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Hour 2 - It's All About Me · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Ding No, it's our numb bird to Our number two
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  Speaker 1: is ready for you. And it's all about the Colts
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  Speaker 1: quarterback Anthony Richardson, who's in a quarterback competition with Daniel Jones.
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  Speaker 1: Not much of a competition, well, Richardson said, it's a
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  Speaker 1: me versus me type of thing. How do you decode
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  Speaker 1: that quote? We'll talk about that. Also in Denver, Sean
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  Speaker 1: Payton thinks Broncos quarterback bo Nix will be a quote
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  Speaker 1: superstar quote close quote soon. What's your verdict on that one?
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  Speaker 1: And Jim Harbaugh said, charge your running back, Nase Harris.
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  Speaker 1: He played with fireworks, he messed up his eye. He's
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  Speaker 1: getting better, he's walking laps as part of his rehab.
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  Speaker 1: There's still no timetable for his return. Where are you
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  Speaker 1: at on this one? We'll go there as well. Right
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  Speaker 1: now here, it is our number two. It's all about me, Me, Me.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome in the begining of another hour of the Ben
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  Speaker 1: So we begin this hour we go to the Quarterback Derby,
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  Speaker 1: and oh what a derby is Indianapolis, Indiana known for
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  Speaker 1: the Indy five hundred and mediocre football and we have
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback competition. So it's time now for the obligatory
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  Speaker 1: malor monologue on the high drama in Colts Camp. So
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  Speaker 1: you have on one side of the aisle you have
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  Speaker 1: Daniel Jones, the stumble Bum.
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  Speaker 2: On the other side you.
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  Speaker 1: Have Anthony Richardson, built like Adonnis and he plays like
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  Speaker 1: hollering James from Minnesota. So they are listed as co
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  Speaker 1: QB one. So no, I didn't play in the NFL. However,
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  Speaker 1: if you have co starting quarter, wouldn't that be great?
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  Speaker 1: If the Colts said, we're gonna use both guys under center,
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  Speaker 1: We're just gonna have both of them out there at
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  Speaker 1: the same time, and we'll see what we're gonna do
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  Speaker 1: at that point. Maybe we'll have Anthony Richardson in the
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  Speaker 1: backfield and he'll run out to the slot receiver. We'll
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  Speaker 1: have Daniel Jones, he'll go to the slop. But we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna start the mote. So isn't that special? Now that's
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  Speaker 1: not the story here. It did the lead to an
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  Speaker 1: absolute gem of a quote from Anthony Richardson. So if
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  Speaker 1: you didn't hear this, and perhaps not Richardson commenting about
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  Speaker 1: his situation from top five draft pick to now having
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  Speaker 1: to be in a dogfight with a literal dog in
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  Speaker 1: Daniel Jones, who sucks. So, Richardson said, quote, even if
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  Speaker 1: they meaning the Colts brought Tom Brady in here, he's
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  Speaker 1: the greatest, but I just have to work and try
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  Speaker 1: to beat him out. Richardson, he said, here's the key
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  Speaker 1: part of the quote. It's a me versus me type thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's a me versus me type thing. That is what
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  Speaker 1: we call the money quote. That's a good jumping off point.
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  Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question. Cols quarterback Anthony Richardson
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  Speaker 1: calling the QB competition in Indianapolis with Daniel Jones a
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  Speaker 1: quote me versus me thing?
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  Speaker 2: How do you decode that quote?
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  Speaker 1: So I've got hot, blonde, Cia level and fat kid,
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  Speaker 1: three things that have never been thrown together, and we
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  Speaker 1: will throw them together and say Abra cadabra, hocus pocus.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: So number one, I said, Number one U just like
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  Speaker 1: QB one, this one smells like delusion. Now what does
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  Speaker 1: delusion smell like? Similar to rotten eggs, similar to sul
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  Speaker 1: for rotten eggs, that whole thing delusion. So you are
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  Speaker 1: in a quarterback battle royale and you're brushing off the
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  Speaker 1: guy who's right there with you, breathing down your neck
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  Speaker 1: is what you're doing for Anthony Richardson, heear so Daniel Jones,
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  Speaker 1: And I'm certainly not going to sit here and praise
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  Speaker 1: Daniel Jones.
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  Speaker 2: You know how I feel about him.
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  Speaker 1: If you've heard the show over the years, we've done
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  Speaker 1: many amal of monologue about the many frailties of Daniel Jones,
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  Speaker 1: how flawed he is, and we believe he's covered in maggots. However, however,
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  Speaker 1: he's neck and neck for the starting job in Indianapolis.
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  Speaker 1: So what does that tell you? It's the old Bill
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  Speaker 1: Parcells line about Anthony Richardson. That potential potential means you
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  Speaker 1: haven't done anything yet. And as we like to say,
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  Speaker 1: a prospect is a suspect until proven otherwise. And Anthony
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  Speaker 1: Richardson has been very suspect when he's played. That's Richardson
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  Speaker 1: in a nutshell, is what it is. You know, Richardson.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what Richardson is, the the hot blonde
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  Speaker 1: at the bar that looks amazing and then that kind
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  Speaker 1: of flirts with you, you know, a lot of contact,
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  Speaker 1: oh flirty and get you excited and then ghost you.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: That's what Anthony Richardson is, right, that's Richardson in a nutshell.
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  Speaker 1: That's what he is. All tease, no please, no results, nothing.
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  Speaker 1: And Richardson, who has a highlight reel, if you want
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  Speaker 1: to call it that, of a little bit of brilliance,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of brilliance, heavily edited, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: bonehead mistakes, a lot of those quitting, taking himself out
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  Speaker 1: of the game. You don't know, you don't outlive that,
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  Speaker 1: you don't short change that. And every time Richardson rolls
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  Speaker 1: out in the pocket and there's there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people that go ooh and ah and awe, like he's
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  Speaker 1: the second coming. And and then you look at the
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  Speaker 1: actual result of that, and I guess accuracy does matter.
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  Speaker 2: It does matter.
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  Speaker 1: He's a compass rose co north, south, east, west and
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  Speaker 1: anywhere else in between. You want to turnover, he'll give
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  Speaker 1: you a turnover. You want zero, ability to stay on
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  Speaker 1: the field, He'll give you that as well.
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  Speaker 2: He's got that.
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  Speaker 1: Richardson is I believe he's in year three now if
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  Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken, although really based on games played a
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  Speaker 1: lot less than that, and yet this far into his career,
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  Speaker 1: the conversation about Anthony Richardson is still well, let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about the traits that he has. Traits that's you know
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  Speaker 1: what that is. That's what dopey sports radio hosts like
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  Speaker 1: me talk about. In the NFL draft season in March
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  Speaker 1: and April, we talk about the traits of quarterbacks, right well,
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  Speaker 1: the combine in the NFL draft, not in August of
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  Speaker 1: year three of your career. We're not talking about your
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  Speaker 1: traits unless you blow Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So that's where we are. That's where we are.
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  Speaker 1: And I hate to break it to Anthony Richardson, but
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  Speaker 1: it's not me versus me. That's not a me versus
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  Speaker 1: me situation based on a minute long deliberation. It's you
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  Speaker 1: versus reality is the situation.
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  Speaker 2: Right, You are in a dead heat. You are in
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  Speaker 2: a dead heat, Anthony Richardson with a guy.
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  Speaker 1: The Giants ran out of town and they had nobody
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  Speaker 1: else other than Tommy Cutlet's they've ran your ass out
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  Speaker 1: of town, right, and you're acting like you're baggling the
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  Speaker 1: ghost of Peyton Manning or something like that at quarterback
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  Speaker 1: in Indianapolis. It's amazing, Like the clock is ticking on
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  Speaker 1: both these guys. Now, listen, Daniel Jones, I know he
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  Speaker 1: has to stopover in Minnesota and he didn't play or
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  Speaker 1: anything like that. But the Colts front office, right, Jim
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  Speaker 1: Mersay left this mortal coil. Jim had a hard life,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of sex, drugs, rock and roll.
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  Speaker 2: He's gone out.
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  Speaker 1: So now the daughter's running the team, and so there's
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  Speaker 1: a changing of the guard there. You ain't gonna sit around. Wait, well,
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  Speaker 1: the upside upside, upside, upside upside, how about your upside down?
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  Speaker 1: And your took us is what you want? Bill Parcells
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  Speaker 1: another quote. You lose with potential, you lose with the Naville,
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  Speaker 1: you win with performance. And that's that's the Colts in
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  Speaker 1: a nutshell. You got Shane Steichen who's still hanging around there,
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  Speaker 1: and does he really want to go six and eleven
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  Speaker 1: or seven and ten again while waiting for something to change?
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  Speaker 1: Get that full Anthony Richardson experience there, and maybe he'll
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  Speaker 1: finally show up and this will be the year. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's due, he's due. Right when you're the guy with
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  Speaker 1: the most talent in the room, okay, you're the player
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  Speaker 1: with the most talent in the room, the spotlight gets
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  Speaker 1: a little bit brighter on your ass.
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  Speaker 2: That's the way it works.
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  Speaker 1: So when you flame out, and that's what Richardson's doing
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  Speaker 1: right now, it does burn a little bit bigger. The
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  Speaker 1: fire is a little bit bigger, and so the bar
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  Speaker 1: is higher for Richardson, as it should be, as it
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  Speaker 1: should be. So instead of embracing it and say I've sucked,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm terrible and I gotta be I gotta
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  Speaker 1: be better. And it seems this sounded like a deflection
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  Speaker 1: to me, this quote as we parse the words, it
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  Speaker 1: sounds to me like a deflection like, well, the pressure
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  Speaker 1: just doesn't apply. And if you would like to impress
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  Speaker 1: gas bags like this one me, then then don't give
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  Speaker 1: don't give me the zen. Don't give me the zen
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  Speaker 1: quotes about me versus me and all that stuff that
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  Speaker 1: sounds like a bad morning radio show, me versus me. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: get out there, take care of the football, take care
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  Speaker 1: of the football, maybe win some games.
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  Speaker 2: Don't take yourself out of a game.
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  Speaker 1: Don't quit on your team because you're a little gassed,
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  Speaker 1: because everyone's gassed in the second half of games, and
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff. Until then you're just another failed draft
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  Speaker 1: pick clinging on getting opportunities still because of the scouting
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  Speaker 1: report and based on things you haven't actually done, but
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  Speaker 1: things you're supposed to do, and it hasn't translated into
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  Speaker 1: on field success. Now, speaking of on field success, we
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  Speaker 1: go now to Denver. Another interesting quote. This one comes
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  Speaker 1: from Sean Payton, the former Fox broadcaster current head coach
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  Speaker 1: of the Denver football team. So Sean Payton thinks that
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  Speaker 1: Bronco quarterback Bownicks will be a quote superstar soon.
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  Speaker 2: What is your verdict on this one?
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  Speaker 1: From Sean Payton made this comment recently in Colorado that
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  Speaker 1: Bownicks will be a superstar, So we need a verdict
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  Speaker 1: on this one. So my weasel word detector started vibrating,
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  Speaker 1: just like, that's what sounds like? Was so he said superstar?
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  Speaker 1: Sean Payton soon bon Nicks?
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  Speaker 2: Soon?
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  Speaker 4: Like?
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  Speaker 2: How soon?
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  Speaker 1: What are we looking at like the end of this season? Superstar? Tomorrow? Tomorrow?
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  Speaker 1: Tomorrow is an other day? How about next year? Maybe
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  Speaker 1: next year will be the year he's a superstar. So
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  Speaker 1: this is you know, I guess to be plays right?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, play he'll be You'll be fine, he'll play.
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  Speaker 1: Soon is a hedge. Soon as a hedge, it is
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  Speaker 1: c I a level plausible deniability.
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  Speaker 2: I said soon. It's vague enough.
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  Speaker 1: It's vague enough where if bow Nicks goes out there
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  Speaker 1: and plays like flatulence, Sean Payton can say, well, I
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  Speaker 1: didn't mean this season. I said soon. Why did you
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  Speaker 1: expect me to him to be great this year? I
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  Speaker 1: didn't say it'd be superstar this year? I said, so,
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  Speaker 1: you know, soon, as a relative term, if you're a turtle,
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  Speaker 1: if you're a turtle, you lived like two hundred years, right,
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  Speaker 1: so soon could be you know, fifty years soon for
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  Speaker 1: a turtle that's not that long, live two hundred fifty
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  Speaker 1: years whatever it is. If you're a tree, you live
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  Speaker 1: two thousand years. On those big sequoia trees that live
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  Speaker 1: fifteen hundred, two thousand years. Soon, well that's a relative term.
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  Speaker 1: So again, now on the flip side, if bow Knicks
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  Speaker 1: does go out there and play well, and then Sean
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  Speaker 1: Payton can say, hey, I told you told you so.
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  Speaker 1: I told you guy. Nobody likes I told you guy.
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  Speaker 1: He could be I told you guy. It's again coach
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  Speaker 1: speak is what it is. It's a good time of
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  Speaker 1: the year for coach speak, it is. And pumping the
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  Speaker 1: tires Sean Payton. They're pumping the tires on his hand
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  Speaker 1: picked quarterback they got rid of. They chased out Russell Wilson,
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  Speaker 1: mister unlimited. It it was stunk up the joint in
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  Speaker 1: Colorado and so they had to get somebody. This is
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  Speaker 1: the guy they got. And you're the PR director of
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  Speaker 1: the Broncos. But it's not really like analysis. It's not analysis,
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  Speaker 1: and you don't take talent. Talent evaluations from a head coach,
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  Speaker 1: because the way I always look at these things, like
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  Speaker 1: if bow Knicks is terrible, is Sean Payton gonna say
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  Speaker 1: he's terrible?
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  Speaker 2: No, he's not gonna say that. Nobody ever says it. Now.
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  Speaker 2: I would take these comments as the gospel.
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  Speaker 1: If I got coaches to say, boy, we got a
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  Speaker 1: quarterback who is a bag of suck and that's our
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  Speaker 1: guy right now. But they never say that New Orleans
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  Speaker 1: Saints have suck bag over there. They have got a dog,
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  Speaker 1: a poo that's one of their quarterback options. And then
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  Speaker 1: they have a bag of cockroaches that's the other option.
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  Speaker 2: Those are the three options at quarterback there in Norton.
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  Speaker 2: But you don't hear that.
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  Speaker 1: You said, well, this guy's got a lot of love
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  Speaker 1: sign blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Now, how
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  Speaker 1: does one classify the superstar? What is a superstar in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL? So you obviously have to dominate. That goes
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  Speaker 1: without saying there's a domination situation. You have to be
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  Speaker 1: a player that people go out of their way to watch,
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  Speaker 1: meaning that if you have multiple games on the red zone,
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  Speaker 1: which he spens about to kill. But if you had
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  Speaker 1: the red zone on you would tune out of the
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  Speaker 1: red zone to watch the player because he's that good.
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  Speaker 2: He's a superstar.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so you fill the stadiums, people tune in big
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  Speaker 1: ratings on television, and it's like the magic Johnson quote
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  Speaker 1: is that you have.
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  Speaker 2: To inspire the city a little much. But he said it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, superstars changed the mood of the whole building
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  Speaker 1: and all that, and so there's something to that. There's
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  Speaker 1: something to that that I buy into. And at this point,
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  Speaker 1: based on today, bo Nicks is not that guy. You're
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  Speaker 1: not that guy, Palt You're not that guy. He will
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  Speaker 1: give you lots of bubble screens and system stats and
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff, and you'll never be a superstar just
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  Speaker 1: being a system guy. That will not be the case.
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  Speaker 1: Just like brock Perty's never going to be the guy
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  Speaker 1: a superstar because he's just a system quarterback in San Francisco.
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  Speaker 1: He got paid a lot of money, congratulations, but you're
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  Speaker 1: just a system guy. Bo Nicks last year was the
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  Speaker 1: seventeenth ranked quarterback in the NFL. So now I know
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  Speaker 1: I'm being just a hard oh and a jackass and
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  Speaker 1: you're being too.
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  Speaker 2: Mean, But that's not superstar you know it's not. Now
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  Speaker 2: you know what that makes you.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, average that is right in the same
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  Speaker 1: category with Geno Smith. Does anyone think Gene Smith as
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  Speaker 1: a superstar? No, Gino Smith is a placeholder at the
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  Speaker 1: Academy Awards when you go to take a whiz, somebody
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  Speaker 1: has to fill your seat. That's Gino Smith. That's what
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  Speaker 1: he is. Certainly not anywhere near you talk about the
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  Speaker 1: upper echelon, which is Mahomes and Joe Burrow and players
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  Speaker 1: like that. But man, so you don't exactly become a
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  Speaker 1: superstar because your head coach says you're you're going to
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  Speaker 1: be that at a news conference in the month of August.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: By dragging your team deep in the playoffs, that certainly
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  Speaker 1: changes the narrative. And we'll see if BO knows, If
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  Speaker 1: Bo knows how to do that in Denver hasn't done
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  Speaker 1: it yet, only one year, small sample size, but that's
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  Speaker 1: all we have to go on now.
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  Speaker 2: Final point to.
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  Speaker 1: La La Land we go follow up to the follow
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  Speaker 1: up to the follow up to the follow up. Coach
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  Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh. Coach Jim Harbaugh said Chargers running back Najee
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  Speaker 1: Harris one eyed Nasei.
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  Speaker 2: That's to me.
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  Speaker 1: Naji Harris, who was playing with fireworks and got the
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  Speaker 1: wrong end of the fireworks on the fourth of July
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  Speaker 1: ex Stravaganza in Northern California. Well, some bad news here,
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  Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh saying the Charger running back Naji Harris, he
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  Speaker 1: said he's getting better. And then in the same breath
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  Speaker 1: he said, right now, at Charger training camp preparing for
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  Speaker 1: a National Football League season, Naji Harris is currently walking
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  Speaker 1: lapse as part of his rehab. He still has no timetable,
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  Speaker 1: no timetable to return to the field in uniform. So
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  Speaker 1: where are you at on this one? Where are you
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  Speaker 1: at on this one?
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  Speaker 2: So that is wild.
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  Speaker 1: So Jim harbas Oh, he's making progress. He's walking laps
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  Speaker 1: around the field. There's no timetable for him to put
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  Speaker 1: on pads and all that stuff. So I keep going
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  Speaker 1: back to the calendar. We're now in early August. We're
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  Speaker 1: doing this on August fifth, and the charges of all,
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  Speaker 1: he played a preseason game. They have another exhibition game
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  Speaker 1: coming up this weekend, so they've got another exhibition game to.
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  Speaker 2: Look forward to.
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  Speaker 1: You here, and you've got Jim Harbaugh out there. He's
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  Speaker 1: like well, no, he's getting better. He's he's getting better.
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  Speaker 1: He's so how exactly how does that work? Remember the
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  Speaker 1: agent for Naji Harris said, but he suffered a superficial
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  Speaker 1: eye injury playing with fireworks, and here we are in
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  Speaker 1: training camp and he's still walking laps. Yeah, yeah, there's
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  Speaker 1: a Does that help your eye? By the way, I
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  Speaker 1: should have great eyes. I walk a lot. I should
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  Speaker 1: have really good eyesight. My eyes should be freaking great.
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  Speaker 1: Why am I wearing glasses? I walk a lot. I
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  Speaker 1: should have really good eyesight. So there is no timetable,
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  Speaker 1: no drills, no contact, just laps. And that's what the
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: fat kid at junior high school has to do in
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Pe when they forget their sneakers. You know, I know
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: that I was the fat kid, was the fat kid
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: that had to walk laps in Pe. So I guess
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: I could be an NFL player because I can walk labs.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: I could play for the Chargers.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: I could rehab for the charge The fat kid walking laps,
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: that's me, and that's Najee Harris.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: You're a big free agent running back pick up there.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: It's great.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: It's not rehab. It's like a liability waiver.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Well, you can't. We can't put you in patch.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: You can't see out of one of your eyes, unfortunately,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: and we can't give you cleats and a helmet and
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: all that stuff. If Nage could see, I would assume
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: he'd want to be out there and be cutting and
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: exploding and taking handoffs and all that stuff.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: And he's you can't actually play with one eye. That's
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: the thing.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: And there was the reason we have the combine is
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: there was a guy drafted by the Jets that was blind,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: legally blind in one of his eyes and got drafted
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: in the second round. I actually had a good career
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: with the Jets, but they were so upset they drafted
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: a blind guy that they started the combine to test
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: people's vision and to see whether or not they could
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: see or not things like that. But anyway, listen, so Naji,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: he's pacing the sidelines and wandering around like he's waiting
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: for a delay in the terminal Spirit Airlines to get
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: their act together and all that stuff. So not safe,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: not saying, but that's the Chargers, Baby, show me your
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: lightning bolt can take the Chargers out of San Diego.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: And they left years ago. But that's the that's the charge.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: That's the charge. I remember the old Chargers, all right,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: And if something goes sideways, if something can go wrong
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: for the Chargers, they they will will figure out a way.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: If it can't go wrong, they'll find a way for
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: it to go wrong. And so fourth of July completely
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: goes off the rails. And now this player's career hanging
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: in the balance, hanging in the balance here, and then
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: you've got Harball over here giving coach by. Yeah, he's
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: getting better, and he's currently walking laps as part of
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: his rehab.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: He's walking laps as part of his rehab. Okay, is
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: that what they record?
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Like if you're an eye doctor, do you recommend Okay,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: you've got a bad eye, just walk lapse, that'll make
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: it better.
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: No.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: But he's getting ten thousand steps a day, which I'm
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: jealous of. So he's got his he's got his Apple watch.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: There he's getting the ten thousand steps a day or whatever.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: So there you go. So, based on just reading the
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: te leaves here, I think he's gonna be coming back.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: I hope I'm wrong.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: I hope I'm wrong. I hope he comes back and
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: is able to play and all that stuff. But he's
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: a running back. This was kind of a second chance.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: The Steelers dumped him. He's just a plodding running back.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: When he can see they got other guys there. It's
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: not looking good for Nachie Harris at this point. If
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: you look at the long range forecast, it is the
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Band Mathers Show. If you would like to be part eight,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: we had a song for the rain. If this guy
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Scott holds on in the Commonwealth, he's gonna debut a song.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: We'll have that. We'll take some other calls here eight
• 22:01
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• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Six three six nine. And what is cracking?
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: So I thought originally that something was fake, but it
• 22:15
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• 22:18
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• 22:20
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• 22:34
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• 22:38
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• 22:42
  Speaker 1: allowed to move around the audio cabin. Very exciting. However,
• 22:47
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• 22:51
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• 22:54
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• 22:58
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• 23:04
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• 23:12
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• 23:14
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• 23:16
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• 23:18
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• 23:21
  Speaker 1: But now back to it, there we go. Also coming
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: up later this hour, Mallary, third Degree Late Night drug
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Tester says, I hope Sean Payton talking up bo Nix
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: has the same passion as the Raptors coach and Scottie Barnes.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Scottie Barnes face of the NBA. That was quite the night.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Let's see what else do we have page down here?
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Scrooge says Ben, be careful what you say about the Chargers.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Eddie might put the WAMMI on your rams. Now, Eddie's
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: a Steeler fan. He's a Charger fan by marriage, but
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: he's a Steeler fan Eddie, so he's more worried about
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: the Steelers.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Have some fun indoors with yourself there.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: That's might be what Eddie's doing now, Just Josh, says
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Najee Harris trying to read defenses this year. Boy, that's
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: not that is not nice. How dare you? How dare you?
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Mark from Queen's points out that the player that was
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: drafted who was legally blind was Wesley Walker.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: That is correct.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Mark from Queens, who's now in Arlington, says that was
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: my favorite player growing up. Yeah, Wesley Walker was the
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: inspiration for the scouting combine. Did he have a nickname
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: One eyed, one eyed Wesley? No, you a Wesley Walker?
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: Right?
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: So would it be like double you or double U's.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: It could be one eyed Wes, one eye Wes. All right,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: let's go to the falls that we have a song here.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: This is very exciting. And this guy was on at
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: the end of last hour. But I was running on
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: the Autobahn and he was very concerned about my health
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: and I appreciate that, Scott. He did not want me
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: to crash into a brick. Wall and I thank you
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: for that. So you prepared a little bit of a diddy?
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Is that correct?
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: Scot?
• 25:07
  Speaker 7: No, no, no, oh, I thought you had a song.
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: No no, no, no, I no, I have a song
• 25:14
  Speaker 7: for of Rena for for were you know the intros
• 25:19
  Speaker 7: when you come back from the oh the breaks?
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: Wait wait wait hold we did all that. You just
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: were gonna recommend a song.
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: Yeah, exactly. See no no.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no no.
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: Hold that is not how we took it. We said
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: we thought you had a song that you wrote for Lorena.
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: Song suggestion. You can give that on Twitter.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: You don't have to get on here.
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Now you have to sing a song, Yeah, you gotta.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: You have to sing a song, Scott. All right, all right,
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: here we go. Here we go.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: This is Scott on the fly about to sing a
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: song for Lorena.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Go ahead, here we go, Scott, here we go. All right.
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: Uh, Lorena is the best tech clean she is the
• 26:01
  Speaker 7: best engineer on the planet. Dude, dude, dude, I don't
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: know what to say next.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: All right, perfect, there that's a drop. Put that in
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: the system, Larada, that's a drop. That's put that in there.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: You go, And it really was going to be terrible
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: and tell you that the dude, dude, dude, see that
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: made it important and that really is all music is,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: is dud dude, that's all you need to do, and
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: then you've got music. That's the secret of music is
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: just throw that in and you did it.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: You did it.
• 26:29
  Speaker 7: Thank you. Can I give Loreina my suggestion? Since I
• 26:34
  Speaker 7: did my song?
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: You asked me you did you listen? That was not
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: meaningless noise? You did the song? Absolutely?
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, what do you want?
• 26:43
  Speaker 7: Okay? Okay, Lorena? You ready? I have a song and
• 26:47
  Speaker 7: a question. It's a tech question. But hey, who the song?
• 26:51
  Speaker 7: I know? I know, Ben, I'm like totally blowing us
• 26:54
  Speaker 7: out tonight. Okay. First off, the song you should check
• 26:58
  Speaker 7: out for your bump into the you know the bumping
• 27:02
  Speaker 7: music is Susie and Vega. Frank and Ava. Check it out.
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: Frank and Ava. What was the first part Susian?
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: Okay, yeah it was. Her name is Susie and Vega.
• 27:18
  Speaker 7: She's been around for a long time. Susie and Vega.
• 27:21
  Speaker 7: Frankin Ava, Frank.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Scott, I got a question?
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: Can I ask you a question?
• 27:30
  Speaker 7: Yeah? Go ahead?
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Do you call DJ's up and give him sports takes.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: You say I got a sports take?
• 27:36
  Speaker 7: I actually do?
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: Have you do?
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: No?
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: No, I'm not no, no, no, no, you know what
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: I'm saying. You call Do you call Kiss FM and whatever?
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: You know what the rock station is in town?
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Do you call him up and say, hey, I got
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: I got a hot take on the past.
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: Do you call your pastor and tell him what sermon
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: to deliver?
• 27:52
  Speaker 7: No? Actually, not a religious person. I don't do that.
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: I don't do that.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Do not do that. I understand. I got. I hope
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: it's a good song.
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: I'll check it out and if it's worthy, if it's
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: worthy as comeback music. You know, Ben is very picky.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: It's very particular music.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: I love my bumper Music's the most important part of
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: the show. As you know, Lorena, I feels very important
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: about bumper music.
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: And I also know that there's so many men on
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: the station who who cannot stand Britney spears or do
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: a lipa or Selena Gomez.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: Or well it's listeners. They complain the female voices.
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: They just really don't like female singers. So this sounds
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: like an it sounds like a girl.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: So I'm thinking.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: It's old school.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: But if it's old if it's an old song, if
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: it's a woman who's now in like your sixties or seventies,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: that's okay. But if she's sitting on her twenties, that's
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: a problem.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: One listener, which one is? Line them up?
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: All right?
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: I gotta go Scott, thank you? All right, I'm a
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: hanging up on you. Go away.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: There's a Scott in the Commonwealth and uh yeah, So
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: what are there? Sixty thousand songs being released every day
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: on the streaming service.
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: That's one of the best ones made today.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Sixties thousand songs. They asked me. There's twenty two million
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: songs a year. I bet you the numbers are even
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: higher now because people are just making songs on AI
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: and crap like that, throwing it out there. But the
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: basics of music, there's only so many notes, only a
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: few notes, and you gotta come up with tunes.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Let's go back to the phones.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: We'll say hello to Andre, who's hanging out with his
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: dog Willers.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: Hello, Andre, Welcome, how are you doing?
• 29:30
  Speaker 7: Ben good to be with you.
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: There are so many songs, but we have to stay
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: with the classics. Forget forget AI. Right, we want to sing.
• 29:38
  Speaker 7: Us a song.
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: You're the Yeah, no man sing us a song, and
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: that's a good song, right that.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: It is a billy Joel. Yeah, that's a solid song,
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: you know, getting the.
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: People in the right mode. You know, it's a good
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: song for the local establishment where you go and you
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: spend time with your people. I feel quite honored, Ben,
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: you had to call it from the Commonwealth and now
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: you need I'm obviously in the Commonwealth and speaking of songs,
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: you know you know what I mean. Making your way
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: in the world today it takes everything you've got, taking
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: a break from all your I'm not going to sing
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: the whole song.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: I want I want everyone to sing.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Now, everyone should just sing. Just call up and say
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: it's open mic night. We'll just have you say it is.
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: You know myself and Willis he's hanging out right now.
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: He might get involved, he might get motivated. Uh, you know,
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: he's bouncing back. But we we are you know, you know,
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: we are planning for the mal of militia. He's he's
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: gearing up for gearing up and we're gonna work.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: I heard.
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: He was down, but he's back up now. He's taking
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: some interest. You know, we'll see he has he's been
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: deprived of the Snacker Rudie. So he might get he
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: might get animated. But Ben, you started off talking about
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: what we're looking at the NFL season, Joe Burrow being
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: the favorite for the m v P. I can't co
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: sign this, Ben, all right, space on the fact that
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: they're an incomplete roster. Right in life, we're complete and
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: then you know what I mean, we're complete. Sometimes they
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: say it's better, uh, Ben, not only are your ship,
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: you know, but you're also you know, you're in a
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: committed relationship. You talk about it. You know it's a
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: beautiful thing, right, you know you're together. Okay, the Bengals
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: are not together. They have a solid offense, but where's
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: the defense, all right? So I don't see them stopping anybody.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: I think I don't know if they're going to make
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: it out of the af scuse me, the AFC H North,
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: which has three or four good defenses around them. So
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: Joe Burrow, even though I like the cut of his jip,
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: the cut of his jip, you know, so to speak.
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: I like how we showed up with the mint coach
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: to Arrowhead Stadium and took Pastor Mahomes out. But I
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: don't know if he could be personally successful. The Bengals
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: can be successful as a team if they're all offense
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: and absolutely no defense. I got to push back on
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: him for MVP, even though I like Jolt and Joe.
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: Never mind the woo.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: It's a regular season award, the one saying he's going
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: to be the playoff MVP.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: It's a regular number one. It's a regular season award
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: number two. If you have a.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Bad defense, you have to score more points. Therefore, you
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: should be able to enhance enhance your performance on offense.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: And the Bengals couple years back when they got to
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, they had the nineteenth ranked.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: Defense in the NFL in twenty twenty one.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: They got to the Super Bowl that postseason, so they
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: were a pretty bad defense.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: They did get to a super Bowl. See Willis agrees
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: with me, he does.
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: Willis concurs with you. Ben for me, I don't know
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: you're playing against the Steelers. You're playing against the Ravens
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: Derrick Henry. Obviously the Steelers is going to be a
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: physical team. They might just keep Joe Burrow off the
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: field ground and pounds. Okay, keep him on the sidelines.
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: We're slowing this bad boy down. Because we know that
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: your defense is all smoking marriage and you can't stop anybody.
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: So again, I like Joe Burrow. I'm rooting for Joe Burrow.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: The NFL is better with Joe Burrow in the playoffs,
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: but I don't know if his organization has done right
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: by him, okay to put him in a position to
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: be an MVP. All right, I think Willis is picking
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: up what I'm putting down. I like the storyline, Ben,
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: but it might have to go. I know we're getting
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: a little bit of voter for teacher with Lamar Jackson,
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: but you have to respect greatness. Okay, and Josh Allen,
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: they're doing it the right way. Buffalo less is more.
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: They get ready, step on the Diggs, their culture improved,
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: and they win more games. The Ravens they can't get
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: over the top. They can't you slay the Kansas City
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: chieftain or get themselves home field advantage. But during the
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: regular season, it's nobody team is nobody particular player. So
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna have to push back. I like Jokin Joe.
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: I want to see him with the mint Cooke coming
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: with the confidence at Arroweight Stadium. I don't know if
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: he can get the job done in terms of the
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: MVP for myself. But Wills, we're gonna have songs ready
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: because again it's about the malt Paluza.
• 33:23
  Speaker 7: Shout out to Jay Scoop.
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: Okay, we're in training, we're counting down the days. Malapalooza
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: twenty twenty six.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: Always there to tell you.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: There's the great Andre. So turn the page on that.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: I saw this video clip the other day. I didn't
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: talk about it. I'm very skeptical now of everything I see.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: I think it's all fake and AI and all this stuff.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: But apparently what I saw was legit. Several of you
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: sent me this. Those of you believe you live in
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: the Seattle area, Pacific Northwest, and so the Seattle Kraken,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: that's a hockey team. Have you seen the video? Heard
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: about the video? Their their troll mascot, Booie. The mascot
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: went fly fishing in Alas. There was a video clip
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: and the mascot came very close to being eaten, the
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  Speaker 1: actual mascot of the Seattle Crack and NHL team by
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  Speaker 1: a legitimate Grizzly bear. What yeah, yeah, who wanted to
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  Speaker 1: eat the mascot as dinner?
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  Speaker 6: No?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's wild, So this is no, it's not.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently it's legit.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, the Kraken they were, And then they went
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  Speaker 1: up to Alaska some kind of cross promotion thing, a
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  Speaker 1: fly fishing excursion. It's a partnership the hockey team has
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  Speaker 1: with Bristol Bay Native Corporation. I have no idea what
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  Speaker 1: that is, but apparently they're in Alaska and Anchorage. There's
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  Speaker 1: some kind of thing with the Hockey Academy there. And
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  Speaker 1: so there's this video clip which has gone around and
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  Speaker 1: I've seen it and I thought, well, I can't be real. No,
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  Speaker 1: the mascot is waist deep in the water. They're all
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: waist deep in the water, and a couple of grizzly
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  Speaker 1: bears decided that they would like to do a little
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  Speaker 1: fishing and almost came very close to the mascot, like
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  Speaker 1: maybe this. I mean, if you're a bear and you
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: see a human being dressed as Booie the Craken mascot,
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  Speaker 1: you might think that's delicious.
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  Speaker 2: You just saw the video. You just saw the video, right,
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  Speaker 2: he must have soiled himself.
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  Speaker 1: You imagine, Like, dude, I mean, I'm a freaking mascot
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  Speaker 1: for a hockey team.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to be dinner.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just a stupid troll mascot.
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  Speaker 2: And anyway, so deparently that was that was legit. That
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: was legit.
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  Speaker 1: And if the mascot had been eaten, would they have
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: had to change their name to the Seattle Grizzlies or
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: something like that to honor the grizzly bear. Imagine dying
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: though being eaten in a mascot costume.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, we'll pause there. It is the Ban Malor Show
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  Speaker 1: as we press on time. Now for the Insta trivia,
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  Speaker 1: We'll try not to get eaten by a grizzly bear.
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  Speaker 1: Blank has led the NFL and field goal percentage over
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  Speaker 1: the last two years and also has the highest success
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  Speaker 1: rate on fifty plus yard kick.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there's the sound of the grizzly again.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Blank has led the NFL and field goal percentage over
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  Speaker 1: the last two years, also has the highest success rate
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  Speaker 1: on fifty plus yard kicks in that time.
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  Speaker 2: That's the Insta tributa the answer next.
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  Speaker 2: Back to it, went back to it quick, right time.
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  Speaker 1: Now for the Insta trivia and we'll get to Mallard
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  Speaker 1: of the third Degree.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the Insta trivia.
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  Speaker 1: Blank has led the NFL in field goal percentage over
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: the last two years. Also has the highest success rate
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: on fifty plus yard field goals in that period of time.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: That is the question. What is the answer? Let's see
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: does anyone know the answer? We go to the Great.
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  Speaker 1: Unwashed quickly Bigfoot from Bobby and Florida Random, Ryan's going
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  Speaker 1: with Bubba the Love Sponge radio legend in Tampa. The
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  Speaker 1: Kraken kicking balls in Grizzlies.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's Dan.
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  Speaker 1: Chris Boswell from EG A lot of Scott Norwood, Mimi Keene,
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  Speaker 1: who's twenty seven?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know who that is?
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: From Late Night drug tester Rocky bow Ball from Alfiellano Pinter,
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  Speaker 1: What say you the rid art dare No, it is
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  Speaker 1: Nick Folk. Nick Folk is the answer. He signer the Jets.
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  Speaker 1: We get a lot of field goal attempts. Here we go,
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  Speaker 1: here we go, Here we go, here we go.
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  Speaker 5: This is one that gets grilled.
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  Speaker 3: So another thing Sean Payton said over the weekend was
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: that the short term goal for the Broncos is winning
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: the division, but that he thinks this team is capable
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: of winning the Super Bowl. Ben, do you think the
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: Broncos are capable of either of those things this season?
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  Speaker 2: No? Well, not the super Bowl, and the only way
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: they'll win.
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  Speaker 1: The division is a proper knee ligament tear and twisted
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  Speaker 1: ankle at the right time. Like the Broncos will be
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: a good team. There'll be a middleweight contender, but not
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: a heavyweight contender next.
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  Speaker 3: DK Metcalf told reporters that the Steelers defense is the
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: best that he has ever seen. Last year, they were
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: eighth in the league in scoring defense. Do you expect
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: a big improvement from them this season.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: It's nice of DK Metcalf to urinate all over the
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: Seattle defenses that he had there.
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  Speaker 2: It's nice of him to say that, but but no, listen,
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: Pittsburgh will be around that area.
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  Speaker 1: The big additions they picked up Darius Slay who is
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: with Philadelphia, and Jalen Ramsey from Miami. Those are the
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: two big additions on defense, so they're there are both
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: players who have been around a while, good players. I
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: believe they will end off right around that seven to
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: ten range defensively, so they'll be in that same department.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: But it's good that DK Metcalf is the hype man
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: for the Pittsburgh defense. Has TJ. Watt gotten paid yet?
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: I don't think so.
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: Next, Chad Johnson recently told TMZ that Jamar Chase is
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: the best wide receiver ever to play for the Bengals
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: and actually the best player in the NFL right now, Ben,
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: do you agree with either of those statements?
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  Speaker 1: Well, he's better than Chad Johnson. I was a big
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: Chad Johnson fan, But Jamar Chase is better than Chad Johnson.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: So Chad Johnson was considered the top receiver. With apologies
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: to Chris Collinsworth in Bengals history. So yes, Jamar Chase
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: better than Chad Johnson. No, he's not the greatest receiver
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: in the NFL, as a certain guy in Minnesota right
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: now who has that title as the top receiver in
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: the NFL. I do like the word best coop, as
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: you know, the best means as good as all the rest.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: So they're really just as good as all the rest.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: But there is Mallard to the third degree. How did
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: we do he failed?
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  Speaker 2: His addition? A heavy wish such an horsemen. No they're not.
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  Speaker 2: They're middleweight contender. Middleweight contender, that's all. They are. Middleweight contender.