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Ravens trade for Maxx Crosby, Trump’s “Stick to Sports” Hypocrisy gets more absurd | 03.09 · The Right Time with Bomani Jones

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Speaker 1: some interesting sports news about people not paying money. You'll
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Speaker 1: find out what I mean when we get there. But first,
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Speaker 1: we got the big news over the weekend. The Baltimore Ravens.
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Speaker 1: traded two first-round picks to the Raiders, and they received
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Speaker 1: Max Crosby in return. And I don't know about you guys,
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Speaker 1: but I can't wait to see how the Raiders fuck
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Speaker 1: this up.
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Speaker 3: Like.
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Speaker 2: What are they going to do with the first round picks?
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Speaker 1: The thing about draft picks as currency is their actual
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Speaker 1: value is really interesting to stop and consider. So the
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Speaker 1: value of Max Crosby as an edge rusher, I think
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Speaker 1: almost across the board, no matter who gets the edge rusher, like,
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Speaker 1: you know, top five edge rusher, we kind of know
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Speaker 1: what that's worth. Like, quantifying that gets to be a
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Speaker 1: little tricky. I mean, that's what you do with the
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Speaker 1: draft picks and everything else, but I still feel like
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Speaker 1: even if we're talking about it just in a qualitative sense,
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Speaker 1: we know what that means, right?
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Speaker 2: Draft picks, it all.
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Speaker 1: Depends on who's doing the picking, right? So, on one level,
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Speaker 1: for the Ravens, I would probably argue, and Ryan, you
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Speaker 1: tell me if I'm wrong. I'm going to probably start
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Speaker 1: looking this up while we talk about it, but The Ravens,
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Speaker 1: I feel like they've got a pretty good track record
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Speaker 1: of what they do when they have first-round picks, right?
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Speaker 4: There is one of these teams that also almost never
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Speaker 4: trades them either. Yes. Yeah, so they have a good
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Speaker 4: history of knowing what they're doing going back about since
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Speaker 4: they've been in Baltimore.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so what they do with their first-round picks, their picks,
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Speaker 1: all right, so we will go with them first-round picks
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Speaker 1: since 2016. Ronnie Stanley, Marlon Humphrey, Hayden Hurst, Lamar Jackson,
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Speaker 1: Hollywood Brown, Patrick Queen, Rashad Bateman, Odafe Owe, Kyle Hamilton,
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Speaker 1: Tyler Linderbaum, Zay Flowers, Nate Wiggins, and Malachi Starks. Now,
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Speaker 1: I think those last two, not quite what we're talking
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Speaker 1: about before, but for the Ravens, a first-round.
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Speaker 2: Pick is a big deal.
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 2: They do good things with first-round picks.
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Speaker 1: Let's look up Raiders... First round picks. And we will
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Speaker 1: also go back to 2016. And Ryan, let's see what
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Speaker 1: we got here.
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Speaker 3: Ooh.
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Speaker 1: Carl Joseph. Garyon Conley.
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Speaker 2: Colton Miller. Cleland Farrell.
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Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs. Jonathan Abram. Henry Ruggs.
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Speaker 2: Demond Arnett.
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Speaker 1: That was another.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Alex Leatherwood.
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Speaker 1: Tyree Wilson, Brock Bowers, and Ashton Genting. Not bad, though
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Speaker 1: perhaps overdrafted, right? All I'm saying is, while for the Ravens,
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Speaker 1: giving up those picks, perhaps an expenditure of currency.
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 2: For the Raiders, you put.
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Speaker 1: A first-round pick in the hand of the Raiders, it'd
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Speaker 1: be like, if it's a dollar in my hand, it
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Speaker 1: is 50 cents in yours. Yes. First round pick just
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Speaker 1: doesn't mean they should trade their first round pick every
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Speaker 1: fucking year. In fact, I have no idea why they
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Speaker 1: would even want a first round pick or giving them
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Speaker 1: two first round picks. I would be terrified if I
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Speaker 1: were the Raiders. If I was here to choose twice.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Who in the, who in the building knows what to
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Speaker 1: do with one of these things?
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Speaker 4: I mean, I mean, clearly, I mean, who's the adult
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Speaker 4: in that room? Is it Mark Davis and his awesome haircut?
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Speaker 4: Is it Tom Brady?
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Speaker 2: It's Tom Brady.
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Speaker 4: And his 14 jobs.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: But to be fair, there's 14 jobs. I don't think
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Speaker 1: the issue is the 14 jobs.
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Speaker 2: Although, I mean, I can't help.
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Speaker 1: Well, look, the one job he ain't got to do
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Speaker 1: right now.
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Speaker 4: That's true.
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Speaker 2: Like, I guess I don't really know.
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Speaker 1: Like, the only two jobs I really know of are
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Speaker 1: the two jobs he shouldn't be allowed to have at
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Speaker 1: the same time.
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Speaker 4: And he, that, that man seems to, he's got that
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Speaker 4: weird flag football thing.
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Speaker 2: That's now, um, that's no longer in Saudi Arabia.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. No longer in Saudi Arabia. That man does a
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Speaker 4: lot of media.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: And, and it's, it's just interesting. And then he has
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Speaker 4: his various extracurriculars of being a plus with celebrity. And, and, and,
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Speaker 4: and single a dad. That too.
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Speaker 1: He's also a dad.
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Did you see the athletic story my man Mike Silver
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Speaker 1: did about Alex Guerrero having a little too much juice
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Speaker 1: around there?
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Speaker 4: Yeah. Part of the reason Max Crosby isn't there anymore.
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 1: The issue with Tom Brady being the person in charge
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Speaker 1: is what made Tom Brady good at what he did
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Speaker 1: is something that it's entirely possible no other human has
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Speaker 1: in them, which is this insane will to keep getting
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Speaker 1: better right like forget about will to win just the
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Speaker 1: decision that I am going to get better at this
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Speaker 1: every day and I'm gonna keep coming up with new
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Speaker 1: ways to do all this dude they made one of
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Speaker 1: you literally.
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Speaker 4: One it is a non-transferable skill.
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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah he didn't get there because he has such
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Speaker 1: a great eye for talent that's just not and look
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Speaker 1: maybe he does but that is a completely different job
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Speaker 1: for example let me talk about the Baltimore Ravens Ozzie
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Speaker 1: Newsome Hall of Fame, tight end.
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Speaker 2: Hall of Fame, executive.
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Speaker 1: There aren't that many people in any of the games
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Speaker 1: who can say those two things at the same time.
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Speaker 2: It's a really tough thing.
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Speaker 1: Who is on that list?
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Speaker 4: Jerry West.
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Speaker 2: Jerry West.
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Speaker 3: Um.
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Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, it'll take me too long to try
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Speaker 2: to play this game.
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Speaker 4: But that's... Maybe we'll see how John Lynch turns out.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: He's going to be close in both.
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Speaker 2: John Elway put together a Super Bowl winner.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: But, I mean, John Lynch works for Kyle Shanahan.
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Speaker 1: Like, that's not... That's true.
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Speaker 2: That's a different situation.
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Speaker 1: But the bottom line is, giving them two first-round picks,
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Speaker 1: not a big deal.
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Speaker 4: Correct.
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Speaker 1: For the Ravens, Jesse Mentor, congratulations. Baltimore Ravens have been
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Speaker 1: in existence since the year 1996. I would make the
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Speaker 1: argument that at no point has a coach truly been
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Speaker 1: on the clock, right? Like, they let Brian Billing keep
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Speaker 1: it up after winning that Super Bowl. They let him
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Speaker 1: kick it around for a long time. Brian Billing is
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Speaker 1: a Super Bowl winning coach that nobody else gave that
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Speaker 1: a try. And it wasn't like he won a Super
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Speaker 1: Bowl with the Avengers, by the way. Like they put
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Speaker 1: together a great defense and everything, but nobody gave Ryan
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Speaker 1: Billig any credit. And it never felt like he was
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Speaker 1: actually on the clock, but he went like four and 12,
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Speaker 1: I want to say in the last year that he
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Speaker 1: was there. And then they let him go. And then
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Speaker 1: they brought on John Harbaugh. And I mean, I said
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Speaker 1: John Harbaugh was on the clock, but nobody seemed to
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Speaker 1: believe that until they actually fired him.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 1: Like the pressure was not just hanging over him. I
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Speaker 1: feel like you get a first year coach and you
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Speaker 1: trade two first round picks to get Max Crosby.
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Speaker 2: You are saying, hey, we're here to do this thing.
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Speaker 5: OK.
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Speaker 1: While, by the way, having a quarterback that is not
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Speaker 1: demonstrated that he has the greatest ability to shoulder pressure. Now,
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Speaker 1: what he has shown is that he has an incredible
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Speaker 1: ability to generally play football, right? And perhaps the pressure
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Speaker 1: is not really, oh, you gave up two first-round picks. Like,
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Speaker 1: that doesn't matter to Lamar Jackson. If Max Crosby makes
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Speaker 1: it to where, makes it easier to get out to
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Speaker 1: leads and easier to shut them down once you have them, right?
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Speaker 1: You've got that guy.
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Speaker 2: Because as I recall, Ryan.
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Speaker 1: You correct me if I'm wrong, their defense was I
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Speaker 1: don't think putrid was the word, but I know that
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Speaker 1: good was not the word.
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Speaker 4: It was certainly putrid. It wasn't full.
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Speaker 2: It was putrid early, right? That's right. Cause they have
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Speaker 2: the new defensive coordinator.
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Speaker 4: Right. Right.
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Speaker 2: And then they call it in Chuck Pagano to help.
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Speaker 2: And it did matter.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 2: Like they, they, they did improve, but that's right. They,
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Speaker 2: they were cheeks cheeks to start.
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Speaker 4: And then everyone got hurt too.
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Speaker 2: Yes, they did.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: This is, They're coming to do it.
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Speaker 1: But I feel like this is like the third time
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Speaker 1: in the last four years that the Ravens have been
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Speaker 1: all in on this year, which is not to say
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Speaker 1: that they haven't been all in, but they have. But
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Speaker 1: the bill, like usually when you talk about people being
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Speaker 1: all in in that way, it's like all in this year,
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Speaker 1: everything else be damned. So what if the bill comes due?
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Speaker 1: I feel like this is a time, though, where like
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Speaker 1: the bill is going to come due. Like two first
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Speaker 1: round picks. It doesn't come due right away. But at
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Speaker 1: some point, the bill's going to come due. The 49ers,
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Speaker 1: we have seen the bill kind of sort of come
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Speaker 1: due on that Trey Lance trade. Like at some point,
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Speaker 1: not having that capital, whether it be missing on picks
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Speaker 1: or simply not having them. At some point, the bill
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Speaker 1: comes due. And with the Ravens, we're going to see
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Speaker 1: how good the picks have been for the last couple
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Speaker 1: of years. Plus, you're not going to have two this year,
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Speaker 1: nor are you going to have the one next year. Like,
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Speaker 1: I mean, you're saying now is the time and then
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Speaker 1: down the line, it'll be cool because we have Lamar Jackson,
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Speaker 1: who is at that point now, by the way, where
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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, while still being young, is not as young
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Speaker 1: as he used to be. Like, I believe we're now
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Speaker 1: looking at twenty eight.
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Speaker 4: 28, maybe turning 29. He was young coming in.
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Speaker 2: He was young coming in, but his 28 went miles.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Like, that's the thing about all the Josh Allen discussion. Hey,
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Speaker 1: they made a move to try to help him out, too. Um,
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Speaker 1: and Lamar is going is 29. Um, they went and
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Speaker 1: got made that move to get DJ more. And to me,
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Speaker 1: DJ more is not a number one receiver. And I
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Speaker 1: know this because you got them for a second round pick, right?
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Speaker 1: You didn't go get AJ Brown, right?
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Speaker 6: Right.
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Speaker 2: You went and got.
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Speaker 1: DJ more who Jason golf bears fan, uh, rapidly obnoxious
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Speaker 1: bears fan by the way right he got there quick
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Speaker 1: um anyway he couldn't wait to get dj more out
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Speaker 1: of there.
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Speaker 7: I mean he was gonna be their fourth option this
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Speaker 7: year yeah like but they made the move like like
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Speaker 7: that was the time to ramp up and you know
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Speaker 7: why it's time to ramp up because the chiefs ain't
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Speaker 7: the chiefs right like.
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Speaker 1: This is i don't know if they're on the like
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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes is going to come back to start the year,
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Speaker 1: and they're dialing it back, but they made that trade.
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Speaker 2: What's the corner's name?
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Speaker 4: Trent McDuffie.
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Speaker 2: Trent McDuffie. I knew it was a Trent, but.
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Speaker 1: I almost called him Trent Gonzalez. But I knew that
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Speaker 1: he was not... I knew he wasn't Gonzalez, but there
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Speaker 1: was a similar Gonzalez.
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Speaker 4: There is a Christian Gonzalez, who's also a corner.
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Speaker 2: There are similar age, same position.
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Speaker 1: Like, there was... I thought it was better to humble
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Speaker 1: myself and ask, right? But anyway, one thing I will
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Speaker 1: say about the Chiefs in this run, and maybe this
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Speaker 1: is the privilege of having Patrick Mahomes, once it becomes
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Speaker 1: clear you're going to want too much money, they will
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Speaker 1: trade you. Tyreek Hill, this cat, they'll make the move.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, they made a move that doesn't make you
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Speaker 1: better right now.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 2: That's what they did.
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Speaker 1: There's no way around that. These other cats are like, ooh.
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Speaker 1: We smell an opportunity. There is one there. This is, again,
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Speaker 1: not that I think that the Steelers are necessarily knocking
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Speaker 1: on the door of a Super Bowl, but this is
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Speaker 1: why Omar Khan and whoever the new general manager for
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Speaker 1: the Vikings, that's why they should have been wrestling at St.
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Speaker 1: Elmo's about who got to go get Kyler Murray.
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Speaker 2: Like, this.
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Speaker 1: Is... This is wide open as the AFC has felt.
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Speaker 6: Right? Because.
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Speaker 1: Drake may look bad last year in the playoffs. To
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Speaker 1: be fair to him, he is young.
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Speaker 4: Young, played great defenses.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 1: But he looked bad. There's no way around that. I'm
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Speaker 1: not buying this Bo Nix thing yet. I'm just not there.
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Speaker 1: Anybody can do this.
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Speaker 4: Who knows what the Texans are going to do?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, because CJ, I mean, we were once very high
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Speaker 2: on him.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. Do we trust Trevor Lawrence?
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Speaker 2: I trust him a lot more than I used to.
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Speaker 1: Indianapolis, they guaranteed themselves the right to pay Daniel Jones
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Speaker 1: $ 37 million coming off an Achilles tear. Am I the
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Speaker 1: only person, the only person that saw that and was like,
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Speaker 1: that's preposterous. Because it's not like he doesn't need to run.
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Speaker 1: It's very, I mean, And I know they'd be forgetting
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Speaker 1: about it because.
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Speaker 2: You know, lightweight.
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Speaker 5: You know?
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Speaker 2: Like, I understand that. But they.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know what else they were supposed
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Speaker 1: to do, to be fair. Like, I don't think they
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Speaker 1: can go back to Anthony Richardson. But I.
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Speaker 4: We haven't said the name of the Bengals once.
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Speaker 1: We haven't said the name of the Bengals once. Trey
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Speaker 1: Hendrickson is out of there.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I mean, they're... They're not going to.
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Speaker 1: You know, just because they went to the Super Bowl
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Speaker 1: didn't mean that they stopped being the Bengals.
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Speaker 4: Correct.
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Speaker 1: I think that's... Some things are deep into your DNA.
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Speaker 1: What are the Chargers going to do now? Do the
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Speaker 1: Chargers need to... Does it feel like the Chargers need
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Speaker 1: to do something drastic?
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Speaker 4: That would be a hilarious A.J. Brown destination.
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Speaker 1: I get the feeling that A.J. Brown and Jim Harbaugh
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Speaker 1: would be great together.
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Speaker 4: Again, A.J.
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Speaker 1: Brown is going to be playing for the Eagles next
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Speaker 1: year because the Eagles aren't losers. And only losers would
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Speaker 1: trade that guy for the reason that people think that
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Speaker 1: they should trade him. Because he's too correct about the
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Speaker 1: fact that your offense isn't good enough. Think of the
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Speaker 1: message that you're sending to everybody else. Tell the truth
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Speaker 1: and get traded, even if you're the best player on
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Speaker 1: the offense. But let's run through this because you sent
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Speaker 1: me this tweet from Adam Schefter that he ran. It's
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Speaker 1: a partial list of players who have been traded for
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Speaker 1: multiple first round picks. And I'm going to go one
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Speaker 1: by one. And actually, Ryan, it'd probably be better if
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Speaker 1: you pull up said list.
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Speaker 2: And we will.
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Speaker 1: Say briefly whether they were or were not worth two
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Speaker 1: first round picks.
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Speaker 4: Let's pull this up. All right, first, we can start
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Speaker 4: with the people who were traded going on this year.
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Speaker 4: Micah Parsons. Yes. Sauce Garner.
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Speaker 2: Didn't he get hurt after they did that?
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Speaker 4: He got hurt. I mean, Micah Parsons also got hurt. Well, yes.
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Speaker 4: He got hurt basically immediately.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. I mean, it looks like that's not going
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Speaker 2: to be it.
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Speaker 1: I think even with the injury that Micah Parsons sustained, yes,
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Speaker 1: you make that trade even coming off the ACL tear.
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Speaker 4: Couple of quarterbacks, Russell Wilson.
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Speaker 1: Apparently not.
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Speaker 4: Apparently not. Matthew Stafford.
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Speaker 2: I guess you'd have to say yes.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I mean, after the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Even though you get you. I mean, you had to
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Speaker 4: attach Jared Goff. I mean, one of those first picks
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Speaker 4: was to get like to absorb the Jared Goff contract.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 7: Yes.
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Speaker 1: But I mean, also very interesting in this. They made
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Speaker 1: a first. They made a trade. And magically, instantly in
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Speaker 1: that trade, Matthew Stafford became a first ballot Hall of.
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Speaker 2: Famer just by changing teams. That's all he had to do.
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Speaker 4: Laramie Tunsil.
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Speaker 2: Laramie Tunsil. That's when the Dolphins traded for him.
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Speaker 4: Yes, to the Texans.
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Speaker 2: To the Texans.
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Speaker 1: I mean, to me, you get an all-pro left tackle
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Speaker 1: and you keep him for years. You would hope in
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Speaker 1: one of those first round picks, you'd cross your fingers
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Speaker 1: and hope that you got a player almost as good
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Speaker 1: as Laramie Tunsil.
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Speaker 2: I'd say that worked.
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Speaker 4: Jamal Adams.
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Speaker 6: No.
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Speaker 4: Khalil Mack.
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Speaker 1: So it's so interesting because he was immediately defensive player
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Speaker 1: of the year, like immediately dominant. But the problem was
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Speaker 1: they were the Bears. And so on one hand, no,
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Speaker 1: it wasn't worth it. On the other hand, they were
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Speaker 1: going to fuck it up with them picks anyway.
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Speaker 4: Jalen Ramsey.
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Speaker 2: That is when he went to the Rams.
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Speaker 4: From the Dolphins to the Rams.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know if that was worth two first rounds.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I guess that's another... the results speak, right?
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Speaker 4: Jalen Ramsey is a weird one where he, every team
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Speaker 4: wants him. And then everyone's very, it's kind of like
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Speaker 4: Tyron Matthew.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: No, but what happens is when he gets to the
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Speaker 1: point where Jalen Ramsey knows that you're not going to
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Speaker 1: give him any more money, then let, how about let's
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Speaker 1: just go ahead and like take care of this. And
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Speaker 1: he gave it David Mulgat to the rescue. But even
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Speaker 1: then for what might've been the best corner in the league,
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 4: Uh, what now we get to some of the older ones, uh,
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Speaker 4: Jay Cutler.
17:27
Speaker 1: We have to remember that they had never had a
17:30
Speaker 1: quarterback as good as Jay Cutler. Jay Cutler still stands
17:33
Speaker 1: as the best quarterback in like at least the last
17:36
Speaker 1: 50 years of Chicago Bears football. They also went to
17:40
Speaker 1: an NFC championship game that Jay Cutler could not play
17:42
Speaker 1: in because he had a torn MCL.
17:45
Speaker 2: I am going to say, yeah, kind of.
17:49
Speaker 4: Ricky Williams.
17:52
Speaker 1: It's talk about a different world.
17:54
Speaker 4: Yes.
17:55
Speaker 1: Where a running back. could get traded for two first-round picks.
17:59
Speaker 1: He immediately had that year where he ran for like
18:02
Speaker 1: 1,800 yards, but they gave him the ball like 400 times.
18:05
Speaker 1: And then it turned into some real yakety sack shit
18:09
Speaker 1: over there with him, including the retirement. And then he
18:12
Speaker 1: had to come back because he owed people money. It
18:14
Speaker 1: was fun, but I don't think it was worth two
18:16
Speaker 1: first-round picks.
18:18
Speaker 4: Keyshawn Johnson.
18:19
Speaker 2: They won a Super Bowl.
18:21
Speaker 1: They did not win a Super Bowl because they traded
18:23
Speaker 1: two first-round picks to get Keyshawn Johnson. And if I'm
18:26
Speaker 1: not mistaken, I think the Jets took like Sean Ellis
18:29
Speaker 1: and John Abraham with those picks. The Jets that year
18:35
Speaker 1: had four first-round picks.
18:38
Speaker 2: Chad Pennington. I think it was Kyle Beck, the tight end.
18:41
Speaker 2: Not Kyle Beck. Kyle Brady went to Penn State. And
18:44
Speaker 2: then John Abraham and Sean Ellis. Crazy. Yes, four first-round
18:47
Speaker 2: picks in the same year.
18:49
Speaker 4: Jeff George.
18:51
Speaker 2: Ooh, and if I am.
18:52
Speaker 1: Not mistaken, it is the Atlanta Falcons who decided to
18:57
Speaker 1: trade those two first-round picks in order to get Jeff George.
19:00
Speaker 1: And that tenure ended with Jeff George and the head
19:03
Speaker 1: coach having a screaming match on the sideline. And Jeff George,
19:08
Speaker 1: the least liked player in the history of the NFL,
19:11
Speaker 1: for them to tell that guy, that good, just sit
19:13
Speaker 1: your ass down. No, you won't play anymore. That is
19:16
Speaker 1: basically what happened. But have you ever watched Jeff George
19:19
Speaker 1: throw a football?
19:20
Speaker 4: Yes.
19:20
Speaker 1: I see why everybody thinks.
19:23
Speaker 2: I think right now, if.
19:25
Speaker 1: Jeff George is out somewhere throwing a football and I
19:27
Speaker 1: didn't tell you it was Jeff George, you'd give it
19:30
Speaker 1: a run too.
19:31
Speaker 4: Eric Dickerson and Herschel Walker.
19:34
Speaker 1: Well, yes. Two first-round picks plus.
19:39
Speaker 4: Yeah.
19:39
Speaker 1: A fairly significant Epsilon that makes this out of that
19:44
Speaker 1: was Adam Schefter trolling.
19:45
Speaker 4: Yes.
19:46
Speaker 1: In that when Eric Dickerson to the Colts for those
19:48
Speaker 1: two first round picks is interesting though because Dickerson he
19:50
Speaker 1: was still that dude for about another year and change
19:54
Speaker 1: and then that was it I don't know we gonna
19:56
Speaker 1: see but this is my right I'm asking you this
19:59
Speaker 1: is my last question with Max Crosby um he's not
20:03
Speaker 1: Miles Garrett he's not top of game Micah Parsons like
20:09
Speaker 1: I don't I feel like as good as he is,
20:14
Speaker 1: it seemed extra good because he played with bums.
20:18
Speaker 4: Right.
20:19
Speaker 1: But I don't, I don't expect him to show up
20:22
Speaker 1: over here and be like, is he better than Trey? Like,
20:25
Speaker 1: would you say he was better than Trey Henderson? Let's
20:27
Speaker 1: put it like that.
20:28
Speaker 4: I think that's, I think that's the comp.
20:30
Speaker 1: You know, like TJ Watt, who I think is on
20:32
Speaker 1: the other side of, you know, approaching the other side
20:35
Speaker 1: of the mountain.
20:35
Speaker 2: You understand what I'm saying?
20:36
Speaker 1: Like, but I don't, I don't think Max Crosby is
20:39
Speaker 1: tier one edge rusher.
20:41
Speaker 4: Me neither.
20:41
Speaker 1: I don't think he's much worse than tier. I mean, look,
20:44
Speaker 1: Miles Garrett. Okay, so Miles Garrett is tier zero?
20:47
Speaker 4: Yes.
20:47
Speaker 1: Are we comfortable saying that? You know, but I don't know.
20:53
Speaker 1: I think he can make an impact. He's 29 years old. Like, hey, man,
20:58
Speaker 1: but you know what? Here's the thing about it. Here's
21:01
Speaker 1: the thing the Baltimore Ravens don't have to ask themselves.
21:03
Speaker 1: Where are they going to get pressure from?
21:06
Speaker 2: Peace of mind.
21:06
Speaker 1: That's where the first round pick. Hey, man, I've been
21:14
Speaker 1: doing this job a long time now, and I remember
21:17
Speaker 1: it was 10 years ago, coming up on it. This
21:22
Speaker 1: was when Colin Kaepernick did the whole thing, taking a
21:29
Speaker 1: knee for the police situation. There was a lot of
21:36
Speaker 1: discussion about the idea of sticking to sports. And, you know,
21:42
Speaker 1: as it was going on, I did. And you can
21:46
Speaker 1: go back and listen to stuff I was doing. I
21:47
Speaker 1: do things the way that I do them. But I
21:49
Speaker 1: did acknowledge, by and large, the idea or understanding of
21:52
Speaker 1: the fact that when I worked at ESPN, the P
21:55
Speaker 1: was not for politics.
21:56
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
21:57
Speaker 1: You have to have a recognition of what it is
21:58
Speaker 1: that people show up for. And most people did not
22:02
Speaker 1: show up to sports stuff to want to hear about
22:04
Speaker 1: all that other stuff.
22:06
Speaker 2: But for... a lot of people, like the.
22:10
Speaker 1: Topics were just so irresistible. Like even the people that
22:13
Speaker 1: would get mad, right? Like, like rage bait, even if
22:16
Speaker 1: it's not just simply rage bait, um, in a way
22:19
Speaker 1: to minimize the significance of it is it made people mad.
22:22
Speaker 1: People gravitate toward that, but it was a whole lot.
22:24
Speaker 2: Of stick sports, stick sports.
22:26
Speaker 1: And then in the end, the stick to sports people
22:30
Speaker 1: really did win. Like I've talked about this with, uh,
22:33
Speaker 1: ESPN and, there's nobody really that they even put out
22:37
Speaker 1: there whose job it is to give context to what's
22:39
Speaker 1: going on in sports outside of the sports part.
22:41
Speaker 6: Right.
22:42
Speaker 1: They got a bunch of gambling people, people to help
22:44
Speaker 1: you make picks, but ain't nobody there to help you
22:46
Speaker 1: understand the world. And I would argue that athletes really
22:49
Speaker 1: aren't even the ones at this point that are doing
22:51
Speaker 1: very much to bring discussions of the larger world to
22:55
Speaker 1: you now. Right.
22:56
Speaker 2: So six sports, you guys won.
23:00
Speaker 1: And since you guys won, um, I'm a little confused
23:06
Speaker 1: as to why it is you're not furious right now
23:09
Speaker 1: because the president of the United States is making it
23:13
Speaker 1: impossible for me to stick to sports because he keeps
23:15
Speaker 1: showing up at all levels. Like, in fact, Ryan, there's
23:19
Speaker 1: a little slight irony here. I'm curious what you think
23:21
Speaker 1: about this. I don't know if anybody's thought about it
23:23
Speaker 1: this way, but the stick to sports crowd, they should
23:28
Speaker 1: love the NBA right now.
23:30
Speaker 4: Right.
23:31
Speaker 1: And the reason I say that is The president ain't
23:34
Speaker 1: never going to pull up at no NBA game. Like
23:37
Speaker 1: all the stuff that the people that used to be
23:39
Speaker 1: sick to sports, Trump keeps showing up at all they shit, right?
23:43
Speaker 1: Like Trump pulling up at your MMA. Trump's man was
23:47
Speaker 1: pulling up at the wider Olympics. You know, we like
23:50
Speaker 1: to try to come to the NFL games.
23:53
Speaker 4: The SEC games.
23:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, but he pulls up at all y'all stuff. And
23:57
Speaker 1: I thought that that was the opposite of what y'all wanted. Now,
24:00
Speaker 1: to be fair, at some of these events, y'all be
24:02
Speaker 1: booing him. But it is at a point now where
24:08
Speaker 1: he's there and it's not even like we stick to
24:12
Speaker 1: sports anymore as much as it is that we just
24:15
Speaker 1: try our best to ignore what's going on, right? As
24:19
Speaker 1: a media who covers these things. I say, and look, overall,
24:23
Speaker 1: I don't have so much a problem with that. One,
24:25
Speaker 1: I mean, to be perfectly fair, I don't believe most
24:28
Speaker 1: of my colleagues are the best equipped to discuss these things.
24:30
Speaker 2: It's just not what they got into the business for.
24:34
Speaker 2: that's fine, right?
24:36
Speaker 1: Number two, there's just not really much new to say
24:38
Speaker 1: about Trump.
24:40
Speaker 4: We're on, what, season 10-11?
24:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
24:44
Speaker 4: It's been a long decade.
24:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, we got them four years off, right? But we don't...
24:50
Speaker 1: There's no new discussion to be had about Trump. But damn,
24:55
Speaker 1: he is around more than I feel like he had ever. Oh,
25:00
Speaker 1: we didn't even talk about the college football thing.
25:03
Speaker 4: Yeah.
25:04
Speaker 6: Right.
25:04
Speaker 1: He had all the people there. And man, he did
25:07
Speaker 1: not read the scout report. About this one, before he
25:12
Speaker 1: went out there, he didn't know where the decisions came from.
25:15
Speaker 2: He was blaming people that weren't to be blamed.
25:17
Speaker 1: He did not realize the Supreme Court in that Austin
25:20
Speaker 1: case had voted 9-0.
25:21
Speaker 2: He was trying to blame that.
25:22
Speaker 4: Four years ago.
25:22
Speaker 3: Yeah.
25:24
Speaker 1: He was trying to blame that entirely on some radical activist,
25:28
Speaker 1: some mythical activist judge in California. He was all over
25:33
Speaker 1: the place in this. And it was funny because he
25:36
Speaker 1: thinks that the solution to all of this is to
25:38
Speaker 1: stop paying the players.
25:40
Speaker 4: Or like, did they get like $ 10, 000? Yes. You know,
25:43
Speaker 4: like it's 1984.
25:44
Speaker 1: Yeah. Now look, here's what I do say about that.
25:47
Speaker 1: Where I halfway get that. No, I do not get.
25:49
Speaker 4: Yes.
25:50
Speaker 1: Okay.
25:50
Speaker 2: I get where he's coming from, but not in a
25:52
Speaker 2: way that justifies it.
25:53
Speaker 1: Look, we all have to admit one of these trick
25:56
Speaker 1: bags about this is nobody finds rich teenagers charming.
26:02
Speaker 2: No one ever has. They don't wear it well.
26:05
Speaker 1: It's like nobody likes that. Is it hating?
26:09
Speaker 2: 100%. That is what it is.
26:13
Speaker 1: But that is something that across the board, think about
26:16
Speaker 1: the last time somebody made reference to someone under the
26:20
Speaker 1: age of 22 being rich and it was brought up
26:23
Speaker 1: in a positive way. It just doesn't work that way.
26:28
Speaker 1: But anyway, Trump's solution is we need to stop paying
26:31
Speaker 1: the players. I see that the internet was really mad
26:33
Speaker 1: at Nick Saban for talking about how the new system
26:36
Speaker 1: is chaos. By the way, the new system is chaos. A,
26:40
Speaker 1: I don't have any direct evidence of this, but something
26:43
Speaker 1: tells me that even before it was allowed, Nick Saban
26:47
Speaker 1: did his part to help some people get paid.
26:50
Speaker 2: I don't know what his part is.
26:52
Speaker 1: It's not to accuse him of violating an NCAA rule necessarily.
26:55
Speaker 1: But I don't think Nick Saban was making anybody give
26:57
Speaker 1: the money back if such a thing ever happened. I
27:00
Speaker 1: don't think he's the enemy in that sense. The system
27:03
Speaker 1: is chaos, though. Right. It's not simply because the money's there,
27:07
Speaker 1: but how to deal with the money is a thing
27:09
Speaker 1: there does. Somebody needs to do something about this person.
27:12
Speaker 1: It just isn't Trump. Like these, this is a very
27:15
Speaker 1: complex problem. That is not a man whose business is
27:19
Speaker 1: in providing complex solutions.
27:21
Speaker 4: And this is someone who, you know, not exactly the
27:24
Speaker 4: world's biggest college football fan.
27:26
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no. This isn't what he does.
27:27
Speaker 1: What he knows is, is people at them games that
27:30
Speaker 1: like him.
27:30
Speaker 4: Right. Right.
27:31
Speaker 1: Like he's like, hey, my people say they're having a problem.
27:34
Speaker 1: How about I show up there and I save them? Okay.
27:37
Speaker 2: That's what he's going for.
27:38
Speaker 1: But I bring up the fact that he seems to
27:41
Speaker 1: think that part of the solution is to stop paying.
27:44
Speaker 1: Because anyone that's aware of Donald Trump's track record knows
27:48
Speaker 1: he always thinks the solution to a problem, the first
27:51
Speaker 1: place to start is by not paying. He has an
27:55
Speaker 1: extended long track record of not paying. And this comes
28:01
Speaker 1: back to the idea of the politics and sports and
28:05
Speaker 1: everything else. For those of you who are into these
28:08
Speaker 1: sorts of things, the World Cup is going to be
28:12
Speaker 1: in the United States, in Canada, and in Mexico, and
28:15
Speaker 1: it's going to be between June and July of this year.
28:18
Speaker 1: And I don't know if you guys watch the news,
28:21
Speaker 1: but the world is on fire. In some places, the
28:25
Speaker 1: world is literally on fire. And from what I can glean,
28:30
Speaker 1: people are not very happy with the United States' approach
28:34
Speaker 1: to what is going on over there in Iran. That
28:38
Speaker 1: does not seem to be, that doesn't, I mean, I
28:41
Speaker 1: guess in some places it's okay.
28:42
Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
28:43
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you, it's a bit of a controversial topic.
28:47
Speaker 1: Another controversial topic is ICE and immigration. And during that
28:52
Speaker 1: time of year, we're going to ask a lot of
28:54
Speaker 1: people from a lot of countries to come over here
28:57
Speaker 1: to a place where people are getting yoked up, even
29:01
Speaker 1: if their paperwork is absolutely correct. And it's not like
29:03
Speaker 1: they're getting yoked up and then they show the papers
29:06
Speaker 1: and they're like, oh, my bad. And then they let
29:07
Speaker 1: you out. you might still be chilling out, right? I'm
29:10
Speaker 1: just saying, I don't think that Donald Trump is necessarily
29:15
Speaker 1: going to be that popular with the crowd that is
29:19
Speaker 1: into the World Cup. These are vibes, right? But it's
29:24
Speaker 1: kind of a big deal. He's going to need to
29:26
Speaker 1: pull up to the World Cup stuff when the World
29:29
Speaker 1: Cup stuff happens, right? So again, we're going to have
29:32
Speaker 1: another situation where politics is in the sports because Donald Trump,
29:38
Speaker 1: who and he'd been talking about this world cup is
29:40
Speaker 1: like a thing prior right like i know he's been
29:43
Speaker 1: a little bit busy now but this world cup thing
29:47
Speaker 1: is going to bring him further to the front.
29:49
Speaker 4: It's fascinating because the united states plays uh they're playing
29:53
Speaker 4: their three games in los angeles seattle and los angeles.
29:56
Speaker 1: Oh that's a lot of booing and he has to.
29:58
Speaker 4: Say trump uh for these sporting events, doesn't typically show
30:01
Speaker 4: up to enemy territory.
30:03
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're correct. Those are places where we did not vote. Now, typically,
30:08
Speaker 1: the home team does make it to the next round, right?
30:11
Speaker 1: That does tend to happen.
30:12
Speaker 4: Yeah, the quarterfinals or the round of 32, maybe we
30:18
Speaker 4: see him there if that's in a, well, let's call
30:20
Speaker 4: it a more favorable location. But you have to also remember,
30:23
Speaker 4: talking about sticking to sports, this summer, UFC coming to Trump's,
30:28
Speaker 4: literally Trump's house.
30:29
Speaker 2: Well, yes. There we go, right?
30:32
Speaker 1: That's the one group that never told us they were
30:35
Speaker 1: sticking to sports. They were like, Dana White's like, we
30:37
Speaker 1: about this Trump, and we going to ride this Trump
30:40
Speaker 1: all the way. They going to have a fight right
30:42
Speaker 1: there at his house, right? That is, again, now, I
30:46
Speaker 1: don't traffic in that space, so I had forgotten that
30:48
Speaker 1: that's going to happen. But this is the thing with
30:50
Speaker 1: the World Cup that I don't think people know, Ryan,
30:53
Speaker 1: You brought this to my attention. So you just stick
30:57
Speaker 1: with me in case I get this wrong. But anyway,
31:00
Speaker 1: there are certain funding that the federal government had promised
31:04
Speaker 1: to pay to help secure the World Cup. Right. Like
31:09
Speaker 1: it's this money for security at the venues where.
31:13
Speaker 4: The World Cup will be played. All over the country. Right.
31:17
Speaker 1: They haven't gotten their money. for this security and it's
31:21
Speaker 1: become a thing in Foxborough where the Patriots play outside
31:23
Speaker 1: of Boston because they're like, hey man, we're not doing
31:27
Speaker 1: anything until you give us our money. Like, if there's
31:31
Speaker 1: not going to be money to secure this, then we're
31:32
Speaker 1: just not going to do this. Like, they're not on the, well,
31:35
Speaker 1: we'll just keep pushing through. Because part of what makes
31:38
Speaker 1: it interesting is Foxborough is not Los Angeles.
31:40
Speaker 4: Right.
31:41
Speaker 2: It's not a city.
31:42
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a different local tax revenue base.
31:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they got it, right? Like, they can't just
31:48
Speaker 1: front shoot them money for this security. And so there's
31:51
Speaker 1: a dispute in this because.
31:54
Speaker 1: Well, I guess Kristi Noem had said this, but her
31:57
Speaker 1: word doesn't mean anything.
31:58
Speaker 2: She doesn't work there anymore.
32:00
Speaker 1: But when she was the head, the secretary of Homeland Security,
32:03
Speaker 1: she was saying that the government shutdown was the reason
32:06
Speaker 1: that the money had not been doled out for these
32:08
Speaker 1: people and that the Democrats are holding it up. And
32:11
Speaker 1: then if the Democrats shell out the money, then everything
32:13
Speaker 1: can go ahead. And then there was a representative. This
32:16
Speaker 1: woman said, no, it had the receipts. This is this
32:18
Speaker 1: money had already been earmarked.
32:21
Speaker 2: No, we're just not.
32:23
Speaker 1: We just not paying because politics is showing up in
32:28
Speaker 1: your sports again because they just aren't paying the money.
32:32
Speaker 1: Can you imagine the idea of having a World Cup
32:36
Speaker 1: in these times with substandard security? Think about what the
32:43
Speaker 1: idea is behind this. Like everything's going to hell. Okay,
32:49
Speaker 1: we have understood this. But the one thing that you
32:51
Speaker 1: would think that everybody would understand, especially with the mission
32:54
Speaker 1: that they have chosen to undertake, is that we kind
32:57
Speaker 1: of need to make sure that the World.
32:59
Speaker 2: Cup has the utmost security.
33:03
Speaker 1: Right? And I'm not saying this to imply that any
33:05
Speaker 1: group of people is more likely to do anything.
33:08
Speaker 2: I'm saying this to imply that those.
33:10
Speaker 1: People think that certain groups of people are more inclined
33:14
Speaker 1: to do certain things. And they need to get us
33:16
Speaker 1: some security if that's how they feel. Nope. They just
33:20
Speaker 1: not paying. And not one person. I guess in this place,
33:25
Speaker 1: this is where you don't want the government to stick
33:27
Speaker 1: to sports. You want the government to stick to paying
33:28
Speaker 1: this money. But then after that, I ain't gonna lie.
33:32
Speaker 1: A little, a little, a little sports sticking. Or no,
33:37
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33:38
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Speaker 4: Now, if you haven't heard. If you haven't heard, Beau,
38:30
Speaker 4: more disasters at the Department of Homeland Security are People
38:34
Speaker 4: are having real issues with TSA. There are long shutdowns
38:40
Speaker 4: all over the country. Estimated wait times in Houston, 165
38:45
Speaker 4: minutes to get through security. Atlanta, 60 minutes. New Orleans,
38:48
Speaker 4: 60 minutes. George Bush in Houston, 51 minutes. And Charlotte,
38:53
Speaker 4: 47 minutes. Tough times for DHS, Bo.
38:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they're saying that that is in large part
38:59
Speaker 1: because of spring break travel. the first Houston airport is
39:04
Speaker 1: wild because that's the small airport.
39:06
Speaker 4: Yeah.
39:06
Speaker 1: But they can't staff in part because of the shutdown.
39:11
Speaker 1: Shout out, and I think we're looking at this the
39:13
Speaker 1: wrong way. Thank you for your service. Anybody that's showing
39:17
Speaker 1: up to be TSA and you're not getting paid.
39:20
Speaker 4: Can you imagine? The only thing worse than standing in
39:23
Speaker 4: a line for two hours is standing and just getting
39:26
Speaker 4: people through that line for eight hours for free.
39:28
Speaker 2: I cannot imagine.
39:30
Speaker 1: For the life of me working a job. It's not
39:33
Speaker 1: that I can't imagine working a job that I wouldn't
39:35
Speaker 1: get paid for because I've done that.
39:38
Speaker 2: OK, but there ain't no upward mobility in this. Like
39:42
Speaker 2: this isn't the beginning of a beautiful future for you.
39:44
Speaker 2: You're just working at the TSA.
39:47
Speaker 4: You don't want to become a shift manager at TSA? No.
39:51
Speaker 1: And then the worst part about it is it's creating
39:53
Speaker 1: a situation where you're going to have unhappy and impatient passengers.
39:57
Speaker 1: And I understand where they're coming from. But if I
40:00
Speaker 1: was them passengers, I'd put on a happy face. Because
40:03
Speaker 1: if I was working TSA, oh, everybody can wait.
40:07
Speaker 2: Everybody can wait.
40:08
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something funny my brother talked about once.
40:10
Speaker 1: I think he had to go down. It was some
40:13
Speaker 1: city situation in New York. It was like the tow lot.
40:17
Speaker 1: I can't remember exactly what it was. His car got
40:20
Speaker 1: towed or something like that. It was one of those
40:23
Speaker 1: places nobody wants to be. And he said he's in
40:27
Speaker 1: line and he peeps gang and some dude is up
40:30
Speaker 1: and he gets to the window. And he is breaking
40:32
Speaker 1: bad with the woman on the other side of the window,
40:34
Speaker 1: talking crazy to her. And I don't know if you've
40:36
Speaker 1: ever had your car towed, but that is an unhappy place.
40:39
Speaker 1: But you got to go there, right? Because nobody, it
40:41
Speaker 1: was never anybody's fault they got their car towed, you know.
40:44
Speaker 1: But anyway, he said that dude started breaking bad with
40:47
Speaker 1: that woman. The next thing you know, he's heard like
40:51
Speaker 1: somebody hit a button. And when somebody break bad with
40:54
Speaker 1: them at the windows, they press a button and all
40:58
Speaker 1: the windows close. There's like a shade that comes down
41:03
Speaker 1: and the whole operation shuts down when you start talking crazy.
41:07
Speaker 4: It's like, you guys better act right. You guys will
41:09
Speaker 4: stay here until we're done.
41:10
Speaker 3: Well, no, no, no.
41:11
Speaker 1: But here's the key. It's not about you guys. It
41:14
Speaker 1: was one person. So it's sending the message to everybody.
41:20
Speaker 1: If one of you acts up, then the rest of
41:22
Speaker 1: us get shut down, which creates a new enforcement mechanism,
41:26
Speaker 1: which is these already unhappy people are no longer unhappy
41:30
Speaker 1: with the people behind the glass. They're now unhappy with you.
41:34
Speaker 4: That sounds like an unruly sports team.
41:36
Speaker 1: Yes, but that's what the airport could quickly turn into,
41:41
Speaker 1: is what I'm saying. Just trust that everybody involved is
41:45
Speaker 1: doing the best they can.
41:47
Speaker 4: All right, speaking of institutions we can't trust, tech major
41:52
Speaker 4: Oracle is planning to slash up to 30,000 jobs to
41:56
Speaker 4: fund AI data centers. According to a report citing research
42:00
Speaker 4: by an investment bank, Oracle will be selling some of
42:03
Speaker 4: its activities as U.S. banks pull back from investing in
42:05
Speaker 4: the company's AI data expansion. Beau, what was your reaction
42:10
Speaker 4: to this?
42:10
Speaker 2: You said the banks aren't funding this anymore?
42:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's talk more about that part because a significant
42:18
Speaker 1: portion of this economy is currently being floated by AI stuff.
42:22
Speaker 1: And the banks appear to believe that we have reached
42:24
Speaker 1: capacity because these companies aren't quite profitable. They're spending a
42:29
Speaker 1: lot of money, but not making as much money as
42:32
Speaker 1: you should when you're spending that much money. But if
42:35
Speaker 1: the banks are saying that we are no longer funding
42:39
Speaker 1: this experiment, buddy, That's a really, really, really big deal.
42:44
Speaker 1: At least I would think that it's a big deal.
42:46
Speaker 1: Because Oracle, that's Ellison's.
42:48
Speaker 4: Right.
42:49
Speaker 2: And for people who pay attention.
42:50
Speaker 4: Third or fourth biggest British person in the world.
42:51
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah.
42:52
Speaker 1: So people who paid attention to that situation with the,
42:55
Speaker 1: what you call it?
42:56
Speaker 3: Paramount.
42:57
Speaker 2: Yeah, Paramount. That's his son.
42:59
Speaker 1: He's so rich that he's bankrolling his son to buy
43:03
Speaker 1: Paramount while he's still over there doing real. He owned
43:07
Speaker 1: one of the Hawaiian islands. And I don't mean like
43:09
Speaker 1: a little one, like one of those that people have
43:10
Speaker 1: heard of. That's got multiple four seasons on it. I mean,
43:15
Speaker 1: I'd be multiple, but it's there. And I, he got paper.
43:19
Speaker 4: Yeah. Real paper.
43:20
Speaker 3: Yeah.
43:21
Speaker 1: And he is just laying off a jillion people that,
43:23
Speaker 1: by the way, I'm not sure he has to lay off.
43:26
Speaker 1: Let's get back to that part. I think they'd be
43:28
Speaker 1: just fine. But if the banks are not funding the AI,
43:32
Speaker 1: what comes... Ryan, I keep trying to find an AI
43:35
Speaker 1: story that is not terrifying. There isn't a one. There's not...
43:42
Speaker 1: Do you see the one where they said that the
43:43
Speaker 1: AI bots, that you put them in finance, the problem
43:46
Speaker 1: is they'll start cheating and breaking the law?
43:48
Speaker 4: Yep. There's an interesting pullout from NBC that showed AI...
43:54
Speaker 4: Worst poll numbers in ice. Net positive, 26. Net negative, 46.
44:00
Speaker 2: It's too late.
44:03
Speaker 4: Yeah. Too late. All right. And finally, interesting weekend with
44:09
Speaker 4: Logan Paul. He offered a million dollars for any former
44:15
Speaker 4: NFL player to get into a fight with him. That
44:18
Speaker 4: was quickly shut down by his WWE boss, Triple H. Bo.
44:25
Speaker 4: Your reaction to another Paul brother in the news.
44:29
Speaker 1: I mean, he was going to fight Le'Veon Bell.
44:32
Speaker 4: Yes.
44:34
Speaker 1: And I don't think Le'Veon Bell would feel this way,
44:39
Speaker 1: where Logan Paul said that he would offer a million
44:41
Speaker 1: dollars to somebody to fight him. I would just simply
44:44
Speaker 1: raise the point that somebody could propose doing it for free.
44:49
Speaker 1: And when I say propose doing it for free, I mean,
44:53
Speaker 1: just pull up on them and.
44:53
Speaker 2: See what happens.
44:55
Speaker 1: Like, I don't really root for Le'Veon Bell. He seems
45:00
Speaker 1: to be a bit of an annoying figure himself for
45:03
Speaker 1: a number of reasons. And I don't know if he
45:07
Speaker 1: could have beat up Logan Paul. Like, I don't have
45:11
Speaker 1: any insight as to whether Le'Veon Bell could fight. But
45:16
Speaker 1: I would have liked to seen him try. I'd have
45:18
Speaker 1: rooted for him, right? Like, you know, boxing, you know.
45:24
Speaker 1: it bring out that racismo in people. That really wasn't
45:29
Speaker 1: what was not going to be the case for me,
45:31
Speaker 1: because if I'm not mistaken, Le'Veon Bell, he.
45:36
Speaker 2: Supports people I don't support. You know what I'm saying?
45:39
Speaker 4: He doesn't have a full Phil Mickelson timeline, but it's close.
45:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but anybody want to whoop one of them
45:46
Speaker 1: Paul brothers' asses, I am on your team. I'm trying
45:48
Speaker 1: to think of who, like if Stephen Miller fought Logan Paul,
45:54
Speaker 1: I guess I'm rooting for the asteroid, but damn, that's
46:00
Speaker 1: a tough call.
46:02
Speaker 3: Shit.
46:04
Speaker 4: All right, Bo. A lot of good voicemails this week.
46:11
Speaker 4: Here's our first.
46:13
Speaker 3: Hey, Bomani. This is Pat from Virginia.
46:16
Speaker 6: Long time listener, first time caller, and I have a
46:19
Speaker 6: question for you. So I was talking about this with
46:22
Speaker 6: my friends recently, and we were talking about just being
46:25
Speaker 6: the biggest haters about certain teams.
46:28
Speaker 3: I hate the Patriots.
46:30
Speaker 6: I wish them nothing but pain and misery. But I
46:33
Speaker 6: am from West Virginia, specifically Logan, West Virginia. And I
46:38
Speaker 6: love Randy Moss. I've loved him my entire life. He
46:41
Speaker 6: can do no wrong, especially not in West Virginia. Shout
46:46
Speaker 6: out to Mann High School. My question for you is,
46:49
Speaker 6: Is there any player growing up or currently that could
46:54
Speaker 6: go to a team that you hate, Saints, and you
46:58
Speaker 6: would still root for that player even if they're playing
47:00
Speaker 6: for that team? Love the show.
47:03
Speaker 1: Bye. I'm trying to imagine a scenario where I could root. Like,
47:12
Speaker 1: if Randy Moss had played for the Saints, I probably
47:16
Speaker 1: would be about it.
47:17
Speaker 4: What about if Cam Newton played for the Saints?
47:20
Speaker 7: Yeah.
47:21
Speaker 2: Well, you know, that gets into the.
47:22
Speaker 1: Cam Newton gets into the Joel Anderson space of the people.
47:26
Speaker 4: Who dislike him.
47:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
47:30
Speaker 1: But if Randy Moss had played for Duke, I'd hate
47:34
Speaker 1: Randy Moss.
47:37
Speaker 4: All right.
47:37
Speaker 1: There is nothing... Like, I'm really trying to think about this. Zion,
47:40
Speaker 1: kind of, sort of. But I'm trying to think, like,
47:43
Speaker 1: if anybody has ever overcome Dukeness for me, I'm like, yeah.
47:51
Speaker 1: I did write something once about how I liked J.J.
47:53
Speaker 1: Reddick when he was in college, and I did enjoy it.
47:56
Speaker 1: I did like him when he was in college, but
47:59
Speaker 1: he wanted him. He ain't no... He's not a deviation.
48:04
Speaker 1: He's part of the problem.
48:07
Speaker 4: Alright, here's our next one.
48:10
Speaker 5: Hey, Bo. This is Tyler calling from Memphis. I grew
48:13
Speaker 5: up on my dad's old record collection, you know, 60s, 70s,
48:17
Speaker 5: 80s vinyl. So the other day when I heard the
48:20
Speaker 5: new French Montana single that uses the hook from Casey
48:23
Speaker 5: and the Sunshine Band, I was like, oh, yeah, this
48:25
Speaker 5: is it. Then again, my taste is not that high dollar.
48:29
Speaker 5: I like the Trick Daddy sample of Ozzy Osbourne, so
48:31
Speaker 5: you can tell where I'm coming from. Anyway, do you
48:35
Speaker 5: feel like there's a producer out there who does a
48:37
Speaker 5: consistently good job of sampling old music and unearthing a
48:40
Speaker 5: new sound with that? Or does that even exist? I
48:43
Speaker 5: guess I'll find out. Appreciate you and Ryan.
48:47
Speaker 3: All right.
48:48
Speaker 1: The Trick Daddy Ozzy sample is cool. Is he talking
48:52
Speaker 1: about like currently? Because I'm not the person to like
48:56
Speaker 1: speak on currently.
48:57
Speaker 2: There's a whole world of people overall.
48:59
Speaker 4: I think overall is a good.
49:02
Speaker 7: Yeah.
49:02
Speaker 1: I mean, like, I don't think there's a great rap
49:05
Speaker 1: producer who didn't do that. Right.
49:08
Speaker 2: And I guess different people had different things.
49:09
Speaker 1: Like Pete Rock is kind of like the OG how
49:11
Speaker 1: to chop up and like produce a sample. Kanye, to
49:15
Speaker 1: me at least, became very interesting in his ability to
49:19
Speaker 1: influence like take a sample and turn it into a
49:21
Speaker 1: concept like say slow jams for example right like those
49:25
Speaker 1: like i always thought that he was really strong there
49:28
Speaker 1: i think you get like dilla was incredible with it
49:30
Speaker 1: like the the sample kings are all over the place
49:34
Speaker 1: they're like you get like the lazy samplers right like
49:37
Speaker 1: diddy being the obvious example that you get at that dude.
49:42
Speaker 1: But no, man, that's what rap is. You take yourself
49:46
Speaker 1: back to 90s rap, and don't you worry. You will
49:48
Speaker 1: find what it is that you were looking for.
49:51
Speaker 3: All right.
49:51
Speaker 4: We're back to one of our favorite games. We got
49:54
Speaker 4: two of them. Here's our first.
49:56
Speaker 8: Hey, what's going on, bro? This is Ryan calling from Tennessee,
50:00
Speaker 8: and I'm going to tell you about the time somebody
50:02
Speaker 8: didn't use their real name. So I was in the military.
50:05
Speaker 8: I was deployed, and we had a guy in our unit.
50:07
Speaker 8: His name was Donnie Lewis. And so, you know, he's
50:10
Speaker 8: always Dunn-Lewis. And so one day our flight chief, the
50:15
Speaker 8: person in charge of us, he was Air Force II,
50:17
Speaker 8: and he was from South Georgia. He goes down there
50:19
Speaker 8: to get the mail. He brings everybody their mail and
50:21
Speaker 8: whatever goes through it. And he gets to the end.
50:24
Speaker 8: He's got this big stack of mail. And so Lewis
50:26
Speaker 8: comes up. Dunn-Lewis comes up to him and says, hey, man,
50:29
Speaker 8: I got the mail. He said, no, man, I ain't
50:30
Speaker 8: got nothing for you. He said, the only thing I
50:32
Speaker 8: got here is for a Dunn-Trell Lewis. And so he's like,
50:37
Speaker 8: I'm Dunn-Trell. And everybody in the room stopped.
50:39
Speaker 1: We was like, what?
50:40
Speaker 8: And my wife, she was like, man, ain't no way
50:43
Speaker 8: in hell your name is D'Entrelle. No way your name
50:45
Speaker 8: is D'Entrelle. White D'Entrelle? You a white D'Entrelle? Man, I
50:49
Speaker 8: don't seen everything. Man, from that point forth, we call
50:51
Speaker 8: that dude D'Entrelle. And just a little bit of information
50:54
Speaker 8: about that, too, but his real name was Prince. That's right.
50:58
Speaker 8: D'Entrelle Prince Louis. My man was from Indiana. I haven't
51:02
Speaker 8: heard from him in years, but D'Entrelle Prince Louis, white
51:05
Speaker 8: guy from Indiana.
51:05
Speaker 3: Appreciate it.
51:07
Speaker 1: Hey, I bet you somebody here listening who know that man.
51:10
Speaker 2: I bet you.
51:10
Speaker 1: We got enough in network to make that happen.
51:12
Speaker 2: You know, Don Trell, Prince Louis. Holler at him.
51:14
Speaker 1: Tell him to holler in the voicemail lines so we
51:16
Speaker 1: can catch him up with the other buddy.
51:17
Speaker 4: I can't imagine a better place for that situation to
51:21
Speaker 4: happen than the military.
51:22
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
51:23
Speaker 4: Like early enlistment military.
51:25
Speaker 1: Quite honestly, that seems like the place I would assume
51:28
Speaker 1: that this happened more than anywhere else. I feel like
51:32
Speaker 1: that's where White Jerome, well, I guess White Jerome, he
51:35
Speaker 1: turns up on the board of directors in New York
51:38
Speaker 1: But I still feel like that's where the examples that
51:40
Speaker 1: we describe in White Deontay, I feel like he's trying
51:44
Speaker 1: to be all he can be.
51:46
Speaker 4: All right, here's our last one.
51:49
Speaker 3: Bo, I had to call the show immediately. I'm Elliot
51:54
Speaker 3: from Mobile, Alabama. I'm currently in the Springfield, Missouri airport.
52:01
Speaker 3: And I was working in Branson, Missouri. And my driver said,
52:06
Speaker 3: who I spoke with for about an hour, had a
52:08
Speaker 3: really good conversation with her. Well, as we're pulling up
52:12
Speaker 3: to the airport, somehow we started talking about names. And
52:17
Speaker 3: my driver tells me about how her son's name is
52:21
Speaker 3: Tyler and her other son's name is Stephen and how
52:27
Speaker 3: people joke about how she must be an Aerosmith fan
52:31
Speaker 3: because her son's name is Stephen and Tyler for Stephen Tyler. Anyway,
52:37
Speaker 3: I tell her how my name is Elliot and how
52:39
Speaker 3: I got my name from my mother, like an actor,
52:44
Speaker 3: Bill Elliot. Well, as I'm getting ready to get out
52:49
Speaker 3: the car, she tells me, well, my name is Laquita.
52:54
Speaker 3: And I looked at her and said, is this Laquita?
52:58
Speaker 3: And she said, yes, my name is actually Laquita. Yes,
53:02
Speaker 3: this is a 62-year-old woman. who lives in Branson, Missouri,
53:09
Speaker 3: and she is White Laquita. Bo, love listening to the show.
53:16
Speaker 3: Been listening to it ever since you've been on Dan
53:18
Speaker 3: Levitard back in the day on Bo' Bonnie Wednesdays. I'm
53:21
Speaker 3: a fan ever since.
53:23
Speaker 1: Keep doing your thing.
53:24
Speaker 4: I listen.
53:26
Speaker 3: Have a great day.
53:28
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. And I want to know how many
53:31
Speaker 1: people in Laquita's life simply call her Q.
53:35
Speaker 4: Are you familiar with Branson, Missouri?
53:37
Speaker 1: I am familiar with Branson, Missouri.
53:39
Speaker 4: Talk about a special kind of white.
53:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, Branson, Missouri, like, ain't no rappers showing up doing
53:50
Speaker 1: no residencies in Branson, Missouri.
53:53
Speaker 4: You might not even get Christian rappers in Branson, Missouri.
53:56
Speaker 4: McCray might not even show up there.
53:58
Speaker 1: Yeah, there is a totality of circumstances involved in that
54:02
Speaker 1: one right there. Wow. And who knew Springfield, Missouri had
54:06
Speaker 1: an airport? Ain't that something? Did you know there's not
54:09
Speaker 1: a commercial airport in the state of Delaware? They are
54:13
Speaker 1: just strictly mooching off their neighbors.
54:15
Speaker 2: But think about it.
54:16
Speaker 1: If you're in Delaware, you're either close to Philly, you're
54:18
Speaker 1: close to Baltimore.
54:18
Speaker 2: What do you need an airport for?
54:20
Speaker 1: But the idea that they looked around and was like, nah,
54:22
Speaker 1: we good.
54:23
Speaker 4: Wilmington is that place where you stop at the train
54:25
Speaker 4: stations like, oh, this is the part of Delaware that
54:27
Speaker 4: does not have the money.
54:29
Speaker 2: That's Joe Biden's stop.
54:31
Speaker 4: Yeah, I try. You stop there and around it and
54:35
Speaker 4: then you get five miles and you're like, oh, golf course,
54:37
Speaker 4: golf course, golf course. That's like you see all the
54:40
Speaker 4: corporate tax breaks. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
54:43
Speaker 2: Every every where you send your credit card bill.
54:46
Speaker 4: Correct.
54:46
Speaker 2: That's right.
54:47
Speaker 1: Wilmington, Delaware. But hey, ladies and gentlemen, thanks so much
54:51
Speaker 1: for joining us here on the right time. We do
54:54
Speaker 1: this four times a week. Ryan Brumley handling things behind
54:56
Speaker 1: the scenes. Thank you, sir. Hit the voicemail line 323-596-7767. Remember,
55:02
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55:06
Speaker 1: give us five stars. You only give us four stars.
55:08
Speaker 1: I'm inclined to believe you are a hater. We'll talk
55:11
Speaker 1: to you guys in a couple of days.
55:12
Speaker 2: Take it easy.