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  Speaker 1: a lot going on, a lot to juggle good news
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  Speaker 1: as we have a lot of real estate to cover here.
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  Speaker 1: We will cover it all throughout the overnight. But we'll
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  Speaker 1: start play the hit small man. What of our old
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  Speaker 1: bosses used to say. So we'll start out in the
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  Speaker 1: Buffalo area, just down the road from Niagara Falls Orchard Park,
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  Speaker 1: New York. Where you play football in September. You don't
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  Speaker 1: really have to worry about the weather very much. And
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  Speaker 1: inn afcast mismatch. At least that's the way the game
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  Speaker 1: was hyped up. You know that, and I know that
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  Speaker 1: you had Al Michael's and Kirk kerb Street there. They
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  Speaker 1: had the call on the Amazon, the biggest line on
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  Speaker 1: the NFL if you're into gambling, biggest point spread in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL for Week three by a wide margin. Josh
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  Speaker 1: Allen and the Bills were expected to absolutely blitz the
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  Speaker 1: team from South Florida twelve and a half point favorites
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  Speaker 1: over Tua's Woebegone Dolphins. So we watched it. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you were watching this or not. Maybe not.
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  Speaker 1: He might have been doing something else. But Josh Allen,
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  Speaker 1: he did have three touchdown passes. The Bill, though, had
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  Speaker 1: to hold off the Dolphins. What Yes, the game was
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  Speaker 1: tied up in the fourth quarter, but the Bills end
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  Speaker 1: up winning the game thirty one to twenty one the
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  Speaker 1: final and so yeah, Miami did cover the spread. James
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  Speaker 1: Cook he was cooking the one hundred and eight yards
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  Speaker 1: and rushing for a two yard touchdown as well. The Bills,
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  Speaker 1: at three and zero now in the year, continue their
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  Speaker 1: world domination of the once proud Miami Dolphins, who've become
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  Speaker 1: a punching bag in the NFL for a number of years.
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  Speaker 1: So Buffalo's won seventh straight and fourteen of the past fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: including the playoffs, against the team from South Florida. The
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  Speaker 1: better story, though, is in the losing locker room. That
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  Speaker 1: is the better story, and so that is where we
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  Speaker 1: will go. And the Miami Dolphins, who have been very
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  Speaker 1: good to us in overnight talk radio by having their
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  Speaker 1: coach who's apparently on the spectrum, and a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: other stuff that's just outrageous. The miscues and a lack
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  Speaker 1: of discipline highlighted here as the Dolphins end up zero
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  Speaker 1: to three, their worst start since way back in twenty nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: Is barely alive back then, and they they will now
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  Speaker 1: face more scrutiny as their head coach, Mike McDaniel is
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  Speaker 1: dealing with job security issues. So let us discuss the
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  Speaker 1: question who is wearing the bell of shame, the shame
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  Speaker 1: bell for the Miami Dolphins. Who's wearing the sham bell
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  Speaker 1: for the Dolphins. I've got has Bro, Puffy Sticker, and
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  Speaker 1: Wolfgang Puck and we will combine all of these things
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  Speaker 1: together and we are going to make some deep fried, delicious,
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  Speaker 1: crunchy tacos. This is what we're going to do, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So let's see who's gonna who's gonna wear the shame bell?
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  Speaker 1: Ding ding ding ding ning. How about Mike McDaniel and
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  Speaker 1: his merry band of captains. Thank you, this was a
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  Speaker 1: BC special, not Boston College. Bill Callahan, you probably don't
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  Speaker 1: know who that is. His kid's a terrible coach with
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  Speaker 1: the Titans. He sucked as a coach too, a long
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  Speaker 1: lost Raider coach who should have been on the headset
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  Speaker 1: there in the fourth quarter screaming, We've got to be
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  Speaker 1: the dumbest team in America in terms of playing the game,
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  Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins. And he wouldn't be wrong. He would
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  Speaker 1: not have been wrong. Here. The Bills essentially treated Miami
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  Speaker 1: like a broken vending machine in Miami. Put the dollar
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  Speaker 1: in the vending machine. They wanted the chips. The chips
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  Speaker 1: were dangling. They pressed the button, they kicked it, they
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  Speaker 1: shook the machine. They pleaded with the vending machine, please,
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  Speaker 1: we want we want that bag of chips. It's Mark W.
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  Speaker 1: We want that bag of chips. It's Mark W. And
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  Speaker 1: the machine said, no, we're not giving you that bag
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  Speaker 1: of chips. We took your money and we're not going
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  Speaker 1: to do it. And that was the Dolphins. Buffalo was
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  Speaker 1: absolutely right. They were plumped for the taking here and
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  Speaker 1: the Dolphins they tripped on their own shoelaces. And it
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  Speaker 1: was the daily double, daily dabble. It was the daily
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  Speaker 1: double here of dumb da dum dumb dum el capitan
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  Speaker 1: no captan addition, So we start with defensive tackle Zach Sealer,
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  Speaker 1: who well apparently a captain for the Dolphins and never
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  Speaker 1: heard of the guy at He had the Dunce cap
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  Speaker 1: play of the night there. So let me set this
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  Speaker 1: up there. It's the fourth quarter tie game, the Dolphins
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  Speaker 1: defense somehow has held and the Bills are going to
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  Speaker 1: punt the ball to Miami. Miami is going to get
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  Speaker 1: the ball with an opportunity in a tie game to
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  Speaker 1: go down and take the lead. And what does Zach
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  Speaker 1: Sealer do. He said, no, no, no, no, no, no
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  Speaker 1: no no. He rough it. He roughs the kicker. He
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  Speaker 1: runs into the punter. And so instead of getting the
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  Speaker 1: ball back with a chance to take the lead and
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  Speaker 1: put the pressure on the Buffalo Bills, instead you decided
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  Speaker 1: to give wrap Buffalo a first down inside your territory
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  Speaker 1: and Josh Allen, because you clobbered the punter, Josh Allen
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  Speaker 1: ended up going down and said thank you very much,
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  Speaker 1: and boom punched it right in the end zone. So
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  Speaker 1: that is the game changer right there. But wait, there's more.
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  Speaker 1: I said. Every great infomercial used to say back in
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  Speaker 1: the day. The Encore Encore on Coore Encore to a
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  Speaker 1: tongue of by LOOA mister tunnel vision himself deep in
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  Speaker 1: Bill's territory, deep in Bill's territory, season on the line,
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  Speaker 1: and what does Tua do? What does he do? He
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  Speaker 1: locks in on Jalen Wattle and like it's prom night
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  Speaker 1: there and Buffalo's one of the linebackers, Torell Bernard, it's
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  Speaker 1: not a bad name, Terrell Bernard. He cut right in
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  Speaker 1: front of the passing lane and it's you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: like on but he stole, He stole the flowers and
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  Speaker 1: all that, and he picked off the pass, and the
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  Speaker 1: legend of Tua turna the ball over continues here. It
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  Speaker 1: was a puke inducing throw. So let's hear from the
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  Speaker 1: man of the hour. Tua. You're the franchise quarterback for
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  Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins. You had the ball in your hand
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  Speaker 1: deep inside Buffalo territory at the twenty six yard line
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  Speaker 1: of the Bills, and you threw an interception. What do
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  Speaker 1: you have to say for yourself toa.
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  Speaker 3: I thought I was in rhythm and timing of the play,
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  Speaker 3: seeing the flat defender.
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  Speaker 4: Go over the top of Jalen.
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  Speaker 1: Jalen's turning around.
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  Speaker 3: I think that was a really good play by the
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  Speaker 3: defender had some color in my face trying to maneuver
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  Speaker 3: the throw as well. Ten out of ten times, if
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  Speaker 3: we're looking at that same thing, I'd still try to
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  Speaker 3: work that timing of hitting that that spot. And I
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  Speaker 3: think the linebacker made a great play on that.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. So say that's like if I did a bad
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  Speaker 1: segment of talk radio, I'd be like, well, ten out
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  Speaker 1: of ten times, I'm gonna do that bad segment again,
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  Speaker 1: because you know it's gonna work. It's absolutely gonna work.
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  Speaker 1: That was and I'm not a Dolphin fan. And if
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  Speaker 1: you listened or you watched over on YouTube, Benny versus
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  Speaker 1: the Penny, we handicapped the game. We gave you the Dolphins.
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  Speaker 1: We got that one right. So I was happy that
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  Speaker 1: Miami covered. They didn't win the game. I think they
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  Speaker 1: were gonna win the game. But my god, that was
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  Speaker 1: puke inducing by Tua. And it's another example of what
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  Speaker 1: the f were they thinking in Miami giving this guy
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  Speaker 1: the contract the game was just insane. They just they
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  Speaker 1: got so much money these NFL teams that they give
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  Speaker 1: marginal quarterbacks massive amounts of money without actually earning it.
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  Speaker 1: That is a two hundred million dollar quarterback who telegraphed
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  Speaker 1: to pass in the fourth quarter deep in the opponent's territory.
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  Speaker 1: The Duke of puke right there, and on that play
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  Speaker 1: lights out the parties over there. You go, cannot do it,
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  Speaker 1: cannot do it at that time, not in that spot.
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  Speaker 1: That is self destruction at its finest. They will teach
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  Speaker 1: that how to self destruct the Miami Dolphins way there.
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  Speaker 1: So the Miami Captains literally, in the fourth quarter of
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  Speaker 1: a tie game, the Miami Dolphins captains went hasbro. They
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  Speaker 1: torpedoed their own ship. You sank my battleship, is what
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  Speaker 1: they said. These are supposed to be the leaders, the
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  Speaker 1: guys who set the tone, they're the ones that calm
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  Speaker 1: the storm. And instead they were literally drilling holes in
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  Speaker 1: the hole of the ship. And the Dolphins went from
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  Speaker 1: going a wall in Indy to beating themselves in Buffalo.
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  Speaker 1: So there they didn't show up for the first game,
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  Speaker 1: and then lost the close one with the pages last week,
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  Speaker 1: and then here again against what's supposed to be one
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  Speaker 1: of the powers in the AFC, had a chance in
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter and did not get it done. Now
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  Speaker 1: turning the page, page two, So some around the NFL
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  Speaker 1: are calling this close defeat a positive. I'm being serious here,
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  Speaker 1: even some of the guys in the locker room postgame.
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  Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill, the chieta who had a touchdown and then
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  Speaker 1: did a nice little dance there. Tyreek Hill, the wide
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  Speaker 1: receiver of the Dolphins, said that his team is quote
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  Speaker 1: headed in the right direction, is what he said? All right,
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  Speaker 1: So how do you measure that? Tyreek Hill postgame said,
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  Speaker 1: the Dolphins are headed to the right or in the
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  Speaker 1: right direction. So how do you measure that? So I
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  Speaker 1: measure that with four words? Are you kidding me? Are
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  Speaker 1: you kidding me? That is a puffy sticker that reads
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  Speaker 1: moral victory is what that is from Tyreek Hill? And
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  Speaker 1: there are no moral victories in the NFL. It's one
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  Speaker 1: of the great things about sports. A lot of times
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  Speaker 1: in life there's a gray area. You don't really know
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  Speaker 1: where you're staying with people or your employer or things
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  Speaker 1: like that. But in sports, you clearly have a winner
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  Speaker 1: and a loser. You win and everyone kisses your ass
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  Speaker 1: and says how great you are and gets all emotional,
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  Speaker 1: and you lose and you wear the clown you know,
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  Speaker 1: you drive the clown car, you wear the clown makeup
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  Speaker 1: and all that period stuff. So let me decode Tyreek
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  Speaker 1: Kill's message here. He said, Essentially, we lost, but at
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  Speaker 1: least at least we didn't look like a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: total buffoons. You thought we were gonna get blown out.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't get blown out. We still lost, Tarrek. Doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't get blown out, but you lost by ten point.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. You thought we'd lose by twelve and
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  Speaker 1: a half. It's a problem, right if you're a real
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  Speaker 1: contender and a real competitor, you don't you don't do that.
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  Speaker 1: What are you doing?
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  Speaker 4: You know what?
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  Speaker 1: Tyreek sounds like? Tyreek sounds like. We get these calls
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  Speaker 1: every once in a while. They're not usual listeners, but
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  Speaker 1: they're fanboys that'll call into the overnight show at three
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  Speaker 1: in the morning and be like, hey, you know. They
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  Speaker 1: try to convince me that, ah, the team's close, that
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  Speaker 1: team's club. But the Cheetah reminding me of my old
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  Speaker 1: dog Bella the shitsu. My god, no cheatah, more like
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  Speaker 1: a Now. Meanwhile, how about the coach? Can we get
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  Speaker 1: a temperature reading on the Miami Coach right out of
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  Speaker 1: a Cheech and Trong movie. Mike McDaniel and his hot seat.
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  Speaker 1: What is the hot seat? Let's go over to cut
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  Speaker 1: three here, McDaniel says, despite what it might look like,
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  Speaker 1: the Dolphins actually had plans to walk out of the
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  Speaker 1: stadium in a good move, take a list.
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  Speaker 5: Or expectation was to come in here and win the game.
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  Speaker 5: And we knew we had to not turn the ball over,
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  Speaker 5: and we knew we had to, you know, try to
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  Speaker 5: get at least plus or at least even with him
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  Speaker 5: in the in the takeaway department, and we had to
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  Speaker 5: play good football and make some plays. And you know,
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  Speaker 5: we had a turnover in a critical situation, we had
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  Speaker 5: a critical penalty against on a punt. Those types of
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  Speaker 5: things can that's how these types of games are decided.
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  Speaker 5: So it feels like a lot and it feels like
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  Speaker 5: we have a lot of motivation to get back.
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  Speaker 1: To work, all right. So there is there. He is
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  Speaker 1: the head coach. That's a leader of men. Right there,
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  Speaker 1: Boys go out to battle, run through a wall right there. No,
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  Speaker 1: I would like to go eat some taco bell is
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  Speaker 1: what I would like to do. Here's one more from
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  Speaker 1: the half baked coach of the Dolphins, who points out
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  Speaker 1: that this is this is where he sounds like he's
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  Speaker 1: doing NPR or something. Well, take a list.
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  Speaker 5: Frustration that turns to focus. I would say that I'm
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  Speaker 5: very focused and motivated to continue eliminating things that cost
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  Speaker 5: us games. And you know, you have a young team,
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  Speaker 5: a lot of people that you're counting on, and you
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  Speaker 5: need him to not be young for very much longer
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  Speaker 5: and continue to grow. But the it's I would say
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  Speaker 5: focus because you know I, I know I have a
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  Speaker 5: locker room that is all into growth through the process.
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  Speaker 5: You know, there's some tough, tough lessons, are tough things
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  Speaker 5: you have to deal with. The National Football League.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So there is the head coach of the
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  Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins, righty, Oh so bad? All right? Man alive? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: So I like when he said we have a young
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  Speaker 1: team that shouldn't be young. And of course then you
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  Speaker 1: know what would happen if they had an old team. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: we're an old team. You know, they complain about that.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever they are, they will complain about. So the temperature
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  Speaker 1: reading on Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel's hot seat this game
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  Speaker 1: was a lateral move. He's still in the in the bickram,
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  Speaker 1: the yoga studio, the hot yoga right one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: five degrees, very humid conditions. He's currently doing the triangle pose,
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  Speaker 1: the yoga triangle post. He's marinating like a brisket, a
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  Speaker 1: brisket in asana. That's the coach the Dolphins who actually
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  Speaker 1: made the playoffs each of that guy's two seasons, his
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  Speaker 1: first two seasons as coach of the Dolphins, McDaniel the
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  Speaker 1: last twenty one games. The Dolphins have lost thirteen of
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  Speaker 1: the last twenty one games since that wild card loss
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  Speaker 1: in frigid Kansas City, when Tua turned into an ice cube.
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  Speaker 1: They actually they had to melt him to put him
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  Speaker 1: back on the bus after the game. It was wild.
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  Speaker 1: He actually was an ice cube. It was crazy. So
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  Speaker 1: now we hear that ownership of the Dolphins still loves
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  Speaker 1: their boy, genius, pot loving head coach. There, the coach,
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  Speaker 1: the nerd with the laminated play sheet, and so he
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  Speaker 1: still got a steamy seat. And you know, the Dolphins
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  Speaker 1: hung in the game, but again no moral victories and
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  Speaker 1: all that crap was it was a game that was winnable,
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  Speaker 1: all right. Bad teams lose close games. Good teams win
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  Speaker 1: close games. And right now Miami is a bad team.
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  Speaker 1: And all the yoga in the world is not going
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  Speaker 1: to stretch that into a team that is a playoff team,
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  Speaker 1: not this year. All right, last word, So we go
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  Speaker 1: to the winners locker room. Now, what did you take away?
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  Speaker 1: Here's the question, what did you take away from Josh
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  Speaker 1: Allen's bills getting the win? So I thought this was
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  Speaker 1: the classic example of exhale and thank a higher power
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  Speaker 1: type of win. Right, you need a late game turnover
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  Speaker 1: just to get out of dodge against the Dolphins. Generally speaking,
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  Speaker 1: that is not a good sign. Like the Dolphins were
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  Speaker 1: a tinder box teetering on the brink of self destruction
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  Speaker 1: and they still are. That's not a statement win. It
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't have been even if they'd blown out the Dolphins
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  Speaker 1: by a gazillion points. But that's more of a relief win.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Buffalo at times was absolutely zonked on defense.
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  Speaker 1: They turned to a into wolfgang puck. On third down,
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  Speaker 1: Tuo was able to carve them up. It reminded me
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  Speaker 1: of going to get some prime rib but this place
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  Speaker 1: called Lowry's in LA This prime rib place over in Losienega.
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  Speaker 1: But listen, ten of fifteen on third down. The Dolphins
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  Speaker 1: were ten of fifteen's that's insane. Sixty seven almost seventy
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  Speaker 1: percent on third down the red zone Miami against the
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  Speaker 1: Bills defense was one hundred percent success right when they
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  Speaker 1: got in the red zone. That is not defense. That
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  Speaker 1: is more like a speedbump. Nevertheless, somehow Someway, because of
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  Speaker 1: the generosity of the team from Florida, they ended up
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  Speaker 1: with the w. And it's kind of like flying. Let's
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  Speaker 1: say you're flying Jet Blue or something like that and
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  Speaker 1: they cancel your direct flight and you're like, I have
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  Speaker 1: to get to that game. I've got tickets to the game.
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  Speaker 1: I got to get to the games. So they don't worry.
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  Speaker 1: We got you. And so then they rerout you or
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  Speaker 1: reroute you, depending on where you came from. They re
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  Speaker 1: route you into an airport you've never been to. In Bozeman,
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  Speaker 1: Mont Tanem. The seat back screen doesn't work, you can't
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• 19:19
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• 19:22
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• 19:27
  Speaker 1: They sucked in several stretches last season, did not play
• 19:32
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• 19:35
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• 19:37
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• 19:41
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• 19:43
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• 19:48
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• 19:50
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• 19:52
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• 19:55
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• 19:59
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• 20:03
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• 20:05
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• 20:19
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• 20:20
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• 20:26
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• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Clighton Kershaw. We learned that the Dodger pitcher Clayton Kershaw
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: is quitting baseball. He's done. That's it. He will finally retire. Hallelujah.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: At the end of the season. Eighteen years in Major
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: League Baseball and really stealing money for the last five
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: or six. Kershaw's final start of the regular season at
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Dodgers Stadium will take place later on Friday night against
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: the Giants. The Dodgers currently lead the National League wild
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: card race, and they are right there with the Padres
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: neck and neck down the stretch. They actually lead the
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Padres in the division. It is unlikely they're going to
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: be in the wildcard round. That's the problem, because they're
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: not going to have one of the top two records.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: So it is unlikely though that Clayton Kershaw, his old
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: bag of bones, will be in the postseason rotation. So
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Kershaw will be making his final start barring several Tommy
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: John injuries, which is not out of the question with
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Dave Roberts and the Nerds managing the Dodgers. So Kershaw
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: is thirty seven and he will make his final start
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: against the Higant's longtime rivals there and the Dodgers, and
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: then he will fade away, become a team ambassador and
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: still get paid a ton of money to do nothing,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: which is pretty much what he's been doing the last
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: several years. So it is the hour of Clayton Kershaw.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Let's discuss. Let's get into it the question, are you
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: sad to see Clayton Kershaw retire from the Dodgers. I'm
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: getting that vibe. All this is a sad thing. So
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: my observations on this, I've got Christmas Light, clown College,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: and Wendy's and we will combine all of these things
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: together and we are going to make your Babushka's favorite taketos.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: You probably didn't think you're a Babushka had a favorite tiketo,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: but I'm guessing she does so. Number All right, am
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: I supposed to shed a tear here? No? Do I
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: need to go out and get a clean xbox or
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: something like that, get a tissue? Please, it's time. It
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: is I do not understand the coverage it has been
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: in time. It has been time. This is not a
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: sad thing. This is a great thing. He should have
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: retired five years ago. Instead, Kershaw has been hanging out
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: at Dodgers Stadium like that one Christmas light you forgot
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: to take down, and then you realize, wait a minute's June,
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: I should have taken that down. Why is that thing
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: still there? A part time player? Body breaking down year
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: after year after year, and the Dodgers kept re signing
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: him every season. They kept running his old ass out
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: there like he's still the cy young pitcher. And since
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: the pandemic, you realize Kershaw. Here we are twenty twenty five,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Since the pandemic, Kershaw has one season over one hundred
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: and thirty innings pitched. One That is mascot territory. That
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: is mascot territory. You're paying him to sit in the
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: dugout and look nostalgic in the uniform. That's what they've
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: been doing. He's been well paid. Kershaw's earned eighty six
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: million dollars since twenty twenty one for a guy who,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: at best he is a midweek starter and at worst
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: a just a good luck charm you'd like to have
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: on the team. And listen, I'm not gonna sit here
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: and say, at his peak he was an amazing regular
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: season player, an amazing regular season pitcher. No one is
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: denying that. No one's denying that. The last couple of years,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: it's been Weekend at Bernie's is what it's been. The
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: baseball version. The Dodgers kept propping him up because it
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: made everyone feel all warm and fuzzy, Oh, we've got Kershaw,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: and so they end up just burning money for a
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: part time pitcher because he used to be good. If anything,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: the Dodger fan, the real Dodger fan, should be relieved.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: It clears the deck. No more pretending, no more make
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: believe with Kershaw, and you can still have him out
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: there and parade him out and pay him a bunch
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: of money to be a team ambassador and one of
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: those no show jobs and all that, and so move on.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Somebody else will be in there. They'll be fine now,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: page two. This is something that I kept hearing and
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: reading and I wanted to give my two cents on this.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: There's a popular opinion among popular people the baseball blogger world,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: the blogger sphere that the Dodgers are going to be
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: inspired by Clayton Kershaw. So will the Dodgers rally around
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw to win the twenty twenty five World Series.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: They're gonna win the series for Kershaw? All right, So
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: let's tackle this. This is a Hollywood script that is
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: now being passed around as the gospel. So on this one,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: I have a few words. Are you out of your mind?
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: This is the kind of drek, absolute drek that they
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: give out in Sportswriter clown College. You go to Sportswriter
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: clown College, you cue the montage aging hero Championship bath,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: fade to black. That's it, right, It's remember the Titans
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: meets Fields of Dream, Fields of Dream. Rather and only
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: it's the twenty twenty five Dodgers, who've looked more like
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: a country club softball team than a bunch of dolls.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: I want some doughs. I don't even know cats. I
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: need a dold. No, the Dodges are not dogs. They're
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: kiddi cats. And that's just the way they've been all year.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Now will that change? I'm not holding my breath for
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: that to change. But this group has been mostly spineless
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: this year. It's a roster of floaters. And said, oh,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: they're a playoff team. How could you say that? They're
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: an underachieving team. This team should have won one hundred
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: and ten games and they're gonna sneak into the playoffs.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: It's embarrassing. And the guys who walk into that Dodger clubhouse,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: they collect their giant fat checks, good for them, and
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: they coast along. They the trainer's room at Dodger Stadium.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: I'm told it's not a medical facility. It's a social club.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: They ought to have a bartender and they're handing out mohidos.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: My god. This is the mantra of the franchise. Do
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: the bare minimum. They've institutionalized this, and Kershaw's been a
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: part of it. You don't push pitchers, you don't push players,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: you don't push anyone. It just floats along and cash
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: the check. And Andrew Friedman is the smartest guy in
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: the world. And Dave Roberts just hits all the right
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: buttons blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah. And now we're supposed to sit here,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: you and I and pretend that you know the media
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: spin is accurate. They're selling you. They're gonna do it
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: for Kershaw. Okay, all right, so place, he's already got
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: his storybook moment it happened last year. He's already got
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: two championships. Okay. And the man's career earnings are north
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: of three hundred million dollars. He does not need one
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: more for the road, does not need one more for
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: the road. Now, on a positive note. On a positive note,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: thank god he didn't do one of those disgusting retirement tours.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: I will I will compliment Kershaw. I'm not a big
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: fan of his, but I will compliment Kershaw on this.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: You know, the the over the top look at me
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: rocking chairs and every cowboy boots in Texas, pitching rubber
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: in San Francisco, the guitar in Cleveland, the lego set
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: in San Diego, all of that crap that's destined for
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: a landfa. He didn't do that, all right, Now, Kershaw was.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: Forced.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: I don't forced is the right word. He was strongly
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: encouraged by Rob Manford. And the chatter is this has
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: been an open secret that everyone knew this was his
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: last year. Thus Major League Baseball allowed Kershaw, who had
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: no business sniffing the All Star Game. They dragged him
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: out there much like the Dodgers do at Dodger Stadium
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: as a mascot, and they said, you know, you don't
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: deserve to be on the All Star team, but we're
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: gonna put you there anyway and give you a farewell moment.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Remember the All Star Game in Atlanta. So they dragged
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: him to Georgia, for a very weird public spongebath as
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: a sendoff. It was gross. But otherwise, Kershaw, for the
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: most part, has pulled an Irish goodbye, goodbye good job
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: by him. You slip out the side door, no fuss,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: no circus. That's the right way to do it. That
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: is the right way to do it. So I do
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: appreciate Kershaw for leaving the right way. I wish he
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: would have done it five years ago. But that's fine,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: all right. Final point. Now we're going to get into
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: the ugly part of the Kershaw story. And unfortunately I'm
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: not sitting here with my cheerleading outfit on. I left
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: that in the other room, pulled that out for certain occasions.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Here's the final point. What is the legacy of Clayton Kershaw?
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: It's got one more regular season start? What is his legacy?
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Right now? Clayton Kershaw is the most frustrating type of
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: player to ever have play for your team. Do you
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: agree or disagree with that? Let me make my elevator
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: pitch why Clayton Kershaw is the most frustrating type of
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: player you could ever follow as a fan of athletic competition.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: In the regular season, Clayton Kershaw has been a wagon,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: an absolute wagon of fire hose. He would mow down
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: the Arizona Diamondbacks on a Wednesday night at Dodger Stadium
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: and it was unbelievable. Wednesday night, May crazy crazy. He
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: was like Sandy Kofax reincarnated, even though Sandy's still alive.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Complete bus saw and then October would come around with
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw and you'd be all excited, greatest picture of
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: this generation, bright lights, big stage and on the way
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: to the ballpark, I'm convinced that Clayton Kershaw would go
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: down to Windy's, he would order a frosty and by
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: the time he got to the ballpark, he'd have eaten
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: the frosty and then he immediately suffered brain freeze the
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: moment he got on the mound. Every single time, every
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: single time, Clayton Kershaw was a frequent flyer during his career.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: He was in the cockpit of the vomit comet. He
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: was in the cockpit of the vomit COBBT, flying the
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: vomit Cobbat, spiraling out of control with the entire baseball
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: world watching, the entire country watching. And it wasn't just
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: once or twice. You were allowed to have one or
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: two bad runs in the play playoffs. You can eliminate
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: that right, You can say, wow, that was just a
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: one off or a two off. This is the essence
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: of Clayton Kershaw. It is his DNA. His DNA is
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: he chokes in big games. We're talking twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen,
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen. I was at the game in
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three against the Diamondbacks and the flyover and
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: the game was over against the Arizona. You can pick
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: a year, any of those years, and there's Clayton Kershaw
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: coughing up a hairball. If Clayton Kershaw was a dog
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: on the mound, he wouldn't be the bulldog that was
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: old Heirscheiser. He wouldn't be a pit bull or a
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: German shepherd. He would have been a choking dog, because
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: that's what he did, the kind you don't trust in traffic,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: allergic to the big game. Run from the moment, from
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: generational legend in October to a liability in October, a
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: generational legend in June and July, and then in October reliability.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: That was his resume. The numbers do not lie. The numbers,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: back up the eye test, the era in the players.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: I believe it's two runs higher than the regular season.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: That's not a drop off. That is a kamikaze mission,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: is what that is. You hand him the ball in October,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: you're basically lighting the fuse. That's it. So the tinder
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: box and you're lighting the fuse. Now, I am gonna
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: give an exemption for twenty seventeen because every one of
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: their mother knows what happened in twenty seventeen was insane.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: The cheating Astros were banging on trash cans, blowing in whistles.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: They had buzzers strapped to Altuve in my opinion, But
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: the rest that's all on the shoulders of Clayton Kershaw.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: The rest of that is all on the shoulders of
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw. If Kershaw was like our caller from Vegas,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Big Balls, Bob, you realize what his incompetence cost the Dodgers.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: If he had a little bit of what but Pedro
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: Martinez had, or Kurt Shilling or Madison Bumgardner in his
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: DNA as a big game pitcher, the Los Angeles Dodgers
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: would be on a Yankees like run right now, they
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: would have an ungodly amount of World Series in the
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: last twenty years. Modern era Yankees from those old school
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Yankees back in the day, like Lou Garrick and Babe Ruth,
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: those Yankees, we're talking seven or eight World Series championships.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: The Dodgers would have at this point. But because Clayton
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Kershaw sucks in big games, they're sitting on two and
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: they didn't really win those two until Kershaw was kind
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: of hanging on at the end of his career. When
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Kershaw was the man, when he was the guy, they
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: never won. They never won when he was the featured
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: star above the marquee. It was only after they put
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: other people in those roles and Kershaw still hung around
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: that they won. And listen, you can dress it up
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: all you want. The way I look at it Kershaw
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: is he's complicated because he's a Hall of Famer and
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: he's one of the great underachievers. At the same time,
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: when it matted most Clayton Kershaw did not deliver. And
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: that's that's the way you have to describe Kershaw. That
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: is the legacy of Clayton Kershaw. All right, great during
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: the regular season and then the playoffs. He's the last
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: guy you would want to pitch. He's the last pick.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: He's the first pick in the regular season, he's the
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: last pick in the postseason. And that's that's an indictment.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: That's a referendum on Kershaw. All right, and here's Kershaw
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: the announcement from his news conference prior to the Dodger
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: Giant game. How bad are the Giants? The Dodgers walked
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: I believe they walked ten batters in that game and
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: they still shut out the Giants. Holy crap. Anyway, here
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: is Clayton Kershaw announcing, I am done. Done. Dun dun dun, dun, dun,
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: dun dun.
• 36:49
  Speaker 8: I have a lot of thank you to get through,
• 36:51
  Speaker 8: and I can't have time today to do a justice
• 36:55
  Speaker 8: for all the people that have helped me along the
• 36:56
  Speaker 8: way and got me to this point. So today I'm
• 36:59
  Speaker 8: just going to going to keep it short and sweet
• 37:00
  Speaker 8: and then you know, be able to really tell people
• 37:03
  Speaker 8: just how grateful I am for everybody that's in this organization,
• 37:06
  Speaker 8: that's in this room, that's been here later on, but yeah,
• 37:09
  Speaker 8: I'm gonna I'm gonna call it. I'm gonna retire We've
• 37:12
  Speaker 8: talked about a lot, and I've talked about a lot.
• 37:14
  Speaker 8: Kiddo's talked about it a lot, and I'm at peace
• 37:16
  Speaker 8: with it. I think it's I think it's the right
• 37:18
  Speaker 8: time it's been. It's been such a fun year. I've
• 37:20
  Speaker 8: had such a blast with this group. I've had such
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  Speaker 8: a blast with all you guys.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, your time was actually a few years ago.
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  Speaker 1: This is past the expiration dates. The bread's getting a
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  Speaker 1: little moldy. Here's more from Clayton Kershaw. Now this one's
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: pretty amusing. Here's Kershaw pointing out that he has he
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  Speaker 1: has hope for how this is all going to play out.
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  Speaker 1: Take it is.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I can't think of a better season to go
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  Speaker 8: it out, go out. And we still have a lot
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  Speaker 8: to accomplish obviously this month, and the last thing I
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  Speaker 8: want to do is be a distraction to anybody for
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  Speaker 8: accomplishing our ultimate goal to win in the last game
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  Speaker 8: of the season. So we're gonna get through this today
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  Speaker 8: and then we're gonna go win the rest of the
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  Speaker 8: games and be good.
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  Speaker 1: You want to, but you don't win the rest of
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: the games, because I'll I'll take some action on that.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be the Bookie on that one. I'll take a
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  Speaker 1: couple of shekels on that that you don't win the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the game. I know he's just saying what
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: you're supposed to say, and I wouldn't want to go
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  Speaker 1: out any other way than this and all that stuff.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: But again, the twenty twenty five Dodgers are one of
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  Speaker 1: the great underachieving team. They have eighty six wins. Eighty
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  Speaker 1: six wins, so that is roughly twenty four wins from
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: where they were supposed to be. They're twenty four games
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: underway they should have been. I mean, you cannot make
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  Speaker 1: this up. They are such massive underachievers it is wild.
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  Speaker 4: Here we go, Here we go?
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  Speaker 1: What about that? To the third degree? This is one
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  Speaker 1: big gets grilled goo helo.
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  Speaker 9: Tyron Taylor is said to make his first start in
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  Speaker 9: six hundred and twenty four days as Justin Field is
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  Speaker 9: out for the jetson week three. Aaron Glennen says, there's
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  Speaker 9: no better player that you would want as your backup quarterback.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: Yes, no one better. Ben.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think the Jets could actually perform better under Tyrod.
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  Speaker 1: No. No, it's a lateral move because if you look
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  Speaker 1: at Justin Fields, he's like background noise, and then Tyrod
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: Taylor's elevator music, it's the same thing. Neither one of
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: them is distinguished in any way. They're unglamorous, ordinary quarterbacks,
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: and they might play well this week with the backup,
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  Speaker 1: but I long term it doesn't really matter. Next.
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  Speaker 9: Amazon Prime Video CEO Jay Marine said that recently he
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  Speaker 9: is optimistic about streaming a Super Bowl someday. Ben, could
• 39:38
  Speaker 9: you see the biggest sporting event of them all being
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  Speaker 9: leaving broadcast?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean they will go where the money is
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: and if they can get more money from Eventually, this
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: is gonna take years, and it's like the boiling frog.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: It's slowly. It's moving that way. Anyway, the sports are
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: moving to streaming services. It's pay per view. So the
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: next logical step would be he put the super Bowl
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: on that event, so on Amazon? Put that event on
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: Amazon next.
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  Speaker 9: Travis Hunter had a full workload of forty two offensive
• 40:08
  Speaker 9: snaps and forty three defensive snaps for the Jackson. Week
• 40:10
  Speaker 9: two wasn't a major factor on either side of the ball,
• 40:12
  Speaker 9: but Cohen suggested Liam Cohen. That is that even more
• 40:15
  Speaker 9: snaps are in Hunter's future? Is that the right move?
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Yes, he's average, apparently on both sides of the ball,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: so you might as well play him. He's average on
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: both sides, and then maybe he'll make some money and
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: all that. You know, nothing special so far, but why not?
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: He wants to do it. He's young? What the hell?
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: How do we do?
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  Speaker 8: You?
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  Speaker 1: Passed?
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  Speaker 4: The sedition?
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  Speaker 3: Was?
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• 40:52
  Speaker 2: Blame week too.
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  Speaker 1: It's Big Ben's lame joke of the week. Here we go,
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: Big Man's lame jokes a week, actual jokes by act.
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  Speaker 1: So listeners, do we have weed?
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  Speaker 2: Man?
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  Speaker 1: Is he there? All right? All right? I noticed you.
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  Speaker 1: You're not calling. You're not calling anymore other than this.
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  Speaker 1: You're very busy man. What do you? What do you
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  Speaker 1: do all week?
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  Speaker 2: Too much?
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: And I know go on Puesday?
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, something like that. And all right, well, here
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  Speaker 1: we go week the great Everything good with your weed man,
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: you're okay though? Yes? All right? Why do blind Scott
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: or check that? What do blind Scott and Cashews have
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: in common?
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  Speaker 2: What?
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: They're both nuts? All right? What did blind Scott say
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: whenever he read a scary story in braille? What something
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: bad is gonna happen? I can feel it? Said?
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  Speaker 4: Noah?
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: See weed man, when you read braille, you got to
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: use your fingers. See that's that's Noah in Austin. Who
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: sent that one in? Where did blind Scott go to college?
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: Where?
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: Ps U? Psychotic State University? That's Eke in Roseville, Minnesota?
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  Speaker 1: All right? What what has been the biggest highlight of
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs this season?
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: What?
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: Well, apparently he scored on a dink and dunk play
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: with Cardi B. How about that? That's Chip in Maine.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: Did you did you see his reaction when he was
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: asked about Cardi B being pregnant. It did not seem
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: like he was excited about that. That was very interesting.
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: We kept it to himself.
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: Huh, yeah, that might have been to me. Okay, all right?
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: Why did weed man hit me get a gym membership?
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  Speaker 8: No know?
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: Why why did weed man hit me get a gym
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: membership because they have a nice bathroom where he plans
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: to get ripped. Ripped. That's true in Minnesota. Did you
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: hear that? Benny versus the Penny has led to a
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  Speaker 1: YouTube spin off show, No What Yes? Make sure to
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  Speaker 1: like and subscribe to weed Man Versus the Nickelbag. That's
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: Joe from Virginia Beach? Who sent that one? In a right?
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: The next joke here, Why does David Vasse want to
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: meet weed Man hippie?
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: Because he heard that weed Man smells like Tuckis? That's
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: Lucky Tony. Have you noticed Lucky Tony not calling as
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: much since the Chicago Bears started owing too? Have you
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: noticed that? I've noticed that? Yeah, all right. Why was
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: Jordan Hudson kicked off Dancing with the Stars? Why she
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: demanded weed Man as her partner, but they both wanted
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: more days off? That's Tom in Indiana. When's the when's
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: the last time you worked weed Man? Or was it
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: a long time ago? Was it the eighties of the nineties,
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: the nineties? Okay, the nineties, I was gonna say, because
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: you you lost everything in the stock market crash in
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: the eighties though, right the late eighties, I know the
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  Speaker 1: toy store. I know. I'm sorry, weed Man. I just
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  Speaker 1: think you'd Oh I thought it was I thought I
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: thought it was the one in the eighties. So two
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: thousand and one you lost everything? Yeah, okay, all right,
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: and just think if you hadn't lost everything, you'd be
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: living in the mansion on Long Island right now. That
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: we never would have known each other. Why did weed
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: Man get in trouble at the bank. Why Well, an
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: old lady said she wanted his help checking her balance,
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: so he pushed her over. That's Eric in Kansas. That's
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: not nice, read man, all right. Why would weed Man
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: hippie make a great companion for Lorena? Why she snaps
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: her toes and he comes running. That's George and Uvaldi
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  Speaker 1: Texas with that joke. It's Big Ben's lame jokes of
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: the league. What does what does? What does Lorena like
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: best about Major League Baseball season? What she loves makeup games?
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: That's Eke in Roseville. What does the Lorena and the
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: Iowa Hawkeye fans have in common? What they both hate?
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: The UMass minute man? The minute man. It's Eric in Kansas. There, Yeah,
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: all right, Uh, we have some some dad jokes here
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  Speaker 1: from dad joke Jay? I thought these were okay? But
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: what do you call a mobile phone in prison?
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  Speaker 7: What?
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: A cell phone? Why? Why? Why do heavy metal bands
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: refuse to drink coke? Why? It's pop? That's why pop.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: That's a that's that's dad, dad joke Jay. Do you
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: have any jokes coop, any offensive jokes?
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  Speaker 9: Now?
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: Actually I might, I might.
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: Let me let me see, all right, better do it quick.
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: What is the difference between a politician and a flying pig?
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: What the letter F? The letter F? That's it? Jo?
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: He said, was dumb?
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: Okay? What what? No joke? Coops out of the show.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: What is the fastest way to become a millionaire?
• 46:24
  Speaker 7: What?
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: Be a billionaire and invest in the w n B
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: A it's right away, it'll go away there. How is
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: Tony in the Bay Area? Like a treasurer you have?
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: You need a map to and a shovel to find
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: them his family? I screwed that best, Eric in Cans,
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: thanks weed.
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: Man and the Entertainment for this Friday the fastest scoring
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: sentiment on radio.
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: Now, thank you, Marcell.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: They're doing a lot Coop. I'm watching the video from
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: Stony They're doing a lot of needle point. A lot
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: of needle point going on at Stony Ridge here.
• 47:06
  Speaker 9: Well, this is this is one of the fastest growing
• 47:09
  Speaker 9: segments in all of radio.
• 47:11
  Speaker 4: We just add more people to it every week.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: It's pretty You can Marcel be part of it. I
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: feel like he needs to be part of it. He can,
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: he can. Why you stay on, Stay there, Marcel, and
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: you can comment on the story, scoop. How about that?
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: Oh, a lot of the fastest going segment and all.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: Of the fun. Okay, all right, taking taking, thank you
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  Speaker 1: for that.
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  Speaker 9: Thank you.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: I'm looking at the food too. The food looks pretty
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: good here at the Stony Ridge.
• 47:39
  Speaker 9: I'm hungry now, nice, Okay, So we're gonna start off
• 47:42
  Speaker 9: in theaters and this weekend there's there's not a lot,
• 47:46
  Speaker 9: but there is kind of There's this movie that I
• 47:47
  Speaker 9: want to point out. It's not a wide release, so
• 47:50
  Speaker 9: you'll have to check and see where it's playing near you.
• 47:53
  Speaker 9: But it's called The Senior and.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: Oh that's appropriate. I'm looking at these senior living facility
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: here that Dick and Daytons.
• 48:00
  Speaker 9: Yes, it is based on a true story and it
• 48:05
  Speaker 9: is It stars Michael Chickliss, who you may remember from
• 48:08
  Speaker 9: The Shield.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: I've heard the name.
• 48:11
  Speaker 9: Yes, it is based on the true story of Mike Flint, who,
• 48:14
  Speaker 9: at age fifty nine, became a college football linebacker.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, yeah, you can see something like that.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: There's another story like that now or is that?
• 48:25
  Speaker 9: I mean maybe maybe it's the movie that came out today. Yeah, okay,
• 48:30
  Speaker 9: it's it's rate a PG, so you can bring the
• 48:32
  Speaker 9: whole family. But this is so far, it's getting really
• 48:34
  Speaker 9: good reviews from the critics, so go ahead and check
• 48:38
  Speaker 9: that out. Moving on to television, we have it's called
• 48:44
  Speaker 9: Black Rabbit and it is the latest limited series on Netflix.
• 48:49
  Speaker 9: It stars Jason Bateman from Arrested Development and Ozark Fame.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: I've heard of him.
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yes.
• 48:57
  Speaker 9: It is a set in New York's night life scene.
• 48:59
  Speaker 9: Jude Long also stars as the owner of the titular hotspot,
• 49:04
  Speaker 9: Black Rabbit, a VIP lounge and restaurant. He reluctantly allows
• 49:07
  Speaker 9: his brother, played by Jason Babman, back into the business,
• 49:11
  Speaker 9: but he brings a whole new set of troubles crime
• 49:15
  Speaker 9: threatened to bring down the whole operation.
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: Oh that's not nice.
• 49:18
  Speaker 4: No, it's not good.
• 49:19
  Speaker 9: But yeah, that is available right now streaming on Netflix.
• 49:24
  Speaker 9: Moving on, we have This is called The low Down.
• 49:28
  Speaker 9: It is a new show on FX, also available to
• 49:30
  Speaker 9: stream on Hulu. And it is a neo noir drama
• 49:35
  Speaker 9: set in Tulsa, Oklahoma. And it stars Ethan Hawk and
• 49:40
  Speaker 9: also Kyle McLaughlin. And he is a journalist, an obsessive
• 49:45
  Speaker 9: citizen journalist who lives and works out of a bookstore,
• 49:49
  Speaker 9: and his quest is to expose local government corruption and
• 49:53
  Speaker 9: it lands him in trouble.
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: I wonder if Chris plankson that he works it lives
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: in Tulsa.
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  Speaker 9: Oh yeah, that's right. And a last, but not least
• 50:02
  Speaker 9: on Wednesday on Apple TV. Wednesday, September twenty fourth is
• 50:05
  Speaker 9: the premiere of season five of Slow Horses, one of
• 50:09
  Speaker 9: the best spy shows on TV.
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: I know, Marcel, you seems excited. You have somebody to
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: add to that.
• 50:15
  Speaker 4: Marshall, What's what's going on? Urself? What he is he
• 50:21
  Speaker 4: practicing for another call right now?
• 50:24
  Speaker 9: It sounds like, yeah, wow, all right, thanks Marcel.
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: It's not that easy being a talk radio caller, professional
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: caller anyway, great spy show, Slow Horses.
• 50:34
  Speaker 9: It stars Gary Olman. It's fantastic. If you haven't checked
• 50:37
  Speaker 9: it out before, check it out now before season five
• 50:39
  Speaker 9: comes out this Wednesday, and that is Scoop Scoob on entertainment,