Carter going number one? Well, there is
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Speaker 2: a chance, it's not a good chance.
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Speaker 1: Here's the problem. The NFL draft over these years has
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Speaker 1: become it's all about marketing. It's all about selling the legend,
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Speaker 1: building up the legend and if if they can get
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Speaker 1: this guy, Carter's legend out there. Yeah, the quarterbacks aren't
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Speaker 1: that great, but ultimately the Titans need a quarterback. They're
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Speaker 1: going to draft a quarterback unless they trade the pick.
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Speaker 1: How did we know that is a win? I won, Lorena?
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Lorena. I appreciate that. Round the clock Dallas
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Speaker 1: Goddard