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  Speaker 1: A plot twist to the NFL drama O Rama. Welcome
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  Speaker 1: in the beginning of yet another night of the Benmahlor Show.
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  Speaker 1: our lead this hour, I'm obsessed, I admit it. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not gonna lie. There's no need to lie. Why would
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  Speaker 1: you lie. I am obsessed with all the juicy gossip
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  Speaker 1: around the foot here as we have an entire week
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  Speaker 1: that is design for the silly season of the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm in, I'm in, I'm all about it. So
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  Speaker 1: I thought we would lead this hour by hopping on
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  Speaker 1: the merry go round, round and round and round and
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  Speaker 1: round the quarterback Mary go round. So it's time for
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  Speaker 1: our obligatory malle monologue on the future of Matthew Slanford.
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  Speaker 1: I know you're dying to know now if you have
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  Speaker 1: not heard the latest, possibly not. There is said to
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  Speaker 1: be optimism that Matthew Stafford will be ending up in
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  Speaker 1: a city that isn't Los Angeles. We have learned there
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  Speaker 1: is said to be a new front runner for Matthew Stafford.
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  Speaker 1: No Raiders. That's right, the Raiders sit in city. I
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  Speaker 1: love the reporting on this. The reporting is that Matthew
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  Speaker 1: Stafford's camp and the Raiders have found common ground on
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  Speaker 1: a new contract and how that would be structured, and
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  Speaker 1: little birdies that love slot machines and roulette tables and
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  Speaker 1: resort fees and twenty five dollars parking per day in Vegas.
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  Speaker 1: Say that the Raiders, now they've already worked out the outline,
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  Speaker 1: if you were, the blueprint of what a contract would
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  Speaker 1: look like. And now they're at the negotiation stage with
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  Speaker 1: the Rams. They have to come up with a compensation
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  Speaker 1: package with the l A Rams, and then they get
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  Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford. So let us discuss that. Will assume for
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  Speaker 1: the purposes of this Mallard monologue that that report is accurate.
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  Speaker 1: The Raiders said to be the new front runner for
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  Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford in a trade. How much stock do you
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  Speaker 1: put on that? So I've got professional wrestling, Lando Lakes,
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  Speaker 1: Butter and Golden Hammer, and we're gonna put all these
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  Speaker 1: things together. We're gonna make the gobbagool. We're gonna make
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  Speaker 1: the gobbagool, all right, So to begin here in terms
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  Speaker 1: of how much stock, as you know, in one of
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  Speaker 1: my nicknames, i am, I'm the King of Wall Street.
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  Speaker 1: So this is my nemesis in the football season, the
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  Speaker 1: Penny it's a penny stock. At this point, I assume
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  Speaker 1: nothing and I question everything. That's good talk radio. I'm
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  Speaker 1: a skeptic, Okay, I am in a show me state
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  Speaker 1: of mind. Here's why we know this is a fluid situation.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty four hours ago, the Giants were the favorite. Now
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  Speaker 1: the Raiders. Well, we got a couple of days to
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  Speaker 1: go here. So if Stafford, let's play this out here,
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  Speaker 1: you and I. If Stafford picks the Raiders, he would
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  Speaker 1: be making a faustian bark. He would be giving up
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  Speaker 1: any realistic chance of getting to another super Bowl for
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  Speaker 1: a check. And maybe he's fine with that. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: after all, he did win, for my money, the greatest
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  Speaker 1: super Bowl the modern era, Rams and Bengals a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years back, Rams stood atop the mountain. So for Stafford,
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  Speaker 1: guy's a little hunk of metal. Will piece of metal
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  Speaker 1: right there. And so yeah, if you got to not
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  Speaker 1: win another one, but you get a nice, nice deal,
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  Speaker 1: a nice contract. Okay, now the issue, and this is
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  Speaker 1: why I'm a skeptic on this. Mark Davis as an
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  Speaker 1: NFL owner, Mark Davis, if he was a professional wrestler,
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  Speaker 1: his nickname, you know, his nick name would be he
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  Speaker 1: would be el Chipo. That would be his nickname. He
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  Speaker 1: is penny rich and you dollar poor. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: how it goes. Penny rich dollar for I think that's
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  Speaker 1: the phrase. It would be out of character to pay
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  Speaker 1: Stafford what he's gonna want fifty plus million dollars a year,
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  Speaker 1: unless Stafford is willing to cut some kind of deal,
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  Speaker 1: maybe he would be. I don't know why you would
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  Speaker 1: do that with the Raiders. If you look at the roster,
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  Speaker 1: barring some kind of dramatic recreation of that roster this offseason,
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  Speaker 1: that team as it is currently instructed, with only a
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  Speaker 1: couple of additions, would not be even a wildcard team
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  Speaker 1: you would assume next season. Now, furthermore, let's get to
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  Speaker 1: the timeline. So I think this part of the story
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  Speaker 1: is interesting, Otherwise I would have brought it up. But
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  Speaker 1: we are told that both the Rams and Matthew Stafford
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  Speaker 1: believe there will be a resolution to all the confusion
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  Speaker 1: soon regarding Stafford's status, whether he stays or goes with
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  Speaker 1: the Rams, and it should be done by the end
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  Speaker 1: of the NFL combine. The plot thickened some more. Hello
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  Speaker 1: now State sponsored the NFL media. The problem the news
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  Speaker 1: service of the NFL tells us that all options are
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  Speaker 1: on the table, including staying put, keeping his tucks with
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  Speaker 1: the Rams going to the raiders. As we've mentioned, the
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  Speaker 1: giants are still lurking in the shadows. And my favorite,
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  Speaker 1: the Mystery Team. I love the Mystery team. Give me
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  Speaker 1: the mystery, give me the misery. All right, So how
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  Speaker 1: do the next seventy two hours? Because remember this is
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  Speaker 1: we're now our Friday show. The combine ends on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: So how do the next seventy two hours or so
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  Speaker 1: go on? Matthew Stafford watch? So we have our in
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  Speaker 1: depth team coverage here around the clock on the Fox
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  Speaker 1: box that rocks. And this is land O Lake's butter. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: as in Matthew Stafford spinning butter as he does soul searching,
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  Speaker 1: does he pick his happy place with a Rams? But
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  Speaker 1: in order to do that, as we've talked about, he'd
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  Speaker 1: have to leave money on the table. The Rams, if
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  Speaker 1: what we're hearing is accurate, have put their foot down
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  Speaker 1: and said you've got you know a deal. We're not
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  Speaker 1: gonna pay you what you want. And does Stafford say, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'd rather fill up my four to oh one K
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  Speaker 1: to the Max, and it's really not his. We're talking
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  Speaker 1: about like three or four generations down the line. We're
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  Speaker 1: we're talking one hundred and fifty years from now taking
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  Speaker 1: care of those great great grandkids, that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 1: So get the Mickey Mouse dollars. But the combine ending
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  Speaker 1: on Monday, A decision will likely come down Saturday or Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: We hope Sunday properly before the show, give us time
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  Speaker 1: to process everything. Get the The show started on Sunday
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  Speaker 1: night with some hot Stafford news. But as for what
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  Speaker 1: Stafford is worth in a trade, now, I would love
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  Speaker 1: if the Raiders of the Giants are dumb enough to
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  Speaker 1: trade a first round pick. I realize that's not gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: I also realize they're not gonna get a second round pick.
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  Speaker 1: At most. The Rams, I would think, barring some kind
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  Speaker 1: of Jedi mind trick, will get a third round pick
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  Speaker 1: and some conditional pick swap or some other conditional draft picks,
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  Speaker 1: depending on how Staffords a stays healthy and be how
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  Speaker 1: he performs. The real fun begins if Stafford hits the
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  Speaker 1: eject button. Now, that is when things get very very interesting,
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  Speaker 1: because then the RAMS starting job opens up, and that
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  Speaker 1: becomes a very coveted position, being able to work with
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  Speaker 1: the greatest offensive mind in modern football, Sean McVay, and
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  Speaker 1: a team that has a young, upstart defense and an
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  Speaker 1: elite top ten receiver in Puka Nakua and a pretty
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  Speaker 1: good running back. I mean, there's a lot of good
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  Speaker 1: stuff going on with the Rams right now, and so
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  Speaker 1: that job becomes the pick of the litter. Now, unfortunately
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  Speaker 1: the litter, it's a lot of dogs with fleece. But
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  Speaker 1: you got that Aaron Rodgers story, Aaron Rodgers lurking in
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  Speaker 1: the shadow. So we'll see how this all plays out.
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited, you know, I'm fired up. We'll see how
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  Speaker 1: it all plays out, all right, Now, last thing, so
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  Speaker 1: I want to follow up on what was our lead
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  Speaker 1: story in a previous episode of the show, NFL Media Musings.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone in the media business talking about these two insiders
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  Speaker 1: getting into a dust up. And I bring that up
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  Speaker 1: because an NFL spokeshack said that the league has no
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  Speaker 1: issue with Matthew Stafford meeting with Tom Brady and the Raiders.
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  Speaker 1: The league said the club gave permission. So what is
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  Speaker 1: your takeaway from that new wrinkle in this story? So
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  Speaker 1: this is an obvious w for the upstart underdog insider.
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  Speaker 1: It is a golden hammer for Fox's Jordan Schultz, the
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  Speaker 1: golden hammer over NFL Networks Ian Rappaport. Now, these dromokes,
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  Speaker 1: if you didn't hear what happened, maybe you don't obsessed
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  Speaker 1: with this crap like some of us do. So these
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  Speaker 1: two Schmendricks got into a verbal Donnie Brook at a
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  Speaker 1: Starbucks at the j W. Marriott in downtown Indianapolis. They
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  Speaker 1: got into it. They were having a nice fruit drink
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  Speaker 1: and then they got into it. So the NFL has
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  Speaker 1: cited with Jordan Schultz report being accurate. Now, what is
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  Speaker 1: my supporting evidence by saying the league said that it
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  Speaker 1: has no issue with Stafford meeting with Tom Brady. They
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  Speaker 1: are the NFL validating That's the word I will use,
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  Speaker 1: validating Jordan Schultz reporting that those guys had a clandestine
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  Speaker 1: meeting in Montana and it was not not what the
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  Speaker 1: wrap sheet reported that it was some random cosmic accident
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  Speaker 1: that they just happened to end up at the same
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  Speaker 1: spot in Montana surrounded by moose. It wasn't that, And
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  Speaker 1: I continue to say my opinion is that was just
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  Speaker 1: spin from the Tom Brady Camp. They were concerned about
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  Speaker 1: getting in trouble with the league. Brady's paranoid from everything
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  Speaker 1: that happened in his days with the Patriots, and so
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  Speaker 1: they leaked that to a former Patriot beat writer, more
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  Speaker 1: likely than not Ian Rappaport. He of course went with
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  Speaker 1: it because he's waiting for the next Tom Brady Scoope.
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  Speaker 1: But the NFL, again, that's it's not me, it's the
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  Speaker 1: NFL saying that they have no issue with the get
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  Speaker 1: Together because it wasn't get Together. The NFL would not
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  Speaker 1: have released that statement if it was just some chance
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  Speaker 1: kwinkie dink that they ran into each other. So that
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  Speaker 1: is a cut punch to the rap sheet friendly fire too,
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  Speaker 1: because he's on the NFL dime, he's on the NFL payroll.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll see what the investigation leads to. But I
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  Speaker 1: was flipping around and I was watching I don't really
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  Speaker 1: watch these NBA games very much, but I love the
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  Speaker 1: TNT guys like Barkley and Shack and Kenny Smith and
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  Speaker 1: those guys, and they were yapping about the Jordan Schultz
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  Speaker 1: Ian Rappaport. Donny situation was more verbal dotty Brook than anything.
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  Speaker 1: But even they were yapping about it. It's a great story,
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  Speaker 1: It's great kind of things. Though again that used to
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  Speaker 1: happen all the time regular occurrence. People would get very jealous,
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  Speaker 1: very competitive, and they would go at it loggerheads all
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  Speaker 1: over the place.
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from the scouting Combine
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  Speaker 1: in Indianapolis. Things heating up, the Underwear Olympics, the Underwear
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  Speaker 1: Olympics underway, and so much fun. A three cone drill,
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  Speaker 1: the forty yard dash, man in their underwear running around.
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  Speaker 1: Who doesn't like that? So the Heisman winner has created
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  Speaker 1: some level of excitement. He's filled the content kitty on
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  Speaker 1: the Ben Malors Show. If you did not hear, maybe
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  Speaker 1: not as anticipated. Colorado's star player now former Colorado player
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  Speaker 1: and a great soldier for Fortune, Travis Hunter. Travis Hunter
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  Speaker 1: believes he can play cornerback and wide receiver at the
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  Speaker 1: next level. Now stunner of stunners, he gave this quote
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  Speaker 1: at the scouting combine. He said, I want to play both.
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  Speaker 1: That's not my job to figure it out. He said,
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  Speaker 1: I like to play both sides of the ball. If
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  Speaker 1: they give me the opportunity to play both sides of
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  Speaker 1: the ball, I will play both sides of the ball.
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  Speaker 1: He later on said when asked whether or not he
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  Speaker 1: could handle the rigors of playing the amount of snaps
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  Speaker 1: that one would have to play, of course, he said yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that he can be a two way player one hundred
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  Speaker 1: percent of the time. So that is the money quote
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  Speaker 1: that Travis Hunter gave at the combine. So let us
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  Speaker 1: discuss the question for the Estean panel. Travis Hunter is
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  Speaker 1: convinced that we didn't know he already was. But Travis
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  Speaker 1: Hunter is convinced that he can be a two way
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  Speaker 1: player one of the time in the NFL. Will he
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  Speaker 1: get the chance? So I've got Inspector, Gadget Cosplay, and
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  Speaker 1: SpongeBob SquarePants, and we're gonna combine all of these things
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  Speaker 1: together and we are going to make the Ben Mallard
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  Speaker 1: chicken fingers, which are on the menu when you go
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  Speaker 1: to Kansas City, Liberty, Missouri. Landing been there had a
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  Speaker 1: big Mallard meet and greet last year during football season
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  Speaker 1: early November. It was great Ben Mallard Chicken fingers. All right, So,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, to answer the question, will Travis Hunter
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  Speaker 1: get the chance to play both sides of the ball
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL and a semi regular clip, I am
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  Speaker 1: nodding my head yes. I am nodding my head yes.
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  Speaker 1: And I look at his attitude as the R word
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  Speaker 1: refreshing in the age of works. Work smarter, not harder,
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  Speaker 1: do the bare minimum. Travis Hunter is not running from
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  Speaker 1: the grind. He's running towards the grind. He wants to
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  Speaker 1: be part of the grind. He wants to play with perseverance.
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  Speaker 1: He wants to play every snap and I respect that,
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  Speaker 1: and he should be given the opportunity. He wants to
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  Speaker 1: follow through with what he did in college, and most
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  Speaker 1: NFL teams are going to reject out of an abundance
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  Speaker 1: of caution these paranoid peats, paranoid about fatigue, and a
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  Speaker 1: fewer snabs would in theory, reduce the injury risk. After all,
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  Speaker 1: a Hunter is trying to become the first player to
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  Speaker 1: play both sides of the ball regularly since Chuck Bednarrick,
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  Speaker 1: a great name if you're a football historian, goes back
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  Speaker 1: to the nineteen sixties. Now, opinions are mixed. Opinions are mixed.
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  Speaker 1: Brian Callahan, that's the coach of the Titans, probably not
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  Speaker 1: for long the way things are going there. But Callahan
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  Speaker 1: the coach in Tennessee, and they have the number one,
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  Speaker 1: so he said, hey, I think this guy Hunter will
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  Speaker 1: be a defensive back in the NFL. And then you've
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  Speaker 1: got Andrew Barry, who's a general manager, also not for
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  Speaker 1: long in Cleveland, although he must have compromising photos of
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  Speaker 1: Brown's ownership, otherwise how do you keep his job? So
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Berry has the second pick in the draft, and
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  Speaker 1: he has pretty much come outa and said that that
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  Speaker 1: Hunter is primarily a receiver, So you have pull their
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  Speaker 1: opposite views here. Nevertheless, all it takes is one team
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  Speaker 1: to open that door. And if you look into the
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  Speaker 1: crystal ball, and we've got one. We bought it on
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  Speaker 1: Tiamu before the Tariffs. We see Travis Hunter as an
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  Speaker 1: inspector gadget type guy, close to full throttle starting defensive back,
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  Speaker 1: playing roughly forty to fifty percent of offensive snaps, as
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  Speaker 1: a slot receiver, a lethal slot receiver, and it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be go go gadget with this cat. So that's the
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  Speaker 1: way we see it. Now second. Travis Hunter also says
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  Speaker 1: that it is super important for him to be the
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  Speaker 1: number one in the NFL draft, that pick being held
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  Speaker 1: by the Titans, who are on the clock right now.
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  Speaker 1: So what are the chances that Travis Hunter ends up
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  Speaker 1: getting that number one slot in the draft. So the
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  Speaker 1: chances are not great. It's kind of like going to
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  Speaker 1: Churchill Downs to watch four horse rays and the Hunter
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  Speaker 1: is third. About a twenty percent chance. We'll see what
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  Speaker 1: happens because we are coming down the stretch and as
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  Speaker 1: you know, horse races are one down the stretch oftentimes.
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  Speaker 1: So the question becomes, can Hunter, the Heisman winner, close
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  Speaker 1: the gap? Can he close the gap? So you got
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  Speaker 1: what you do here is you got to hit the
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  Speaker 1: campaign trail. He actually started that this He hit the
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  Speaker 1: campaign trail. That was a stump speech, is what it was.
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  Speaker 1: And yep, you gotta play off this. It's really cosplay.
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  Speaker 1: He's dressed up as a unicorn. The key for Travis
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  Speaker 1: Hunter is branding, advertising and marketing. It is show business.
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  Speaker 1: The buzz is already there. The buzz is already there. Now,
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  Speaker 1: we saw some clips from the combine and the video
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  Speaker 1: does not lie. They had a bunch of the draft
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  Speaker 1: players in a media get together like a big big
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  Speaker 1: I can think it was one of the hotels. Actually
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  Speaker 1: I didn't think this was at the stadium, but a
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  Speaker 1: giant conference room. Just imagine a giant conference room. And
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  Speaker 1: so Hunter is on one side, everyone else is kind
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  Speaker 1: of spread out around the room and they were ten
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  Speaker 1: to twelve deep in media dopes that were trying to
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  Speaker 1: hear what Travis Hunter had to say. And to the
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  Speaker 1: other players that were at the combine were sitting around
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  Speaker 1: and they were, you know, they were playing tittley winks.
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  Speaker 1: There was nothing. They're being ignored. So that tells you
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  Speaker 1: he's got the panache, Travis Hunter. He did win the Heisman.
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  Speaker 1: You got to have a little rasmataz to win the Heisman,
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  Speaker 1: and so he would be good for business, the business
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  Speaker 1: side of football. You would bring a little bit of clout.
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  Speaker 1: God knows the Tennessee Titans need some. They don't have
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  Speaker 1: any at this particular point. And the Cleveland Browns they
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  Speaker 1: don't have much of that either. All right, now, final thought,
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  Speaker 1: we head to the Bayou and the news out this week,
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  Speaker 1: and if you believe the big cheeses there in New Orleans,
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  Speaker 1: they are claiming that despite reports to the contrary, they
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  Speaker 1: will be keeping the status quo, the status quo at
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback position. So what message will the sense the Saints.
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  Speaker 1: What message will the Saints be sending if they bring
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  Speaker 1: back quarterback Derek Carr for another run around? Another run
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  Speaker 1: around there in Louisiana. So what they are saying, right
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  Speaker 1: the message they are saying if they do bring back
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  Speaker 1: Derek Carr is they are saying, Hey, we love SpongeBob
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  Speaker 1: square Pants and we want to throw the sponge in.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna throw the sponge in New Orleans. Will treat
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  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty five season as a throwaway, disposable season.
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  Speaker 1: Bring back the paper bags, bring back the Aints. That's
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  Speaker 1: what they will be saying now. The GM Mickey Loomis,
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  Speaker 1: who has lifetime employment, said he feels the team can
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  Speaker 1: win with Derek Carr. Also comments somewhat recently, Kellen Moore,
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  Speaker 1: the new coach in New Orleans, said the Saints feel
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  Speaker 1: fortunate to have Car, although Kellen Moore did not give
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  Speaker 1: a ringing, ringing endorsement of Derek Carr. All right, so
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  Speaker 1: niceties aside, niceties put them over here and put them
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  Speaker 1: over here, niceties over there, so that aside, we live
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  Speaker 1: in the real world, right, we have a caller nam
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  Speaker 1: real talk, and Derek Carr is a quarterback and a
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  Speaker 1: calamity waiting to happen. Now, I still believe there's about
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  Speaker 1: a forty percent chance that Car hits the open market
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  Speaker 1: and he will be part of the second wave of
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  Speaker 1: free agency, although the math on this would indicate that
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  Speaker 1: if the Saints are going to cut the cord, they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have to do it much sooner than that. The
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  Speaker 1: deadline is fast approaching. Car is due to get a
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  Speaker 1: ten million dollars roster bonus. Do you imagine randomly getting
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  Speaker 1: a ten million dollar bonus when you're not at work
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  Speaker 1: and just kind of hanging out on the beach somewhere. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's the NFL world. These guys, the same players that
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  Speaker 1: complained about not getting proper seats on airlines and the
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  Speaker 1: three meals a day and the the shoulder rubs and
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  Speaker 1: the toes tickled, they get these massive bonuses. So Carr
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  Speaker 1: gonna get ten million, and that will open up an amazing,
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  Speaker 1: amazing factoid. Once he receives that money, Derek Carr, he
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  Speaker 1: will become the answer to an amazing who am I
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  Speaker 1: game question, and I'm gonna give you the answer right
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  Speaker 1: now because you will end up hearing this at some point,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: I promise you, because once Car gets that ten million dollars,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: assuming that happens, he will then have made and crossed
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  Speaker 1: over the rubicon two hundred million dollars in his career.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: And if that happens, or I should say when it happens,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Derek Carr, we are told, will become the first player
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  Speaker 1: in NFL history to have earned over two hundred million
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  Speaker 1: dollars and have zero playoff wins. The show for it,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: buppkis nothing, zip Bo. Yes, there have been fourteen quarterbacks
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  Speaker 1: in NFL history who have earned at least two hundred
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  Speaker 1: million dollars on field earnings in their career. All of
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: them have at least one playoff win. Derek Carr does
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  Speaker 1: not played in one playoff game, lost to the Cincinnati
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  Speaker 1: Bengals a couple of years back, and that was with
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: the Raiders. And that's it. So he is about to
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: become the most overpaid quarterback, not that he hasn't already
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: been overpaid, but when you look at the body of
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: his work, holy man, holy crap, holy crap, how bad
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: has he been in games against better opponents. And last
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: year it was really a two game season. I think
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Carl only played ten games, so he played about half
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: the games. And for two weeks, New Orleans was the
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: toast of the NFL. They beat up Carolina in Dallas
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: and then they had to play the rest of their
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: schedule and it was turnout the last the parties over. Yeah,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: it was not very good, not very good at all.
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• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Here we go, Here we go Here? Well, how about.
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  Speaker 2: That to the third.
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  Speaker 3: It was reported Wednesday the top prospect, a Duel Carter,
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: has a stress reaction on his right foot and may
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: need surgery. Now, While a surgery decision looms, his agent
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: Jew Rosenhouse says, either way, worst case scenario. We don't
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: expect this to impact where he is drafted. Ben, do
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: you think it will impact his draft position? All?
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  Speaker 1: Right? So, first of all, obviously, what do you expect
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: through Rosenhouse to say, Right, he's being paid to represent
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: the player, He's going to stand up for the player.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: But I actually agree with rosenhause we have seen players
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: who have had injuries that still get drafted, and this
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: is one of those things, if you you know what
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: it is. And I guess they said he doesn't need
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: surgery now, but he still might down the line. But
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: I've been reading these dopey draft previous he's by far
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: the top player, at least on the scouting guys for
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: the draft, so I think he's still fine. If you
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: draft defense, that's the guy you take next. So good old.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: Brian Windhors made a prediction on Wednesday, saying that the
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: Sons will trade Kevin Durant this offseason and that Durant
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  Speaker 3: already knows it.
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  Speaker 1: Ben. Do you concur well, Brian Windhorse said it. Yeah, Well,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: I agree with it because Durantz pretty much said that
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: that's not breaking news. Durant said he turned down Golden
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: State's trade because he wants to leave Phoenix on his terms.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: So that's to me, that's a dead giveaway that he
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: is planning on relocating, but he wants to do it
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: in the offseason that during the season, so I believe
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: that is accurate.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: Next Duke freshman Cooper Flagg has been one of the
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: best players in college basketball this season, and it's caught
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: the attention of a Hall of fame coach, Jim bo Beheim.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: Beheim called him almost birdlike. Are you on board with
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: that comparison?
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Ben? Now, does this mean like an actual bird, like
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: big Bird, or like a penguin, which I guess is
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: a bird but doesn't really fly, or you like a pigeon?
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: He's obviously talking about Larry Bird. I'm not there yet.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: I'm not. He's a good college player. I gotta see more.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: I've seen him play a few times at Duke this year.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: He's solid. I'm not convinced. How do we do you pass?
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: This edition? That is a win? Another win, Lorada All
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  Speaker 1: Blame we blame we too. It's Big Ben's lame joke
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  Speaker 1: of the week. Weed man, you're fussing around with your phone.
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  Speaker 1: You're ready to do this? Weed man?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm here.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: You know you gotta go outside. Right, he's got a roommate,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: He's got to go outside or else. You he is
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: so considerate, Ben, Well, he doesn't want to get no
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  Speaker 1: fight that tops that they called. They will go back
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  Speaker 1: to jail. And you know all that. You ready now
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  Speaker 1: we've man. Yeah, you don't seem excited.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah yeah. Make me laugh?
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: No, that's forced. I need I need to feel it
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  Speaker 1: in my bones.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: It make me laugh, then make me laugh a little better.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: You're warming up a little better, all right? These are
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  Speaker 1: These are actual jokes by actual listeners. If you'd like
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• 28:39
  Speaker 1: put jokes in the title, otherwise they will not be used.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Here we go. What are Lizzo's pronouns? What B five
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: four FuMB? That's Noah in Austin? What kind of stick
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: is Lizzo's favorite? What kind a stick of butter? Loves it?
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Loves Timoth? Timothy and Northern Kentucky? Why did Lizzo and
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Ian Rappaport recently get into an argument in the Starbucks? Why?
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Two words cheese Danish? That's Darryl and the Ozarks. Good
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: luck to you, Darrel. I know you're going through some stuff,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: and I want to thank Daryl. By the way, Darryl
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: sent me a photo to verify that he was not
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: lying about he had a tremendous medical procedure and sent
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: me a photo of the of the the operation right
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: after it got done with all the stitches in. Yes,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: and when I when I got done puking in my mouth,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: I appreciated that. I How how rich is Lizzo? How rich?
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: She is? So rich? She has three dozen eggs in
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: a refrigerator and two dozen in a belly rose. That's
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: why is Lizzo nicknamed the dog catcher? Why she's always
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: catching strays here on the Mallor Show. That's George and Yuvaldi.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: What is the difference between Lizzo and Dank de Moss?
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: What's the difference about forty two? Big Max? Do you
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: know who? Do you know who Dank de Moss is?
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  Speaker 2: No?
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: I like that you laughed at it? You have no idea?
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: That was also Darren the Ozarks. Jeez, I believe the
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: rapper that tried to sue Lift because she couldn't fit
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  Speaker 1: in the car. Wow, yeah, I think that's the way
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: the car. Yes, it's like putting a a square peg
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: into a round hole. It just doesn't work. Yeah. Why
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: does Lizzo always politely for an invitation to a party? Why? Well,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: she doesn't want to feel like she barged in George
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: and Uvaldi? You got any you got any jokes over there?
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Coop now and you're not the same right? Wait? Does
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: that guse she's as big as a boat? Oh my okay, now, yes,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: that would be that. That would be why it's funny?
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Why did why did Lizo retire from being a spokesperson
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: for obesity? Why turns out she doesn't have the stomach
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: for it anymore. That's chip in Maine. Why why is
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: there a lawsuit against the Forklift Transportation Why? Well, it
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: turns out Lizzo refused rides the hippos. That's true in Minnesota.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: What is Lizzo? What is Lizzo's favorite type of edible?
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: What kind she likes? A lot of pot pies? A
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: lot of pot pies? That is from Surfer Todd, the
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: comedian who is up for the Benny Award for Joke
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Rider of the Year. All right, hold on, we man
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  Speaker 1: we'll pause for the cause I know, Loraina, you've got
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  Speaker 1: a joke. Is that correct? You want to do that
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  Speaker 1: on the other side, Yeah, we can do when we
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: come back. All right, we'll have Lorraine. Why I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going anywhere. I'm gonna sit right here. All right, Well,
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  Speaker 1: I love you too, all right, very nice, don't hang up,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: weed Man. We'll have the weed Man Radio rows. We
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  Speaker 1: got a bunch of other Dad jokes and we'll get
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: through as many of them as we can, time permitting.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: It's Big Ben's Laying Jokes of the Week, and it
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  Speaker 1: continues next.
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  Speaker 1: Back to it we go right now, Well, Bill, you
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: didn't say it's lame jokes and weed mail you there,
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: weed Man? Yeah, I love you make me laugh? All right, Well,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: we have a joke from Lorrainer to see if Loraina
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  Speaker 1: can make you laugh. Lorena, the listener sent this in correct, Yes,
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: a listener sent me a joke. Okay, are you ready? Yes?
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: What's a snowman's favorite designer brand? What Burbarry? That was cute, right,
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: that's a solid dad joke. What do Woody Johnson and
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: weed men in business school have in common? What f grades?
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: That's Eric in Kansas, weed Man. Do you see that
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: that story? The players graded the teams and they gave
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Woody Johnson a really bad grade? There? Yeah? What does
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: what does weed man call a cardboard box with a
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: hole in it? What a way to make a living?
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: According to Tony in the Bay Area, Wow, Tony, Tony,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: what are you doing Tony? Why did weed man quit
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: his job at the fertilizer company after only one day?
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: Well, apparently you found out weed and feed was a product,
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: not employee benefits. That's Terry, Terry and Saint Paul. What
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: is the best trip weed man can afford?
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: A trip down the stairs? That's Noah in Austin. Why
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: is weed man one up on all those federal employees? Why?
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: Because weed Man can't be laid off. He can't be
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: that's Dennis in destroyed. Also, if Elon Musk he emailed
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: you and asked you what you did last week, you'd
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: probably say I smoked weed all day? What else doing?
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: Why did weed Man get fired from the Olympic medal shop.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: Why you kept huffing all the gold dust? That's from
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: Drew in Minnesota. That last normalst from Dennis in Detroit.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Why doesn't weed Man mind people making fun of him?
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Why he's always had a place in his heart for
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: pot shots. He loves those pot shots. That's Tip and name.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Well did you hear that weed Man Hippie was trying
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: to get a job at the local car wash? No? Really? Yeah? Yeah, yeah?
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: When you walked in for the interview, they said they
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: don't do drive through shower gigs, just drive clean rides.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: That's it. That's Jennifer t Look at that. We meant
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: Jennifer Ta in Cincinnati's ripping you. Why was weed Man
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: so easy to find when he slept at the post office?
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Why everyone knew weed Man's p O box Surfer Todd
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: the comedian who's up for lame joke Rider of the Year.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Why did Weedman Hippie have to turn down his latest
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: job offer. Why? Well, the person doing the hiring told
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  Speaker 1: him it was a job he could really sink his
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: teeth into. I know that's the joke. That's Fargo Pete.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: How did weed Man Hippie propose to Lisa?
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  Speaker 3: Wow?
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: He said Mary, I wanna that's Jennifer Jennifer teen Cincinnati.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: All right, weed Man, did you know that a radio guy,
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: David Vessey is a apparently a class A schmuck according
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: to this Yes, no, you know, yeah, you too might
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: be related. That's Tony in the Bay Area. He sent
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: down with him. Why did weed Man start running track? Why?
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't couldn't catch those trains anymore? Right? And you
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: couldn't do answer? That's Crewe in Minnesota. What would you
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: get if you combind weed Man Hippie with Dick from Dayton?
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  Speaker 1: What a limp weed? You know the rest? That's John
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  Speaker 1: and Youngstown, Ohio. Lame jokes of the week. Why did
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  Speaker 1: weed Man Hippie go house shopping in Canada on December
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: twenty sixth? You heard? You heard? It was boxing day?
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: Here his boxing day? The Fargo Keith. Why did the
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: tooth fairy show up at weed man hippies place? Last night?
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: Why to tell him he's got to keep calm and
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: carry on while she searches his missing or for his
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: missing pearly whites. That's Jennifer Team in Cincinnati. If Kerry
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: Jones was fat, what would he want? What some donut hole.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: That's a buttermilk chobo. When does a joke become a
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: dad joke? WHOA when it's a parent? From Michael in Nashville,
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  Speaker 1: Lame jokes of the Week. Thank you all good jokes
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  Speaker 1: this week. Good job