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  Speaker 1: Well it seems so simple. All you have to do
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  Speaker 1: is pick a new coach. This job is not that difficult. Well,
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  Speaker 1: apparently it is.
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  Speaker 3: Well.
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  Speaker 1: this hour is from the coaching carousel. It is not
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  Speaker 1: the newest coach William Cohane, who twenty four hours ago
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  Speaker 1: had rejected Jacksonville and then said, whip psych head fake.
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  Speaker 1: I did the okie doke. I'm back more on that later.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm in the ratings business, right, I have to captivate.
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  Speaker 1: It's called broadcasting, not narrowcasting. So in that case, what
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  Speaker 1: is going to get the biggest audience? Not not Jacksonville,
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  Speaker 1: not now, maybe later, But we begin play the hits,
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  Speaker 1: my man, play the hits. It's our obligatory malar monologue
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  Speaker 1: on Doug Cowboys.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, the Dallas Coupan.
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  Speaker 1: I do this for Sir scratch Off, who loves when
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  Speaker 1: I talk about the Dallas Cowboys. He can't get enough
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  Speaker 1: of He said, Ben, you know you need to talk
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  Speaker 1: more about the Cowboys. Okay, here I am so the
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  Speaker 1: coaching searcher round the football world. If you have not
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  Speaker 1: been following because you actually have a life, maybe not.
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  Speaker 3: So we are told now.
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  Speaker 1: That the Cowboys search is zeroing in on an in
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  Speaker 1: house candidate.
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  Speaker 3: They're going to keep it under the umbrella of Jerry's world.
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  Speaker 1: Brian Schottenheimer, Oh boy, how is that possible?
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  Speaker 3: Now here's what we know, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. It
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  Speaker 3: has been.
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  Speaker 1: Widely reported by those that claim to be in the
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  Speaker 1: know in the currency of information, that Jerry Jones is
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  Speaker 1: the lone conductor. He's running the orchestra in this Cowboy
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  Speaker 1: coaching surge. You would think he's the GM, He's the owner.
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  Speaker 1: Why would he not be the only person doing that?
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  Speaker 1: And then there were names like Robert Salah, Kellen Moore,
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  Speaker 1: and Leslie Fraser have been interviewed. However, the word on
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  Speaker 1: the street is that it's his meddling son, Stephen Jones
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  Speaker 1: that is driving the campaign, the Marching and Chowder Society
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  Speaker 1: for Brian Schottenheimer, a non descript spawn net bo baby
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  Speaker 1: NFL assistant to get the head coaching job in Dallas.
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  Speaker 1: But wait, there's more. So Jerry Jones he wanted Dion Sanders,
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  Speaker 1: if you believe the buzz. However, that is now on
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  Speaker 1: the back because the sun younger Jones here, who's sixty,
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  Speaker 1: So he's not that young, but he he is pushing
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  Speaker 1: for shoddy. That's what they call Schottenheimer shoddy. That would
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  Speaker 1: be a shoddy hire if they hired Brian Schottenheimer.
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  Speaker 3: More on that later.
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  Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question for the Esteemed panel,
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  Speaker 1: which you are part of. Stephen Jones influencing Jerry Jones
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  Speaker 1: depict Brian Schottenheimer as the cowboy, said, coach, can you
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  Speaker 1: cut through the fog, the thick fog that is in
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  Speaker 1: Jerry's world? So I've got McDonald's buttered popcorn and crustables.
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  Speaker 3: Sounds like a menu I used to eat back and
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  Speaker 3: the day.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So we'll combine all these things together and
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  Speaker 1: we are gonna make the Baba ganoosh is what We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna make, the Baba ganoosh.
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  Speaker 3: All right. So a this has gone as playing now.
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  Speaker 1: You might remember in a previous episode of this show,
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  Speaker 1: we talked about the Cowboys coaching search, and we pointed
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  Speaker 1: out what it's going to be like, and not that
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  Speaker 1: we're right all the time.
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  Speaker 3: We're not.
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  Speaker 1: We f up a lot, but this one we got right.
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones. You think about forty years ago, Jerry was
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  Speaker 1: in his forties. He must have been a huge fan
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  Speaker 1: of nineteen eighties primetime television, and this is the NFL
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  Speaker 1: version of the soap opera Dallas. Everything revolving around the
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  Speaker 1: affairs of the affluent Jones family.
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  Speaker 3: There's opolence, there's glamor. I mean all kinds of crats.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you've got Jerry's ranch somewhere out there, deep
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  Speaker 1: in the heart of Texas.
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  Speaker 3: And this power struggle.
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  Speaker 1: This is where we are in the script for the
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys offseason. So you've got the power struggle, You've got betrayal,
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  Speaker 1: the son not listening to the dad. You've got I
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  Speaker 1: guess romances. I don't think that's involved here, and just
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  Speaker 1: bigger than life cartoon characters here, there and everywhere. You've
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  Speaker 1: got the oil tycoon Jerry Jones at the center of
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  Speaker 1: it all. It is riveting, it is addictive, and it
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  Speaker 1: again shows you that Dallas continues to be the gold
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  Speaker 1: standard for the drama o rama in the little bit. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and Jerry right now, he's trying to find He's looking
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  Speaker 1: for a hole somewhere.
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  Speaker 3: He's like, I got where's the hole. I need a
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  Speaker 3: hole in one That's what I want. Mason glory Hill.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, Jerry Jones is like, you know you like
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  Speaker 1: McDonald's right now, he's loving it, right, he is loving it.
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  Speaker 1: Dufus is like yours truly talking about this and everyone
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  Speaker 1: captivated in sports media as he is setting the narrative
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  Speaker 1: and he brags, right when things slow down around here,
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  Speaker 1: Jerry said, he will stir it up.
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  Speaker 3: And things are always the rule of drama, more drawn out.
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  Speaker 1: They're more messy, unpredictable, complicated than they need to be.
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  Speaker 1: But why on God's green Earth would Jerry Jones allow
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  Speaker 1: his kid to usurp his authority and pick the next coach,
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Schottenheimer. That is a cheap ripoff version of Mike McCarthy.
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  Speaker 1: Why didn't you just pay Mike McCarthy more money and
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  Speaker 1: keep him around?
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  Speaker 3: All right?
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Pastrie, so Jerry Jones and his son, We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: expand on this a little further because there are multiple
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  Speaker 1: reports out there that Stephen Jones the kid have clashed
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  Speaker 1: for the last couple of years, and it's it's not
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  Speaker 1: only about the coaching hire, but also about the finances
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  Speaker 1: of the Cowboys and Jerry.
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  Speaker 3: If you believe the.
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  Speaker 1: Chatter, the streets are talking in the Naked City and
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  Speaker 1: Jerry wants to spend money with no limits. Right, He
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  Speaker 1: just wants to burn through the salary cap and spend
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  Speaker 1: spend spen, spend spend spence spence spence s bend spend
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  Speaker 1: spend just like.
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  Speaker 3: That, right, a lot of money. But it's Stephen Jones who.
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  Speaker 1: Is a fan of the dogma of moneyball, that plague
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  Speaker 1: on professional sports, and he wants to avoid at all
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  Speaker 1: costs dead money from what I was hearing earlier, and
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  Speaker 1: he does not want to mess up and screw up
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  Speaker 1: the salary cap. So let's break this all apart the
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  Speaker 1: chatter that Jerry Jones and his son Steven have been
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  Speaker 1: at loggerheads over the Cowboys organizational philosophy. Do you find
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  Speaker 1: this significant? So I do, And now I have no
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  Speaker 1: skin in the game. I have no skin in the game.
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  Speaker 1: But this is a warning shot. This is a bad omen.
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  Speaker 1: It's a bad omen for the Cowboys. You think things
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  Speaker 1: are bad now because you're about to hire, if reports
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  Speaker 1: are accurate, shoddy as your new coach. This is like
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  Speaker 1: getting a bucket of popcorn, buttered popcorn, delicious movie theater,
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  Speaker 1: buttered popcorn. You settle into your seat and it's a
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  Speaker 1: preview of coming attractions in a world where Jerry Jones
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  Speaker 1: heads to a convalescent home and Steven Jones takes over
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys day to day. The Dallas Cowboys will then
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  Speaker 1: embark on a journey of shoestring, budgets, nickel and diming everyone.
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  Speaker 1: Things are about to get very stingy in Dallas. It
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  Speaker 1: is inevitable. You know it's coming. And as much as
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  Speaker 1: you loathe Jerry Jones, as much as you might despise
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones, I promise you Stephen Jones will be worse
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  Speaker 1: when Jerry Jones is gone.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, it is one.
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  Speaker 1: Hundred percent true old family money in professional sports. These
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  Speaker 1: professional sports leagues have been around, most of them for
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  Speaker 1: about one hundred years or so. Baseball has been around longer,
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  Speaker 1: and a number of these teams are generational wealth teams.
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  Speaker 1: They get passed from one generation to another, and it's
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  Speaker 1: never the same. When the original owner dies, it only
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  Speaker 1: gets worse.
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  Speaker 3: Now, what is my evidence?
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  Speaker 1: When I was a kid, it was the greatness of
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  Speaker 1: our writers with Al Davis. Now they've got Mark Davis,
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  Speaker 1: who all he's good at is getting the special that PF.
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  Speaker 3: Chang's.
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  Speaker 1: That's what he's good at. When I was a kid,
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  Speaker 1: you had George Steinbrenner, the boss. Nobody messes with the Boss.
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  Speaker 1: He'd hire and fire managers because he just felt like it.
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  Speaker 1: He got out of bed the wrong way. Now you've
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  Speaker 1: got hal Steinbrenner, a cheap ripoff of the old man.
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  Speaker 1: How about the once proud Lakers. Remember that Jerry Buss
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Jerry Bussey had a harem of young women all
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  Speaker 1: over him, and the Lakers were showtime. Now they've got
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  Speaker 1: Genie Buss. They suck and you know she's still hanging
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  Speaker 1: out there. And it's old family money owning a sports
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  Speaker 1: team when you're the second generation and you didn't create it,
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  Speaker 1: you didn't buy it. You have a license to run
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  Speaker 1: a business that allows you to pocket millions and millions
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  Speaker 1: of dollars. It's passive income, is what.
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  Speaker 3: You don't have to worry about it.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, hey, you've got a built in audience, people
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  Speaker 1: that grew up loving it, your team because of your parents.
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  Speaker 1: Your dad would ever owned the team, and now you
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  Speaker 1: own it, and now you can run into the ground.
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  Speaker 1: All right, last word, So let's go back a little
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  Speaker 1: deeper in the land of cowboy paranoia. Michael Irvin, the playmaker,
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  Speaker 1: cowboy legend, Michael Irvin. Now for some reason, out of
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  Speaker 1: thin air, Out of thin air, Michael Irvin.
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  Speaker 3: He was on some podcasts. There's a million, even I
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  Speaker 3: have one.
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  Speaker 1: So Michael Irvin ripped Taylor Swift and Caitlin Clark for
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  Speaker 1: attending the game in Kansas City last weekend, and he
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  Speaker 1: took a shot at Taylor and Caitlin Clark were trying
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  Speaker 1: to make the Chiefs the New America's team. So how
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  Speaker 1: do you assess this one? So my grandfather would say,
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  Speaker 1: stick a lot is what that is, right, stick, extra thick,
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  Speaker 1: stick is what it is. Michael Irvin sitting down at
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  Speaker 1: the table and he's eating some crustables, but peanut butter
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  Speaker 1: and jelly.
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  Speaker 3: No peanut butter, just the jelly. He's just a little
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  Speaker 3: jelly here.
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  Speaker 1: And right now, in this moment, Kansas City is the
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  Speaker 1: hottest thing going in the NFL because you've got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people that love him and you got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people.
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  Speaker 3: That hate him.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what you want, right You want to be
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  Speaker 1: a lightning rod and you want to be a firebrand.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what the Chiefs have become. People watch to
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  Speaker 1: watch them lose. They get upset when they win. They've
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  Speaker 1: got this neurosis that everything's rigged for the Chiefs and
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  Speaker 1: the NFL wants Market thirty one to win in the
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  Speaker 1: National Foot League and win a third Super Bowl in
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  Speaker 1: a row.
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  Speaker 3: Now, that's what's going on right now.
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  Speaker 1: But when you take a couple of steps back and
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  Speaker 1: you look around and you take a deep breath, only
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  Speaker 1: the test of time will tell only does this have
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  Speaker 1: staying power? Does this go from a fad which is
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  Speaker 1: a temporary thing, to a trend which will stick around?
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  Speaker 1: And at this point you still have it in the
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  Speaker 1: fad category, because at some point Mahomes will get old,
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  Speaker 1: Andy Reid's going to retire, and then will people still
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  Speaker 1: watch and support the Chiefs.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I will tell you the forty.
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  Speaker 1: Nine ers glory days were in the nineteen eighties and
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  Speaker 1: early nineties, and they they've been blah. They've had a
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  Speaker 1: couple of teams that got to a Super Bowl. They
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  Speaker 1: gagged in the Super Bowl. But there are generations of
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  Speaker 1: forty nine Er fans because of that would happen. We're
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  Speaker 1: on like the second or third generation now from what
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  Speaker 1: happened in the nineteen eighties. So if you do the math,
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  Speaker 1: on that the Chiefs will be guaranteed to have a
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  Speaker 1: solid built in fan base. And even if it stopped
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  Speaker 1: this year till what what are we looking at like
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  Speaker 1: twenty sixty five, twenty seventy.
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  Speaker 3: Boy, that sounds might go, I'll be long gone probably by.
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  Speaker 1: Then, But that's what we're looking at, right, That's what
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  Speaker 1: we're looking at.
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  Speaker 3: From the playoff game to the Waiting Game.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben
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  Speaker 1: Mahler Show. We are in the air everywhere, comrades as
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  Speaker 1: show B So our lead this hour, keep it simple,
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  Speaker 1: keep it simple. Why not not the playoffs?
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  Speaker 4: Layoffs?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 1: But our leaders from Los Angeles, the Rams who won
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  Speaker 1: the NFC West. They were better than that week Seattle team,
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  Speaker 1: the overrated forty nine ers and Alligator arms Kyler Murray.
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  Speaker 1: So the Rams made the playoffs yet again they normally
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  Speaker 1: do with Sean McVay. They beat the Vikings, a team
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  Speaker 1: that had in the great seasons in franchise history, and
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  Speaker 1: dominated that game. They had a chance to beat the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles in the final seconds on a snow game in Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 1: And now they're hanging out pivoting to the offseason. And
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  Speaker 1: there's some debate on what's going to happen with Matthew Stafford.
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  Speaker 1: We mentioned this in a previous episode of this show,
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  Speaker 1: and Matthew Stafford was rather vague after the loss to Philadelphia. So,
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  Speaker 1: if you haven't been following along, Sean McVeigh has now
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  Speaker 1: entered the chat on this and maybe maybe you missed it,
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  Speaker 1: but Sean McVay hoping to get some clear now. Now,
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  Speaker 1: last year, Matthew Stafford was debating whether or not he
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  Speaker 1: was going to play, and it came down to when
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  Speaker 1: training camp.
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  Speaker 3: Started for the Rams.
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  Speaker 1: It was like right either right before or a couple
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  Speaker 1: of days after training camp started. Matthew Stafford agreed to
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  Speaker 1: a contract with the Rams. The deal was for just
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  Speaker 1: one year, forty million. Good work if you can get it.
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  Speaker 1: And now they're back at a fork in the road.
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  Speaker 1: Does Matthew Stafford want to play football again? Does he
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  Speaker 1: want to play for the Rams again? Do the Rams
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  Speaker 1: want Matthew Stafford back? Do they want somebody else? And
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  Speaker 1: so Sean McVay was asked about the situation with Matthew
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  Speaker 1: Stafford and the reworked contract and will it come down
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  Speaker 1: to the very end before training camp.
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  Speaker 3: Well, here's what McVeigh had to say, take a list,
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  Speaker 3: that's not so.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think that's good for anybody.
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  Speaker 6: I think sooner than later, being able to get that clarity, understand, clear,
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  Speaker 6: open and honest communication.
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  Speaker 5: I think there's a lot of love coming from our part.
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  Speaker 5: I think there's a lot of appreciation coming from his
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  Speaker 5: part as well. You know, I think a lot sooner
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  Speaker 5: than later.
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  Speaker 6: Jordan is an ideal scenario, and I think the appropriate
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  Speaker 6: thing is is, let's let the emotions settle.
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  Speaker 5: You know, Matthew and I have obviously talked.
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  Speaker 6: He knows how important he is to me and to
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  Speaker 6: our football team.
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  Speaker 5: I thought it was a great dialogue.
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  Speaker 6: And then I think the appropriate timeline for us is,
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  Speaker 6: you know, we'll get a chance at the end of
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  Speaker 6: next week to really sit down. That'll be one of
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  Speaker 6: the first topics kind of on your to do list
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  Speaker 6: to be able to talk about.
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  Speaker 5: And then hopefully that'll.
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  Speaker 6: Give us the opportunity to be able to, you know,
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  Speaker 6: move towards you know, clarity in regards to how that
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  Speaker 6: affects his status and what we're doing, you know, with
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  Speaker 6: what we know is an incredibly important position for a
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  Speaker 6: football team moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: That was very long witted, But Sean McVay, slobber chops there.
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  Speaker 1: You have a little hawktol action there. For Sean McVay.
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  Speaker 1: When's the last time your boss said I love you
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  Speaker 1: and you mean a lot to me.
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  Speaker 3: What does that happen regularly to you? I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe he does.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe everyone has their boss say how much they love
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  Speaker 1: you and mean to you and all that.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think that's normally how it works. But let
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  Speaker 3: us discuss the question.
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  Speaker 1: So Sean McVay, as you just heard, saying that he's
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  Speaker 1: hoping for Matthew Stafford's decision whether he's going to retire
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  Speaker 1: or not, sooner than later.
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  Speaker 3: So the question on the big.
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  Speaker 1: Radio dial here is how concerned is Sean McVay that
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: the Rams will have to scramble to find a new quarterback.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: So my observations, I've got Stone, Zebra, and Gatorade, and
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: we will combine all of these.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: Things together and we are going to.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Make gringo tacos, the crunchy taco, my favorite kind of taco,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: the crunchy taco.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: We'll do that, tacos dorado they call them.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Now, number wa.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: What number is it? That's right? All right?
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: So the Rams, you got to go through the backstory
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: before you get to where we are right now.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: So how concerned is Sean McVay.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: The Rams were ready for a divorce from Matthew Stafford
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. They thought he was barbecue chicken, right,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: they thought he was cooked and all that. And to
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: his credit, Stafford is rebounded and he's had a bit
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: of a renaissance back to back playoff years now.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: That said Sean McVay. His level of.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Concern that on the Mallord scale of concern, the Mallord
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: scale of concern for Sean McVay one to ten, McVeigh
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: is at a two. He's at a two on the
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Mallor scale of concern about whether or not Matthew Stafford
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: comes back, because eventually Stafford's going to retire, right, and
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: it'll provide another stone, a stepping stone for the Rams coach.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: He can add to his legend. And he's one of
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: these guys. An obstacle is a stepping stone for bigger
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: and better things. And Sean McVay, who did work for
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: a team called the Redskins.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: I know that's Tabboo.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: You're not supposed to say that name anymore, but that's
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: who McVeigh worked for. One of his first big jobs
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: in football was with the old Redskins. Jay Gruden hired him.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: But McVey is chasing down another Redskin coach, Joe Gibbs.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: He's already gotten to the Super Bowl twice with two
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: different quarterbacks McVeigh with Jared Goff and Matthew Stafford. One
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: with Stafford, lost with Golf because Goff puked all over
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: the field against the Patriots. But Joe Gibbs, as you know,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: the only coach to have won three Super Bowls with
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: three different quarterbacks, Joe Thaisman, Doug Williams, and Mark Rippin.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: And if McVeigh can go out and find another diamond
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: in the rough and get back to a Super Bowl,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: he will tie Joe Gibbs, which, by many accounts is
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: the great accomplishment.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: Andy Reid got there with two.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: There have been other coaches that've gotten there with two
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: like McVeigh, but three, now, that is that's next level.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: That's next level. And Sean McVay is one of these guys.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Like most coaches, he's the leader of the pack, and
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: he's got all the answers to the test and all that,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: and so he thinks of himself as a quarterback whisper.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: It's gonna be interesting to see who he picks next.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Now, with forty nine million, if Stafford leaves, they're gonna
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: have like forty nine million dollars in in CAP. Now,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: I'm a Cap Truther, so I don't think that matters
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: either way. But the Rams will have plenty of room
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: to go out and make some kind of radical movement quarterback.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: If they want, or they can just sit back and
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: draft some wide eyed rookie and hope that they turn
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: out to be all right. Now, page two, we head
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: to Motown, where a former Rams quarterback is in the
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: spotlight a lot of concern.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: The Lions were Numero UNO in the NFC this year
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: and now they've lost their defensive coordinator and their offensive coordinator.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: But the issue is behind the curtains, what's going on
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: in Detroit with that offense? Because most people don't think
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: that Jared Goff is all that good, right, so he.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: Laid well during the regular season.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: So now that Ben Johnson is gone, that changes the dynamic, right,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: that changes the dynamic.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: So I bring this up Lions General manager Brad Holmes.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: What up Holmes? Brad Holmes? Now he says he does
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: not expect any.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Drop off from Jared Goff without Ben Johnson around to
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: call the places. So status quo, smooth sailing all that.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: So how do you see all this working out in Detroit?
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: So my first thought is, did you really expect Brad Holmes,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: the GM of the Lions, to come out and say, oh, yeah,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: we think Jared Goff is going to play like a
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: kittie cat, and he's a he's a kitten, and that's
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: what he's gonna play like. Here, come on, Jared Goff,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: I'll use a different animal analogy.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: Jared Goff is he's wearing Lions clothing, but he's a zebra.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: He's a zebra in Lions clothing. Kenna zee, zebra change
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: its stripes.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: But we know the answer, right, and he has set
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: himself up Jared Goff.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: It's the Peter principle.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: He has reached his highest level of incompetence and he
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: remains there now. He's not a bad quarterback. He's just
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: not that good in big games. He's a solid regular
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: season quarterback who plays very well against substandard opponents, the
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: short passing game, the checkdown passing game. In big games,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Jared Goff becomes a duchie, not a duke blue devil.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: He becomes the duke of Puke is what he becomes.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: In his playoff career. Jared Goff with the Rams and
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: the Lions has run the gauntlet. He has nine touchdown
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: passes and nine turnover plays, five interceptions and four fumbles
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: in Jared Goff's career. So not all that hey, He'll
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: be fine during the regular season. At some point he's
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: going to get old. It happens to everybody. But all right,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: turn the regular season. The problem is everything's got to
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: be perfect around Jared Goff for him to succeed.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: Rams got to a super Bowl with him, but not
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: because of him. All right, final.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Point, We squirm back to the NFL Playoffs Playoffs Championship
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Sunday in the NFL this weekend, Washington coach Dan Quinn,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: now Dan Quinn chimed in. He says that his team,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: the team formerly known as the Redskins, the Commanders feed
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: off the dismissiveness. That's the word he used, the dismissiveness
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: of the doubters. Yeah, So how does that one hit you?
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Dan Quinn, head coach of the Washington football team, saying
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: that the Commanders feed off the dismissiveness of the doubters.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: In the media. So how does that hit you?
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: So it hits me like predictable right in the schnas
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: right right, you don't don't open your eyes.
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: The balls coming after boom right right in your nose.
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: And talk about a lot about this on the show.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: We've come to a determination that it's it's not gatorade.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: It's like a spin off of Gatorade that is the
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: number one sports drink in the NFL and.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: All of professional sports. It's called hater Rade.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: Is it in you?
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Right? Is it in you?
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: And I spent my entire time here coming in and
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: just telling you of athletes and coaches who won something,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: accomplished something, and then had to let you know the
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: reason they did that is because nobody thought we could
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: do it, and we proved.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: So and so wrong.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Now, and you know, a lot of the kool aid,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: like the low information fan, the neanderthal fan, that just
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: is a total total drinker of the kool aid, as
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: we like to say, for their team, I can't believe anywhere.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Like Bill's Mafia is a great example, right, they're very
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: soft fans. Buffalo's is small you know, small town operation, right,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: po donnk usa. The way they reacted that, My guy
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: sports with Coleman tells me that's a minor league count right.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: The way they reacts embarrassing. Right, you're in a big city.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: You don't care what Jerry Coleman. I love Jerry, but
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: you don't care what Jerry Coleman says. But they got
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: so upset with sports with Coleman. Right, they should be
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: thinking they should be thanking my friend sports with Coleman
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: because it provides extra fuel.
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: In the tank.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: And I will remind you this is a yet again
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: a teachable moment that the doubters are the spark of
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: life that lights the fire under athletes. And if everyone
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: said only nice things about professional sports teams and athletes,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: I don't know what would happen.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: Nobody might show up to play. They'd be like, I
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: don't know what to do. The only reason they try
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: to win. It would seem is because somebody didn't think
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: they could do it. My Oma, what in the world.
• 28:07
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• 28:14
  Speaker 3: It's smaller? How about that?
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: To the third degree?
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: This is one big Ben gets Grillo.
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: There have apparently been a lot of Steelers fans suggesting
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: that the team should trade their best assets while they
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: still have high value. Former quarterback Ben Roethlisberger said on
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: a recent podcast that he thinks the team can trade
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: George Pickens, but that they should hold on to TJ.
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: Watt and Minka Fitzpatrick. Ben, could you see any of
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: these three getting traded.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Uh, well, no, I take that back. George Pickens has
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: caused some problems there. So if it's as bad as
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: the Internet makes it out to be, and they do
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: some soul searching there in Pittsburgh, I could see Pickens
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: being traded. But the Steelers do not tear things down.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: It's a bittersweet story in Pittsburgh. They want to be good.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: I like that. They don't want to suck. Who wants
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: to suck?
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: So I don't see them changing the franchise charter and
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: getting rid of all those Maybe George Pickens, but that's it.
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: Next, Notre Dame's defensive coordinator Al Golden is heading back
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: to the NFL to be Cincinnati's new defensive coordinator. Golden
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: had previously been the Bengals linebacker coach in twenty twenty
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: twenty twenty one, Ben, do you think he can turn
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: around their atrocious defense?
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: Well? Can he? Yes? Because the bar is low? All right,
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: the bar is low.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: They were so bad, they were outplayed, underachieved last year.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: If they go from terrible to average, Al Golden scene
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: is a mensa.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: So the bar is not that high for Al gold So,
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: but they're not.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Going to be a top ten defense, but they could
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: be a anywhere in like the middle part of the NFL.
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: They'll be in good shape next.
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: A new report says that Luka Dohnsik is expected to
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: be back for the MAVs in mid February. They've gone
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: I think five and nine in his absence. Ben, do
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: you think they can still be in the hunt by
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: the time Luca comes back.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: Well, yes, I mean not the hunt to be like
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: a top team in the West.
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: The playoffs.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, everyone gets in the play You realize how
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: hard because they have that fugazy playing thing. You realize
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: how hard it is to not make the playoffs in
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: the NBA. If you're trying, there are so many teams
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: that aren't trying. If you just put an honest effort in,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: you'll end up getting at least in the playing So yeah,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: they'll at least make the play in tournament.
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: Not worried about that.
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: There.
• 30:25
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• 30:27
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• 30:32
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• 30:56
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• 30:58
  Speaker 1: And track everyone's favorite punching bag from Miami, Miami, Miami.
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: We saylo to Weedman, Hippie.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Hello, weed Man, Hippie heard me last we met.
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: You were a little late for work today, weed Man.
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: What happened?
• 31:15
  Speaker 7: H right?
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: But what were you doing?
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: I look track of time? Are you sleeping?
• 31:24
  Speaker 7: No?
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: You never sleep? No, I'd never sleep. I thought you're
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: weed man.
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: Not heroin man Aron, he'd sleep a lot.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Really, I thought you stay up with meth keeps you
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Oh meth.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: I screwed that. I got my my drugs mixed up
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: that job by me? All right, here we go, uh
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: weed man.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: These are actual jokes by actual listeners.
• 31:45
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• 31:46
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• 31:50
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• 31:54
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• 31:58
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• 32:00
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• 32:03
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• 32:05
  Speaker 1: to you.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: All right, Now Lizzo can hide under a rock. How
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: about that?
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: Why well, she actually used to hide under a boulder,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: but now she can hide under a rock.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: That's Dennis in Detroit.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: What did Lizzo say to her doctor when he told
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: her he wanted to talk about her weight?
• 32:28
  Speaker 7: What?
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: Well, Lizzo told the doctor that it was about.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: Twenty minutes long and the chairs are too small for her.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: George and Uvaldi, when's the last time you went to
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: the doctor? We made I don't have it a long time.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: Has it been twenty years since you've been to the doctor? Yeah? Oh?
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Man?
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: All right?
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: What did President Trump name his proposed super duper space
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: force doomsday weapon that was so devastating.
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: It can eat an entire planet?
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: What the lizzochom parta tron?
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: That's Frank in Fargo. Thank you, Frank. Well, exciting news here,
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: weed Man.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Did you hear that scientists have said that the what the.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: Real cause is of this polar vortex? What?
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Well, it turns out Lizzo accidently left her freezer door
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: open and that's why it's cold in Pensacola, Florida and
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Louisiana and plays.
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: Like that, all right? What and that's from Georgia and Uvalde, Texas.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: What does Lizzo wear now after her massive weight loss?
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: What a big fat grin? A big fat grin.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: That was from our friend Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. What
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: is the difference between Lorraine and Lizzo?
• 33:58
  Speaker 7: What?
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Well, Lorena has love and hope in her soul. Lizzo
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: loves shoving food into her pie hole. That's from Bobby
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: in Florida. Thank you, Bobby. What did the doctors say
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: when weed Man said he can't smell? What the doctor said,
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: in my opinion, you do smell. That's Tony in the bay.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: We'll go back to back from Tony to Bay. Uh.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: What do our friends from Mexico call weed Man in jail?
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: What el roach o is what they call a very
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: nice let's the here.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Did you hear that weed Man overdosed on viagra the
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: other day?
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: Big story here?
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: I didn't hear that.
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was actually the definitely the hardest day.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Of your life. That's Danny in New Hampshire. Danny, I
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: love one of my favorite places to visit at Portsmouth,
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: New Hampshire. Beautiful, beautiful, right there in the water, right,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: that's the main awesome, all right. Why did weed Man
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: finally get off the couch and take a gig as
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: a plumber's assistant?
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: Why?
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: Well, it turns out, weed Man, you heard you'd be
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: working with pipes and joints.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: That kind of excited me.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: That's great.
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: That's Terry in Saint Paul.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Nnesueta Well Saint Petersburg says there is no deadline to
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: repair Tropic Canna field.
• 35:33
  Speaker 7: Wow.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: Why yeah? Well?
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: Well, also Miami has stated there is no timeline for
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: weed Man hippie to get a job. So there is that,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: said George George in Rochester, Minnesota. Last time you had
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: a job, weed man, was it the eighties or the nineties?
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: Ah, the eighties? Oh my god, you have not had
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: job since the eighties. That is wild, my god, that
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: is a long time. All right.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: It was a two step process for weed Man with
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: the housing Commission.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: You hear about that.
• 36:05
  Speaker 6: No, what happened?
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: Well, first you had to check all the boxes and
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: then you took one to live in. So that was
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: the other thing there. That's Dennis Dennis in Detroit. Thank you, Dennis.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Any jokes that were there?
• 36:18
  Speaker 7: Cool?
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: Negative no, all right, no, I don't know if I
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: want to read that here. Let me let me see.
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I get it. Make sure she can't find the message.
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: But it's in my brain. Here, I'll tell it to
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: you in your ear.
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: All right, Very good U. The Eagles were selling pints
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: of snow that was on the field for fifty dollars
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: weed Man this week.
• 36:41
  Speaker 7: Wow, that's crazy.
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: You gotta be ok with that?
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well you actually. It turns out weed Man refused
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: to sell Miami snow because of possible drug trafficking charges.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: So you you didn't do that, weed Man. That's George
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: and Rochester, Minnesota. Thank you, George. After years of going barefoot,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: why is weed Man now walking around with a sexy
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: new hop in his step like John Travolta?
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: Wow?
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: Why because he found an old shoe in the trash?
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: That fits. That's why.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's all we have time for. Thank you
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  Speaker 3: very much. There is hey you weave man. Ah, here's
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  Speaker 3: lame jokes all the week.
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  Speaker 7: Oh yes it is, let's do it, shall we It's Friday,
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  Speaker 7: y'all at which means to scoop on entertainment with a
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  Speaker 7: man covers all things pop culture from start to finish,
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  Speaker 7: which it starts right now. And here is Humpson Cooper
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  Speaker 7: on the ones and two.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you Marcel. All right, Uh, we're going to play
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  Speaker 4: an annual game that we do every year. The Oscar
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  Speaker 4: nominees have been released, and I like to go through
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  Speaker 4: the Best Picture nominees and see if Ben has seen
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  Speaker 4: or even heard of them.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I've not been to the movies in a long time,
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  Speaker 1: but I like to play this game, and I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: win this game.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna win.
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  Speaker 1: I betually i've seen at least one. I've heard of
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  Speaker 1: at least one.
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  Speaker 3: How about that.
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  Speaker 4: I think you've definitely heard of at least one. You
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  Speaker 4: may have even seen one, but I will maybe I
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  Speaker 4: don't know, all right, So first we've got a complete unknown.
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  Speaker 3: No idea what that is? What is that?
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  Speaker 4: It's the Bob Dylan story starring Timothy Chalomey.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well, I think I heard about a Bob Dylan movie,
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  Speaker 1: but I didn't know that name, so I won't count
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  Speaker 1: that as one I've heard him, So I kind of
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  Speaker 1: vaguely heard about. I think I watched a football game.
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  Speaker 1: They had a like a promo for a Bob Dylan.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, and when he showed up on college game day,
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  Speaker 4: that's what he was promoting that.
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  Speaker 8: But okay, oh for one, the substance, no idea, then okay,
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  Speaker 8: the brutalist, no chance, no idea, Here we go, here
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  Speaker 8: we go, wicked?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes?
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  Speaker 4: Did you see it?
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  Speaker 3: Well?
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  Speaker 1: Kind of kind of so I may or may not have.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody might have sent me a copy of it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and I might have. I might have watched some of
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  Speaker 1: it Coop, and I couldn't get through it.
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  Speaker 3: It was so painful.
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  Speaker 4: Oh man, there was way too much singing.
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  Speaker 3: It was so bad, it was way too long.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, even my wife, who loves crappy movies like that,
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  Speaker 1: she couldn't even watch it.
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  Speaker 4: I've never wanted to turn off your mic so bad
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  Speaker 4: in my life. Had had neither of it. Had neither
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  Speaker 4: you or your wife seen the like the actual play the.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I hadn't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if she had, but she was really
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  Speaker 1: excited to see the movie. But we were watching it
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, I was complaining. I guess maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's because I was complaining, but.
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  Speaker 4: She yeah, I could I could see that being annoying.
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  Speaker 4: All right, wow, so we got one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's the one.
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  Speaker 4: Uh Anora?
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  Speaker 3: Is that in Colorado? A? Yeah, No, I'm not. I'm not.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Conclave is that something that like the Vatican?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yeah, I've never I don't know. I really
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  Speaker 3: I know they do a conclave with the Vatican.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, that's that's what it's about, picking a new pope.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, they play poker or something in the room then
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  Speaker 1: and they saw somebody sent up some white smoke.
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  Speaker 3: We got a new pope.
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  Speaker 4: There's there's drama that ensuess, stuff that threatens to bring
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  Speaker 4: down the Catholic Church of course.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Would it be simpler to ask Ben what movie he
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  Speaker 4: did watch this year? Well, no, I'm just I'm going
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  Speaker 4: to the picture nominees.
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  Speaker 3: You don't need to touch up my work, Loraino.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, now this one. I'm I feel pretty good about
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  Speaker 4: Dune Part two.
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  Speaker 3: No, you've heard of it, though, right, I've heard of it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I've heard of the Doom Francis, but I have not.
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  Speaker 3: All right, uh, a universal they're making another what's that?
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  Speaker 3: The bear movie? What are you you know with Ted?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Ted, Yeah, they're making another Okay, allowed to
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  Speaker 1: say that.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. Well you just just did. Amelia Perez,
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  Speaker 4: No chance that's a's a girl I dated.
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  Speaker 3: Back from the.
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  Speaker 4: UH and these last year. There's no chance. I'm still here.
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  Speaker 3: I am still here, Coop, I had here for another
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  Speaker 3: twenty minutes.
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  Speaker 4: Or and Nickel boys, Nickel, I've not seen nic What
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  Speaker 4: is Nickel?
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  Speaker 3: What is?
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  Speaker 4: To be honest, I hadn't even heard of that one. Wow.
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  Speaker 3: I used to get those screeners from the Yeah, me too.
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  Speaker 3: They don't send them out anymore, right, No, they don't. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That was the only reason it was cool to be
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  Speaker 1: part of that, because they'd send out the screeners. Is there, like,
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: there must be a website that we don't have access?
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  Speaker 1: Find the website?
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  Speaker 4: Well, so, so what they do now is they basically
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: send it send you tickets so that you can go
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  Speaker 4: see it live in person, because I guess too many
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: people were sharing the DVDs or copying the DVDs.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, oh, how do you get those sticks?
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  Speaker 4: I'd like, I mean, you still have to you have
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  Speaker 4: to be a paying member of SAG, are you. Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I never checked those emails, they send the emails and check, yeah.
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: Thanks, you're to look into that too, all right. And
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: then one thing, since we you know, took up a
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  Speaker 4: lot of time doing that, I will just point out
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  Speaker 4: there there's nothing really worth seeing in theaters that's new
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  Speaker 4: this weekend. But on television on Netflix, Penny Versus the
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: Penny this weekend. Yes that uh? And also the second
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: season of The Night Agent on Netflix. This was a
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  Speaker 4: good maybe.
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  Speaker 3: About overnight sports radio a Night Agent.
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  Speaker 4: It's a conspiracy thriller and I enjoyed the first season.
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  Speaker 4: I've watched the first episode of the second season, so
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  Speaker 4: pretty good. Check that out if you haven't. That's The
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  Speaker 4: Night Agent on Netflix, available right now. And that Iscoop
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