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The Fifth Hour: Mark Davis Sniper, NFL Report Cards · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Kabooms.
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  Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
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  Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a sole fastion of fairness. He
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  Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
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  Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
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  Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
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  Speaker 3: Happy Saturday. All right. So usually you hear Ben's voice
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  Speaker 3: come on immediately and he so eloquently enters into the
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  Speaker 3: Fifth Hour podcast. But I had to break in here
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  Speaker 3: for a moment because he sent me this file early,
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  Speaker 3: early on this Saturday morning. Problem sounds like his microphone
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  Speaker 3: was having some issues. Oh it's all right, though, Sit back.
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  Speaker 3: It sounds like he's in front of a college classroom
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  Speaker 3: and you're in one of the seats in the back.
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  Speaker 3: And I know it's hard to picture Ben as a professor,
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  Speaker 3: professor who used the word melt. You know what, it's
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  Speaker 3: audio justice. The Raiders finally do something smart, and of
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  Speaker 3: that's what it gets. Maybe this is what happens when
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  Speaker 3: you talk smack about my raiders still though, enjoy and
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  Speaker 3: have a great Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: I'm actually on the live air.
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  Speaker 4: In the Air Everywhere the fifth Hour with me, Ben
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  Speaker 4: Mahler and Danny g Radio on this fourteenth day of February,
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  Speaker 4: better known by its gangster name Valentine's Day.
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  Speaker 5: More on that in a minute on this podcast. On
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  Speaker 5: the Saturday special, we will not be doing a deep
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  Speaker 5: dive on whatever that thing was last night, the celebrity thing,
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  Speaker 5: the young stars thing in the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: We're not going there.
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  Speaker 5: However, we will go to the Sera Era, the Era
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  Speaker 5: four eight, three, nine, two oh one special, and a
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  Speaker 5: room full of puppies and kittens will have that.
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  Speaker 1: We begin though, with today being Saint.
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  Speaker 5: Valentine's Day, a day that has often been called a
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  Speaker 5: hallmark holiday, a commercial enterprise here in the United States.
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  Speaker 5: So I wanted to explain for those that have not
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  Speaker 5: been listening over the years exactly how this became what
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  Speaker 5: it is a marketing machine where you you had to
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  Speaker 5: open up your money, your your wallet and get your
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  Speaker 5: money and all stuff. So you got to go all
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  Speaker 5: the way back in the hot tub time machine to
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  Speaker 5: the nineteenth century. And this was not Hallmark there was
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  Speaker 5: a greeting cards company called Esir Howland was I believe
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  Speaker 5: the name of it, and Esir Holland was called the
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  Speaker 5: mother of the American Valentine, and that was the company
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  Speaker 5: that helped popular rise mass produced Valentine's cards.
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  Speaker 1: And we're going back to the mid eighteen hundreds, so.
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  Speaker 5: It's I mean, you look at the year. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: we're almost going back to twenty years. And that woman's
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  Speaker 5: work was really the start of what pushed America society,
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  Speaker 5: United States society into commercialization. And it was in the
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  Speaker 5: early twentieth century where yep, Hallmark came in and the
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  Speaker 5: Hallmark people expanded the reach because the printing technology had
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  Speaker 5: improved by the early twentieth century, so like, well, we
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  Speaker 5: can do more stuff. So let's mass market these Valentine's
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  Speaker 5: Day cards. We'll do nationwide. We'll have every elementary school
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  Speaker 5: kid have to bring Valentine's Day cards, not just for
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  Speaker 5: their Valentine, but for everyone in the class. And then
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  Speaker 5: that helped cement Valentine's Day as a consumer feeding frenzy.
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  Speaker 5: And then in the nineteen fifties it got cranked up
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  Speaker 5: a couple of more levels. From the nineteen fifties to
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  Speaker 5: the early nineteen seventies. Other companies are like, hey, we
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  Speaker 5: went on that and we want a piece of the pie.
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  Speaker 5: And so then you had these advertisers who were like, hey,
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  Speaker 5: we can sell a lot of flowers, right, Let's get
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  Speaker 5: the dudes to buy flowers for their ladies. How about chocolate. Okay, dude,
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  Speaker 5: we'll get some chocolate's going. Okay, sounds good. And then
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  Speaker 5: it's like, well what about the jewelry. Okay, we'll sell
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  Speaker 5: some diamonds. That sounds good. And hey, I own a restaurant.
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  Speaker 5: I want to sell some fetichini alfredo. Okay, we'll sell
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  Speaker 5: some fetichini alfredo. We'll get people to go out to
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  Speaker 5: dinner on Valentine's Day And so all of those things
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  Speaker 5: came together and it was like you were shamed, you
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  Speaker 5: were not you were not doing your job, you were
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  Speaker 5: not romantic if you didn't buy a card, flowers, chocolates, jewelry,
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  Speaker 5: and you had to go out to dinner. And it
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  Speaker 5: became this major commercial holiday, which it still is. And
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  Speaker 5: then going back to the really nineteen seven, so we're
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  Speaker 5: over fifty years and this is where we are today.
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  Speaker 5: That these advertisers, the florists, the chocolate tears, the people
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  Speaker 5: that make all the stuff. They're like, hey, let's link
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  Speaker 5: this to love. And I saw one SMA. I read
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  Speaker 5: this the other day that Valentine's Day is a twenty
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  Speaker 5: billion dollar plus holiday. Twenty billion plus is spent on
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  Speaker 5: Valentine's Day, the Hallmark Holiday or the Sir Howland Holiday.
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  Speaker 5: My god, all right, moving off from that, So the
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  Speaker 5: Silver and Black that is a team that used to
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  Speaker 5: be good, used to be good. They hired a new savior,
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  Speaker 5: a new messiah this week. His name Clint Kubiak. We
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  Speaker 5: don't want to get too sporty on this.
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  Speaker 1: Stop me.
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  Speaker 5: If you've you've heard the name Clint Kubiak, you've heard
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  Speaker 5: me talk about it. Another week, another descent into the
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  Speaker 5: Nevada Desert for a man looking to cash in on
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  Speaker 5: Ark Davis's infinite supply of I'm sorry, we're terrible. Here's
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  Speaker 5: a lot of money, come coach or a football team.
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  Speaker 5: Let me get through all of my daddy's money. Okay,
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  Speaker 5: that sounds good. Now, we did talk about this. We
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  Speaker 5: did a couple of monologues about the Raiders hiring Clint
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  Speaker 5: Kubiak and other moves. The Raiders might make now, if
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  Speaker 5: there is a more lucrative quote starter job close quote
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  Speaker 5: in professional sports than head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders.
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  Speaker 1: I have been unable to find. The blueprint is etched
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  Speaker 1: in stone.
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  Speaker 5: You show up, you lose more games than a one
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  Speaker 5: legged man in a butt kicking contest, You survive maybe
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  Speaker 5: maybe twenty four months, maybe twenty four months, and then
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  Speaker 5: you ride off into the sunset with a convoy of
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  Speaker 5: Brinks trucks tailing it.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of the great heists, right, you're driving your SUV.
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  Speaker 5: You've got a bunch of brinkch trucks filled with cash,
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  Speaker 5: and that's your money. Now. The other day we did
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  Speaker 5: offer a Malard monologue on this very subject. It was
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  Speaker 5: rather benign, rather benign rant, if you will. On the
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  Speaker 5: Malar scale of outrage inducing rants that we do on
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  Speaker 5: a weekly basis, The temperature on this one was luke warm.
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  Speaker 1: It was luke warm. We simply pointed out the obvious.
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  Speaker 5: The raiders updated slogan is commitment to excrement, and they
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  Speaker 5: have the second worst record in the NFL over the
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  Speaker 5: last two decades, trailing only the Cleveland Browns and the
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  Speaker 5: Race of the Body.
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  Speaker 1: Now we also delivered.
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  Speaker 5: A body blow, body blow, body blow to Tom Brady,
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  Speaker 5: the minority owner and meddling consultant to Facto GM of
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  Speaker 5: the Raiders.
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  Speaker 1: Brady great quarterback. Sure, However, as.
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  Speaker 5: A GM, he has been a total capital D disaster,
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  Speaker 5: total capital DE disaster.
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  Speaker 1: To my absolute shock.
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  Speaker 5: The jingle Berries who support the Raiders, and these are
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  Speaker 5: mostly old heads of the fan base, they took exception.
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  Speaker 1: They were there to stand by their man.
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  Speaker 5: And no matter how bad and how ugly things get,
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  Speaker 5: they love them some Raiders. So these guys is still
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  Speaker 5: trying to load highlights on a VHS player from the
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  Speaker 5: last time the Raiders were relevant. And so it's like
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  Speaker 5: they're running on They're doing dialogue.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone else is doing fiber optic. They're doing dialogue. But
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  Speaker 1: here's the kicker.
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  Speaker 5: If it wasn't just the goobers and the cosmic dust
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  Speaker 5: buddies complaining.
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  Speaker 1: That's fine.
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  Speaker 5: Suddenly at some point, I'm really not sure how any
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  Speaker 5: of this happened. I don't even know how this happens.
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  Speaker 5: The mat of monologue that we did ended up in
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  Speaker 5: the algorithm. Now, you might remember in a previous episode
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  Speaker 5: of the show, we talked about how a certain quarterback
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  Speaker 5: from Indiana. Mister Mendoza also inspired the algorithm to pick
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  Speaker 5: up the monologue that we did, and that went viral,
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  Speaker 5: and here we go happened again. I'm getting barked at
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  Speaker 5: by the Raider fans. My favorite part of this, in
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  Speaker 5: addition to just the ridiculousness of it, was that at
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  Speaker 5: least one, if not too I say this in air
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  Speaker 5: quotes beat writers for the Raiders, whose primary job description,
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  Speaker 5: it would appear.
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  Speaker 1: Is tickling and lickling, licking, ticking, tickling. I can talk
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  Speaker 1: tickling and licking the toes of Mark Davis and his cronies.
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  Speaker 1: So these efficient natos of the.
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  Speaker 5: Raiders were disgusted that I would dare criticize a franchise
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  Speaker 5: that treats winning like a foreign language. And there is
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  Speaker 5: no Rosetta strong. So then came the email wave online
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  Speaker 5: was one thing. So then I got these long manifest
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  Speaker 5: those bitter broken fans claiming they were real people, and
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  Speaker 5: newsslash a huge chunk of your support, if you will,
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  Speaker 5: coming from bought farms in Moldova. Now, how can I
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  Speaker 5: tell it is not rocket scientists? When you see an
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  Speaker 5: account that says the Sarah four eight three nine two
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  Speaker 5: oh one that is a day give what you know what,
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  Speaker 5: random numbers, no profile pick, and a bio that looks
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  Speaker 5: like it was generated in a toaster oven. It's usually
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  Speaker 5: a sign. I saw the sign twenty four to seven. Also,
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  Speaker 5: these accounts send messages out all day at all night.
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  Speaker 5: Not that I'm saying it doesn't happen. I've just never
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  Speaker 5: seen a human being post four hundred times a day
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  Speaker 5: with no personal content. Yeah, I'm sure it may happen.
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  Speaker 5: I just I've never seen it. And it's all repetitive hashtags.
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  Speaker 5: And in this case, it was a lot of commitment
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  Speaker 5: to excellence and slogans that haven't been true since the
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  Speaker 5: Reagan administration in the nineteen eighties, and a lot of
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  Speaker 5: generic responses on these accounts, a lot of generic responses
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  Speaker 5: like so true and check out my profile or click
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  Speaker 5: the link in my profile on almost every post, regardless
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  Speaker 5: of context. Now, we honestly want and not just blowing
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  Speaker 5: smoke here into these microphones in the remote pod studio.
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  Speaker 5: We honestly wonder who's paying for the digital ghost army.
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  Speaker 1: Who is it?
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  Speaker 5: Someone's got to be behind and it just didn't organically
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  Speaker 5: pop up on its own, So who is it. Who's
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  Speaker 5: the one that sends the check to the bat farms
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  Speaker 5: in Maldova to figure.
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  Speaker 1: All this out. I really want to know.
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  Speaker 5: There's a whole ghost army out there. Is it the NFL?
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  Speaker 5: Probably not, Is it the individual teams? Is it some
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  Speaker 5: mishmiss you know, kind of fusing around dope billionaire fanboy?
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  Speaker 1: Who is it?
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  Speaker 5: Well, whoever it is, whoever is dabbling around in this,
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  Speaker 5: they actually are doing me a favor. And this is
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  Speaker 5: a PSA in the media landscape for those that have
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  Speaker 5: not been paying attention. In the media landscape of twenty
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  Speaker 5: twenty six, engagement over everything. Engagement is the only currency
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  Speaker 5: that matters.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. It's all about engagement.
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  Speaker 5: When you're a real human will silver painted on your
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  Speaker 5: face and you got the spiked shoulder.
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  Speaker 1: Pads and all that, all of those things, all of those.
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  Speaker 5: Things, that's great. However, when you're generic and it's just
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  Speaker 5: a script running on a server in Eastern Europe, and
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  Speaker 5: it doesn't really do much for me. And every click, though,
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  Speaker 5: is a chi ching chi ching, chi ching chi ching situation,
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  Speaker 5: at least as far as I'm concerned. Elon Musk recently
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  Speaker 5: called modern media a click maximizing machine, and the machine
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  Speaker 5: is humming.
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  Speaker 1: That's no the way to say it. The machine is humming.
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  Speaker 5: And so thank you to the handful of actual humans
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  Speaker 5: left and Raider Nation who don't wear a paper bag
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  Speaker 5: on their head.
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  Speaker 1: Direct your rage.
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  Speaker 5: I would advise you to direct your rage at the
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  Speaker 5: front office, directed at the people that are making decisions,
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  Speaker 5: who have turned the logo, that iconic Raider logo, into
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  Speaker 5: a symbol of ineptitude.
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  Speaker 1: And if the.
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  Speaker 5: Raiders, yeah, look this way, if the Raiders were a
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  Speaker 5: Vegas residency, you know we're going to see that show.
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  Speaker 5: It's at the the hard Rock every every other Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: It's there.
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  Speaker 5: Whatever, So you go to the Vegas Residency. If you
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  Speaker 5: go there, the curtains would have stayed closed years ago.
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  Speaker 5: There's no magician with no tricks. The singer has permanent laryngitis.
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  Speaker 5: There's nothing they can do. But as long as you
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  Speaker 5: keep watching, right, as long as you just keep watching
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  Speaker 5: to tell me and how much you hate me and
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  Speaker 5: how much my show is irrelevant.
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  Speaker 1: You have no idea who I am. And that's why
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  Speaker 1: you do the overnight.
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  Speaker 5: I am going to keep barking into microphones in the
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  Speaker 5: middle of the night. And again, I want to thank
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  Speaker 5: you for helping me while I'm sleeping, mind you, and
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  Speaker 5: you're feeding the bottom line, and for that, I thank you.
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  Speaker 5: I will see you at the ATM machine. Meet me
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  Speaker 5: at the ATM machine now. Meanwhile, turning the page.
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  Speaker 1: On that.
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  Speaker 5: A Friday, not Friday afternoon, but Friday morning news thump
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  Speaker 5: from the NFL and the Players Association, which was delicious.
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  Speaker 5: So if you missed it, the NFL won Honkie Salvis.
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  Speaker 5: The NFL won it's grievance against the Players Association, and
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  Speaker 5: the way I understand it, they've effectively banned the union
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  Speaker 5: from publishing player report cards in the future. There was
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  Speaker 5: a memo sent out to all thirty two NFL teams
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  Speaker 5: the the NFLPA. However, the union said it will continue
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  Speaker 5: to collect the report cards. However, they just will not
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  Speaker 5: make them public unless somebody somehow gets their hands on
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  Speaker 5: them and leaks it. Wouldn't that be a shame? Oh
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  Speaker 5: my god, I can't believe that. Okay, Yeah, So an
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  Speaker 5: arbitrator found that the report cards from the NFL players
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  Speaker 5: violated the Collective Bargaining Agreement the CBA by disparaging NFL
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  Speaker 5: clubs and individuals. So that was that and this led
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  Speaker 5: to a hissy fit from several current prominent and former
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  Speaker 5: prominent NFL players who were not having So the question
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  Speaker 5: on this one, question, on this one, do you feel
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  Speaker 5: bad for the NFL players? They fought the machine and
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  Speaker 5: at this point they've lost this battle in the civil
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  Speaker 5: war with the owners? So do you feel bad for
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  Speaker 5: the NFL players that they appear to have lost this
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  Speaker 5: a war thing with the owners? So on this one,
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  Speaker 5: I'm giving the alving sidey. All right, I'm giving the
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  Speaker 5: loving side eye. And the reason I'm giving this sidey
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  Speaker 5: is neither one looks good.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 5: They looked like entitled babyeses. It's a great tragedy. It's
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  Speaker 5: also a total embarrassment, right. The arbitrator basically called the
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  Speaker 5: union a bunch of frauds. This was designed, the judge said,
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  Speaker 5: designed under the guise of a scientific exercise. And that's
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  Speaker 5: fancy burbage for we made it up, and we were
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  Speaker 5: we were just looking looking like we wanted to play
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  Speaker 5: the victim cards.
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  Speaker 1: So we just made this whole thing up, and we want
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  Speaker 1: to make the owners look bad.
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  Speaker 5: And the players refuse to show the data from previous
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  Speaker 5: service and in court, as I read, they admitted, capitally
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  Speaker 5: admitted to picking the responses, doing it for the matrix
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  Speaker 5: and all you click bait rats. They were doing a few.
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  Speaker 5: They handcrafted the players Union. They handcrafted this for the
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  Speaker 5: low information fan who just wants to hop on a
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  Speaker 5: platform like X and mock billionaire owners and all that.
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  Speaker 5: So it's promotional fluff, click and the click, and it's
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  Speaker 5: the shame game. The NFLPA got caught with their hands
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: in the cookie jar pig skin drama oh rama right
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  Speaker 5: the mini series and for what, seriously, they're belly aching
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  Speaker 5: about the quality of the rizuto in the cafeteria is
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  Speaker 5: essentially what this is a Woody Johnson, who, by the way,
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  Speaker 5: the guy that runs around as the owner of the Jets,
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  Speaker 5: Woody Johnson, is worth four point three billion, four point three.
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  Speaker 1: Billion with B and I was reading.
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  Speaker 5: That there's some different opinions about what was behind all this,
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  Speaker 5: and he apparently was leading the charge to kill this
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  Speaker 5: Woody Johnson, the aforementioned Woody Johnson, and he's the only
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  Speaker 5: owner who got an f and it clearly touched a
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  Speaker 5: raw nerve for the Jets owner, a really big raw
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  Speaker 5: nerve there for the Jets owner. And he was upset,
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  Speaker 5: and so, yeah, the Jets are fine for now, They're
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  Speaker 5: fine being ripped. Woody Johnson doesn't care, Otherwise he'd fix it.
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  Speaker 5: Doesn't care about being ripped and playing like turds on
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  Speaker 5: almost weekly basis in the NFL. They just don't want
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  Speaker 5: to hear about the daycare center. They don't want to
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  Speaker 5: hear about that. And that's the thing, right, You've got
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  Speaker 5: guys making what is it, two point seven not two
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  Speaker 5: point five, two point seven million a year, and these.
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  Speaker 1: People will be nice.
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  Speaker 5: These people are out there complaining about work conditions. Let's
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  Speaker 5: get the world's smallest fioline out. It's like they've been
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  Speaker 5: hard at work, playing basketball at an Indonesia sweatshop making air.
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  Speaker 5: Jordan's like, yeah, I don't think you're doing that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't. I mean I might be wrong, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't think you're doing that. So give me a break.
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  Speaker 5: You're playing a game for billions of dollars, a game
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  Speaker 5: where rarely you have to play back to back. You
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  Speaker 5: almost always have at least a day off between games.
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  Speaker 5: And yeah, so you're making two point seven million or
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  Speaker 5: whatever that is, and it's.
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  Speaker 1: Gonna go up. It only goes up. It every goes down.
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  Speaker 5: And you want free snacks and a personal shopper for
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  Speaker 5: you as well. And they sound like they're spoiled celebrities
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  Speaker 5: with the ridiculous, ridiculous situation.
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  Speaker 1: That's going on right now.
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  Speaker 5: And so if I guess I would compare it to music,
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  Speaker 5: that the cop would be music.
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  Speaker 1: And you hear these stories every most while.
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: I remember back in the day, Mariah Carey asked for
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: a room full of puppies and that's when she would
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: travel on the road, she had to.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Have a room filled with puppies and kids. Van Halen
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: picked the brown eminem out of the bowl.
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: That would be more because he's psychotic, but he did
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: it right, and so that happened. And yeah, it's wacky, wacky, wacky,
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: wacky wacky. How about you got Mariah Carey with the
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: puppies and the kids out, van Halen picking the brown
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: Eminem's out of the bowl.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: No brown Eminem's, get him out of here.
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: And so all these players I'm talking about, the guys
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: on Pittsburgh on this issue, they seem to be obtuse,
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: which is odd to me, Like I'm confused.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: What is going on here? You know, It's like, come on,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: what are we doing.
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: They don't even realize the players how bad they look
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: to the regular schmo working the nine to five, forty
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: plus hours a week, can't afford a tickets seeing them play,
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: can't afford any time off to go hang out with
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: the family. And they agreed. The players agreed to it.
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: And this is something why we have sports talk radio.
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: We are there for the fan because you cannot trust
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: any of these coaches cannot do it. As much as
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: the NBA wants that out there that you cannot, you
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: can't do it.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: So I mean, you look.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: Around and everything's going on, and I go back to
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: Article forty nine, Section six. It's right there, and black
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: and white, not black and silver like the rated black
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: and white, or you can look it up on your tablet.
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: They willingly gave, the players willingly gave their right to
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: publicly criticize the owners and the teams or the league.
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: So they can't do it. They're violating the bylaws of
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: the NFL. These guys poked the fire breathing dragon and
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: got burned. And so yeah, the Dolphins and the Vikings
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: are the supposedly the two greatest places to play football.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: That's wonderful. Who cares. Nobody cares about that. Do you
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: sit there?
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: And so I can't support this team because they had
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: a low rating on the fan thing.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: No, no, it's not about that. It's it's about going
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: out winning playoff games.
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: The Cardinals, I don't remember who they played, but they
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: were right there. They were the Cardinals with the bottom
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: of the NFL this past year. And the ratings game
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: just doesn't seem to work that well.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Right, it's not.
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: People take it way too seriously, and that's it. That's
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: just all is. And so it's football, that's It's not
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: some corporate retreat of the four seasons.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: It's not that.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: And this was just obviously public humiliation. That's what this was.
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: And listen, we get it. They tried the union, the
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: players union, try to use these report cards as a weapon,
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: and the arbitrator just disarmed them and sent them to
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: the corner and they have to put their nose against
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: the wall for time out.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: That's what you got to do. And you're millionaires and you're.
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: Upset because you're eating your lukewarm Risuto, We'll just eat
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: your lukewarm room temperature at Risuto, and you know, get
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: on the plane. Stop acting like your life is a
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: hardship because the chat the chartered flight did not have
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: enough leg room, Like, oh my god, I I again,
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: it's like, what are you doing. I don't get it.
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: I do not understand. But that's where we are. That
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: is that is where we are. Just absolutely freaking great,
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: absolutely freaking great.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Uh. And I did not purposely do I'm gonna tur
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: the picture.
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: I did not purposely do a rant about Chris Paul
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: and his retirement. You should have retired a couple of
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: years ago. He's been hanging around the clippers. Finally were
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: the grown ups in the room and they got rid
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: of Chris Paul, which is what should have happened to
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: other teams a couple of years ago. And finally Chris
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: Paul realized anily right before Thanksgiving.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: You know what, I think. I think I'm good. I
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: think I'm good on that.
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: And now he's gonna annoy this because from what I've
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: been told, Chris Paul is going to get one of
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: these TV jobs. I think he's going to be doing
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: stuff at ESPN. But either way, Chris Paul will be
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: on television. I would say between now and the start
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: of the playoffs. Playoffs, which is also fun because he
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: is the old coach and his team nowhere near the playoffs,
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: right nowhere near the playoffs at all.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: All right, it is a fifth Hour with.
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: Me, Ben Maller and Danny g on this Valentine's Day, Saturday.
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: We will have a brand spanking new mail bag tomorrow.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Tomorrow.
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: Tomorrow is another day, and I've already checked the mail bag.
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: I got a couple of questions about Steven A. Smith
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: becoming the president. And if you think Steven A.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Smith is going to going to become the president of
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: the United.
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: States, well I got some I got some chicken farms
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: in Kawhi.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: I would like to give to you. You can have them.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: I'm not that's not a joke. I'll give them to you.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: To send me your address.
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: And he come on, he's he's been out there the
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: freezing out of the coaching ranks. So if you had
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: no clue that this was a possibility, bad job, all right,
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: with playing ranks, I should say, all right, we'll get
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: out on that. Have a wonderful Valentine's Day. Whoever the
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: malord plan. And I remind you boys all the time
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: you're still listening. This is an added bonus the Malord
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: plan here, and it typically works when Valentine's Day does
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: not fall today on a Saturday, but if it's during
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: the week, you're like, listen, I gotta go out. I
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: got to do stuff I'm not and I got work things.
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: I can't hang out with you, but I'd love to
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: hang out with.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: You on Monday.
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: And then on Monday morning, you go out to Supermarket
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: Steve Supermarket, Steve's Place grocery store, and you buy the
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: fifty percent off chocolates, you buy the fifty seven percent
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: off little thing of a jig for Valentine's Day, and
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: you're good.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: That's all you have to do.
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: Just boom boom baby, boom baby, boom bite my boom baby,
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: just like that. All right, yes, very good. On that
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: note again, have a great day today. We'll get the
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: mail bag on Sunday, that will be tomorrow, and we
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: will talk to you then.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Later. Skater Asta pasta my folation.