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Speaker 1: So I lead this hour, play the hits, ball Man,
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Speaker 1: play the hits. I lead. This hour is from the
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Speaker 1: Elite eight, as we had a pair of games. The
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Speaker 1: final two spots in the final four were handed out
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Speaker 1: on Sunday Sunday Sunday the Road to San Antonio. And
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you were watching any of this,
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Speaker 1: Maybe you were out doing stuff for watching baseball or
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Speaker 1: something else. Perhaps you missed it, but don't worry. It
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Speaker 1: is our good Mitsch of the day we watch, so
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Speaker 1: you not have to l J Crier. There's no cry.
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Speaker 1: There's no cry. But he had seventeen points of manual
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Speaker 1: sharp also coming up big massive performance in the second
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Speaker 1: half fourteen of his sixteen there in Houston, riding their
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Speaker 1: way behind their defense into the Final four, the number
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Speaker 1: one they take down number two seed Tennessee. I didn't
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Speaker 1: have to watch this game to know that Tennessee did
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Speaker 1: not do well because our certain Tennessee volunteer apologiest who
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Speaker 1: may or may not now be living in Miami. The
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Speaker 1: former caller known as Danny in Nashville normally sends out
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Speaker 1: a lot of Tennessee propaganda. For some reason, there was
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Speaker 1: no Tennessee propaganda in this game, as that was man
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Speaker 1: pu What stinks But the seventh trip to the Final
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Speaker 1: four for Houston and they were the very top defensive
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Speaker 1: team in the country, and what an embarrassment for the volunteers.
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Speaker 1: My god, that had fifteen points. Fifteen points at halftime. Okay,
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Speaker 1: that's like a youth basketball type situation is with that
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Speaker 1: is fifteen points. You're the number two seed and you
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Speaker 1: had fifteen points at halftime. In fact, that's the fewest
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Speaker 1: in any Elite eight game since nineteen seventy nine, and
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Speaker 1: it was the lowest first half for a number two
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Speaker 1: seed since that same year in nineteen seventy nine. So
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Speaker 1: that was bad. Now earlier, that was earlier on they
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Speaker 1: that game was pretty bad. And then later on you
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Speaker 1: had another game which wasn't wasn't all that competitive as
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Speaker 1: Joe and I Broom getting it done there for Auburn,
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Speaker 1: as he had twenty five points, there was an injury
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Speaker 1: scare he left for a little bit. Twenty five points,
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Speaker 1: fourteen rebounds. Auburn able to dominate this game seventeen unanswered points.
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Speaker 1: They essentially won the game in the first half. They
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Speaker 1: had to play the rest of the game and for
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Speaker 1: the most part, Michigan State was kept at arm's length
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Speaker 1: year but seventeen unanswered points for the Auburn Tigers and
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Speaker 1: they beat Michigan State seventy to sixty four the final.
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Speaker 1: So if you like those number one overall seeds, man,
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Speaker 1: this is your dream come true. In the final four,
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Speaker 1: the higher seeded teams went twelve to oher in the
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Speaker 1: regional semi finals. If that seems pretty wild. That seems
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Speaker 1: pretty crazy. It's the first time since the tournament expanded
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Speaker 1: back in nineteen eighty five that this has ever happened.
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Speaker 1: And so Auburn is joined by Florida, Duke, and Houston.
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Speaker 1: All the top seeds have advanced, and let us discuss
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Speaker 1: the question for the esteem panel. So we have all
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Speaker 1: number one seeds in the final four. Is this a
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Speaker 1: positive or is this a negative? Situation? So I've got
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Speaker 1: common denominator, hemoglobin, and peacock, and we will combine all
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Speaker 1: of these things together. And we were going to make
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Speaker 1: a televangelist on TV. For some reason one of the TVs.
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Speaker 1: I don't know who's into televangelism, but one of the
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Speaker 1: people I come in here, there's a televangelist on the
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Speaker 1: TV right in front of me. Yeah, that's wild man.
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Speaker 1: All right, I guess somebody's really going for it. All right. Anyway, See,
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Speaker 1: is it a positive or a negative? So I am
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Speaker 1: in team positive. I'm on the side of positivity. I'm
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Speaker 1: Benny Brightside on having all four number one seeds into
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Speaker 1: the final four. These teams, unless I'm mistaken, backed up
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Speaker 1: the fact that the selection committee and all the nerd
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Speaker 1: stats and everything was accurate, that these were the four
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Speaker 1: most deserving teams of getting there. They were the top
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Speaker 1: seeds during the college basketball season. They earned that right.
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Speaker 1: And so the Gators, the Blue Devils, the Cougars, the
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Speaker 1: Cougars are coming, The Cougars are coming, and the Tigers
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Speaker 1: validating what they did during the regular season and before
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Speaker 1: there was panic at the disco about other things in
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Speaker 1: college basketball. Now it's all about Nil, name, image and
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Speaker 1: likeness and all that. And I would advise you to
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Speaker 1: just take a breath. I just take a deep breath,
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Speaker 1: breathe in right. This is the first time that Nil's
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Speaker 1: been around for a few years. This is the first
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Speaker 1: time that all the top seeds have reached the final
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Speaker 1: four since way back in twenty oh eight. And there
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Speaker 1: was no Nil in twenty oh eight. The only other
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Speaker 1: time that all the number one seeds got to the
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Speaker 1: final four was back then in eight. They've been doing
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Speaker 1: this this type of tournament since nineteen seventy nine. The
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Speaker 1: common denominator in all this is the Alamo Dome, the venue,
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Speaker 1: because in twenty oh eight the final four, which at
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Speaker 1: that year had Kansas, you had Memphis, North Carolina and UCLA,
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Speaker 1: and that was held at the Alamodome. That's the common
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Speaker 1: denominator there in San Antonio. And not true solid but
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Speaker 1: not spectacular ratings, as I recall, the ratings were fine,
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Speaker 1: they were not amazing. Now page two, in terms of popularity,
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Speaker 1: how would you rank the teams that we will see
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Speaker 1: here next weekend in San Antonio in the final four.
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Speaker 1: So now this is not a list. This is a
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Speaker 1: big board, which is not a list. It's Big Ben's
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Speaker 1: big board in terms of the haves and have nots.
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Speaker 1: So they're all halves, they are all number one seeds
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Speaker 1: and all that stuff. This is a Chalky Mickchalk Final four,
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Speaker 1: Chalky Mcschalk final four. So we know that going in.
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Speaker 1: But you look at the hemoglobin and so it's really
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Speaker 1: one against three and here's how I break it down.
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Speaker 1: So it's all about the blue bloods. It's all about
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Speaker 1: the blue bloods. And there is a difference now the
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Speaker 1: term chalk. If you're not familiar, so well you're the
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Speaker 1: term schalk, but I don't really know what it means.
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Speaker 1: Was it mean? Explain what it means. I'll explain what
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Speaker 1: it means. So the term shalk, I think we use
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Speaker 1: this on the Fifth Hour podcast months and months ago.
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Speaker 1: But the term shok is a well known term for
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Speaker 1: the team that is favored. It's a dated term. It
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Speaker 1: goes back to the days when horse racing dominated the
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Speaker 1: landscape in America, and a team that's the favorite now
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Speaker 1: is called the chalk and they're expected to win. And
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Speaker 1: the origin dates back to when people really loved horse racing,
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Speaker 1: and they didn't have digital screens and computers and all
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Speaker 1: that stuff. Those things didn't exist, and so the bookmaker,
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Speaker 1: as in that long forgotten era, the bookmaker would actually
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Speaker 1: have these chalkboards like you're in class in elementary school,
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Speaker 1: and they display the odds for each horse. And if
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Speaker 1: you've ever been to the track and bet the ponies,
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Speaker 1: you know that the odds shift, especially depending on the
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Speaker 1: favorites and the amount of money and what the action
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Speaker 1: is from the betters. And so what would end up
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Speaker 1: happening with the chalk the bookies would erase the end
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Speaker 1: and then if to rewrite the odds with chalk, because
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Speaker 1: it was a chalkboard, leaving the favorite smudged, your little
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Speaker 1: smudge there, and all that stuff covered in chalk dust
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Speaker 1: because of all the many updates throughout the day before
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Speaker 1: the race happens. But in terms of the blue bloods,
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Speaker 1: there is a creepy pasta party of one situation going
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Speaker 1: on here. It is really just the blue devils. That's it, right,
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Speaker 1: That's it, the blue Devils. They're the only blue blood.
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Speaker 1: Even though it's all chalk, they stand head and shoulders above,
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Speaker 1: you know, Duke is the one that meets the criteria
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Speaker 1: here program that you think about, what is it blue blood? Well,
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Speaker 1: you're considered top of the class in your industry, in
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Speaker 1: your sport, and you've done it for a long time.
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Speaker 1: You've got a storied history of success. You have a
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Speaker 1: lot of people that hate your guts. That's Duke. Does
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Speaker 1: anyone really hate Auburn basketball or Houston basketball or even
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Speaker 1: Florida Gator basketball? Nah, not really, but Duke. There are
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Speaker 1: many people that will watch just to see Duke lose,
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Speaker 1: and that means you have reached a higher air if
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Speaker 1: you will here. And you've had iconic coaches, well, they
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Speaker 1: had one coach k that lasted for like eighty years
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Speaker 1: at Duke, it seemed, and he was there forever. And
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Speaker 1: there are a lot of players that you wanted to punch,
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Speaker 1: like that podcaster JJ Reddick, and you go through the
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Speaker 1: history of the school. Have been many that many of
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Speaker 1: them flopped in the NBA, but they were legit college
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Speaker 1: players at the time, and you have an annoying fan
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Speaker 1: base you also would like to punch them. So Duke
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Speaker 1: meets all of that. Duke gets all that critter. So
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Speaker 1: they're the only blue blood Florida has had some success.
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Speaker 1: They went under Billy Donovan, they won a couple of championships,
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Speaker 1: and so they had their little run of success back
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Speaker 1: in the day, but not consistently sustained success. And Houston
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Speaker 1: with Hakeem Elijah on back in the day for a
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Speaker 1: couple of years they were amazing, but for the most
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Speaker 1: part not so much. And Auburn in the round mound
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Speaker 1: or rebound Charles Barkley days a long time ago in
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Speaker 1: a land far far away, also pretty good, not pretty good,
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Speaker 1: but not most of the time. They're in the middle.
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Speaker 1: It's kind of in the middle. That's the way it is.
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Speaker 1: And so you got one blue Blood and then you
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Speaker 1: got three others kind of standing out to the side.
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Speaker 1: Now the last word here. So we are heading to
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Speaker 1: the final three games of the college basketball season, reaching
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Speaker 1: the crescendo which is Saturday, and then the Monday night
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Speaker 1: the championship game. So we're at the point now where
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Speaker 1: you start to re examine everything. So question thumbs up
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Speaker 1: or thumbs down? Should you be allowed to take a
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Speaker 1: bow if you had all four number one in the
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Speaker 1: final four bracket, If your bracket is alive and well
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Speaker 1: and you have all four number one seeds. Thumbs up
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Speaker 1: or thumbs down. Shouldn't you be allowed to take a bow? Right?
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Speaker 1: That is the question? What is the answer? And so
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Speaker 1: I'm actually gonna go on this one. I am gonna
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Speaker 1: go thumbs up on this. Okay, I'm gonna go thumbs
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Speaker 1: up on this. And here's why I think you should
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Speaker 1: be able to strut around like a peacock with your
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Speaker 1: feathers out and all that. And the reason why is
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Speaker 1: because you stood your ground. Okay, you stood your ground
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Speaker 1: and while others likely tried to swar. And we've talked
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Speaker 1: about this in the past. There's there's pick shaming when
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Speaker 1: it comes to filling out your bracket. You've got to
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Speaker 1: pick some small school nobody you has got Leeble likes
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Speaker 1: to call it. You've got to pick some crap school
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Speaker 1: to get far in the tournament. If you don't, you're
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Speaker 1: a bad person. And if you pick all chalk, well,
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Speaker 1: you don't know anything. You do, you have no idea.
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Speaker 1: And yet here we are. It actually takes more guts
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Speaker 1: to pick all the top seeds than you would think, right,
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Speaker 1: so you can strut around like a peacock. Humans are
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Speaker 1: hardwired to go with groupthink. Right. We saw that back
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Speaker 1: during the pandemic. A lot of bad advice from people
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Speaker 1: in power, but a lot of people just follow along
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Speaker 1: because it was groupthink. You know, you're supposed to just
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Speaker 1: follow along and not not push back against the machine.
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Speaker 1: But the people that picked all number one seeds did
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Speaker 1: not bend to peer pressure, right, They did not bend
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Speaker 1: to peer pressure, and so good and studies show oftentimes
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Speaker 1: people in any group will take the advice of others,
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Speaker 1: and they will do things even when they know it's wrong,
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Speaker 1: because they don't want to resist. They don't want to
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Speaker 1: resist the popular opinion and all that stuff, and so
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Speaker 1: they want to be part of that. But if you
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Speaker 1: take the favorites, which is what if you have four
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Speaker 1: teams left in your bracket, you've taken all the favorites.
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Speaker 1: If you take the favorites, you are mocked, you are ridiculed,
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Speaker 1: or what are you doing. But the odds on having
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Speaker 1: a perfect bracket picking the top seeds in the tournament
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Speaker 1: are miniscuol. In fact, since nineteen seventy nine, all four
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Speaker 1: favorites that meeting the number one seeds in the tournament
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Speaker 1: have made the final four four point three percent of
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Speaker 1: the time. Which is actually just two times two times.
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Speaker 1: That's it. And what are we looking at here? Going
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Speaker 1: back to seventy nine, So that's forty six years of
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Speaker 1: data and it's only happened twice.
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Speaker 1: So some interesting comments. We go where the news of
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Speaker 1: the day takes it so and I thought this was
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Speaker 1: pretty interesting. We spent a couple minutes shaking and baking it.
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Speaker 1: Cleveland football team, the Robbert Baron of the Cleveland football
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Speaker 1: team making some headlines. If you didn't hear what he
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Speaker 1: had to say, probably not, why would you? You might
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Speaker 1: have missed it. See the guy named Jimmy Haslam. Jimmy Haslam,
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Speaker 1: he's the owner of the Browns, and he has driven
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Speaker 1: that franchise right into the abyss, even further to the
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Speaker 1: abyss than they thought they could go. And it's like,
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Speaker 1: how low can you go? Let's go a little lower,
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Speaker 1: Let's see how low we can go? And down, down, down, down, down,
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Speaker 1: down down. So Jimmy Haslam with comments from the Palm
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Speaker 1: Beach Soire, The NFL league meetings. There described the Deshaun
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Speaker 1: Watson transaction as a big so and a miss I
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Speaker 1: saw wing and a whoop. It's like he's playing designated
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Speaker 1: hitter for the Boston Red Sox. Just say right through
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Speaker 1: the pitch, just boom, just through the pitch, he said.
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Speaker 1: Quote we thought we had the quarterback, we didn't, and
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Speaker 1: we gave up a lot of draft picks to get him,
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Speaker 1: Haslam said, of Watson, So we've got to dig ourselves
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Speaker 1: out of that hole. He stated, it was an entire
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Speaker 1: organization decision. He said, it ends with D and I
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Speaker 1: blaming his wife as well. That's what every good man does,
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Speaker 1: blame your wife. So I hold us accountable. That's right,
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Speaker 1: D Haslam and Jimmy Haslam, they are responsible. As Haslam ranted,
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Speaker 1: Watson is dn as the Browns quarterback, not going to
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Speaker 1: play this year and we'll never start a meaningful game
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Speaker 1: again for the Cleveland Browns. But that's not the talking
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Speaker 1: point here. The talking point, as we discuss, is the
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Speaker 1: commentary from the owner of the Cleveland football team. So
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Speaker 1: thumbs up or thumbs down question, thumbs up or thumbs
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Speaker 1: down on it being possible for Browns fans to truly
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Speaker 1: hold owner Jimmy Haslam accountable in air quotes? Can you
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Speaker 1: really hold an owner accountable? Is that even possible to do? So?
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Speaker 1: I've got teflon, sewing machine, and iPhone and we will
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Speaker 1: combine all of these things together and we are going
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Speaker 1: to make an outhouse, which is the Cleveland brown franchise.
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Speaker 1: They are in the outhouse. What an appropriate name? The
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Speaker 1: Browns right the Browntown we go. So to answer the question,
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Speaker 1: thumbs up or thumbs down? Is it possible for the
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Speaker 1: brown loyal minion to hold owner Jimmy Haslam accountable? So
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Speaker 1: I'm going to go thumbs down on this. I'm going
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Speaker 1: thumbs down on the idea that you can hold the
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Speaker 1: owner accountable. It's impossible. Jimmy haslm knows this. He knows this.
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Speaker 1: I like how I say, it's an organizational decision. The
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Speaker 1: buck stops with you, bukaroo, you dumb dumb. You're the
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Speaker 1: owner of the team. So Jimmy Haslam knows that he's
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Speaker 1: got nothing to worry about here. He's insulated. He is
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Speaker 1: the football Teflon don as the Cleveland Browns owner, and
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Speaker 1: the NFL does not penalize owners for being dumb dumbs.
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Speaker 1: They don't when it comes to football decisions like bad
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Speaker 1: trades or even worse contracts, it doesn't matter how ridiculous
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Speaker 1: it is, Like, you don't even get punished for anything
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Speaker 1: as an NFL owner, What do you Jim Irsey and
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Speaker 1: Rob Craft have gotten some punishment, but it's not real punishment. Said, well,
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Speaker 1: you can't go to your luxury box for a couple
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Speaker 1: of games. We're going to punish you. Oh my god,
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Speaker 1: I've got to stand my mention and watch on television.
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Speaker 1: How terrible is that? The hardship, it's ridiculous. So he's
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Speaker 1: not going to be punished Aslam. The only punishment is
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Speaker 1: he's got to pay two hundred and thirty million dollars
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Speaker 1: to a stiff, the creepy quarterback to Sean Watson, and
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Speaker 1: he lost some scratcher tickets that were given to Houston.
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Speaker 1: That's the only punishment. And the NFL, if you look
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Speaker 1: at when they intervene in situations, the only time they
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Speaker 1: will even pretend to do anything is if you damage
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Speaker 1: the brand. If you attack the shield right then they gonest.
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Speaker 1: Or if you attack the money the finances. Now that
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Speaker 1: is a capital offense. That's high crimes and misdemeanors when
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Speaker 1: you start messing around with the finances fraud league scandals. Ironically,
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Speaker 1: Jimmy HASLM knows a thing or two about that. You
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Speaker 1: might want to look up and do a Google search
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Speaker 1: on the Flying J, the Pilot Flying J, and some
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Speaker 1: financial shenanigans that took place back in twenty seventeen. There
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Speaker 1: was a large settlement and there's certainly some people that
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Speaker 1: raised eyebrows at that time. Keep in mind that during
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Speaker 1: the Browns purchase, he's owned the Browns the Haslam family
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Speaker 1: since twenty twelve, I believe it is, But the NFL
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Speaker 1: approved it anyway, so it's not like they didn't have
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Speaker 1: a problem with everything that was going on the Watson
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Speaker 1: related fallout. If there is any real fallout other than
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Speaker 1: mean things being said on social media, he has not
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Speaker 1: crossed in any kind of punishable territory, if you will.
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Speaker 1: And the only way to really get back at ownership,
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Speaker 1: and it's only happened a few times in my lifetime,
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Speaker 1: is the a word apathy. That is for a very loyal,
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Speaker 1: passionate group of knuckleheads in Cleveland who live their life
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Speaker 1: around the Browns to no longer care and if you
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Speaker 1: are able to demonstrate that successfully for a extended period
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Speaker 1: of time, that gets people's attention because they don't like that,
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Speaker 1: and they're bothered by that, and they know right now
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Speaker 1: they got a bunch of suckers, right, no matter how
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Speaker 1: pathetic the Browns are, You're gonna buy your jerseys, You're
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Speaker 1: gonna go to the games. You're gonna watch the games
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Speaker 1: on TV, because what the hell else do you have
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Speaker 1: to do? They got you by the balls, But the
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Speaker 1: moment they don't have you by the balls, then that changes.
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Speaker 1: The Dodgers were able, Dodger fan base was able to
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Speaker 1: do that with that evil, wretched Frank McCord. They got
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Speaker 1: rid of him. Now he still owns the parking lots.
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Speaker 1: But they were able to show apathy for several years,
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Speaker 1: and that really freaked out the people in Major League Baseball,
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Speaker 1: and so they pressed a few buttons. And now the
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Speaker 1: Dodgers spend a gazillion dollars every year and everyone's happy now.
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Speaker 1: Page two. As far as the Brown situation, taking a
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Speaker 1: couple of steps back here, how would you just Deshaun
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Speaker 1: Watson's time with the Browns Now that it's heading officially
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Speaker 1: towards an end that the owner of the team has said,
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Speaker 1: uh with with He might have said wolf wolf because
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Speaker 1: it's a wolf WF situation. So Jimmy Haslam did not
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Speaker 1: go far enough the Oligark, owner of the Cleveland Browns,
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Speaker 1: when he said it was a big swing in a
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Speaker 1: miss that just scratches the surface. Okay, just scratches the surface.
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Speaker 1: Here they knew what they were getting, the idea that
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Speaker 1: somehow they were in trouble because they didn't know the
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Speaker 1: full depth of the situation. No, they were in the
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Speaker 1: middle of it, and they still went for it. It
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Speaker 1: was the Houston Texans scandal that the Browns wanted. They
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Speaker 1: asked for it, and Watson was in He was neck
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Speaker 1: deep in it. He was neck deep in it in Houston,
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Speaker 1: and the Browns still said we want you. And they
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Speaker 1: weren't alone. There were multiple teams New Orleans and Atlanta
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Speaker 1: wanted this guy. Also. The Browns actually thought they had
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Speaker 1: won because they got to Shaun Watson. And it has
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Speaker 1: turned out into a three alarm fire burn Baby Burn
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Speaker 1: with Deshaun Watson as the Browns quarterback. And Watson a
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Speaker 1: lot of people don't know this, but he's multi talented.
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Speaker 1: He's not only a terrible quarterback, but he's also pretty
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Speaker 1: good with the sewing machine. As a Watson pulled out
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Speaker 1: the sewing machine and he has stitched together a quilt.
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Speaker 1: Let's her limited availability. He's got that on the quilt there.
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Speaker 1: He's got that. He's got subpar performance to terrible performance.
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Speaker 1: Check check, and a lot of baggage, a lot of
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Speaker 1: carry on baggage. Check check check check. So he's got
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Speaker 1: all that on the quilt. He's sewing that all together there.
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Speaker 1: Since joining the Browns in twenty twenty two, Watson has
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Speaker 1: played just nineteen games as a starter in Cleveland over
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Speaker 1: three seasons. Now they play seventeen a year. He's played
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Speaker 1: nineteen total in three seasons. He had an eleven game suspension,
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Speaker 1: which was a slap on the wrist the NFL looking
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Speaker 1: the other way to the conga line. How about the
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Speaker 1: parade of people getting checks. You get a check, you
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Speaker 1: get a check, you get a check, you get a check.
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Speaker 1: Everyone got a check from Deshaun Watson. The allegations and
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Speaker 1: so both twenty twenty three and last season injuries ended
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Speaker 1: those years. He had a shoulder injury in twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: three and an achilles injury last year, which is also
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Speaker 1: going to take him out the next NFL season. And
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Speaker 1: the actual performance when he has played, Watson has been
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Speaker 1: not only a quarterback, he has been god awful with
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Speaker 1: the Browns and just terrible. And so for now, the
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Speaker 1: Browns what do they have? They have Kenny Pickett and
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Speaker 1: that's not any good. He sucks also, and they're going
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Speaker 1: to have to bring somebody else in, Carson Wentz or
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Speaker 1: someone like that. Holy crap, draft somebody, my god.
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Speaker 1: Let's welcome in our contestants. We have the game ready
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Speaker 1: gonna be Mallard's amount of money. We've got Mike in Boston. Hello,
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Speaker 1: Mike in Boston. Welcome. You're gonna be one of our contestants.
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Speaker 1: All right, what's going on? Mike? Ohmy kind of I'll
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Speaker 1: fix it. I got my a buzzer and hold on.
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Speaker 1: All right, take your time, don't mind the fact we're
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Speaker 1: on live radio. Don't bother, don't don't be in a run.
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Speaker 1: It's a little better. I got very good you're gonna
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Speaker 1: play Malos mount Money? And who do you want to
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Speaker 1: partner up with? You? Got me or Coop or Lorena?
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Speaker 1: I'll play with Justin, all right, play with with Coop?
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: That's a bad job by you. And we have Jed
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Speaker 1: who Fled in Parts Unknown the swamp Lands of Florida. Hello,
24:57
Speaker 1: Jed who fled? Yeah, it's chilli. When you saw those
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Speaker 1: two branch slans in want anyhow did you have a
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Speaker 1: easy Crockers to go with it? Fennesday. There's other I mean,
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Speaker 1: there's other people I can play. I don't have to
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Speaker 1: use you as a contestant. Then you're playing them right now?
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Speaker 1: About let them go? Jed? Jed? Got Jed? You're not
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Speaker 1: You're not gonna tank the game, Jed. I don't want
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Speaker 1: any Shenanigans here. I need somebody in the bullpen in case, Jed.
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Speaker 1: I know sometimes you tank the game, so I need
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Speaker 1: somebody back. I need a backup at it as the
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Speaker 1: phones ring at eight seven seven ninety all right, quickly cool?
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Speaker 1: What are the categories? Quick? Right? All right?
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Speaker 3: This is the Angus Young edition of Mallard's Mountain of Money.
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Speaker 3: He turned seventy years old on Monday, Happy Birthday. The
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Speaker 3: categories are It's a Long Way to the Top, TNT
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Speaker 3: back in black, and thunderstruck. Uh, it looks like we
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Speaker 3: hung up on my teammate. Oh so that's like Jed thunderstruck.
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Speaker 1: You pick thunderstruck. No, I mean he got understruck. I
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Speaker 1: rather have that d and d Well. No, you picked
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Speaker 1: you picked thunder Ye? All right, Mike is back. I
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Speaker 1: understand through the magic of the phone system. And Mike,
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Speaker 1: let me punch him up. Here, Mike, which ketterer do
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Speaker 1: you want?
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Speaker 2: You have?
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Speaker 1: It's a long way to the top, t N t
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Speaker 1: or back in black back, I'm black? All right, very good? Alright,
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Speaker 1: stay right there, don't hang up. I don't worry about it.
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Speaker 1: All right, very nice. We are going to have innoc
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Speaker 1: entirety mallards amount of money. We'll get to that, and
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Speaker 1: we will do it.
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Speaker 2: you have what it takes to get to the top?
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Speaker 2: Probably not.
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Speaker 1: Let's do it here.
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Speaker 3: We go.
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Speaker 1: We have our contestants. We've gotten Mike in Boston who
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Speaker 1: is with Cooper Loop and Jed who fled. God only
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Speaker 1: knows where Jed who Fled is and what kind of
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Speaker 1: the bauchery he's getting involved in. And that is the matchup.
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Speaker 1: Mike is locked in, Jed is locked in. All right, Coop,
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Speaker 1: you're going first, right back in black. I believe it's
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Speaker 1: the kedding. That is right, Mike.
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Speaker 3: We need the first and last name of the athlete
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Speaker 3: in order to get points. We're gonna have forty five
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Speaker 3: seconds of the clock. Are you ready? Yes, these athletes
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Speaker 3: all died young.
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Speaker 1: Let's begin, all right.
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Speaker 3: Number eight, the Black Mamba Kobe Brant. Yes, this is
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Speaker 3: a baseball player for the Yankees. There's a disease named
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Speaker 3: after him. Yes, this was the intimidator NASCAR Driveral yes tie.
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Speaker 3: Then for the Patriots he killed somebody and then killed himself. Yes,
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Speaker 3: baseball player for the Pirates. He died in a plane
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Speaker 3: crash er. Yes, this guy was a draft by the Celtics.
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Speaker 3: He died doing cocaine. Yeah, it's such an easy This
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Speaker 3: guy was from Croatia. He was like one of the
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Speaker 3: best euro basketball players ever. Died that twenty eight in
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Speaker 3: a car crash. After joining the NBA.
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Speaker 1: He played the nets. Oh oh, oh, man, I like
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Speaker 1: I like bulling, I like Petrovich riding a bike with
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Speaker 1: training wheels on. All right, we picked thunderstruck. Are you
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Speaker 1: ready here? Are you ready my man? Here? Yes? All right? Uh.
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Speaker 1: These athletes were all heavy favorites. They got thunderstruck by
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Speaker 1: the underdogs. Are you ready? All right? Here we go
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Speaker 1: forty five seconds on the clock.
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Speaker 2: Go.
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Speaker 1: A quarterback for the Green Bay Packers before Aaron Rodgers. Yes,
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Speaker 1: the big german for the Mavericks. Yes. Uh, the greatest
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Speaker 1: receiver in Viking history. He also played for the Patriots. Yes,
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Speaker 1: notice the glove for the Seattle SuperSonics. Yes, greatest receiver
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Speaker 1: for the greatest show on turf, the Saint Louis Rams. No, no, yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's correct. He's a former Dodgers with the Phillies. Now
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Speaker 1: he's the shortstop. Really, skinny guy, white guy for the Phillies.
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Speaker 1: Signed the board coy No, no, no, no, no, he's with
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Speaker 1: the Phillies. Used to play for the Nationals. All right.
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Speaker 1: Pitcher for the Seattle Mariners when they had the great team.
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Speaker 1: Latin guy. No, not different Latin. No, he's not loud.
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Speaker 1: Come on, it's a good why guy, you gotta keep talking.
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Speaker 3: Trey Turner was who you missed there? Well you also
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Speaker 3: missed Freddy Garton and then yeah, Freddy Garcon. Yeah, so
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Speaker 3: one sixties. So you guys are back up again, Jed,
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Speaker 3: Do you want TNT or it's a long way to the.
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Speaker 2: Top, flung way to the topic you want Rogers?
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Speaker 1: All right? All right, we'll put forty five seconds on
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Speaker 1: the clock. These athletes didn't win a championship until late
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Speaker 1: in their career. Are you prepared to answer this category? Right,
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Speaker 1: we'll put forty five seconds on the clock, and ware
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Speaker 1: we go. Quarterback for the Broncos number seven nineteen eighties. Yes,
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Speaker 1: the bus goes round and round for the Pittsburgh steel Yes,
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Speaker 1: gap tooth New York Giant defense. Yes, the big unit
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Speaker 1: for the Seattle Mariners. All right. He also played for
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Speaker 1: the Mariners. He pitched till he was like forty seven
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Speaker 1: years old. Yes, yeah, that's right. Safety, played mostly for
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Speaker 1: the Chargers, was played with the Ravens, won a Super
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Speaker 1: Bowl with the Rams at the end of his career.
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Speaker 1: White guy power, it's just a few years ago. All right.
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Speaker 1: Basketball player out of Xavier won a championship with the
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Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors. I believe at the end of his career,
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Speaker 1: not East, but not East. But it was a good
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Speaker 1: clue at the end there.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, David Westvid West he's talking about and.
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Speaker 1: Then Eric Weddle Goliath.
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Speaker 3: Okay, that's three and twenty points. All right, Mike, we've
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Speaker 3: got TNT. These athletes all work or worked for TNT.
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Speaker 3: I'm really infract Mike you ready, shut shut up?
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Speaker 1: You keep talking for forty five seconds, Mike, you ready?
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Speaker 1: All right? Let's begin, all right?
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 3: This guy was a quarterback for the Rams. He was
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Speaker 3: also the athletic director for USC.
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Speaker 1: Uh, no chance. All right, let's let's.
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Speaker 3: Try a black quarterback for the Eagles most of his
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Speaker 3: career later the Vikings. Yes uh, this guy was the
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Speaker 3: Oilers quarterback. He was a CFL legend. Yes uh, this
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Speaker 3: guy was on the Fab five. His last name is
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Speaker 3: a flower. Yes uh. This guy shoots lights out for
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Speaker 3: the Pacers. He's an analyst on TNT. Now, all right,
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Speaker 3: the round mount of rebound.
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Speaker 1: We're out of time. I'm sorry, dude, but I don't
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Speaker 1: think I don't think that's that recount. Let's recount the
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Speaker 1: vote on that