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The Downfall of Sears · Motor City Mad Mouth

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Speaker 1: Believing we're back.
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Speaker 2: Another addition of the Motor City Mad Mouse show that
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Speaker 2: a lot of MotorCity Mad Mouse shows on the road
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Speaker 2: in Europe, and now we get to do you one
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Speaker 2: live and could think that two better people are doing
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Speaker 2: what we've got. Steve Ballistaria the King of the Road.
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Speaker 2: Of course I'd like to go by that once in
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Speaker 2: a while as well. And we have Katie Evely who
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Speaker 2: accompanied me on the road.
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Speaker 1: How does that sound?
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Speaker 2: So it's that said, we have a busy agenda to
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Speaker 2: get to and what I want to do now is
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Speaker 2: a year ago or close to a year ago, Donald
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Speaker 2: President Donald Trump imposed a travel band, is what he did.
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Speaker 2: So I want to go over this travel band, Stephen.
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Speaker 2: I want to ask you in your mind how much
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Speaker 2: of an effect that it's actually had over the last
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Speaker 2: eleven months. Is He announced the travel ban on nationals
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Speaker 2: or full countries from entering the United States, bringing back
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Speaker 2: the controversial Muslim ban policy from his first term. The
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Speaker 2: new proclamation, signed on Wednesday night, will affect citizens of Afghanistan, Mayan, Maar, Chad,
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Speaker 2: the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, or Ritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia,
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Speaker 2: Sudan and Yaman. There were also be restrictions on visitors
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Speaker 2: from Burundi, Cuba, Lyle, Sierra Leoni, Togo, Turk Minister, and Venezuela.
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Speaker 2: So Steve, as we look back at that travel ban,
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Speaker 2: how much of an effect it had in general, I.
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Speaker 3: Think it has. I mean, look, I mean there's a
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Speaker 3: lot of stuff going on and those particular countries that
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Speaker 3: you mentioned, and generally speaking, most of the people that
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Speaker 3: come from those places have not been probably very sympathetic
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Speaker 3: to the United States in the past, So I think, look,
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Speaker 3: I think the travel band needed to happen at the
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Speaker 3: time because they're still struggling with all the untold millions
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Speaker 3: of people who came across the border illegally, and a
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Speaker 3: lot of them were from those particular countries as well,
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Speaker 3: and they're still trying to sort that stuff out. So
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Speaker 3: I do think it had quite a big effect on things.
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Speaker 1: Katie, you have the opinion on that.
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Speaker 3: I do.
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Speaker 4: I mean, I think, especially living in Florida, we see
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Speaker 4: some of those people from a couple of those countries here,
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Speaker 4: some legally, some not probably and maybe they weren't legally
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Speaker 4: when they first came here either, but they have not
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Speaker 4: always been our friend either. So I cann't understand some
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Speaker 4: of you know, the band. I just feel bad for
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Speaker 4: some of the people that are already here that maybe
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Speaker 4: have family that maybe are here legally and have family
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Speaker 4: members in those countries and therefore can't travel back to
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Speaker 4: be with them. Understand it, But I feel I do
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Speaker 4: feel for those people.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, if that lead the president felt he
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Speaker 2: had to do something at the time with a lot
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Speaker 2: of the illegal people pop a in now, I certainly
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Speaker 2: understand trying.
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Speaker 1: To clean it up a little bit.
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Speaker 3: For sure.
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Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and stay with the president for a moment,
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Speaker 2: because according to Fox News, Donald Trump said, we have
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Speaker 2: one parallel fire power, unlimited ammunition, and plenty of time,
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Speaker 2: and watch what happens to these stumbbags. I'll say one
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Speaker 2: thing I want the president he wants to call somebody
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Speaker 2: a stumbbag and try about that's for sure.
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Speaker 1: The reference in.
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Speaker 2: Destroying I ran militarily and economically and decimated. Well, he
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Speaker 2: would take to say he's holding up to that, isn't he?
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Speaker 1: Yes?
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Speaker 3: And and look, you know we talked about here several times.
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Speaker 3: And you know, I thought that calling the ceasefire and
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Speaker 3: all this was a waste of time and resources, and
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Speaker 3: and it's proven to be that, and it's exactly the
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Speaker 3: way we said it was going to happen, right And
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Speaker 3: and it's not surprising the government either. They had just
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Speaker 3: stolen for time while they try to rebuild their military
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Speaker 3: and uh, you know, try to get some of their
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Speaker 3: commanded control back because excuse me, it was severely hampered
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Speaker 3: during the initial phases of the bombing, you know. But
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Speaker 3: now you know, they've had over a month to uh,
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Speaker 3: you know, reassert their command and control networks. I mean,
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Speaker 3: the military still has taken a beating and and that's
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Speaker 3: not changed. But at the same time, you know, they're
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Speaker 3: they've been able to reorganize, and we know that they
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Speaker 3: have underground missile construction capability and they're doing in caves
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Speaker 3: and inside of mountains and all that. So they're continuing
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Speaker 3: to build those things. You know, their their launchers are
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Speaker 3: another thing. And uh when their launchers show themselves, we've
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Speaker 3: been taking them out now that they're calling it not
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Speaker 3: offensive bombing campaign but defensive, But it's all the same thing.
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Speaker 4: Katie, Yeah, what can we say, Like everybody's still trying
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Speaker 4: to get the upper hand on everybody else. They're going
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Speaker 4: to keep, you know, trying to develop ways to injure
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Speaker 4: people that we do not like, countries that we do
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Speaker 4: not like. We're gonna still keep making weapons. That doesn't
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Speaker 4: surprise me. And it does not surprise me that the
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Speaker 4: president who at one point they ban him from social
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Speaker 4: media because all he does is say things left and right,
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Speaker 4: and maybe he isn't a president that he's very outspoken,
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Speaker 4: let's put it to you that way on social media,
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Speaker 4: as opposed to some of our past presidents who didn't
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Speaker 4: weren't on social media at all. So I think he
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Speaker 4: has definitely changed. I think some ways that people have
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Speaker 4: looked at the presidency as well.
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Speaker 2: Putting it lightly, when your friend is Elin Monk, then
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Speaker 2: what does that tell you he certainly well know what
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Speaker 2: the act player actually see. If I haven't been on
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Speaker 2: there at the age, if I've been so busy and
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Speaker 2: that's been.
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Speaker 1: Around on the road.
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Speaker 2: So I always turn over a little bit of sports here,
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Speaker 2: because according to h Game Blazers Miami Dolphin, this team
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Speaker 2: is going to go on to seventeen. They've traded away
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Speaker 2: Jalen Waddle the way and makes you wonder why they
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Speaker 2: even signed Malik Willis in the first place. Could this
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Speaker 2: mean on seventeen? Mind you, this comment was made before
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Speaker 2: the NFL Draft, but it's worth talking about it. In
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Speaker 2: an update, they restructured running back to Von Ashley's contract,
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Speaker 2: converting four point six million of his salary, you know,
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Speaker 2: signing bonus adding Voydeers, which clears three point six million
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Speaker 2: in camp tas and who knows if they're going to
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Speaker 2: sign them no longer. And yeah, but the Dolphins book
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Speaker 2: now steeve as though they're a big mess.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I mean, look, they're in full blown, you know, rebuilding
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Speaker 3: mode right now now. And you know two was gone.
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Speaker 3: You know, Tyreek Hill's gone, Waddle's gone. They signed Malik
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Speaker 3: Willis and like he yeah, you know, look when that happened,
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Speaker 3: there was a lot of people that were really excited
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Speaker 3: about it because he shown some you know, potential playing
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Speaker 3: in Green Baby that was such a small, you know window.
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Speaker 3: And look who's he going to be throwing the ball
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Speaker 3: to in Miami. It's gonna be tough him. I mean,
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Speaker 3: is it gonna be a oh and seventeen season? No,
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Speaker 3: I don't see that happening. Just as difficult as it
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Speaker 3: is to go seventeen and no, it's really difficult to
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Speaker 3: go oh in seventeen to even if you're trying to tank.
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Speaker 3: I mean, there's gonna be weeks where you know, you
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Speaker 3: catch a team kind of taking you for granted, right,
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Speaker 3: and you know they're figuring they're just gonna, you know,
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Speaker 3: walk on the field and you know, cash in their
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Speaker 3: chips by halftime. But look, we all know the NFL.
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Speaker 3: It's it's there's a lot of parody in the NFL.
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Speaker 3: And granted, Miami's not gonna be a good team this year,
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Speaker 3: we know that. But I don't believe they're gonna go
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Speaker 3: in seventeen. I don't. And you know, a Chane, I
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Speaker 3: really like him, and I think between him and Willis,
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Speaker 3: they're gonna pull out a couple of games this year.
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Speaker 3: And one of the games that I would circle for
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Speaker 3: them to possibly do that would be doing them really.
9:46
Speaker 3: The Patriots have always saved their worst football of every
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Speaker 3: season for when they go to South Beach. I don't
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Speaker 3: know what it is in the water down there, but
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Speaker 3: the Patriots always they they bring their D game when
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Speaker 3: they go to Miami. So that's one game that I
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Speaker 3: would not circle as a guaranteed win for New England.
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Speaker 3: Even though they won seventeen games last year, you know,
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Speaker 3: they kind of no last year they did sweep them.
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Speaker 3: You know, they won that early season game, but that
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Speaker 3: was like, you know, they were behind until that kickoff return.
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Speaker 3: But you know, they always saved some of their worst
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Speaker 3: football when they played down in Miami. So the Dolphins
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Speaker 3: aren't going oh in seventeen.
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Speaker 2: I think Jeff Hapley didn't go down there to not
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Speaker 2: win any games. He really didn't. You know, he is
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Speaker 2: a pretty good coach. Came down for Green Bay and
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Speaker 2: they'll have a brand new staff on hand.
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Speaker 1: And the.
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Speaker 2: Lions and the Browns managed to go on sixteen, but
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Speaker 2: you could think the Lions going on sixty because dan
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Speaker 2: Orlaski thought that the Blakings en zone was as big
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Speaker 2: as the Canadian Football League's en zone two and he
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Speaker 2: found a way to stephand bounder. They could have won
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Speaker 2: that game more.
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Speaker 1: Won.
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Speaker 2: And I don't see the Dolphins going on seventeen. And
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Speaker 2: they're going to find a way to win one or
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Speaker 2: two games out there, for sure. But Dandy dan Orlowski
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Speaker 2: forgot that the NFL and the CFL had different end
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Speaker 2: zones and we can go for an end I don't
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Speaker 2: see all's seventeen at all, cant he?
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Speaker 4: So yeah, they have a whole new coaching staff. Jeff
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Speaker 4: Haffley was named the twelfth head coach in Dolphins history.
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Speaker 4: Twenty twenty six marks Halfley's twenty sixth year of coaching,
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Speaker 4: tenth in the NFL, obviously the first with his for
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Speaker 4: the Dolphins. He also has four years of experience as
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Speaker 4: a head coach at the collegiate level, So those that
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Speaker 4: thought maybe he didn't have collegiate or have head coaching experience,
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Speaker 4: he does. Obviously, it's not at the NFL level. They
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Speaker 4: have a lot of things that they changed. Yes they
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Speaker 4: changed quarterback, Yes they changed running back. And we talk
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Speaker 4: about some of these big names, but maybe some of
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Speaker 4: those big names were like cancers in the locker room
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Speaker 4: as well. So I'm gonna say they're not gonna go
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Speaker 4: ohen seventeen, and I'm going to refer them and can
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Speaker 4: kind of compare them to a younger team, kind of
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Speaker 4: like the Milwaukee Brewers. They have done a lot with
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Speaker 4: young talent. I think the Dolphins, I'm not saying they're
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Speaker 4: gonna win a lot of games. They are rebuilding obviously,
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Speaker 4: but I think it's gonna be it would be very
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Speaker 4: tough to go ohen seventeen.
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Speaker 2: Okay, see, let's stay in your neck of the woods.
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Speaker 2: The current state of Boston sports, oh my god, you
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Speaker 2: know it could be worse than other cities. But the
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Speaker 2: South dates lost nap luprino will lead to the Philadelphia
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Speaker 2: seventy six ers, who's got blown out by the New
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Speaker 2: York next as the seventh seed. The Bruins were eliminated
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Speaker 2: in the Stanley Cup Finals by the Stanley Cup Playoffs
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Speaker 2: by the Buffalo Sabers, who actually are pretty good close
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Speaker 2: so really wouldn't hold that against the Bruins too badly.
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Speaker 2: The Red Docs obviously are struggling with the managerial change,
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Speaker 2: and of course the patriotsy saw that lots of the
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Speaker 2: Super Bowl. How would you describe Stee. We'll just leave
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Speaker 2: this up for you only because it is your city.
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Speaker 2: You're nobody more qualified to comment than you are about working.
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Speaker 3: Well, it's been a rough spring. It's been a rough
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Speaker 3: spring for New England sports, right.
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Speaker 1: You know?
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Speaker 3: Now, the Bruins are overachieved this year. No one expected
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Speaker 3: them to even make the playoffs, but they you know,
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Speaker 3: they they ended up with one hundred points. I thought
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Speaker 3: they overachieved, but there was some flaws that you could
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Speaker 3: see even down the stretch. You know, as the playoffs
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Speaker 3: were nearing. They would always run into problems in their
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Speaker 3: own end, and Buffalo was not a great matchup for them,
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Speaker 3: and the Bills pounced on that. Now that being said,
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Speaker 3: the Bruins had a big lead in Game one and
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Speaker 3: they were up three to nothing in the first game
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Speaker 3: of the series and with seven and a half minutes
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Speaker 3: to go and they lost the game in regulation. They
14:21
Speaker 3: gave us four goals in the last seven minutes and
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Speaker 3: that really really hurt them. Now, they ended up winning
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Speaker 3: Game two inside Buffalo, but if they had gone up
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Speaker 3: to nothing in Buffalo, which was very possible, they might
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Speaker 3: have had a chance to steal that series. But Buffalo totally,
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Speaker 3: I'll play them in Boston and they're just the superior team.
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Speaker 3: The townel level was easy to see. The only you know,
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Speaker 3: the I would think the only area that the Bruins
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Speaker 3: had an advantage was probably at gold tender and Jeremy
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Speaker 3: swam Swayman held them into so many games this year
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Speaker 3: and that was a big reason why they ended up
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Speaker 3: with one hundred points. For the Celtics. Yeah, three to
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Speaker 3: one lead collapsed, you know against the seventy six ers
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Speaker 3: who I think that was the seventy six ers, like
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Speaker 3: you know, NBA Finals, because they didn't even show up
15:24
Speaker 3: against the Knicks, right, the Knicks just blew them out
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Speaker 3: of the fourth game. I think they won by thirty
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Speaker 3: or thirty one points.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, and.
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Speaker 3: Again the Celtics were a flawed team. They were a
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Speaker 3: good team. They should have went a lot deeper. The
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Speaker 3: Red Sox are just a absolute mess. And you know,
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Speaker 3: the ownership there. The fans are up in arms because
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Speaker 3: you know, ownership there doesn't seem to be interested in winning.
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Speaker 3: They just seem to be interested in making money off
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Speaker 3: the fan base. And you know, they fired a really
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Speaker 3: good manager because they saddled them with the team that
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Speaker 3: was flawed, and you know, things haven't really turned around,
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Speaker 3: you know, And and that's the key there, I mean.
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Speaker 3: And then of course, you know the Patriots right now
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Speaker 3: after the Super Bowl loss, which really stun because you know,
16:27
Speaker 3: it wasn't even as close as the score would indicate.
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Speaker 3: You know, then the whole fiasco of Mike Vrabel has
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Speaker 3: kind of ceased being a sports story and is now
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Speaker 3: celebrity gossip.
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Speaker 1: You know, ah nightly.
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Speaker 3: You know when when all your sports websites and your
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Speaker 3: sports talk radio are all, you know, talking about the
16:57
Speaker 3: latest out of tm Z, Yeah, that's when you you know,
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Speaker 3: you have to step back and quote Vince Lombardi here, right,
17:07
Speaker 3: I use that in my Sunday Football call. That one
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Speaker 3: clip of Vince Lombardi is like, what the hell is
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Speaker 3: going on around here?
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 2: That's an excuse my language, but you know, you know
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Speaker 2: it ceased to being a sports story.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I've never heard, you know, so many people
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Speaker 3: you know quoting TMZ or putting TMS clumps on there,
17:35
Speaker 3: and it's like, you know, and since when do we
17:38
Speaker 3: get any insider information on the New England Patriots from
17:42
Speaker 3: the Daily Mail?
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Speaker 1: You know, the.
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Speaker 3: Daily Mail out of the UK. You know they're posting
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Speaker 3: all this stuff with insider information. I've never seen anybody
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Speaker 3: from the Daily Mail in Foxborough. Maybe I'm wrong, I'm.
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Speaker 2: Never I'll tell you one thing. By the way, there
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Speaker 2: is breaking news about Devon Ashty now that I just
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Speaker 2: came in here. You get the Dolphins in Pro Bowl
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Speaker 2: running back to Von Ashney A Shane Ratherers have agreed
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Speaker 2: to a four year essentially worth sixty four million dollars
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Speaker 2: of force sold the ESPN Marcel Lewis John So here's
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Speaker 2: a little bit of breaking news for incentives in the
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Speaker 2: contract and increase up to seventeen million for a year,
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Speaker 2: giving Natila Maximaveelly of sixty eight million dollars.
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Speaker 1: Good.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm happy for him. A Shane's averagell you makes
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Speaker 2: in the third highest paid running back in the NFL.
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Speaker 2: So here we are breaking news on this. We just
18:33
Speaker 2: want to make sure we got it out there while
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Speaker 2: we're fresh.
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Speaker 3: He's such a good back. I mean, you know, we
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Speaker 3: see him twice a year, you know, with the Patriots,
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Speaker 3: but I watch a lot of the Dolphins games from
18:46
Speaker 3: being down here in South Florida when the Patriots aren't
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Speaker 3: playing or there there on you know, later I'll watch
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Speaker 3: the Dolphins play and and I mean I think he's outstanding.
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Speaker 3: And you know, that's why it goes back to my
19:02
Speaker 3: earlier comment. I think hit him and Willis they're going
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Speaker 3: to steal a couple of games for him this year.
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Speaker 3: I mean, he's that good and I'm happy for him.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I would have loved to see the Dolphins
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Speaker 3: get rid of him and see him end up on
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Speaker 3: New England with you know, their backs, because they could
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Speaker 3: have a three hundred monster there, you know, but h No,
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Speaker 3: I think I think that's a great move. I think
19:26
Speaker 3: it's a great move of the Dolphins too, because they
19:29
Speaker 3: need that. They need that one guy that's that you
19:32
Speaker 3: can hang your hat on every week.
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Speaker 1: You know, Well the guy that hack of a player,
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Speaker 1: isn't he this Van Shane?
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Speaker 4: Oh yeah? And the contract extension includes a thirty two
19:47
Speaker 4: million dollars guaranteed, so you know, almost half of it
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Speaker 4: is guaranteed, which is Kudo's good for him. Like you
19:55
Speaker 4: want to see players that get rewarded for what the
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Speaker 4: do on the field, and he deserves it. Kudos to him.
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Speaker 4: Glad that they could do that. And I agree with you,
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Speaker 4: Steve him with Malik, And I know we've had just
20:15
Speaker 4: small sample size of Malik, but there shows signs that
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Speaker 4: he can be a good, yes serviceable quarterback. You know,
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Speaker 4: Do I think he's a true number one?
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Speaker 3: No?
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Speaker 4: Like he will he be an elite quarterback. No, But
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Speaker 4: I think he'll be a serviceable quarterback that might surprise
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Speaker 4: a lot of people. Y.
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Speaker 3: I agree with that. I mean, look, you know he's
20:40
Speaker 3: shown those flashes in green Bay. But at the same time,
20:43
Speaker 3: you know, he had a lot better supporting cast around him, right.
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Speaker 4: It didn't because think about it, Green Bay was one
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Speaker 4: of the youngest teams too, and all of their receivers
20:56
Speaker 4: were young. They don't have a lot of old, you
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Speaker 4: know receivers, you.
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Speaker 3: Know, they have they have some really good, talented young guys.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, Watson, Patriots got one and Dobbs, who I
21:10
Speaker 3: really like, you know, I really like Watson. I mean, look, yeah,
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Speaker 3: they're they're a really really young team and Willis is
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Speaker 3: still a young guy.
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Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 3: I thought he played real well there. It's just you know,
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Speaker 3: I I feel for the guy because it's like, you know,
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Speaker 3: the the cupboard. Other than that, right, the cupboard was
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Speaker 3: kind of stripped bear for him when he got there.
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Speaker 3: And and I understand they're in the rebuilding mode and
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Speaker 3: that that's gonna change, but it's I think it's going
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Speaker 3: to be a tough year for for them and for
21:47
Speaker 3: you know, Willis, uh get.
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Speaker 1: Wanting back to the fold though.
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Speaker 2: I'm telling you what, they with the Soldiers, They're still
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Speaker 2: going to keep some of their better players and around
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Speaker 2: the key one out and again we don't even know
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Speaker 2: the extent of that how their draft choices are going
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Speaker 2: to turn out. Yet I know they drafted some wide
22:03
Speaker 2: receivers too, it's what they did. So you were talking
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Speaker 2: about the losses, but let's find out if it's some
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Speaker 2: hidden Gymsony twenty twenty six drant for the Dolphins to
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Speaker 2: provide wills with those targets as well.
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Speaker 1: We don't even know.
22:17
Speaker 3: And you know, when you're rebuilding like that, these young
22:20
Speaker 3: guys are going to get a ton of play, right.
22:23
Speaker 3: It's not going to be like a typical team where
22:26
Speaker 3: they kind of ease the guys in. These guys are
22:28
Speaker 3: going to be out there now. You know they may
22:30
Speaker 3: struggle at times. You know, they'll make mistakes, you know,
22:34
Speaker 3: because they're still learning the playbook and whatnot, and you
22:38
Speaker 3: know there'll be breakdowns in communication, but that you expect
22:42
Speaker 3: that with young guys. But at the same time, these
22:46
Speaker 3: young guys, uh, they're going to be very experienced come
22:49
Speaker 3: here two.
22:50
Speaker 2: So wow, So there was our little breaking news item. Again,
22:53
Speaker 2: we just talked about Boston Sports. You know, they're getting
22:56
Speaker 2: in the playoffs. Some said he's an't even getting him
22:58
Speaker 2: in the playoffs. So I just they haven't able to
23:02
Speaker 2: close the deal all the way, let's talk about a
23:05
Speaker 2: feature topic of the night, the downfall of Sears. Once
23:08
Speaker 2: upon a time, I was in the home improvement business.
23:10
Speaker 2: I used to love it when Sears came in with
23:13
Speaker 2: an estimate before me, because they were subcontracting their workout
23:16
Speaker 2: and I could get the job and our profit margins
23:19
Speaker 2: would be hired. Well, let's talk about the Seer story.
23:22
Speaker 2: Seriers wasn't killed by Amazon. It was dismantled from the inside.
23:26
Speaker 2: Get that six hundred and seventy stores. There's only forty
23:29
Speaker 2: of them left. In nineteen sixty nine, Seris dominated five
23:33
Speaker 2: thousand plus stores, catalog and millions and homes a retail giant.
23:37
Speaker 2: Then came any Lampert Hedge fun mindset, no retail background
23:43
Speaker 2: two thousand and five. He takes control, doesn't see stores
23:46
Speaker 2: these assets. First move, stop investing, no upgrades, no repairs,
23:52
Speaker 2: stores decline, Customers leave, but Cashi's moving into stock buyouts.
23:57
Speaker 2: Short term wins, long term damage. And then he split
24:01
Speaker 2: the company thirty six separate units, departments competing against each other.
24:06
Speaker 2: Then comes from the the real play real estate two
24:10
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty five store sold two point seven billion dollars.
24:16
Speaker 2: Buyer Serotoge growth properties also controlled by Lampert. Serious Cell
24:21
Speaker 2: Stores then pays rent to stay brand, sold debt paid, system,
24:27
Speaker 2: drained fire and seventy stores plus forty left Lampert State
24:31
Speaker 2: a billionaire because this was a just failure. It was
24:35
Speaker 2: a system where collapse more than the survival. Steve, there's
24:38
Speaker 2: a lot to take. I cannot believe that we're talking
24:42
Speaker 2: about Sears in this particular respect, but we went to
24:45
Speaker 2: any Lampert. Takes a lot to take a giant down
24:49
Speaker 2: and who've done that. What are your thoughts about the
24:55
Speaker 2: demise of Serious Steve, Steve, Steve kay Kady, Yeah, series.
25:10
Speaker 4: Did you know that the company began as a mail
25:14
Speaker 4: order catalog company, opened its first retail location in nineteen
25:20
Speaker 4: twenty five. It was actually founded in eighteen ninety two,
25:28
Speaker 4: reincorporated in nineteen oh six. From what I read as
25:34
Speaker 4: of December of twenty twenty five, it's saying that they
25:39
Speaker 4: only have five stores still open in the US, that
25:44
Speaker 4: they're really more online. But they have some big name.
25:49
Speaker 4: Let's face it, there are some big names that they have.
25:53
Speaker 4: They own craftsmen, you talk about ken More Appliances, some
25:58
Speaker 4: of those big names, and throughout back in the eighties,
26:03
Speaker 4: series was the largest retailer in the United States. So
26:08
Speaker 4: think about that from the eighties till now that they
26:11
Speaker 4: only have a couple, but they have some big name craftsman,
26:16
Speaker 4: like I said, die Hard and then of course Ken Moore.
26:22
Speaker 4: I mean I remember something buying.
26:23
Speaker 3: I would go to.
26:24
Speaker 4: Series lots of times and get different products, but they
26:27
Speaker 4: don't make it.
26:28
Speaker 3: Oh yeah either, Okay, now you know. And Cheers was
26:33
Speaker 3: one of my first credit cards, and I loved it
26:38
Speaker 3: because you can go there and get anything right, and
26:43
Speaker 3: the stores were enormous, The selection was incredible. They had
26:48
Speaker 3: great customer service. And like I remember as a kid,
26:53
Speaker 3: I used to love Christmas time because you'd get a
26:56
Speaker 3: catalog that was like this thick, right, and as a kid,
26:59
Speaker 3: you'd pour over every page, couldn't couldn't get enough of it.
27:04
Speaker 3: And it was Sears was such a great store. And
27:08
Speaker 3: then you know, there was a person in my hometown
27:13
Speaker 3: that collected the old Sears catalogs from way back when
27:19
Speaker 3: when you could order a house out of there. You know,
27:22
Speaker 3: you could order a house that would come like all
27:24
Speaker 3: the lumber was already pre cut and all that. I mean,
27:28
Speaker 3: you're going way back in the early nineteen hundreds. I
27:31
Speaker 3: just love those and Sears was one of my favorite stores,
27:36
Speaker 3: and it was such a game to see it go
27:37
Speaker 3: down the tubes. And I remember, like, you know, having
27:40
Speaker 3: their credit card as when I was a youngster in
27:44
Speaker 3: the military, you know, money was tight, and you know,
27:50
Speaker 3: you could go to Sears like like you said, Candy Craftsmen, tools,
27:55
Speaker 3: ken More appliances, and they always had deals going on
27:59
Speaker 3: at the time. And die Hard battery. You know, when
28:03
Speaker 3: you battery dies, you go to the Sears Auto Center
28:05
Speaker 3: and get a die Hard. You knew that thing was
28:07
Speaker 3: going to last, you know, And it's such a shame
28:11
Speaker 3: to see it go down the tubes. I mean, it
28:15
Speaker 3: was a cultural icon, I think, you know, and those
28:20
Speaker 3: those years in the eighties, I mean like that I
28:24
Speaker 3: was a fixed ure in there. At least once a week.
28:28
Speaker 2: We brought it up on the show People. I never
28:31
Speaker 2: thought i'd see the day I'd be talking about Seiers
28:33
Speaker 2: in it context. All I know is from what people
28:35
Speaker 2: told me, it was one of the hardest credit card
28:36
Speaker 2: to get, that's for sure.
28:38
Speaker 4: So I can I can tell you Scott. Back in
28:40
Speaker 4: two thousand and three, Seers sold its US retail credit
28:44
Speaker 4: card operation the City Bank.
28:47
Speaker 2: Okay, well, coming from you, that doesn't surprise me. Okay,
28:51
Speaker 2: So all right, Jerry Seinfield tortures electric cars. It says
28:55
Speaker 2: the hype is all BS, big stupid virtual signal. What
29:00
Speaker 2: about the lidium?
29:02
Speaker 1: All right?
29:02
Speaker 2: See, I'm not buying the electric cars. I'll never get
29:05
Speaker 2: one anyway, But I'm on board with Jerry Tintel. What
29:08
Speaker 2: do you think about them?
29:09
Speaker 3: Well, see the entire battery thing. They haven't perfected it yet, right,
29:17
Speaker 3: And to me that's the biggest thing. I mean, you
29:19
Speaker 3: can't you know, you can't drive like you know, well
29:26
Speaker 3: for you, for instance, if you want to go home
29:28
Speaker 3: to Detroit, you can't take an electric car from South
29:31
Speaker 3: Florida to Detroit. You know, it will take you a
29:34
Speaker 3: month of Sundays, and because you have to figure out
29:38
Speaker 3: you're only going to go a couple hundred miles, right,
29:40
Speaker 3: and then you need to stop and recharge it. They
29:43
Speaker 3: don't have enough charging stations. The batteries are not you know,
29:50
Speaker 3: they haven't perfected it yet. There's still problems with those
29:54
Speaker 3: things catching a fire and all that. And then you
29:57
Speaker 3: need a charging station in your house. No, I mean,
30:01
Speaker 3: you know, and I'd love those Elon musk trucks to
30:06
Speaker 3: those weird looking things that look like, you know, that's
30:10
Speaker 3: all like bare metal or whatever. You know. I think
30:14
Speaker 3: those are awesome looking, but I don't want one of those.
30:18
Speaker 3: I mean, I wouldn't buy one. I like a gas
30:21
Speaker 3: guzzler suv. Sorry, you know. And then at last the
30:26
Speaker 3: President says, drill, baby, drill, keep drilling for oil. I
30:30
Speaker 3: don't care. I want a gas guzzle on suv. I
30:34
Speaker 3: don't want an electric car. I have nothing against people
30:38
Speaker 3: who have electric cars. If you want one, and then
30:40
Speaker 3: suit you by all means.
30:42
Speaker 2: I mean, I think if you had two cars and
30:45
Speaker 2: one of them was electric, and you use one just
30:48
Speaker 2: to tool around town a little.
30:50
Speaker 3: Bit, you know, go run herons or whatever, I think
30:53
Speaker 3: that would be fine. I just don't want one.
30:57
Speaker 2: I love you, hey, listen, I'm more than happy with
30:59
Speaker 2: my tourrement vehicle, my hottest Honda oddity. Okay, my bullet cruiser.
31:06
Speaker 2: I love that. That's my condo on wheels, I'm telling you.
31:08
Speaker 2: And I've driven SUV my whole life, and now I'm
31:11
Speaker 2: in a point in my life where I'm like the
31:12
Speaker 2: van and I'm totally fine with that.
31:15
Speaker 3: Well, I was a pickup truck guy and so just
31:19
Speaker 3: you know, I always had a pickup truck from like
31:24
Speaker 3: nineteen eighty until probably like two thousand and fifteen. You know,
31:33
Speaker 3: I always had a pickup and yeah, another thing gas
31:37
Speaker 3: guzzlin pickup trucks, right, and you know when I was
31:41
Speaker 3: in the military, I mean those things came in handy
31:45
Speaker 3: because a lot of times, you know, we used to
31:49
Speaker 3: illegally bring stuff out of the firing ranges and whatnot
31:55
Speaker 3: in my pickup truck. We'd lower up weapons and ammunition
31:58
Speaker 3: because we always had trouble getting vehicles. So rather than
32:03
Speaker 3: cram and everyone into one truck, I used to bring
32:06
Speaker 3: my truck and we'd throw everything in the back, you know,
32:09
Speaker 3: take it out to the range.
32:10
Speaker 1: Babe.
32:12
Speaker 2: No time I did anything with a pickup truckles many
32:15
Speaker 2: years ago. It was dating a bartender up Wall Lake
32:17
Speaker 2: and we went her and my girlfriend and I and
32:21
Speaker 2: this other guy went out there, went on the lake
32:23
Speaker 2: when it was the pros of lake and we rolled
32:24
Speaker 2: down our windows.
32:25
Speaker 1: We got them.
32:26
Speaker 2: Now where there's the biggest adrenaline rush you ever did see.
32:31
Speaker 1: Yeah, I lived in New.
32:33
Speaker 3: Hampshire on Lake one of Pesak and in the wintertime
32:38
Speaker 3: it would it would freeze so hard for the fishing tournaments.
32:42
Speaker 3: That guys would drive semis on the lake and drag
32:48
Speaker 3: you know they weren't fishing, you know, the little fishing house.
32:52
Speaker 3: David would drag like single wide trailers out on the lake,
32:56
Speaker 3: you know, with a semi.
33:00
Speaker 1: So yeah, I love you know. Oh that was a
33:06
Speaker 1: great time.
33:07
Speaker 2: I don't know if Candy you ever did anything like that.
33:09
Speaker 2: Your family they're more straight shooters. They would do they
33:12
Speaker 2: wouldn't let you guys and some of us adventurous people
33:16
Speaker 2: out of here. Her family is like little house on
33:19
Speaker 2: the prairie that they go all there. You're like you
33:24
Speaker 2: and I we we tend to bet your off. Look
33:28
Speaker 2: at her right now, she's bushing with that Wisconsin smile,
33:31
Speaker 2: Indiana smile. Something that you want to call yourself a champion,
33:36
Speaker 2: call yourself an Indiana hooser like she is. Sorry, anything
33:44
Speaker 2: you want to add to this, Kady.
33:47
Speaker 1: Like the cars.
33:48
Speaker 4: With the price of gas, these I can understand the
33:54
Speaker 4: movement and with the low emissions because face it, gas
34:01
Speaker 4: couzs they they definitely do put some emissions out into
34:08
Speaker 4: the air, whereas the electric vehicles don't. Am I ready
34:12
Speaker 4: to go electric? No. Part of the problem is and
34:16
Speaker 4: let's face it, we all live. I mean, we the
34:19
Speaker 4: three of us live in South Florida. If you had
34:22
Speaker 4: a really bad hurricane and your power is not blocked,
34:26
Speaker 4: not doubt, how are you charging it? How are you
34:29
Speaker 4: going to work? You know? And I get gas stations
34:33
Speaker 4: to have the same issue. But if you have enough
34:35
Speaker 4: gas to get you for how long your gas sits
34:40
Speaker 4: in your tank until you.
34:41
Speaker 3: Move the car?
34:42
Speaker 4: Whereas you know your electric vehicle, how far can you
34:46
Speaker 4: go on it? And so there's a lot of things
34:50
Speaker 4: that I need to be worked out.
34:52
Speaker 3: Yet there's charging stations either, and they're.
34:57
Speaker 4: They're coming up with more and more. I get that,
35:00
Speaker 4: but I also like, if you're getting low, do you
35:04
Speaker 4: know where all the charging stations are or do you
35:07
Speaker 4: have to go out of your way to find one
35:10
Speaker 4: of those? If you're on a trip, you know, I mean,
35:14
Speaker 4: and I remember Scott, like when we left there was
35:18
Speaker 4: one hurricane that we left for and we were taking
35:22
Speaker 4: a thirteen hour trip is what it should have taken us.
35:26
Speaker 4: It took us twenty seven hours. So I'm like to you,
35:30
Speaker 4: is if you're sitting in an electric car in traffic
35:34
Speaker 4: like that and you're not going how far you know?
35:37
Speaker 3: Fast.
35:38
Speaker 4: Are you going to be able to find a charging
35:40
Speaker 4: station in time or not?
35:44
Speaker 1: I don't know.
35:45
Speaker 2: I'd like to not think about what that outcome was.
35:47
Speaker 2: I probably will be a westconsin Memorial Park because I
35:50
Speaker 2: would have known the outcome there for those people that
35:52
Speaker 2: want to know a STUNTI Memorial Park as that will
35:55
Speaker 2: be my picture resting place up in Milwaukee because that
35:59
Speaker 2: situation brutal. Now, that will be caught dead in electric
36:03
Speaker 2: car for a lot of reasons. I wouldn't even use
36:05
Speaker 2: it for a toy, thank you very much. Works all right,
36:10
Speaker 2: So one thing we did, I would make one of
36:12
Speaker 2: those trucks into a gas guzzler that I'd buy one. Yeah,
36:18
Speaker 2: gasably one thing. But I'm not going to electric, my friend.
36:21
Speaker 2: No way, I don't want an electric car. I mean
36:25
Speaker 2: I think they're right now. They're more trouble than their work.
36:29
Speaker 1: You know.
36:30
Speaker 3: Then that's just my opinion. I mean some people swear
36:33
Speaker 3: by them.
36:33
Speaker 1: I wouldn't.
36:36
Speaker 2: I would be caught with that tessela, the ugly looking
36:39
Speaker 2: thing that you're talking about either, No way, man, I
36:42
Speaker 2: see those doggy looking things on the road, and it's
36:45
Speaker 2: the one that they're not used out in Iraq, and Iran.
36:47
Speaker 2: There's a tank out there, because that's what they what
36:50
Speaker 2: they should be, not on the street. Well it's like,
36:53
Speaker 2: you know, I had an English bulldogs in They're so ugly,
36:56
Speaker 2: they're cute.
36:57
Speaker 3: So that's why I like that tesla A truck.
37:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's okay, you can have it. I don't want
37:04
Speaker 2: it exactly, So I like like the body. So yeah,
37:10
Speaker 2: what do you call it? A trapezoid truck? Is that
37:12
Speaker 2: what they call it? The trapod truck?
37:14
Speaker 1: Exact?
37:15
Speaker 2: What that thing looks like to me? All right, Well,
37:17
Speaker 2: I'll tell you One thing we didn't see in Berlin, okay,
37:21
Speaker 2: is the fact that women in Berlin can now swim
37:23
Speaker 2: topless in public pools just as men can.
37:27
Speaker 1: And you know that.
37:27
Speaker 2: See, No, I did not, But that sounds like a
37:33
Speaker 2: sounds like a plan. We we saw a lot in Berlin,
37:37
Speaker 2: but not that.
37:39
Speaker 4: No, repeat that again, Scott, I want to hear that again.
37:43
Speaker 2: Sure, I got a woman on here, I said, but
37:45
Speaker 2: women in Berlin can now swin topless in public pools
37:49
Speaker 2: just as men can. Get some ideas for your next time.
37:55
Speaker 1: Out there, Candy, and you never know, Okay, yeah, we
38:01
Speaker 1: didn't see that part. For Lynn. We saw a lot
38:03
Speaker 1: of things, but not that.
38:05
Speaker 3: Was it warm there in Berlin?
38:07
Speaker 1: Actually what Berlin was? Well?
38:10
Speaker 2: Actually no, I had to wear my heaviest jacket that day,
38:12
Speaker 2: didn't I Candy. Yeah, I'll say one thing about Berlin though,
38:17
Speaker 2: It was one of the most touching places I've ever
38:21
Speaker 2: I guess you could say it moves you because of
38:23
Speaker 2: the history of World War Two, seeing the wall and
38:28
Speaker 2: a lot of the things behind it.
38:30
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've never been so that that's, you know, one
38:37
Speaker 3: of the places on my buck list.
38:40
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it moved there.
38:42
Speaker 2: But when I saw this, I had to bring it
38:44
Speaker 2: up on this show because we're fresh off Berlin last
38:47
Speaker 2: went there. I think it wasn't it, Candy, We were
38:49
Speaker 2: in Berlin. Wasn't it seventeen hours slept that we had
38:54
Speaker 2: seventeen nineteen hours. That was our longest day of the trip.
38:57
Speaker 2: And that happened to be it because we took a
38:58
Speaker 2: train in and then trained brown trip and it was
39:01
Speaker 2: something else.
39:02
Speaker 1: But women can actually swim in.
39:05
Speaker 3: Your trip there. How was the boat ride down the
39:09
Speaker 3: river in France?
39:11
Speaker 4: We actually didn't do that that tour because we did
39:17
Speaker 4: a bus tour that gave us free time, and the
39:20
Speaker 4: free time allowed us enough time to actually go up
39:24
Speaker 4: into the Eiffel Tower, up to the summit.
39:27
Speaker 2: Oh wow, yeah, yeah, well we we definitely got it
39:31
Speaker 2: right on that one. We were walkland a lot, but
39:34
Speaker 2: then we decided let's go with this one and lo
39:36
Speaker 2: and behold this young lady, Claudia or dynamite tour guide.
39:40
Speaker 2: This young lady from France ended up guiding the tour
39:44
Speaker 2: and with the weather being what it is, she slightly
39:47
Speaker 2: altered things a little, so we got that extra hour
39:49
Speaker 2: and that paved the way for us to get up
39:51
Speaker 2: to the top. And Eiffel Tower was on my bucket Listen.
39:54
Speaker 2: It's no longer on it now, although I'd love to
39:56
Speaker 2: go back and see it again and spend a few
39:58
Speaker 2: more data in Paris. But I'll tell you what. It
40:00
Speaker 2: was a dream of might to be able to see
40:02
Speaker 2: the Eiffel Tower, and it was just too surrounded.
40:04
Speaker 3: I was at the bottom. I didn't make it up
40:06
Speaker 3: to the top.
40:08
Speaker 1: Oh is that right? Yeah?
40:10
Speaker 3: When I was in Paris, I made it to the bottom,
40:13
Speaker 3: but I never made it up to the top.
40:16
Speaker 2: It was unbelievable. I've done a lot of things in
40:18
Speaker 2: my life. I've been going the Eiffel Tower ranks definitely.
40:21
Speaker 1: Up there for sure.
40:21
Speaker 2: So but there you have the people. Women in Berlin
40:25
Speaker 2: can now swim topless in public just as a man can.
40:27
Speaker 2: All Right, our final top and then I goes to
40:30
Speaker 2: our industry, steed, and it is exclusive. Peter Alexander is
40:34
Speaker 2: leaving NBC after years of being passed over for top
40:38
Speaker 2: anchor jobs. According to New York Post, he was there
40:41
Speaker 2: twenty two years, fifteen years on the White House. Beat
40:44
Speaker 2: eight is a co anchor of Saturday Today. Gosh, you know,
40:48
Speaker 2: what's the The one thing I hate in this industry
40:51
Speaker 2: is when a person pays his zoos to try to
40:53
Speaker 2: get that spot and then he still doesn't get that job.
40:56
Speaker 2: And I could certainly understand where Peter Alexander is going
40:59
Speaker 2: with that. What are your thought about the decision he
41:01
Speaker 2: made to leave NBC?
41:03
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, there's so much of that going around,
41:05
Speaker 3: you you see, like even not so much the National
41:10
Speaker 3: but like some of the the big city anchors that
41:13
Speaker 3: have been fixtures in these big cities for so long, right,
41:18
Speaker 3: and they're they're you know, pushing them out the door.
41:22
Speaker 3: And you know, I hate to see that, especially like
41:26
Speaker 3: you're saying, this guy paid his dues he you know,
41:29
Speaker 3: he did all the the right things and now he
41:33
Speaker 3: gets passed over. You know. It's one of those it's
41:44
Speaker 3: one of those things that's happening to the industry now
41:46
Speaker 3: that I don't really like, you know, because they're they're
41:50
Speaker 3: all going for the young person who just out of
41:54
Speaker 3: you know, basically some of them are just out of
41:57
Speaker 3: school and they're handed in the keys of the castle
42:01
Speaker 3: right off the bat. And I think a lot of
42:04
Speaker 3: it is because they were cheaper, you know what I mean.
42:07
Speaker 4: And I.
42:09
Speaker 3: Don't like that. I like the veterans of you know,
42:15
Speaker 3: the industry that paid their dues and they've been there forever.
42:19
Speaker 3: Those are the people that always generate the best stories,
42:23
Speaker 3: and I don't care for that, you know, the trend
42:27
Speaker 3: that's going on right now.
42:28
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is bad for the industry.
42:31
Speaker 2: The guy has been there that long, was there twenty
42:34
Speaker 2: two years, fifteen on the way house and getting my past.
42:38
Speaker 2: I think that that's all there is. That's why I
42:41
Speaker 2: brought up. And you and I haven't been in the
42:42
Speaker 2: business a lot of time. We can both feel that
42:45
Speaker 2: the one word that comes in there. If I feel
42:48
Speaker 2: the guy was disrespected, I really do. I don't think
42:50
Speaker 2: he was appreciated. Candy, obviously you can appreciate this.
42:54
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I.
42:57
Speaker 4: Mean, let's face it, a lot of company and this
43:01
Speaker 4: is unfortunate, but a lot of companies like to go
43:05
Speaker 4: with younger, cheaper talent. And that's what it is. Is
43:11
Speaker 4: people have put in their dues. They have you know,
43:15
Speaker 4: they start at the bottom and they work their way up,
43:18
Speaker 4: and with their way up also increases their pay and
43:22
Speaker 4: at some point companies are like, do I go with
43:27
Speaker 4: somebody that's got how many years of experience and is
43:31
Speaker 4: at what level on the pay scale? Or do I
43:34
Speaker 4: go with somebody that's younger, fresher, and maybe a little
43:38
Speaker 4: lower on the payscale. And the other thing is is,
43:42
Speaker 4: and this is gonna sound bad, but the training level
43:47
Speaker 4: and the level that people go in. Let's face it,
43:52
Speaker 4: when I grew up, when I was going to school,
43:56
Speaker 4: I didn't have computers in the young grades. But now
44:00
Speaker 4: these young whipper snappers. I mean there's three and four
44:03
Speaker 4: year olds that are have that can operate computers and
44:07
Speaker 4: tablets better than some of these other people. You know,
44:10
Speaker 4: so that it's an era and they're doing you know,
44:14
Speaker 4: times have definitely changed.
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Speaker 3: I mean, well, yeah, I totally agree with that, because look,
44:22
Speaker 3: the industry has changed from getting it right to getting
44:26
Speaker 3: it first right, and everyone is such and such a
44:30
Speaker 3: rush to get it out first that a lot of
44:34
Speaker 3: times they don't get it right at all. And that's
44:37
Speaker 3: a huge pet peeve of mine as well. You know,
44:40
Speaker 3: it's like everyone just can't wait to be the first
44:44
Speaker 3: one to you know, go on X or Twitter or
44:48
Speaker 3: whatever you want to call it and push out a
44:51
Speaker 3: story and and a lot of times it's there's a
44:53
Speaker 3: lot of facts included in that that are you know, incorrect,
44:58
Speaker 3: And you know that this is how they reward what
45:02
Speaker 3: I call bad behavior, you know, because instead of taking
45:07
Speaker 3: the time and getting it right, I don't care if
45:09
Speaker 3: a guy doesn't have first. If he has the story right,
45:12
Speaker 3: that's the one I want to read.
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Speaker 2: Let me tell you see, when I visit you in
45:17
Speaker 2: a matter of weeks, I'll give you a copy of
45:19
Speaker 2: my book. Frank Reynolds is in there, and I wrote
45:21
Speaker 2: and that's exactly what I spoke about a lot. And
45:23
Speaker 2: I don't want to get it first. I want to
45:24
Speaker 2: get it right. And he blew a gasket on the
45:27
Speaker 2: air and Ronald Reagan assassination attempt. I don't know if
45:31
Speaker 2: you remember that. But oh yeah, well did he ever
45:34
Speaker 2: blow a gasket because of what you just said? And
45:36
Speaker 2: it was what I wrote my book. And Frank Reynolds
45:38
Speaker 2: is obviously interred or at Arlington National Cemetery and I
45:42
Speaker 2: visited his great site when I was out there. So
45:45
Speaker 2: great to have you back on this week's See for
45:48
Speaker 2: this edition MotorCity Man Mo Show. We'll do it again
45:50
Speaker 2: next week and we'll see you what it will be
45:52
Speaker 2: the three of us. I mean, we'll let another person
45:54
Speaker 2: at some point, Molly Molly Murphy is going to be
45:57
Speaker 2: in line to come out once in a while. But
45:59
Speaker 2: you know, one thing I enjoyed coming up with these topics.
46:02
Speaker 2: I think they're awful lot of fun, come up with
46:04
Speaker 2: some different things than most people aren't gonna get anywhere else,
46:06
Speaker 2: to mix it in with some sports and it seems
46:08
Speaker 2: to work out. And I'm glad that you and I
46:10
Speaker 2: and Candy enjoyed doing this once a week and get
46:12
Speaker 2: people to open their eyes up a little bit as well.
46:15
Speaker 2: We're gonna probably have some travel things that we came
46:18
Speaker 2: up from our trip at some point in these shows
46:20
Speaker 2: as well to mix it up a little bit. So
46:22
Speaker 2: we're gonna do a lot of different things for the
46:23
Speaker 2: show like this. But meanwhile, I'm glad we were only get
46:26
Speaker 2: it going again and see if any questions, comments, or
46:28
Speaker 2: feedback about the show with what we came up tonight with.
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Speaker 3: Well, you know, things kind of worked out for me.
46:34
Speaker 3: Last week while you were gone. A guy had contact
46:40
Speaker 3: to me. He was a former Navy special operator and
46:45
Speaker 3: he does a series of shows and you know, how
46:50
Speaker 3: do you handle pressure and life after wearing the uniform?
46:55
Speaker 3: And he came across some of my stuff one of
46:59
Speaker 3: the things being here, and he asked me to be
47:02
Speaker 3: a guest on his podcast last Wednesday night. So we
47:07
Speaker 3: talked for about an hour or so, and we were
47:10
Speaker 3: talking about, you know, how things kind of break out
47:14
Speaker 3: for you after your military career is over. And he
47:19
Speaker 3: was asking me how I came to be in the
47:21
Speaker 3: journalism business because a lot of guys in the special
47:25
Speaker 3: operations community look as at journalism and journalists it's kind
47:30
Speaker 3: of like the bad guys. I kind of went to
47:34
Speaker 3: the dark side on that one.
47:36
Speaker 1: Yeah.
47:36
Speaker 2: Well, the one thing I could say that we've done
47:38
Speaker 2: We've done a lot of sports stuff together, Steve, But
47:41
Speaker 2: I think the thing that I really enjoy is if
47:43
Speaker 2: you and I a real course, Candy and Hall now
47:46
Speaker 2: doing this show, it gives us a chance to do
47:48
Speaker 2: something a lot different than you get out of our
47:50
Speaker 2: comfort zone.
47:51
Speaker 1: It's unscripted and that's you.
47:53
Speaker 2: Know whatever the numbers are going to be iv because
47:55
Speaker 2: we don't want to be a one triponi here on
47:57
Speaker 2: the network and we're not going to do it if
47:58
Speaker 2: you and I are the one pulling up to go
48:00
Speaker 2: out there and take that step to go out there
48:02
Speaker 2: and find different stuff tonight. You know again, I don't
48:05
Speaker 2: view us talking politics. I look at us the talk
48:07
Speaker 2: about current advance. We're not taking time. We're just talk
48:10
Speaker 2: about current if that's what what's happening as we seek now.
48:13
Speaker 2: So but that said, see watch what everybody know how
48:16
Speaker 2: they get a hold of you, and we'll do it
48:17
Speaker 2: again next week. Seven five will probably be the most
48:20
Speaker 2: likely starting time for these shows week in and week
48:22
Speaker 2: out everybody, So you'll be able to catch us to
48:24
Speaker 2: a little lee time before we go to the sports
48:27
Speaker 2: and change. So go ahead, deeply put it out there
48:28
Speaker 2: for everybody in it out.
48:30
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can find me on on Twitter x you
48:34
Speaker 3: know at Steve B seven SFG. I'm also on Facebook
48:39
Speaker 3: at Steve Belustralia, though I don't post as much on
48:41
Speaker 3: there anymore. But I am a senior defense editor for
48:50
Speaker 3: the National Security Journal. I write about military affairs, current events,
48:54
Speaker 3: military history, and I also am a columnist for Pastsfans
48:59
Speaker 3: dot Com covering the New England Patriots. This year will
49:02
Speaker 3: be year sixteen for me.
49:05
Speaker 1: There.
49:05
Speaker 2: So we just finished the NFL draft and you know,
49:09
Speaker 2: now we're we're venturing forward and talking about you know,
49:14
Speaker 2: the new guys and OTAs and you know the TMZ stuff. Yeah, yeah,
49:20
Speaker 2: you know what, at some point we're gonna have to
49:23
Speaker 2: get to Russini a little bit. We will talk about it,
49:26
Speaker 2: but this wasn't the day to do it.
49:28
Speaker 1: I'm trying.
49:29
Speaker 2: I like to let stories play out to see how
49:30
Speaker 2: they're gonna be, and that one played out as I
49:33
Speaker 2: expected it to. So but yeah, I'll get around tonight.
49:36
Speaker 2: I wasn't in a move for Diana Mucidi, Mike brabl Sorry, people,
49:40
Speaker 2: but Katie want you to everybody take us home the
49:42
Speaker 2: rest of the way.
49:45
Speaker 3: Got it.
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Speaker 2: And I will leave it outside of North America that
52:05
Speaker 2: you did get Blue Jayson True. Yeah, Mike Santos gave
52:10
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52:13
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52:16
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52:18
Speaker 2: the pipeline as well. So great, so Steve, glad to
52:20
Speaker 2: have you back. Looking forward to doing that next Wednesday night,
52:22
Speaker 2: my friend. In the meantime, we'll get ready for the
52:25
Speaker 2: sports are changed in about twenty minutes or so. So
52:28
Speaker 2: on behalf of Steve Ballistaari Candy. I believe my name
52:30
Speaker 2: is Scott Morgan about motor City Mata Mount. Thank you
52:32
Speaker 2: for joining us on this and this Motor City Mana Mount.
52:34
Speaker 2: So we will see you next week. Everybody, have a
52:37
Speaker 2: great night. We'll see you shortly, Steve. Thanks again and
52:40
Speaker 2: I'll text you with the reminders just before we go live.
52:43
Speaker 2: All right, next Wednesday. Sounds like a plan, my friend.
52:46
Speaker 2: All right, thank my friend. You have a great weekend.
52:48
Speaker 2: Great seeing you again, Buddy, Great seeing you two. I'm
52:51
Speaker 2: glad you guys are back safe and son. Thank you
52:53
Speaker 2: very much, Steve, appreciate you have a good time.