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Hour 4 - Not at His Post · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Bang, bang, it's our number four, our number four, and
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Speaker 1: we go to the Beltway. Do you understand why wide
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Speaker 1: receiver Terry mcclaurin is digging in his bunker against the
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Speaker 1: Washington football team as he did not show up to
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Speaker 1: Commander's camp. The old Redskins Caleb Williams has goals this season.
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Speaker 1: The Chicago quarterback wants to be the bears first four
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Speaker 1: thousand yard passer and complete seventy percent of his passes.
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Speaker 1: What's the core of this story? And Patriot coach Mike
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Speaker 1: Rabel ravaged a reporter for asking a repeat question and
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Speaker 1: his press conference is this inbounds or round of bounds?
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Speaker 1: We'll get to all of that and more right now here.
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Speaker 2: It is.
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Speaker 1: Have a wonderful Wednesday. Thank you, Thank you for supporting
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Speaker 3: Otherwise we'd be screwed.
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Speaker 2: Here.
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Speaker 3: It is our number four. The Commander is not at
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Speaker 3: his post.
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Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from football.
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Speaker 3: Why not.
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Speaker 1: We'll go inside the Beltway and that is where you
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Speaker 1: will not find disgruntled wide receiver Terry McLaurin. He did
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Speaker 1: not report to work to the team formerly known as
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Speaker 1: the Redskins as training camp got underway this week and
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Speaker 1: he was marked as absent. He was marked as absent
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Speaker 1: from a conditioning test that does mark the beginning the unofficial,
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Speaker 1: unofficial official start of training camp. So if you didn't
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Speaker 1: see this and you haven't been following along because you
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Speaker 1: actually have a life, and you know.
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Speaker 3: I don't care about the Washington whatever.
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Speaker 1: They are, all right, So this should come as no
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Speaker 1: surprise if you've been paying any attention. But McLaurin, who
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Speaker 1: has been the only viable player up until last year
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Speaker 1: for the Washington football team, he wants a new contract.
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Speaker 3: Pay the man now.
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Speaker 1: McLaurin entering his age thirty age thirty NFL season, he
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Speaker 1: has been the very top target the depth chart there
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Speaker 1: for the Washington football team. So let us discuss the
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Speaker 1: question for the esteem panel, which you are part of.
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Speaker 1: Do you understand why Terry McLaurin is digging in the
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Speaker 1: foxhole if you will, against the Washington football team, the
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Speaker 1: front office there and all that. So I've got a
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Speaker 1: comic con insurance policy and Chuck E Cheese, and we
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Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together and we're gonna
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Speaker 1: make the Gabba gul.
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Speaker 3: We're gonna make the Gabba goool.
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Speaker 1: With a little bit on the side, We'll get some
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Speaker 1: eggplant and we'll make the Baba ganoosh is what we're
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Speaker 1: gonna make. So to kick off here, the answer to
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Speaker 1: the question is one thousand. I totally get it. I
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Speaker 1: gotta stand the industrial complex of pro sports in the NFL.
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Speaker 1: The time is short and all that mclaurin's window for
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Speaker 1: another salary bumpety bump is closing fast. Down, down, down
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Speaker 1: goes the window. And so we all know that in
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Speaker 1: real life, when you're thirty, you're not old. You're just
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Speaker 1: entering the prime years of your life, right thirty forties,
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Speaker 1: hopefully later than that, but you're entering the good years,
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Speaker 1: and you rapidly become a diminiishing asset in sports when
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Speaker 1: you're past the age of thirty. Now that said, there
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Speaker 1: are the exceptions to the rule that defy the science.
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Speaker 3: Trust the science. So that being said, on top of that,
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Speaker 3: these contract rhubarbs, which go on this time of the year,
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Speaker 3: is an annual mating ritual.
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Speaker 1: And we've spent a lot of time here on the
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Speaker 1: overnight yapping about players who have been bitching about their contracts.
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Speaker 1: So it's something that is a staple of this time
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Speaker 1: of the year that you just mark it on the
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Speaker 1: calendar on your phone. You just put it in there.
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Speaker 1: It's an annual tradition. It's kind of like you mark
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Speaker 1: down Comic Con in San Diego, say, well, I gotta
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Speaker 1: go to Comic Con in San Diego. I got a
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Speaker 1: cousin of mine who has a very good job, very
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Speaker 1: smart person, right, and he goes to Comic Con every
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Speaker 1: year no matter what, he always takes his break for camera.
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Speaker 1: But it's a pilgrimage, right, And this, well, it's not
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Speaker 1: a pilgrimage. It's something that we know is going to
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Speaker 1: be on the calendar. This is millionaires fighting with billionaires.
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Speaker 1: On one side. You have the millionaires. On the other side,
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Speaker 1: you have the aristocrats, the oligarchs, the robber barons who
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Speaker 1: are the billionaires. And they get together and they thumb wrestle,
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Speaker 1: and then you and I, the great Unwashed, we sit
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Speaker 1: on the side and we munch on some popcorn and
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Speaker 1: we watch with our binoculars and we check everything out.
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Speaker 1: But this is what they do. This is what happens.
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Speaker 1: And so you skip the start at camp. Terry McLaurin
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Speaker 1: checked you play the leverage game. We're talking about five,
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Speaker 1: not five fifty thousand dollars. Is the magic number? Mandatory
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Speaker 1: fine per day you don't show up to work, fifty
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Speaker 1: g's you're out. Now my mouth or math tells me,
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Speaker 1: I think I'm right on this. That works out to
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Speaker 1: be three hundred and fifty thousand dollars week. Is that
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Speaker 1: tax deductible? You imagine missing work for a week and
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Speaker 1: being fined three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Holy crap man,
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Speaker 1: all right. So the thing about it is that you
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Speaker 1: think for that kind of money there would be some
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Speaker 1: kind of great support system out there, and there's people online.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of fake stuff. It's the matrix that
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Speaker 1: are like, I support the player, but imagine spending three
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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand dollars to sit out a week
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Speaker 1: of practice and then nobody cares. And when I say nobody,
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Speaker 1: I mean the vast majority of people don't give a
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Speaker 1: rats ass about that because people have their own issues.
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Speaker 1: You don't, you know, can't act shocked when fans are unsympathetic.
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Speaker 1: But I guarantee you there will be players, whether it's
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Speaker 1: Micah Parsons who showed up, or Trey Hendrickson who didn't,
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Speaker 1: or Terry McLaurin, and they'll come play. And I don't understand,
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Speaker 1: because listen, people have their own issues, right. It's kind
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Speaker 1: of trying to make ends meet and all that.
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Speaker 3: And you know.
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Speaker 1: Chances are your salary is not going up. The company's
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Speaker 1: a bunch of low ball artists, and they won't raise
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Speaker 1: your salary. But the price of everything goes up, but
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Speaker 1: they won't raise your pay. So we're supposed to sit
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Speaker 1: here and have a pity party because some NFL players
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Speaker 1: complaining because they can't get one last money grab. It
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Speaker 1: takes a special kind of person to be in line
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Speaker 1: and be.
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Speaker 3: Like, ah, this is terrible.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: Like I said, I understand why McLaren's doing it. Am
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Speaker 1: I gonna sit here and lose any sleep?
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Speaker 2: No?
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Speaker 1: I sleep during the day anyway, I don't sleep at night.
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Speaker 1: I go to bed in a few hours from right now.
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Speaker 1: That's that's my bedtime. But anyway, what happens next is
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Speaker 1: the usual stuff, right, McLaurin will he'll use social media
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Speaker 1: and send some kind of cryptic quote maybe he already
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Speaker 1: has done it, about loyalty and I need to be
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Speaker 1: rewarded and some garbage like that, and then the commanders
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Speaker 1: will they'll leak something, they'll weaponize their position they'll say
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Speaker 1: we've made a fair offer. They'll leak it to schefter
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Speaker 1: Jay Glazer, State run propaganda NFL network, and they'll say
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Speaker 1: something like, well, we're disappointed. We wanted McLaurin here, and
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Speaker 1: we're evaluating our options. It's all, it's all there. It's boilerplate.
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Speaker 1: It's all boilerplate is what it is. And we are
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Speaker 1: at a fork in the road, and this particular story
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Speaker 1: in Washington does not appear to have a good ending,
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Speaker 1: because what are the options. Either McLaurin caves and says,
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Speaker 1: all right, I can't afford another fifty thousand dollars. I'll
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Speaker 1: show up to practice, but he'll be in a bad mood.
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Speaker 1: He'll be angry, or the team will give him a
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Speaker 1: new contract and then they will have regrets by week
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Speaker 1: nine when he's hopping around and going to the injury
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Speaker 1: tent and it's you know what happened to my hammy?
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Speaker 1: My hammy went whammy, And it's just another summer the
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Speaker 1: drama oram and I listen, I'm in for it. I
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Speaker 1: have a talk show to do. I'm in for it.
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Speaker 1: I love all these stories. I know how they play
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Speaker 1: out their textbooks. The other possibility for McClaren is Washington trades.
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Speaker 1: Then you get Jayden Daniels upsets and what the f
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Speaker 1: you know, that's my guy?
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Speaker 3: What are you doing? All right?
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Speaker 1: So they welcome to training camp. Now furthermore, we speaking
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Speaker 1: of training camp, another story the quarterback making crazy, crazy statements.
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Speaker 1: So to Chicago, Caleb Williams, Now, he's got big plans.
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Speaker 1: I know your Fomi Eugene in Chicago and all those guys.
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Speaker 1: They're very excited about this. So Caleb Williams has goals
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Speaker 1: this season. What are his goals?
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Speaker 3: Do you see this?
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Speaker 1: Uh? You did not, So rather let me tell you
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Speaker 1: the goals. Let's let's go to the audio tape. Here's
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Speaker 1: Caleb Williams, the quarterback of the Bears.
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Speaker 3: Take a list.
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Speaker 4: Obviously, I have self goals and that's you know, being
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Speaker 4: the first four thousand yard past serve in Bears history.
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Speaker 4: That's a you know goal of mine. Seventy percent completion
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Speaker 4: that helps the team keeps on the field, puts in
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Speaker 4: better positions, and then other than that, just trying to
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Speaker 4: go down and you know, score the most post points
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Speaker 4: that we can with these tracts that we have. So
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Speaker 4: that's kind of my self goal. And obviously other you know,
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Speaker 4: other than that, you gotta go win. That's success for me,
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Speaker 4: that's success for the team. That's all we wish for,
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Speaker 4: and all I wish for him.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so all he wishes for. Just for those not
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Speaker 1: paying attention. I saw you in the back of the
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Speaker 1: room not paying attention. Bad job by you. So Caleb
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Speaker 1: Williams says his goals this season. He wants to be
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Speaker 1: the bears first four thousand yard passer and complete seventy
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Speaker 1: percent of his passes. So what is the core of
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Speaker 1: this story? So the core?
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Speaker 3: I love how Caleb at the variance, Oh and win,
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Speaker 3: you know, and win?
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 1: Caleb Williams thinks his solution here is numbers. And if
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Speaker 1: I'm the Bears and this is the real Caleb Williams,
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Speaker 1: I'm out. You're screwed. It's not going to work. It's
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Speaker 1: not This is terrible. Do you realize how bad this sounds?
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Speaker 1: I know Caleb Williams doesn't realize how bad it sounds.
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Speaker 1: I just let it sink in, like this is your
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Speaker 1: forever quarterback, Caleb Williams, the face of the franchise. It's like, well,
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Speaker 1: I want four thousand yards and I want a certain
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Speaker 1: completion percentage, and it's all about individual metrics. It's like
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Speaker 1: he's preparing his resume, his pro football reference page, rather
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Speaker 1: than plotting on how to beat the Lions and the
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Speaker 1: Packers and the Vikings and all that. It's like, oh,
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Speaker 1: isn't that adorable from Caleb Williams. Isn't that great?
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Speaker 3: Now?
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Speaker 1: Spoiler alert, spoiler alert from someone who has seen this
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Speaker 1: kind of rodeo before, it's not my first rodeo. I'm
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Speaker 1: relatively confident that no one that matters in the greater
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Speaker 1: Chicago area gives a damn about how many passing yards
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Speaker 1: you got or what your passing percentage was.
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Speaker 3: It's about the Lombardy, right.
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Speaker 1: Those guys that played on that mid eighties eighty five
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Speaker 1: Bears team the eighty six Super Bowl, to this day
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Speaker 1: are still celebrated. It's been two generations and they still
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Speaker 1: celebrate those guys. So the fan is not interested. Other
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Speaker 1: than the Poindexter fan, they're not interested in the stats.
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Speaker 1: They don't want to spreadsheet trophy. That's not what they're
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Speaker 1: cunning for. And it's all about wins, you know, And
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Speaker 1: we learned this years ago.
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Speaker 3: I learned.
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Speaker 1: I guess I'm old now. But I always was taught
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Speaker 1: stats are for losers. It's all about winners. I want winners.
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Speaker 1: I want people that want to win, say one of
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Speaker 1: the all time great Bears, Mike Singletary. But do you
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Speaker 1: think Tom Brady when he's walking around his many mansions
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Speaker 1: around the world, do you think Tom Brady says, you
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Speaker 1: remember that completion percentage I had in New England one year. No,
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Speaker 1: he just loves to talk to everyone about how great
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Speaker 1: he is from winning super Bowls. You think in Kansas
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Speaker 1: City when Mahome's going out to eatle what a burger
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Speaker 1: in Kansas City that he sits around, He's got his
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Speaker 1: calculator as says, what can I do to improve my
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Speaker 1: yack aty yack? What can I do? No, of course
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Speaker 1: not now. In the NFL, you can put up great stands.
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Speaker 1: You can put up great sets from September until the
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Speaker 1: end of December. Unfortunately it's January and February where Glory
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Speaker 1: Road is. It's not during the regular season. Caleb truly
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Speaker 1: wants to change the narrative in Chicago and burn the statue,
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Speaker 1: set it on fire, you know, toss it out in
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Speaker 1: Lake Michigan and let.
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Speaker 3: It burn, burn, burn burn learn. Here's what you do.
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Speaker 3: You win.
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Speaker 1: Nobody remembers these these stats. I'll give you an example.
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Speaker 1: There was a guy that worked in our building years ago.
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Speaker 1: He was a Bears quarterback. Eric Kramer played with the Lions.
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Speaker 1: You probably don't know who that is, but Eric Kramer
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Speaker 1: played in the NFL for a number of years.
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Speaker 3: He was a weekend talk show host. Here.
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Speaker 1: Eric Kramer has the Chicago Bears record for passing yards
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Speaker 1: in a season three eight hundred and thirty eight yards.
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Speaker 3: That was in nineteen ninety five.
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Speaker 1: You know how I know that. I looked it up.
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Speaker 1: He worked here, I talked. I didn't know any worked.
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Speaker 1: I didn't Who cares?
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Speaker 3: Nobody? Four thousand doesn't matter, right?
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Speaker 1: And the quotes from from capable and it sounds like
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Speaker 1: he's working damage control in advance.
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Speaker 3: And this is the part call me crazy if you want,
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Speaker 3: just call me.
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Speaker 1: This is the part where you've got to be worried,
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Speaker 1: because when I analyze the words of Caleb Williams, it
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Speaker 1: sounds like he's planting an excuse. It's the old You know,
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Speaker 1: I did throw for four thousand yards. It's not my fault.
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Speaker 1: The team blows and only won six games. Like that
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Speaker 1: is the QB stat stuffer insurance policy is what it is.
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Speaker 1: It's like Kirk Cousins, great stats in Minnesota.
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Speaker 3: For years the Vikings didn't win.
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Speaker 1: Dak Prescott great stats in Dallas. The team chokes in
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Speaker 1: every big moment, but they keep that in their back pocket.
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Speaker 1: They're like, well, you know, listen, I got this insurance,
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Speaker 1: and so you know the team suck.
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Speaker 3: But look at my numbers. Look at my numbers. Yeah, no,
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Speaker 3: it's weak sauce. All right. Last thing we go now
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Speaker 3: to New England, and another.
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Speaker 1: Staple is the coach meltdown. This is not a coach meltdown.
17:04
Speaker 1: I'd like to alert all the affiliates. This is not
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Speaker 1: a coach meltdown. It is good audio, though, and we
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Speaker 1: love good audio. So Mike Rabel giving his address, his
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Speaker 1: daily address about the Patriots in training camp. Now it
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Speaker 1: turns out that one of the reporters was apparently not
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Speaker 1: paying attention tail listen.
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Speaker 5: I mean, whether you were in a coma when I
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Speaker 5: answered Tom's question, or typing on your phone or tweeting,
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Speaker 5: I don't know, but I spent five minutes answering.
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Speaker 3: That question, and I can go back through it, but
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Speaker 3: i'd rather not there you go.
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Speaker 1: So there you go, Mike Rabel savagely mocking one of
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Speaker 1: the reporters there who had asked, like, the next question
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Speaker 1: was the question that just had been answered at his
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Speaker 1: news conference. So is this inbounds or out of bound?
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Speaker 1: So on my scorecard, I said in bounds in bad
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Speaker 1: Now over the years, I used to go to these
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Speaker 1: things on a regular basis. I love Rabel's response. He
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Speaker 1: was a douche, but not as big a douche as
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Speaker 1: Bill Belichick. Like a lighter douche.
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Speaker 3: Is what he was.
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Speaker 2: Like.
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Speaker 3: These news conferences are repetitive.
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Speaker 1: They are a all you can eat buffet of the
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Speaker 1: cliche is what they are. And Vrabel's not gonna sit
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Speaker 1: there and coddle the beat writers who.
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Speaker 3: Are half a stick.
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Speaker 1: Now, he didn't go full remember Matt Patricia with the Lions.
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Speaker 1: Patricia went like next level. He was like he was
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Speaker 1: upset with the posture of one of the writers who
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Speaker 1: cover the Lions.
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Speaker 3: But the beat writer, if you're half asleep and.
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Speaker 1: You know, probably was on his phone on social media
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Speaker 1: looking at whatever on Instagram, and then you repeat the
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Speaker 1: question like what are you doing? Hey, you have one job,
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Speaker 1: pay attention, right, otherwise you're gonna get, not the kick
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Speaker 1: and the ass, You're gonna get the SaaS.
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Speaker 3: That's what you know. And Boom goes to dynamite.
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Speaker 1: We're not hanging out here at a pizza party at
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Speaker 1: Chuck E Cheese.
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Speaker 3: We're not doing it. He's an NFL. You your job
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Speaker 3: is literally and figuratively to pay attention.
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Speaker 1: Right, So, bad job by whoever that reporter was, and
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Speaker 1: and Mike Rabel essentially gave him an elbow right to
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Speaker 1: the right to the schnaz right there. And that poor schmo,
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Speaker 1: whoever that poor schmo is, who knows he's out there?
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Speaker 1: He must have been playing like news conference Bingo, he
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Speaker 1: ever done that? Like I predict that this question. One
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Speaker 1: of my buddies says, how does it feel right after
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Speaker 1: a game? How does it feel every game? How does
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Speaker 1: it feel? But this guy was playing Bingo's like I
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Speaker 1: wasn't paying attention. Did anyone ask about the so and
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Speaker 1: so yet?
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Speaker 6: No?
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Speaker 1: All right, so you know what that is? Bad situational awareness.
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Speaker 1: Bad situational awareness, bad job by them.
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Speaker 3: So it's good.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 3: The rule is you have to know what's been asked.
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Speaker 1: It's not that hard. You have to know who's in
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Speaker 1: the room. Don't lob meatballs. No meatballs, certainly not when
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Speaker 1: the steak's already been served. You don't lob a meatball
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Speaker 1: when they've already served the steak.
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Speaker 3: So I liked it.
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Speaker 1: I'm predicting, and I'm never wrong. Just at relative of
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Speaker 1: Nostradama's friend of Nostradenas. We are going to get multiple
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Speaker 1: Mike Vrabel meltdowns when the things go bad for the Patriots,
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Speaker 1: when Drake May goes out and throws four interceptions against
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Speaker 1: the Jets. It's going to be good. It is going
20:48
Speaker 1: to be good. And I'm I'm here, I'm here for it.
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Speaker 1: We've met a lot of interesting characters, a lot of
24:48
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Speaker 3: At these Mallard meet and greets have done all over
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Speaker 3: We everywhere, everywhere we go.
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Speaker 1: Is always new people that don't call the show, thank god,
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Speaker 1: who does call the show, the one we did in Vegas.
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Speaker 1: I do that and he like vanished, like he vanished,
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Speaker 1: and we were like worried about the guys. I don't
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Speaker 1: know what happened. He became one of the great characters
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Speaker 1: on the show. He's known as Mouthwash Mike, and he
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Speaker 1: has returned. Mouthwash Mike is online. Why he's so, I
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Speaker 1: recognize that voice.
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Speaker 3: Your back, mouth wash Mike.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's right. I just got out of the hospital
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Speaker 6: again again.
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Speaker 3: Now, how long were you in for?
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Speaker 6: Oh no, this time not very long, only like four days.
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Speaker 6: It wasn't too bad.
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Speaker 3: But you haven't called the show in many, many months.
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Speaker 3: You've been gone.
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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, you're right, because I was in the hospital
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Speaker 6: shortly before then, and then shortly before then, and then
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Speaker 6: I only get out long enough to realize that my
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Speaker 6: phone either hadn't gotten wet stolen or I can't call
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Speaker 6: you back.
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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So you're still dealing with your You're
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Speaker 1: still drinking the mouthwash.
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Speaker 3: You're still mouthwash mic Yeah, yeah, of course, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 3: can't give up that life. I understand that.
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Speaker 6: No.
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Speaker 3: No, have you jumped into the fountains of the Bellagio.
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Speaker 6: Recently since I've talked to you last, I think once.
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Speaker 1: Only have you moved on is there other are you
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Speaker 1: doing other crazy things around Vegas? You go over to
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Speaker 1: Circus Circus and go on the fund Zone, Like what
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Speaker 1: do you do?
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Speaker 2: Oh?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, well I tend to either get on stage or
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Speaker 6: do a lot of dancing in front of Freemont. That's
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Speaker 6: not too crazy though, you know, stuff like that.
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Speaker 3: I looked for you.
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Speaker 1: I was in Vegas a couple of weeks back, and
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Speaker 1: I looked for you, like on Fremont Street. I thought
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Speaker 1: I'd maybe i'd run into you, but I didn't see you.
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Speaker 1: I did see a woman that had a giant on
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Speaker 1: her face, like it was more than a more growth
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Speaker 1: a growth. Yeah, looked like she had like a little
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Speaker 1: head growing out of the side of her face. I
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Speaker 1: felt very bad for her, but she was trying to
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Speaker 1: make money with it. She was like taking photos with people.
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Speaker 1: I was like, oh, okay, you can try to monetize.
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Speaker 6: That, like one of those things from like South Park
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Speaker 6: or something like that.
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Speaker 1: It was more like there's a show called Doctor Pimple
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Speaker 1: Popper that like that guy.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, it was like large, like.
27:43
Speaker 1: A giant cyst. Giant cyst. Well, listen, I'm glad you're okay.
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Speaker 3: Number one. I was worried. I was worried about you, Okay,
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Speaker 3: I was, I did. I wonder what happy?
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Speaker 1: You seem like a nice chap and uh, we're gonna
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Speaker 1: we'll be back in Vegas.
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Speaker 3: We're gonna do a meet and greet.
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Speaker 1: Slug is gonna make that happens about I'm guessing sometime
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Speaker 1: in August.
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Speaker 3: Now, I'm still my entire schedule has been put on hold.
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Speaker 1: Because of the uh you some stelf I can't talk
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Speaker 1: about here, but anyway.
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Speaker 3: So well you'll come out to that. Yes you'll show up.
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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 3: Should we should we buy this guy? So we should
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Speaker 3: buy him some mouthwash?
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 3: We should bring should we buy your mouthwash?
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Speaker 6: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you like and you like the yellow? You like
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Speaker 3: the yellow mouthwash?
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Speaker 2: Right?
28:24
Speaker 3: Yeah? I got you?
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Speaker 1: All right, We'll be safe out there, Mike, Thank you, buddy.
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Speaker 1: All right, God hanging up on you mouthwash Mike.
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Speaker 3: I'm so glad he's okay.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I am too, a nice guy. He listens to
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Speaker 1: the show, apparently not that much.
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Speaker 3: Marcel is in Brooklyn.
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Speaker 1: Hello, Marcel, Ben Ben, arm up.
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Speaker 3: Everyone's up up, day, let's go Marcel.
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Speaker 1: Marcel I got an email from Reggie from Detroit. He says,
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Speaker 1: are you concerned? This was directed to you? He wanted
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Speaker 1: to know, Marcel, are you concerned that you're losing your
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Speaker 1: power in the mal or militia that blind Scott and
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Speaker 1: Mike the Leprechaun and some of these other guys are
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Speaker 1: moving up at a higher rank because you have.
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Speaker 3: Not been as active?
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Speaker 2: Oh whoa whoa soul down there put this way in
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Speaker 2: my humble opinion, Mike the loser con or should I say,
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Speaker 2: Mike the stupid con and the Blair hater not going
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Speaker 2: to be high at ranking than me.
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Speaker 1: But you would admit you don't call in as much
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Speaker 1: as you have in the past. Like that is true, right,
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Speaker 1: you're very busy. You're a socialite there in Brooklyn.
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Speaker 2: Yes, yes it is. And I'm still ringing the fourth
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Speaker 2: time call of the year font time for me looking
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Speaker 2: for that next year.
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Speaker 3: Do you know what socialite means is a way.
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Speaker 2: To connect with friends and family.
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Speaker 3: Of course you do, always is in.
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Speaker 2: Our brain and in our ears.
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Speaker 3: Well said, all right, well, let's take some calls for you.
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Speaker 1: Marcel said, well to s intect let's go to Mike,
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Speaker 1: who's he's on vacation, but he called it. Mike, you're
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Speaker 1: on with Marcel in Brooklyn.
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Speaker 6: All is you know where I am?
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Speaker 2: You know you're not beaten Nowhashenas you're on the Cape.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know.
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Speaker 1: We had a call earlier from from our friend and
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Speaker 1: dog Dead Duck Dynasty.
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Speaker 3: He doesn't call in, he's out of socialize. He is Marceill.
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Speaker 3: How do you respond to that?
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Speaker 1: The accusation from the Leprechaun is you don't call in
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Speaker 1: as much, the.
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Speaker 2: Loser calling now, Ben and Mike, I do not agree
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Speaker 2: with you. I am socialized, I am keeping connected with
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Speaker 2: my friends and family. But instead you don't have anything.
30:47
Speaker 2: You are the worst, the worst, worst, worst caller in
30:52
Speaker 2: the history of radio.
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Speaker 1: That's impressive because this call's got the worst. This show's
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Speaker 1: got the worst callers of all time, so this is impressive.
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Speaker 1: Congratulations Mike, Well thank you.
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Speaker 6: You know what I can say. He is socialized like
31:07
Speaker 6: a text dog, and he has no clue. He doesn't
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Speaker 6: have any new material.
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Speaker 2: I come up with new material every single day.
31:15
Speaker 1: Give us a give an example, get do a joke.
31:17
Speaker 1: Let's see if Marcel will laugh. Let's get a little
31:19
Speaker 1: joke here.
31:20
Speaker 2: I have a joke. This is.
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Speaker 3: Oi. Oi are the osbourn Rest in peace?
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Speaker 2: Joke is not the way you speak to that there?
31:35
Speaker 3: Okay, disrespectful? Yes, all right.
31:40
Speaker 1: Let's take another call where Marcel's hosting the show. Now
31:43
Speaker 1: it's the Marcel and Brooklyn Show. Let's say hello to uh.
31:47
Speaker 1: Let's go to Scott in Boston. Hello, Scott, you're on
31:50
Speaker 1: with Marcel.
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Speaker 5: Oh, Marshall, I got some breaking news here. They got
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Speaker 5: this free door dash and Uber each program. I'm really
31:58
Speaker 5: pumped up about it. Like, so, since I'm blind, I
32:01
Speaker 5: can get free door Dash delivered right to my front doory.
32:05
Speaker 5: Do you have that in Brooklyn?
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Speaker 2: Well, I have to say I don't have a door
32:10
Speaker 2: Dag or Uber instead there in my home place there
32:13
Speaker 2: my friend.
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Speaker 5: Well, Marcel, so like, I'm blind, and like people make
32:18
Speaker 5: fun of me, like this guy he spit in my
32:20
Speaker 5: face the other day. So I stay in all day
32:22
Speaker 5: and I go out at night. Like, do you feel
32:24
Speaker 5: bad for me? Like people are mean to me?
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Speaker 2: Oh no no no no no no no no, you're
32:30
Speaker 2: you're you're not the ways that you're people making.
32:34
Speaker 3: Fun of you, Marcel.
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Speaker 1: Marcel, you don't go out at all though, right, Marcell,
32:38
Speaker 1: you just pretty much stay at home all the time.
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Speaker 3: Right, Well, I understand, but yeah, I got you.
32:44
Speaker 5: You know, Marcel, So Marcel I met Ozzie Osbourne once
32:47
Speaker 5: and he wouldn't stop petting my dog and you couldn't
32:50
Speaker 5: understand a word he was saying and he could barely
32:52
Speaker 5: stand up. But he was a really good guy.
32:54
Speaker 2: Uh.
32:54
Speaker 5: He was British, you know, Marcel, did you know Ozzy
32:57
Speaker 5: Osborne was British?
32:59
Speaker 2: Well, yeah he does. And also he was the singer.
33:05
Speaker 2: He's been a rock singer for years and yesterday.
33:09
Speaker 5: So would you look to join in prayer with me
33:12
Speaker 5: for Ozzie? Like, since he has passed away, we can
33:14
Speaker 5: wish him goodbye on the Ben Mellach Show, like maybe
33:17
Speaker 5: with a little farewell Mama, I'm crying, Mama, I'm coming
33:20
Speaker 5: home song? Would you like to start it?
33:23
Speaker 4: Ah?
33:24
Speaker 2: No?
33:25
Speaker 3: Now do you know what band he was part of?
33:28
Speaker 1: Oh, marsa? What famous band was Ozzy Osbourne?
33:32
Speaker 2: The front man for ooh from the Osbourne I think
33:37
Speaker 2: all the band the Osborne's.
33:38
Speaker 1: That's right, amazing, everyone loved it The Osbourne's.
33:42
Speaker 5: No, No, it was a black it was a black group.
33:46
Speaker 5: Actually there were black people Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath.
33:50
Speaker 1: Huh yeah, yeah, yeah, there was a group that.
33:54
Speaker 3: Show Black Sabbath, Like.
33:57
Speaker 5: Nw A, there was n w A and then there
33:59
Speaker 5: was Black Sabbath.
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Speaker 1: Remember in the nineties, Marcelle wasn't even alive in the nineties, right, Marcel,
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Speaker 1: you're your young guy nineteen ninety three.
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Speaker 3: Oh my god.
34:11
Speaker 5: Remember he said what did your uniform number? And he
34:14
Speaker 5: said his age?
34:15
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I remember that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say Black Sabbath one of the all
34:20
Speaker 1: time greats in that genre of music. You a big
34:22
Speaker 1: fan of that call the music, Marcel? Obviously you called
34:25
Speaker 1: the Osborne's the band the Osborne's.
34:28
Speaker 2: Well, The Osbourne's is the TV show on MTV back
34:31
Speaker 2: in the two thousands.
34:34
Speaker 3: Do you know why they call it heavy metal music?
34:37
Speaker 2: Oh? Wow?
34:38
Speaker 3: Do you know why they call it that?
34:40
Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's so much embarrassing of the heavy Rocks.
34:43
Speaker 1: Well, actually starting in Pittsburgh, the Steel City, and that
34:47
Speaker 1: was the first few ever do it, and so that's
34:49
Speaker 1: why they call it heavy metal. Uh, it's actually a
34:52
Speaker 1: tribute to the Steel City of Pittsburgh.
34:54
Speaker 5: Yesterday, Marcel, what do you think of the Beastie Boys?
34:58
Speaker 5: No Sleep till brook One? Is that one of your
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Speaker 5: favorite songs?
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Speaker 2: No Sleep too Brooklyn from the osbourn huh, well, you're
35:07
Speaker 2: really good at this man.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's going to replace me as the host of
35:11
Speaker 3: the show.
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Speaker 5: Like he's like Eddie Trunk from Serious XM. So. So
35:16
Speaker 5: one more thing before we wrap it up here with
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Speaker 5: Ozzy odgebe What was Ozzy odge One's wife's name. She says,
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Speaker 5: she has, oh, in.
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Speaker 3: Your in your face, in your face.
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Speaker 5: I don't know that he watches. Yeah, he watches on TV.
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Speaker 5: You watch on TV, right, free table?
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, all right, all right, we must end it
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Speaker 3: We've got we're better than NPR.
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Speaker 7: Attention everyone, and the password is password, you idiot, password
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Speaker 7: the word Game of the Stars.
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Speaker 3: Here's Ben Maller, right to the game we go.
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Speaker 1: Let's welcome in our contestants. We have Slug from Lost Wages, Novada. Hello, Slug,
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Speaker 1: what's that buddy?
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Speaker 2: You think mouthwash?
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Speaker 5: Mike is alive and praying and kick my vitamins making
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Speaker 5: sure he was still ground.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. I think of him every time I use mouthwash.
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Speaker 3: Think of him, you know, I do. All Who do
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Speaker 3: you want to partner up with? Slug?
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Speaker 1: Who is Slug's the guy that hosted the Mallard meat
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Speaker 1: we did in Vegas last year. We'll do another one
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Speaker 1: here soon.
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Speaker 3: Slug? What what do we got here? What's the answer here? Slug?
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Speaker 3: Who you gonna play?
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Speaker 1: All right?
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Speaker 3: We're any dog? That's my dog? That's my dog?
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Speaker 5: Okay?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, me and Slug. And then we have Clifford. I
37:24
Speaker 1: was a big fan of Clifford the Big Red Dog.
37:26
Speaker 1: And here is Clifford the Big Red Dog. Another dog
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Speaker 1: or that's my Willis.
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Speaker 3: Hello, Clifford, Hello Ben, how are you?
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Speaker 2: Oh?
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Speaker 1: You sound just like I would imagine Clifford the Big
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Speaker 1: Red Dog would sound.
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Speaker 3: Well, Clifford, who do you want to partner up with? Clifford?
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Speaker 5: I will well, since you're taking already, I won't go within.
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Speaker 3: All right, the raina you're in unbelievable.
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Speaker 1: Okay, let's play the game, right and then all right, slug,
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Speaker 1: you picked the first pick of number one to ten.
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Speaker 3: Slug number one to ten. Please, let's go lucky number four,
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Speaker 3: Lucky number four, all right, number, let's go with How
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Speaker 3: about we go with flask? Flask bottle? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: All right, really, yeah, that's a good I bet you, slug.
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Speaker 1: I bet you've owned some. I bet you've owned some
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Speaker 1: flasks in your day.
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Speaker 5: I got one of the one or ten in the cabinet, right, yes,
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Speaker 5: all right, Clifford number.
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Speaker 3: Slug number two, number two, Okay, okay, let's do hover.
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Speaker 3: I'm sorry hover.
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Speaker 5: Hover a no, oh, come on, don't even wait.
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Speaker 2: Just to float.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, here you go.
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Speaker 1: That's you're just bragging now, slug. My next one was
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Speaker 1: going to be nineteen nothing. By the way, slug, go ahead,
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Speaker 1: pick a number one to ten. It's like we're playing
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Speaker 1: password the word Game of the Stars. Slug is in Vegas, Clifford,
39:20
Speaker 1: the Big Red Dogs from child books. I don't know
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Speaker 1: where you lives. Go go ahead, sluck Kobe number eight, number eight, Kobe, alright,
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Speaker 1: let's go with I know one what's that?
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Speaker 3: I know a clue?
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Speaker 2: Go ahead.
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Speaker 3: I think this is one word. Let me hold on,
39:38
Speaker 3: let me check. I think it's one word. Yeah, all right,
39:45
Speaker 3: white wall.
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Speaker 1: Tire, Yeah, yeah, that's one word.
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Speaker 3: Twenty twenty nine. Nothing.
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Speaker 5: Wow, I was gonna say rubber.
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Speaker 3: So I don't even.
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Speaker 5: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: Go ahead, Clifford, try to save some face. Surrey exactly five,
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Speaker 3: number five, all right, Germs, Germs, Cox Andrena. Oh that
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Speaker 3: is not I mean, that was a good clue. Actually
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Speaker 3: that was the way we were looking for. Was U bacteria.
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Speaker 3: We went slog another way. We just feeded Clifford in
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Speaker 3: Lorena Jcats gold and take it. You gotta golden, take it.