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  Speaker 1: some wild wild rivers in the NFL our lead out
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  Speaker 1: of Indianapolis. The Colts not a playoff team at this moment,
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  Speaker 1: but they are the talk of the town in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: And years ago, I ran a gossip website, a sports
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  Speaker 1: gossip website, and the philosophy in our newsroom was that
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  Speaker 1: today's rumors or tomorrow's headlines. In this case, yesterday's rumors
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  Speaker 1: are today's headlines as it has happened. Yet again. What
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  Speaker 1: is it? What is it? What is it? What is it?
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  Speaker 1: What is it? If you have not heard, I assume
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  Speaker 1: you know by now you've connected the dots. You're not
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  Speaker 1: a complete moron. The Indianapolis Colts have decided we are
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  Speaker 1: signing on the dotted line forty four year old quarterback
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  Speaker 1: Philip Rivers. He's back, Philip Rivers out of retirement. Signing
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  Speaker 1: him now initially to the practice squad. That is a
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  Speaker 1: really a clerical move by the Colts. You put him
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  Speaker 1: on the practice squad to start. The move comes less
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  Speaker 1: than twenty four hours after the story popped up in
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  Speaker 1: the gossip mill of the NFL and Colts coach Shane
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  Speaker 1: Stiken confirming that Daniel Jones snap crackle pop, he gone
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  Speaker 1: hell missed the rest of the season and likely next
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  Speaker 1: season as well, with a popped achilles tendon. And Riley Leonard,
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  Speaker 1: who wasn't thought of as any more than a developmental quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: And he's got a bum right knee. Welcome to the club.
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  Speaker 1: So he's dinged up and you've got a rippin'. That's
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  Speaker 1: about it at quarterback right now. So Rivers, who has
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  Speaker 1: not taken a meaningful snap since the twenty twenty season,
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  Speaker 1: is a January of twenty twenty one playoff game, which, oh,
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  Speaker 1: by the ways, last time the Colts made the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: And that's it. So this was the news that we
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  Speaker 1: thought might happen. Well, now it's happened Colter eight and
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  Speaker 1: five and they have gone back to Philip Rivers, who
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  Speaker 1: has been coaching at Saint Michael High School in Fair Hope,
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  Speaker 1: Alabama ever since. So that's good jumping off point. Let
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  Speaker 1: us discuss the question for the esteem panel what is
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  Speaker 1: the big picture? What is the big picture on Philip
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  Speaker 1: Rivers parachuting in to save the day. It's like, you're
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  Speaker 1: in a tough spot. Who are you gonna call. Let's
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  Speaker 1: get a parashooter to come in here and save the day.
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  Speaker 1: Philip Rivers at age forty four parachuting in to Indianapolis.
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  Speaker 1: So my thoughts on this, I've got bowlow, mother nature
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  Speaker 1: and and better lighting, and we will combine all of
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  Speaker 1: these things together and we are going to have a
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  Speaker 1: smorgasborg of goodness is what we're going to have. So
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  Speaker 1: a the way I look at the Philip Rivers story
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  Speaker 1: as an outside party and just kind of observing. It's
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  Speaker 1: like going to the zoo and you're not actually where
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  Speaker 1: the elephants are. You're outside of where the elephants are,
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  Speaker 1: but you're looking at the elephants, you know, like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: look at the trunk on that or that one's pooping.
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  Speaker 1: Those two over there making whoopee. There's a lot going on.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot going on there. But this is binary,
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  Speaker 1: is what it is. Right, it's black and white, it's
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  Speaker 1: rise and fall. It's get a trophy or splatter or
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  Speaker 1: make the playoffs or a splatter or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: But really, to me, there's no middle ground on this.
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  Speaker 1: There's no gray area. There's no little moral victory or
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  Speaker 1: any of that mumbo jumbo, which some I'm sure we'll
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  Speaker 1: toss out. The whole thing plays like a Hollywood reboot.
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  Speaker 1: It's a Hollywood reboot. They're out of original ideas. We've
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  Speaker 1: known that for years in Hollywood, and so they green
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  Speaker 1: lighted Rivers the Return. Oh, it's right, the Rivers the
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  Speaker 1: Return or is it a Netflix docu series? But the
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  Speaker 1: opening scene I've already storyboarded it, so the opening scene
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  Speaker 1: of this Rivers The Return. You've got Rivers changing his
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  Speaker 1: grandson's diaper in a backwater town in the boondocks of Alabama,
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  Speaker 1: surrounded by a whole lot of nothing, and he wipes
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  Speaker 1: his hands, cleans the poop poo off the hands, and
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  Speaker 1: then grabs his backpack and flies off to Indianapolis. And
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  Speaker 1: suddenly he becomes the Bolo Tie Crusader. He's a sidekick.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of the Batman universe, right, the Bolo tie Crusader.
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  Speaker 1: And there he is leading the horse convoy down the
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  Speaker 1: tunnel and out the play game, Get the game. And
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  Speaker 1: the fantasy ending here, of course, is the if it's
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  Speaker 1: the Disney movie, then the Colts win the championship and
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  Speaker 1: Philip Rivers is the MVP. He holds up the Lombardi Trophy.
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  Speaker 1: He's carried off the field a La Rudy by his
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  Speaker 1: teammates who are young enough to be his kids, and
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  Speaker 1: then goes back to grandpa duty and then you fade
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  Speaker 1: to black. You roll the credits, and that's it. Now
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  Speaker 1: there is an alternative cut on this flick Rivers Liberturn.
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  Speaker 1: So what would that be? You asked, I'll tell you.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for asking that alternative cut for the Philip Rivers film.
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  Speaker 1: Rivers plays about five snaps this weekend, and Pop goes
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  Speaker 1: the Achalles Snap Crackle Pop and he goes back to
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  Speaker 1: Alabama for surgery and boom or in this case top
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  Speaker 1: boom movie over. That's it, turn out the lads, the
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  Speaker 1: parties old. Now look, we again have no skin in
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  Speaker 1: the game. We don't. And I think it's gonna be fun.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking I like fun. People think I don't like fun.
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  Speaker 1: I like fun. I enjoy it. I'm looking forward to this.
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  Speaker 1: And Indye ordered extra sauce before the trade deadline, Sauce
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  Speaker 1: Gardner because they believed that this Frankenstein concoction of a
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  Speaker 1: roster was good enough to win the AFC. Right right now,
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  Speaker 1: they're not even a playoff team. Playoffs. You got New
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  Speaker 1: England and Denver at the top of the AFC. Now
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  Speaker 1: most believe that those teams are beatable. Got to get
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs, though, I'm pretty sure you can't win
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  Speaker 1: the super Bowl. No one's ever won the Super Bowl
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  Speaker 1: if you don't get in the playoffs. So you have
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  Speaker 1: to get into the playoffs. That's the baseline. You got
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  Speaker 1: to get into the playoffs. And so now they're going
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  Speaker 1: to have a new general of the connival in Indianapolis
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  Speaker 1: and Colts football, though at least for this weekend. And
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  Speaker 1: we'll see if this goes okay, but it becomes like
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  Speaker 1: nineteen nineties NBC television must see TV for the Indianapolis cults.
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  Speaker 1: Here is this going to be an epic train wreck?
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  Speaker 1: And if Rivers goes out there and plays like our grandpa,
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  Speaker 1: I told you, I told you can't play. Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: what are they doing? Oh my god? Of course, then
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  Speaker 1: if he plays well, if it's a magic carpet rise,
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  Speaker 1: Oh it's so good. I told you. Oh he's some
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  Speaker 1: great It's that kind of me. So buckle up, bucker room,
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  Speaker 1: all right. Now, staying with the theme of the hour,
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  Speaker 1: as the rivers flow, So continuing the theme here, the
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  Speaker 1: state sponsored probed the news service of the NFL, the
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  Speaker 1: NFL Network, the mouthpiece for NFL propaganda. So the NFL
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  Speaker 1: Network tells us that Philip Rivers has a quote very
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  Speaker 1: real chance of starting week fifteen for the Colts as
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  Speaker 1: they take on Seattle this weekend. So the question should
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  Speaker 1: the Colts throw quarterback Philip Rivers into the fire fire
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  Speaker 1: against the Seattle Seahawk. So my answer is, oh my god, yes, yes, Indian.
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  Speaker 1: Throw Philip Rivers into the inferno and bring extra gasoline,
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  Speaker 1: bring a match or cigarette light or whatever you got there,
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  Speaker 1: and just have a great time. Just bring some marshmallows,
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  Speaker 1: bring some chocolate, some gram crackers who make some smores.
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  Speaker 1: And the man is forty four years old, which I
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  Speaker 1: don't think. I don't think you're on your deathbed at
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  Speaker 1: age forty four. He's got that Grandpa energy, Big Gram's energy,
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  Speaker 1: Big Gramps. He's I guess he's eligible when he goes
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  Speaker 1: to Seattle, he can go out, have the early Bird
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  Speaker 1: special and knock himself out. And well, here's a When
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  Speaker 1: you bring in a forty four year old quarterback who
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  Speaker 1: played like a gazillion years in the NFL, that's the personification,
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  Speaker 1: the epitome of out of the box quarterback. No assembly
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  Speaker 1: required for Philip Rivers. Right, muscle memory takes over here.
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  Speaker 1: That's how this goes. You don't stash that in your
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  Speaker 1: attic like some forgotten Christmas decorations from years ago or anything
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  Speaker 1: like that. And what you are saving him? What are
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  Speaker 1: you saving him for? What's the point of saving him? Well,
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  Speaker 1: we don't want to get him hurt because he's our
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  Speaker 1: future court. No, he's going to be back in Fair Hope, Alabama,
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  Speaker 1: coaching high school football for the Warriors whatever they're called,
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  Speaker 1: next year. So that's it. Are you saving him for
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  Speaker 1: a rainy day? Spoiler alert? Spiler alert? I looked at
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  Speaker 1: the forecast. Congratulations, it's supposed to rain for the Colts
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  Speaker 1: in the Seahawks game in Seattle. So mother Nature herself,
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  Speaker 1: Mother Nature is screaming, play him, that's what she's literally,
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  Speaker 1: She's play him. She screamed that literally. So the Colts
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  Speaker 1: have as much choice as a guy stuck in gridlock traffic.
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  Speaker 1: There's nut you're stuck. You got to get where you're going,
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  Speaker 1: so you sit in the traffic and there's really no
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  Speaker 1: other way to go. And that's the Colts with Philip Rivers.
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  Speaker 1: And so the recipe here for Shane Stike it's rather simple.
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  Speaker 1: It's straight out of Michael Angelo's Chisel. And what you
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  Speaker 1: do here is it's simplicity, is what it is. That's
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  Speaker 1: the key to success. Simplicity, And you hand the ball
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  Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor like fifty times. You just keep running the
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  Speaker 1: ball and you hand it to Taylor like you're handing
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  Speaker 1: out canoli's. You get a canoli, you get a canoli,
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  Speaker 1: you get a canoli, and you keep rivers with the
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  Speaker 1: elementary school passing offense everything around the line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe take two or three shots down the field, but
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  Speaker 1: the rest of it is crayons. It's not calculus. With
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  Speaker 1: Philip River is playing quarterback. So that's what you do.
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  Speaker 1: And you force Sam Darnald to do Sam Donald's trademark things,
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  Speaker 1: which is sea ghost and very rarely does he have
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  Speaker 1: a full game. We saw in fact, the Seattle team
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  Speaker 1: beat the crap out of the Falcons. If you watch
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  Speaker 1: the game in the first half, Sam Darnald is terrible
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  Speaker 1: in the first half. So he has a bad half
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  Speaker 1: in this game if it's the first half, and that
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  Speaker 1: sets the Colts up, puts him in a good position
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  Speaker 1: here and then boom, you're golden, golden, golden Goldan is
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  Speaker 1: what you are there, and that's the cookbook, that's the recipe,
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  Speaker 1: and that's the gospel. So that's what you do with Grandpa.
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  Speaker 1: Put him out there.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the last word on this, as for the chatter,
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  Speaker 1: oh my god, what about the gold jacket? What about
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  Speaker 1: the gold jacket. Shove it up. Your tuckis with the
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  Speaker 1: gold jacket. So the question here, since he is returning
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  Speaker 1: to the NFL, Philip Rivers now will delay his opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to get to the Hall of Fame. God forbid you
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  Speaker 1: end up getting voted in the Hall of Fame and
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  Speaker 1: still play. So Rivers will have to wait five more years.
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  Speaker 1: All of the horror five more years, and of course
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  Speaker 1: the arguments will even make the Hall of Fame. Is
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  Speaker 1: this a big deal, a little deal or no deal?
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  Speaker 1: The fact that Philip Rivers is gonna have to wait
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  Speaker 1: an extra five years to find out about the Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame. So to me, it's no deal, none zippo,
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  Speaker 1: squad douche is the way I would answer this. And
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  Speaker 1: here's why. To me, this is not some kind of
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  Speaker 1: added weight for Philip Rivers. It's not some kind of
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  Speaker 1: conspiracy or controversy or anything like that. It is a
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  Speaker 1: clerical pause. It's a clerical pause at the NFL Bronze
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  Speaker 1: bust morgue. Right now, I've been to Hall of Fames.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with Hall of Fames. But
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  Speaker 1: the issue is this the Hall of Fame. We spend
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  Speaker 1: a lot of time on sports radio and sports you know,
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  Speaker 1: conversation talking about who's a hall of fame, who's the goat.
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  Speaker 1: It's a lot of our time is wasted on this
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  Speaker 1: kind of stuff. That's an actual goat right there. But
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  Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame, it's if you look at it,
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  Speaker 1: and I know I'm gonnaet killed for this, I don't care.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. It looks great on a post guard.
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  Speaker 1: And I'd like to go to the Pro Football Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame someday. I'm not against it. I'd like to
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  Speaker 1: go and check it out. However, when you peel back
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  Speaker 1: the onion on the Pro Football Hall of Fame, it's
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  Speaker 1: a mausoleum with better lighting. That's what it is. It's
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  Speaker 1: you go there and it's like, I'd much rather be
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  Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame than a cemetery. Mostly end
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  Speaker 1: up in cemetery, but I'd rather end up there. And
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  Speaker 1: by the way, let's let's try not to look at
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  Speaker 1: the will to Beast in the room. What is the
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  Speaker 1: will the Beast in the room? Philip rivers, it is
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  Speaker 1: an incan venient truth, does not have a Hall of
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  Speaker 1: Fame resume. Oh my god, that's blasphemy. What are you
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  Speaker 1: talking about you lost your lightning bolt. No, I have
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  Speaker 1: not let me make my elevator pitch as to why,
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  Speaker 1: in fact I would larree. You never had a Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame resume. And the guy was a horrible big
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  Speaker 1: game Quebeck, which is kind of my right, like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna leave the Colts to the super Bowl, which
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  Speaker 1: would change his Hall of Fame trajectory, all right, Because this,
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  Speaker 1: if you go back Philip Rivers in San Diego, you
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  Speaker 1: could make the argument if he actually won. The Chargers
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  Speaker 1: had super Bowl worthy teams multiple times when Rivers was there.
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  Speaker 1: If they had won a super Bowl, they likely would
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  Speaker 1: have convinced the politicians in San Diego to build the stadium.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore they would still be the San Diego Chargers. But
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  Speaker 1: Philip Rivers was such a choke artist in big games
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  Speaker 1: that they didn't get the funding, they didn't get the
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  Speaker 1: taxpayer money, and so they ended up going to LA
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  Speaker 1: and doing whatever they're doing in LA. But he was
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  Speaker 1: a terrible corback. Zero super Bowls, one AFC title game
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  Speaker 1: in his time in San Diego, four playoff wins in
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  Speaker 1: seventeen season. And it's not like he was on bad teams.
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  Speaker 1: They were usually pretty good. The Chargers were usually pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: Four playoff wins, seventeen seasons as Charge at quarterback. Come on, now,
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's does that well? He said, well that's
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  Speaker 1: our team award. Okay. He spent his whole career as
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  Speaker 1: not the third wheel. Philip Rivers were like the fifth wheel.
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  Speaker 1: When you look at his generation, the greatest quarterback generation
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  Speaker 1: of all time, you had Tom Brady, Drew Brees, Peyton Manning,
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, and then Philip Rivers, who was like Ringo
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  Speaker 1: Star if you get the reference. Okay, he was there,
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  Speaker 1: but it's like other people were more important, Like the
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  Speaker 1: other ones were better, but he was there. He was
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  Speaker 1: a Ringo Star was there, but you know he was
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  Speaker 1: a beatle. But the other ones were kind of bigger deal.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You know, it's like Ringo
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  Speaker 1: Star without the drumsticks. And never an All Pro and
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  Speaker 1: that's a big one. That is a big one. Never
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  Speaker 1: Philip Rivers never made an All Pro team. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: even make a second team All Pro the Pro Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody cares about the Pro Bowls. They played. They played
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  Speaker 1: tic tac toe and grab ass. At the Pro Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: They got rid of it. So he didn't make the
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  Speaker 1: first or second team All Pro Rivers. He was never
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  Speaker 1: in the top two in the MVP voting. Ever. I
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  Speaker 1: think he finished fourth one time, I believe. And so
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  Speaker 1: that's not a Canton Ohio resume. That's the waiting room
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  Speaker 1: with no magazines and that's it and no Wi Fi.
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  Speaker 1: But what about the old time numbers, what about the
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  Speaker 1: sixties something thousand yards passing and the four hundred plus
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  Speaker 1: touchdowns and all that stuff. Well, that is compiler nation,
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  Speaker 1: is what the now you want to go buy compiler.
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  Speaker 1: Eli Manning also not a Hall of Famer, just average
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  Speaker 1: stiff quarterback Eli Manning. And there are people advocating for
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  Speaker 1: him to get in the Hall of Fame. He shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be in the Hall of Fame either, But Philip Rivers
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  Speaker 1: is in the same boat with him. I'm Anning, and
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  Speaker 1: so it's a bit of a problem. And it's like
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  Speaker 1: the compiler stuff, It's like, all right, well, that's like
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  Speaker 1: costco stuff, your volume discount stats. And so in terms
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  Speaker 1: of delaying the Hall of Fame, it's really no decision
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  Speaker 1: at all to make. It's it's you don't have to
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  Speaker 1: think about it because it's it's a no deal. It's
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  Speaker 1: a nothing burger. In fact that he likely will not
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  Speaker 1: make the Hall of Fame, and if the Colts were
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  Speaker 1: From the Winter meetings in Orlando, they have gone Mickey Mouse.
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  Speaker 1: That's normally where during pandemics they hand out Mickey Mouse
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  Speaker 1: championship rings. In Orlando, Baseball GM's getting there so their
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• 22:34
  Speaker 1: dime and they can pretend to be working. Now, there
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: was some news out of the winter meetings of the Mets.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Closer Edwin Diaz, a free agent, has decided to say
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: bye bye to the New York Mats. He has found
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: a new home. The news coming out. If you have
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: not heard yet, this is rocking the baseball universe. People upset.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: They're annoyed because Edwin Diaz is taking his talents to
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers d oh d g e rs. The Dodger
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: is a three year deal for sixty nine million. Insert
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: your own dirty joke. Right there, La gets the top
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: closer on the market and takes away a valuable piece
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: of the New York Mets bullpen. But don't worry, Mets fans.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: You have Devin Williams who will poop his pants by May.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: So enjoy that ds A three time All Star, eight
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: time All Star. I had an ERA of under two.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: I'm told that's good and converted twenty eight of thirty
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: one saves. I'm told that's also good for the Mets
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: this past season. He's got the nasty combo dish, a
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: lot of speed. There's a need for speed, high velocity
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: and a vicious slider. Just like when I pitch now,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: I have the lollipop pitch, which it gets people out.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter how you get them out, it's just
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: getting hitters out. And that's the case. Diaz thirty one
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: has posted throughout his career big strikeout numbers, and that's
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: why the nerds get all horny when they talk about
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Edwin Diaz, and that's why he's getting paid. So that's
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: does this Edwin Diaz signing with the Dodgers, does it
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: budge the needle does it budge the needle. So I've
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: got stock market mustache and three course meal, and we
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together and we are
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: going to play Connect three is what we're going to do.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: So number this stop. This does not just budge the needle. Okay,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: it does not just budge the needle. This thing is
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: spinning round and round and round and round and like
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: a damn wheel of misfortune, which is what often these
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: signings out to be. Okay, listen, the Dodgers yet again,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: they didn't do this when I was doing postgame Dodger
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: talk back in the day they signed stiffs. Now I'm
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: not doing that on that years and the Dodgers going
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: out there, They're going to Beverly Hills where Dale Drive,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: and you know, signing every year. They signed one of
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: the top players in baseball every fricking year. Okay, it's insane.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: They came home with a cologne drenched closer of their dreams.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: At least in theory, that's the key part. In theory,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Diaz is just what the doctor ordered. Well, are you
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: talking about the Dodgers wore in the World Series. They
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: don't need Edwin is okay? Yeah, Okay, yeah, they won
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: the World Series. They had a bullpen this past year
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: that was stuff with underachievers, has bins and never wors.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: That was the Dodger bullpen. You know, stiffs like Kirby
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Yates who had a good career but was washed up,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: and a bullpen that if you look at it from
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: just any reasonable analysis, the bullpen that forced the analytical
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: nerds that run the Dodgers, not Dave Roberts, the analytical nerds.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Every game was like Benny versus the Penny, where they
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: were flipping a coin up in the air trying to
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: improvise what they were going to do in the month
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: of October, and they put out a bunch of starters
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: and they would duct tape their bullpen together and it
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: worked anwin. Diaz is the Kremdada Krem is what he is,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: and so he comes in there and you cue up
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: the hype and that means, I guess, Timmy Trumpet, we
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: got it? Where is he part of thee? Do we
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: have Timmy Trumpet.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: Not coming near?
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: It is like this Tetter rule the organist at Dodger Stadium.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: It's called Narco. I'm gonna add that to my music
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: on my phone. Now because he's a Dodger, So I
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: play that unless he sucks and I'll delete it. But
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: there it is. There Edwin Diaz, who that famous where
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: that Timmy Trumpet song Narca. I don't know who that
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: guy was before this and that went viral and became
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: a top song and all that. So that's part of
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: the deal coming to Dodger Stadium. However, the issue I
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: have being the voice of reason unless I'm not. But
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: the Diaz has kryptonite, and the kryptonite is as a reliever.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: The every reliever comes with the fine print. There's a
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: warning label on every relief picture. It's relief pictures go up,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: they go down, they go sideways. It's like the stock market.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: It's like you can invest in a fortune five hundred
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: blue chip stock, which is there's no guaranteeing anyway reasonably.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: You know you're not gonna lose a lot of money,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: might make a little bit of money, might lose a
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: little bit. You're not gonna lose that much. And then
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: there's the highly volatile stock, which is often medical companies
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: or power companies, things like that. If you play a
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: stock market, and that's what every relief picture is. Even
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: the good ones are a highly volatile stock. And that's
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: the problem, right, The Dodgers have already lived this life.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: They have lived this life, this sitcom. That was Tanner
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Scott who signed a seventy two million dollar contract last offseason.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: He was a top reliever on the market last offseason,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: seventy two million bucks. And he became the infomercial pitchman
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: for the product that you only see late at night,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: the barf o Mattic. And he was out there and
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: he was selling the bar fore Maatic. Tanner Scott. He
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: set the Dodger record for most blown saves in the
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: season after signing a seventy two million dollars contract. He
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: was so bad. How bad was he? He was so
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: bad that the Dodgers didn't even pitch him in the playoffs. Playoffs, Yeah,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: didn't even now My problem with this. When I was
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: a young lad, I was coming up in radio. I
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: was working in San Diego at the mighty sixth ninety
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: which is now like a Mexican format State whatever. It
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: was a border blaster station, and the padres at the
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: time had a GM named Kevin. Now he's long gone,
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Rest in peace, Kevin Towers. But Kevin Towers was the
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: maestro of building a bullpen. And I've always gone by
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: the gospel of Kevin Towers his mantra way before the
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: nerdation of baseball. And everyone's been brought in here and
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: indoctrinated in the nerd ball. But Kevin Towers, back in
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: the day with the padres, he knew that relievers were volatile,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: as we've talked about a volatile stock, and that they
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: were terrible investments that and the pidders didn't spend a
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: lot of money in those days. They still spend it. I
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: guess they spent a lot now, but back then they didn't.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: So relief pitcher's bad investment. And really there's a lot
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: of year to year, there's Lady luck involved in it,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: there's workload, there's mechanical quirks, and relief pitchers often like
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: offensive linemen in football, the equivalent would be the comp
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: would be offensive lineman. That you can take offensive linemen
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: and take them on a team that's terrible, and then
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: they they go to a team that has a quarterback
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: that doesn't hold the ball that long. Suddenly they're thought
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: of as great offensive linemen. Because the nerds don't know
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: how to great offensive lineman. So they think it's all
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: on the fat guys because the nerds are skinny and
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: like to blame fat people. They fat shame. So it's
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: it's usually the quarterback that holds the ball too long
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: that leads to pressures and things like that. But in baseballwayson,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: we're talking about baseball here with Edwin Diaz and all that.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: It's uh, it's it's year to year. It's a it's
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: a little little issue with your fingernail that causes a
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: problem and your confidence is bone. So the Daz deal,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: this is a luxury purchase, you know, it's it is.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's where it is pure and simple. That
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: went out. And why would z want to come to
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers when the Dodgers they don't necessarily don't necessarily
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: you look at the picture. They need bullpen help, but
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: they don't necessarily have to when they can get other people.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: And Edwin Diaz they can save some money. But he
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: wanted to go there because they have all the creature comforts.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: They spoil their players more than anyone. They're the only
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: team in the industrial complex of North American sport that
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: has two planes. They have one plane just for the players.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: They're so spoiled. There's such spoiled babies. They need one
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: plane and everyone else, all the supports staff, they have
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: to go on a different plane because they're the unwashed,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: they're the Hoy poloy. They go on a different plane.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: That's how much the Dodgers spoil these guys. Okay, they're
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: like royalty with the Dodgers, and so you want to
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: go there, and they pay great money and all that. So,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: but the Dodgers are rolling the dice on this, make
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: no mistake, and they're hoping that the trumpet, timmy trumpet
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: doesn't turn into Timmy kazoo. We don't want to We're
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: on a trumpet. What if it's a kazoo? I don't
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: know all right now, Page two. So the Dodgers move
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: to add Edwin Diaz has led to an angry response
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: and uprising, a social media uprising. The mob is not happy,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: not Andrew and Bakersfield. I'm talking about the mob, and
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: there's it's not fair booooooo. A bed for baseball. My
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: favorite is I'm not watching baseball. I love that. I
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: absolutely love it. I am not watching baseball because the
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Dodgers signed a relief pitcher. Okay, so question to the
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: angry uprising, what do you say to the alleged baseball
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: fans in air quotes threatening to boycott the twenty twenty
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: six baseball season because the Dodgers have added Edwin Diaz
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: and they're upset by that. So first of all, stop
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: the madness, right, stop the mad And this is another
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: reminder that social media is the funhouse of mirrors in society.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: It just is. Everything is distorted in social media, everything
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: is overcooked. Everything is a primal scream and a world
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: that needs a whisper. It just is. And baseball is
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: a weak link sport we shed to talk about all
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: the time when we had the guy Roberta on the
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: show is now us Driver But Roberto we used to
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: discuss this. The problem with baseball is you can have
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: the super team and it likely doesn't matter. And the
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: Dodgers this year winning the World Series a great example.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: In Game seven of the World Series, the Toronto Blue
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Jays were on the brink of winning the championship, bringing
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: it back to Canada and a absolute stiff, a guy
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: that sucks named Miguel Rojas, hit one of the biggest
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: home runs in Dodger history to tie the game up,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: and then will Smith ended up winning the game later on,
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: But Miguel Ross. The Dodgers have Otani and Mookie Betts
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: and Freddie Freeman and all these studs, and it was
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Miguel Rojas, who by any measurement, sucks and hit the
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: biggest home run the Dodgers had before Will Smith hit
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: the game winning home That's the point. It's the players
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: on the fringes that often decide. People get so worked
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: up about the big stars and everything. It's not the
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: billboard stars that often decide these things. And let's be
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: real here. The Dodgers have become the dastardly whiplash of
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: professional sports. They are the full mustache twirling villains of
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. And they're just laughing evilly like a
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: cartoon villain wood. They're playing with a knife. I don't
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: know why they're doing that. They're kicking your dog and
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: they've gone to the dark side. And I'm fine with it.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: For listen, they keep winning. You know, I'm not around
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: there anymore. That's fine. But with Dave Roberts, they've embraced
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: and Dave Roberts is just the figurehead it's the nerds,
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: but they've embraced the bad guy cape wearing you know,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: just I'm just doing business and business is booming. Business
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: is booming, and that's the thing I'm not gonna watch.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: The ratings were through the roof. You had a Canadian
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: team versus the Dodgers, an American team, a West Coast team,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: and they set a record for ratings in the World Series.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: And the reason they sent the record for ratings is
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: because the Dodgers have proven. It's been proven not wait
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: before the dog. The villain is where it's at click
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: any click. You can't help yourself. You need villains. And
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty six Dodgers, just like twenty twenty five
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: and years before that, the Dodgers again will lead baseball
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: in buzz because even the haters, when they're drinking the
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: hater raid, will tune in for the shot in Freuda,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: hoping the Dodgers lose, and then if the Dodgers win,
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: they'll be loo's not fair, all the top players not fair,
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: which is the ultimate look. If you're one of those people,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: you're such a bad fan. It's so embarrassing. It's like, well,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: every underdog story, this can blow you. Every underdog story
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: needs a bad guy, a villain, a can't beat them
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: story that makes the underdog dummies, all right?
• 35:47
  Speaker 6: Mean?
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: What final point to the Winter Meetings? At large? At large?
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: At the Winter Meetings, so Scott Boris held court in
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Orlando at the resort there and he waxed local facius
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: to a bunch of baseball scribes running up their expense accounts.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: He waxed loquacious Scott Boris about his clients in the
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: classic cornball style that only Scott Borrows can do. Among those,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: he talked about the center fielder Cody Bellinger. He said,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: I haven't met a team that dodges a five tool player.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: See what he did is and he mentioned the Angels.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: He mentioned like four or five teams. He mentioned the
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Giants and the Reds, which is a dead giveaway that
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: those teams are the teams that want Cody Bellinger. He
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: talked about Tiger's pitcher Tarik Schoob. He said, quote, he's
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: truly a saber proof Tiger. See what I did? Why
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: he did it? I didn't do it. If you want
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: to look at the tail of the Tiger without Scoobs,
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: there's a mystery machine he talked about Philly's starting pitcher,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: free agent Ranger Suarez. He said, in the postseason, when
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: you add a Soarez, you're armed ngerous. All right, question,
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: how did Scott Boris his latest rant from the Winter
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: Meetings due on the judges scorecard? All right, We'll go
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: to the judges scorecard in a minute. It is a
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: reminder before we get to the judges scorecard. The Scott
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: Boris rant is a reminder there are three seasons, not
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: four seasons. There are three seasons on the baseball counter.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: There's the regular season, there's the off season, and then
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: there's Scott Boris season. I'm not even forget about the
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: postseason because most teams don't make the postseason. So you've
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: got the regular season, the offseason, and Scott Borris season.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: That is where Scott Boris emerges from a cave in
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Newport Beach and he comes out of his layer and
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: he unleashes a corn maze of conversation that is so
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: thick when Scott is talking here that you need a
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: machete and a Dakota ring to get now his latest rant,
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: it was like something Iowa Sam used to do when
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: he was on the show for two minutes before he
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: quit the show. That would be puns of fun. Puns
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: of fun would be what that is and a linguistic
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: amusement park. And Boris and his team of gifted, well
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: paid advisors from their Newport Coast compound, they handcraft this
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: bull crap they do. I enjoy it. I think it's
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: so dumb. I enjoy it. I do. It's like artists
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: in work, is what it is. Scott Boris going on
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: these rants and stuff, and each line is carved out
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: of pure hocum, pure hocum. And just let the man cook.
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  Speaker 1: Let Scott Morris cook. At the winter meetings and the
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  Speaker 1: general manager meetings, we look forward to it every year.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: Scott Borris served a three course meal of malarkey. It
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  Speaker 1: was moy.
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  Speaker 7: Now.
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  Speaker 1: The first course was the appetizer. That was a salad
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  Speaker 1: that was a word salad tossed in cornball dressing. Yum
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  Speaker 1: yum to my tom dumb. Now. Course number two was
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: a course of grammar gumbo with a mystery meat metaphor side.
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  Speaker 1: That's the second course. That's the main course.
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  Speaker 8: Now.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: The dessert was candy coded nonsense. And so you got
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: that that candy coded nonsense is so sweet it will
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: literally rot your brain, that's how sweet it is. And
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: so the only thing missing was the wardrobe.
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  Speaker 7: That was it.
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  Speaker 1: And Boris should have walked in wearing the Riddler's green suit.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: That would have been perp. We said this at the
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  Speaker 1: GM meetings too. Just come in there with the Riddler's
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  Speaker 1: green suit, question marks in the air everywhere. Just do it,
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: Just do it. You get that custom leather green mask,
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: the whole shebang, all of it. And he's the mastermind
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: of free agency. He is. It's a little subtle nod
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: to the Zodiac Killer. It's cryptic rambling, much like the Zodiac.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: Put the doss together. Uh, he did drop that saber
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: proof tiger line. That was chef's kiss is what that was?
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: That's that's the Ohio State Marching Band dotting the I
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: is what that was there. Malard scorecard in terms of punnery,
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: ten out of ten for the puntery, ten out of
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  Speaker 1: ten for the punntery, zero out of ten on clarity,
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: and I'd say one hundred for utter nonsense. And that's
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  Speaker 1: how the scorecard reads.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maler
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven PM Pacific here Wake.
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: God, this is one big vent gets grilled Rublu.
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  Speaker 6: During yesterday's monologue, you talked about the Baltimore Ravens and
• 40:46
  Speaker 6: how Lamar Jackson's decline is more than just a drop off.
• 40:49
  Speaker 6: Given that Jackson is a two time MVP and soil
• 40:51
  Speaker 6: only twenty eight, Baltimore will probably stick with him for
• 40:53
  Speaker 6: a little while. However, do you think John Harbaugh could
• 40:56
  Speaker 6: be on the hot seed?
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: What could he be on the hot seat?
• 40:59
  Speaker 8: Is?
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: I don't belief he is on the hot seat. And
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: there are some Mike Tomlin like vibes. Though when you
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: look at the Ravens, they won the Super Bowl back
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: in twenty twelve, it's twenty twenty five. It's been a minute.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go with stability in Baltimore.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: So he's not. But if you do judge him by
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: the body of his work, they're a good regular season team.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: They haven't really made any real run in the playoffs
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: in a number of years.
• 41:23
  Speaker 6: Next after the Saints win over the Bucks on Sunday,
• 41:26
  Speaker 6: Saints linebacker to Mario Davis said that quarterback Tyler Shuck
• 41:29
  Speaker 6: has shown that.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: He has the it factor. Has he done that bad. No,
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: absolutely not what he talkd me, Come on, what are
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: we doing here? He just has an occasional good performance.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: It's I'm not no, I don't see that. And let's
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay didn't play that well. You know, if the
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: other team doesn't play well, he's flying next.
• 41:53
  Speaker 6: A report surfaced on Monday that the Steelers could pursue
• 41:55
  Speaker 6: Kyler Murray to be their quarterback in twenty twenty six.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, could you see that happening? Here's the problem, Coup.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: It's kind of like the coaching. There's not enough coaches
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: available that are good for the amount of teams that
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: want to change coaches, there's not enough quarterbacks. So it's
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: musical chairs. You're gonna move Hyler Murray is gonna get
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: a chance to start. The one problem, We've got two problems.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: The one problem he has that's bigger than anything is
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: the fact he's little. The other problem is he's not
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: interested in playing football. He'd rather be a video gamer.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: So why bother? How do we do? Come off? You pass?
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: That's a way I want a goat? Oh my god, bothering, James.
• 42:28
  Speaker 7: I run James hollering games.
• 42:32
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  Speaker 8: It's of a buzz with little rain at ten nine,
• 42:49
  Speaker 8: clean enough hearts going to help you.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: Gear Rye, gear rye to nine, gear right to nine.
• 42:56
  Speaker 8: Dear ry you.
• 42:58
  Speaker 9: Heard the man it is I'm for love here on
• 43:01
  Speaker 9: the Ben Malice Show.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: That it is. These are actual questions by actual listeners, Lorena,
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: and we'll start with Esteban, who writes and he says,
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: I was telling my wife if I was going to
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: trade her in like a car two miles. I thought
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: it was funny, it was a joke, but now she
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: won't talk to me.
• 43:21
  Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, you should probably get her an oil
• 43:23
  Speaker 9: change and uh maybe a tire rotation.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: She might want to trade you in.
• 43:31
  Speaker 10: A nice new coat of paints, maybe on her toes.
• 43:35
  Speaker 10: Might do the trick.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: Uh huh, you know, like a manny and a petty type.
• 43:38
  Speaker 5: YEA.
• 43:39
  Speaker 10: Treat her like a new car, get her shined up
• 43:41
  Speaker 10: all right.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: So maybe look at you, Rob, Look at you Rob.
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: The goat man writes, and he says, with Christmas right
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: around the corner, what is the perfect gift for a
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: girlfriend or wife. Well, this is very difficult. There's no
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: one answer, right, Loraine. You can't really do one thing.
• 43:57
  Speaker 9: Every girl has their own things, like maybe the last
• 44:00
  Speaker 9: guy's wife doesn't want to look at him. But I
• 44:04
  Speaker 9: think personal time, Like a lot of people are busy
• 44:06
  Speaker 9: these days, so actually planning something, taking that time to
• 44:10
  Speaker 9: make it feel special, like taking her out to Christmas lights.
• 44:13
  Speaker 9: Oh my gosh, a Christmas night light thing with the
• 44:16
  Speaker 9: hot coffee or hot chocolate.
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: But there's the light in here. That's the leg with
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: the you see the light over here. Yeah.
• 44:25
  Speaker 10: Yeah, you can make your own Christmas story at home. Yeah,
• 44:28
  Speaker 10: set up a camera. That sounds fun.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: Sure, there's a leg lamp in here. Yeah. Ferg Dog
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: writes and he says, if I can't get a girlfriend
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: in time for the family Christmas parties, it's okay to
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: hire a hooker to be my date. Yeah.
• 44:42
  Speaker 10: Escorts are great choices to take with two family.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: One of my favorite stories when I used to go
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: to the holiday party these the company used to have
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: these big holiday parties. Used to Yeah, I don't go anymore.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: They give appetizer. But I used to have these gallop
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: parties like the Beverly Hills Hotel and one year, in
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: the early days of Fox Sports Radio, one of the
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: guys brought a escort to the holiday party and it
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: was the funniest thing because all the wives were so
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: upset because they knew she was dressed like an escort,
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: and it was the funniest thing. I have fun memories
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: of that holiday party. She was she was showing what
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: her her special skills, her I don't know how to
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: describe it here assets.
• 45:24
  Speaker 10: Did the slits go up a little?
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And the other women were so it was snickering.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: It was so good. It was so good. Well, good
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: luck for a dog on that Yeah, yeah, money, well spent.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: Let's take a call. Blind Scott is calling in from
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: the North end of Boston. Blind Scott taking He's taking
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: it easy now of the holiday season and all that stuff.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: But for you, lorraina Blind Scott ending the hiatus to
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: call in for you.
• 45:50
  Speaker 7: I just want to send condolences to Rick Razak, he's
• 45:52
  Speaker 7: a program director at the Sports Arby Lot's father. Condolences.
• 45:56
  Speaker 7: But hey, dude, so I have a partner who's twenty.
• 45:58
  Speaker 7: They live in Omaha, and I'm thinking about moving them here.
• 46:01
  Speaker 7: They said they'll be legal age of twenty one in July.
• 46:04
  Speaker 7: They live in a foster home right now. I met
• 46:06
  Speaker 7: them in a K Pop demon hunter's chat. I'm forty three.
• 46:09
  Speaker 7: I just celebrated the birthday last Friday. So my partner
• 46:12
  Speaker 7: who's twenty could move in and I could make them
• 46:13
  Speaker 7: my Medicare assistant and they can get paid through medicare
• 46:17
  Speaker 7: well where I do not want a partner to live
• 46:19
  Speaker 7: with me, and I am very difficult person structurally. I
• 46:22
  Speaker 7: think a twenty year old who's grown up in foster
• 46:25
  Speaker 7: care might be a good type of partner for me,
• 46:28
  Speaker 7: as I am more responsible than them and we can
• 46:31
  Speaker 7: help each other in life.
• 46:32
  Speaker 10: You know what this is.
• 46:33
  Speaker 9: It's giving, Predator, it's giving. You're on a kid's movie
• 46:38
  Speaker 9: site trying to catch some young ends who don't know
• 46:42
  Speaker 9: no better. I think if you need help in and
• 46:45
  Speaker 9: around the house, you should specify that differently than your
• 46:49
  Speaker 9: partnership in a relationship.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: Well, in fairness to blind Scott, he is he's a
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: legendary grifter. You'd admit that, Blind Scott, this would be
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: the ultimate grift if you could pull that off.
• 47:00
  Speaker 7: So I don't want to date this person necess her.
• 47:02
  Speaker 7: They're in a hostile state where they have nowhere to live?
• 47:05
  Speaker 7: You know what I mean?
• 47:06
  Speaker 9: But predatory you're taking someone is in a bad situation.
• 47:10
  Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. So you can't make promises to
• 47:17
  Speaker 7: someone like this because they're very queeny.
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, all right, all right, so your vice, Lorena,
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: I don't think you don't do that. Scott keg drinking,
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: Steve Hello, Keig drinking Steve.
• 47:28
  Speaker 8: Hey, guys, Lorena, how are we gonna resolve this? How
• 47:34
  Speaker 8: is Taylor Swift gonna convince Selena Gomez to be her bridesmaid?
• 47:40
  Speaker 8: I guess they're losers now, so they don't.
• 47:42
  Speaker 10: That's the problem. I think they have to figure out
• 47:44
  Speaker 10: how to make her the third in their marriage. You know,
• 47:47
  Speaker 10: they're so close together.
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: That's a penalty. Third man in the third woman in.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Shane and de Moin writes and says,
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: are you jealous of the ask a weed Man segment?
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: Be honest, queen, am I are you jealous of this?
• 47:59
  Speaker 10: Oh? No, gosh, the weed Man is so great? I
• 48:01
  Speaker 10: would love to have.
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: Our Michael Lebrigo says in bed, is it better to
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: be naughty with lingerie or nice and comfy pjsh.
• 48:08
  Speaker 10: I like naughty lingerie.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: Oh look at that. Take that. That's a lingerie for
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: the wind right there there it is. Boom boom, boom
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: boom spicy.
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Attention everyone,
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: and the password is password, you idiot, password the word
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: Game of the Stars.
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: Here's Ben Meller. Let's do it. Welcome into our contestants
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: for password the word Game of the stars. We have
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: let's see your any media. We have far Out Dave.
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: Who's going to play? Hello far out Dave?
• 48:46
  Speaker 7: Hey, good morning?
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: How are you?
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: If I was any better? I would be a Swift?
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: But not Taylor Swift? So why not? Because sure boyfriend's
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: not playing very well?
• 48:58
  Speaker 8: What's the over under on the listeners?
• 49:00
  Speaker 7: Are they beating traffic or beating something else?
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: Who dogged a partner up with Dave?
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: How about you?
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: Oh boy?
• 49:10
  Speaker 8: All right?
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: All right, Loraina picked one or three? Lorraina umb it?
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: Well you have picked blind Scott. Hello, blind Scott.
• 49:22
  Speaker 7: Yeah, the rating book Radio end Friday. I'm gonna pick Lorraina.
• 49:26
  Speaker 7: Let's make America nut again?
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: Wow?
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, well you just screwed up the whole thing. Okay,
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: let's play the game here and Dave pick a number
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: one to ten, please, number one to ten. All right,
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: let's go with let's see here eenie meenie miney moe.
• 49:50
  Speaker 10: Wait, which one did he choose?
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: Ten? Yes, he picked number ten. I'm going first, don't worry.
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: Let's go with uh kind hearted? What? Kind hearted? Kind hearted? What? No?
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: Horrible?
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: It's one word. You can look it up, Scott.
• 50:14
  Speaker 7: You ready, yep?
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: Charitable fundrais no? How about giving giving, Dave?
• 50:28
  Speaker 7: Donation? Donation?
• 50:30
  Speaker 10: No, all right, let's go this way.
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: Santa, that's what. That's not gonna that's a terrible clue.
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: You've just given a terrible put everything together?
• 50:40
  Speaker 10: What is Santa?
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: These people can't put they can't put two words together.
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: They're not going to get all right. Yeah, the word
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: was generous. Pick a pick a number, Scott, So what
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: time is it?
• 50:53
  Speaker 7: Number six?
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: Number six? Go ahead, lorna number six? Oh gosh, is
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: that your clue? God?
• 51:00
  Speaker 10: No, no, no, guard?
• 51:05
  Speaker 7: What is it?
• 51:06
  Speaker 10: Guard?
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: Dude?
• 51:08
  Speaker 7: Bioh. Dave is a piece of crap. He takes shot all.
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: Borrow, Dave. Let's go with uh protect Oh That's.
• 51:17
  Speaker 8: What I was gonna say.
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: God protect, Oh my God, Why do we even do this.
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: The word is defend. The word is defend. We're all dumber.
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: Everyone's dumber for this. The word was defend, it was defend.