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  Speaker 1: decis don't to go with the baseball. But the baseball
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  Speaker 1: game was not all that great. I'm sorry JJ and
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  Speaker 1: Retten and Nostradinas and all that. So the football game
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  Speaker 1: there was more juice, and I go where the juice is.
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  Speaker 1: That's the mantra. You start out where the better story
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  Speaker 1: isn't the better story the Sunday night NFL game. So
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  Speaker 1: that is where we will begin. We will get to
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  Speaker 1: the baseball later. It will start at Arrowhead Stadium, just
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  Speaker 1: down the street from the home of the Bain Mallard
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  Speaker 1: Chicken Fingers had a great Mallard meet and greet by
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  Speaker 1: a year ago last November. There was wonderful just a
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  Speaker 1: Smorgesborg of chicken fingers in the air everywhere there at
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  Speaker 1: the landing in Liberty, Missouri. But on Sunday night, an
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  Speaker 1: island game. We love our island games. Explain that over
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  Speaker 1: the weekend on the Fifth Hour podcast, which I know
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  Speaker 1: you listened to you heard the Fifth Hour podcast every
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  Speaker 1: single FN day on the weekends. So the Detroit Lions
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  Speaker 1: roared into Cansau City for the little playdate with the Chiefs.
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  Speaker 1: That was the setup, that was the matchup. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you're watching this, the baseball game was
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  Speaker 1: going on. It was a quick NFL game, pretty fast
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  Speaker 1: NFL game. Baseball games start a little bit before the
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  Speaker 1: game in the NFL. So if you're not watching Patrick Mahomes,
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  Speaker 1: wake up the echos. Two hundred and fifty seven yards
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  Speaker 1: passing three touchdowns. You also scrambled for another score. And
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  Speaker 1: Malon Matth tells me that's four touchdowns for Patrick Mahomes
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  Speaker 1: and he led the Chiefs to a thirty to seventeen
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  Speaker 1: win over the Detroit football team as Marquise Hollywood Brown
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  Speaker 1: had two touchdown receptions Xavier Worthy had another. The Chiefs
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  Speaker 1: get back to five hundred at three and three on
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  Speaker 1: the season. They played a near flawless game. More on
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  Speaker 1: that coming up in a little bit there. They had
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  Speaker 1: no penalties, no penalties for the Chiefs, no turnovers. This
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  Speaker 1: is one week after you get a penalty, you get
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  Speaker 1: a penalty, you get a penalty and that Monday night game,
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  Speaker 1: that last second loss, when the Chiefs defense stood around
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  Speaker 1: and watched the klutz quarterback for Jacksonville, Trevor Lawrence, fall
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  Speaker 1: down multiple times and then go in the end zone
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  Speaker 1: because Chris Jones decided he want to hustle. I want
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  Speaker 1: a dubby anyway. So the Chiefs bounce back and they
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  Speaker 1: get to win here. And the better story, though, is
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  Speaker 1: in the losing locker room the Detroit Lions following the loss.
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  Speaker 1: We had a rhubarb that took place there following the loss,
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  Speaker 1: as the Lion's safety Brian Branch boiling over and got
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  Speaker 1: into it. He refused to do a postgame clappity clap
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  Speaker 1: dappity DApp with Patrick Mahomes, and Branch instead decided he
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  Speaker 1: wanted to deliver a right hook to a man wearing
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  Speaker 1: a helmet, which generally is not a great idea, but
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  Speaker 1: he decided to do it anyway, and he threw a
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  Speaker 1: punch there at Juju Smith Schuster. After the end of
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  Speaker 1: the game, the teams come and together to exchange niceties.
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  Speaker 1: That didn't seem very nice, but I don't know, maybe
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  Speaker 1: it was. It was like a nice friendly punch could
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  Speaker 1: have been there right at midfield. So let us discuss
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  Speaker 1: the question how disappointing, how disappointing is this overall performance
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  Speaker 1: for Dan Campbell's Detroit Lions as they end up on
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  Speaker 1: the wrong side of the scoreboard and not even close
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  Speaker 1: in the second half. So I've got ice bucket, toy Poodle,
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  Speaker 1: and Mighty Mississippi and we will combine all of these
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  Speaker 1: things together and we are going to put the biscuit
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  Speaker 1: in the basket, is what we're going to do. So
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  Speaker 1: a this one obviously stinks. It's like a sting from
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  Speaker 1: a hornet for the Lions here because this was supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be as well. The Chiefs aren't that good, but
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  Speaker 1: still they're at home. It's prime time. You're going against
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  Speaker 1: Mahomes and those guys. So this is a measuring stick
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  Speaker 1: situation for Detroit, a barometer about where you are right
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  Speaker 1: now and how you and a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: gut check even though the Chiefs don't have a great record,
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  Speaker 1: and so where do you actually stand? Let's see where
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  Speaker 1: do you actually stand? Man? Okay, big boy stage right
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  Speaker 1: there Monday night or Sunday night rather with NBC and
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  Speaker 1: all that, and how'd that work out? Yeah, on this night,
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  Speaker 1: on that particular night, Sunday night. You did not measure up.
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  Speaker 1: You just didn't. The game was not even really close
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  Speaker 1: in the second half, right, it was not. You watched
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  Speaker 1: the end. The Chiefs were in total control of this thing.
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  Speaker 1: And this wasn't cute little Detroit hosting the Chicago Bears
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  Speaker 1: in Motown on a Sunday afternoon at Ford Field. This
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  Speaker 1: was not that. This was Zarohead National TV, big bright
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  Speaker 1: lights and all that stuff, supposedly big boy football for
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  Speaker 1: the Lions here and an angry Kansas City Chiefs team,
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  Speaker 1: and we saw what happened for the past month. Dan
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  Speaker 1: Campbell's Lions were the nfs IT team. I was asking
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  Speaker 1: my weekly appearance on with my friend Bob Fesco show
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  Speaker 1: in Kansas City there on our affiliate in the mornings
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  Speaker 1: on Thursdays, I pop on there and said, well, it's
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  Speaker 1: the top team in the NFL. I think Dusty might
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  Speaker 1: have asked me that, and I said, well, right now,
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  Speaker 1: the Lions, the Lions that they were the one that
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  Speaker 1: stood out. And so the Lions go out there and
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  Speaker 1: get whooped, whooped, he whooped in the second half of
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  Speaker 1: this game here. So all the attitude and the fake kneecap,
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  Speaker 1: biting all of that. So then Mahomes and the Chiefs
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  Speaker 1: come out and absolutely slap them in the mouth in
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  Speaker 1: the second half of this game. And some will say,
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  Speaker 1: well the Lions were shorthanded, their defense was missing some
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  Speaker 1: people and all that. Well, you still have to play
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  Speaker 1: the game. You play the game with who with who's
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  Speaker 1: out there, and no excuses. And Kansas City again defensively,
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  Speaker 1: they controlled the game and offense compared to how they
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  Speaker 1: had played recently. This was a night day throwback performance,
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  Speaker 1: vintage performance here. Twenty six first downs, three hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty five yards, the Chiefs toying with them in the
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  Speaker 1: first half, and then never trailed after halftime. They led
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  Speaker 1: from soup to nuts in the second half all the
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  Speaker 1: way through. And Aiden Hutchinson, that Detroit defense looking like
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  Speaker 1: a team there that was taking part in the ice
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  Speaker 1: buck bucket challenge, and they did not handle the ice water,
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  Speaker 1: did not handle that very well. There, they got hypothermia.
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  Speaker 1: Bad job by them, reality check, slap boom, all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: As they go down the Lions go down there. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Dan Campbell is the head coach of the Detroit football team,
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  Speaker 1: and we're gonna get his comments in a minute, Let's
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  Speaker 1: go to Jared Golf though. Here's Jared Goff. This is
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  Speaker 1: Jared Goff on the ineptitude of the Detroit Lions. Take
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  Speaker 1: a listen.
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  Speaker 3: On offense, I thought we had moved the ball decently,
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  Speaker 3: I think limited possessions certainly, and so were they on offense.
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  Speaker 3: We were kind of both playing that game of long possessions.
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  Speaker 3: And when you play that game, you gotta score. You
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  Speaker 3: gotta finish in with touchdowns, and they did and we
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  Speaker 3: did that first drive getting the touchdown had been nice
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  Speaker 3: field goals, you know, consolation prize there, But then we
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  Speaker 3: had a couple of drives we just didn't wait three
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  Speaker 3: an hour or five an hour at front and yeah,
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  Speaker 3: so if you're going to play that time with possession game,
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  Speaker 3: you gotta score at the end of them. And they
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  Speaker 3: did it more than we did.
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  Speaker 1: So clearly my TV is not working because I did
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  Speaker 1: not see that game. I did not see the game
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  Speaker 1: that Jared Goff described there at all. I think Jared
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  Speaker 1: Goff matter have had a concussion or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: That was a welcome back to Earth situation for the
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  Speaker 1: MotorCity kiddies. Now, let's not gloss over. Let us knock
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  Speaker 1: gloss over the end of the game as safety Brian
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  Speaker 1: Branch refusing the niceties from Patrick Mahomes. As we said
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  Speaker 1: there Mahomes offering to give him a handshake or a
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  Speaker 1: little fist bump there, and instead he decided to wallop.
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  Speaker 1: It was a mollywob Juju Smith Schuster in the helmet.
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  Speaker 1: It's dumb because the guy's wearing a helmet, so's it's
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  Speaker 1: just stupid because the guy's got a helmet on and
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff and not exactly a real tough guy move.
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  Speaker 1: You're not Rocky Balboa out there, and you're the guy
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  Speaker 1: the Lions here who got knocked out in the third
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  Speaker 1: and fourth round. And then your guy threw a tantrum
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  Speaker 1: after the game. Who goofed? I've got to know on
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  Speaker 1: the way out the now the Lions are good and
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  Speaker 1: all that, but that was pretty pathetic. Here's Dan Campbell
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  Speaker 1: on the extra curricular activities post game in Arrowhead.
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  Speaker 4: I'm disappointed because you know, it's been a long time
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  Speaker 4: since you're watching somebody kneel it three times in front
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  Speaker 4: of you and it's not even close. You know, you're
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  Speaker 4: down two scores. I mean, we got we got worked
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  Speaker 4: pretty good. So so yeah, it's disappointing. It's really disappointing.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well, the Lions go down there, the Chiefs still
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  Speaker 1: at the grown up table there, moving on to the
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  Speaker 1: other side, and that would be the winning side, the
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  Speaker 1: Kansas City side from their perspective. Does this count? Here's
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  Speaker 1: the question. Does this count as a state victory for
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  Speaker 1: Andy Reid and the Chiefs here in Week six? Alright,
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  Speaker 1: So now here's the problem. That was a statement win
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  Speaker 1: as much as a Week six NFL game can be
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  Speaker 1: a statement win.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Mahomes and Kelsey were wobbly, very wobbly for the beginning
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  Speaker 1: part of the season, and and so this was one
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  Speaker 1: of those situations like, hey, we're still around, you know,
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  Speaker 1: remember us, We're still here. We haven't left, We're just
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  Speaker 1: off to the side, and you know, we have every
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  Speaker 1: intent of still being here at the end of the
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  Speaker 1: year and all that stuff. And there was just a
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  Speaker 1: little more juice, just a little more right there for
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  Speaker 1: one night anyway, whether this has any kind of continuation
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  Speaker 1: or not, for one night, the Chiefs looked like the
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  Speaker 1: Chiefs of recent years, and you know they is that
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  Speaker 1: going to continue?
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  Speaker 4: Ive?
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  Speaker 1: Who knows, We'll see the swagger was back there. That
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  Speaker 1: was like a toy poodle marking its territory on a hydrant,
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  Speaker 1: if you know what I mean. Right there, they you know,
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  Speaker 1: nobody beats the whiz. They took care of that right there.
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  Speaker 1: You could see from the opening drive that say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: this is our house and all that stuff, and they
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  Speaker 1: went there two hundred and fifty seven yards to get
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  Speaker 1: from whomes. She had three touchdown passes, one touchdown on
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  Speaker 1: the ground, So all around, sharing the sugar and the
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  Speaker 1: defense for Kansasy, which was good in Jacksonville. It's not
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  Speaker 1: like they were bad in Jacksonville until the final play
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  Speaker 1: when they stood there and watched Lawrence fumble and futs
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  Speaker 1: around and getting the end zone and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But the second half that is when Detroit really flexed, right,
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  Speaker 1: they really did. Detroit's firepower was totally neutralized in the
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  Speaker 1: second half of this game. I'm on Ross Saint Brown
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  Speaker 1: rather quiet. Jared Goff, despite what he said, nothing special, nothing,
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  Speaker 1: just kind of a blah blah type situation, couldn't get
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  Speaker 1: much of anything other than those checkdowns. Charlie checked down
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  Speaker 1: for much of the second half there for the Detroit
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  Speaker 1: Lions and so they scored seven points over the final
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  Speaker 1: thirty minutes. Now, I didn't plan in the NFL, so
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  Speaker 1: I off to check with Ryan Clark on this. But
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that's good. I don't think that's good.
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  Speaker 1: And so Kansas City and then slamming the door shut.
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  Speaker 1: And a credit to Steve Spagnolo, the defensive coordinator there
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  Speaker 1: is his guys were flying all over the place in
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  Speaker 1: this one. And that is the first time in weeks
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  Speaker 1: that I have watched Kansas City and thought, Okay, there
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  Speaker 1: you go. All that crap. They would say, Wow, championship,
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  Speaker 1: DNA and all that stuff. That's that's it the mode
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  Speaker 1: Joe Potato, big time win, big time win. So there
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  Speaker 1: you go. That's the roadside billboard the Chiefs have put
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  Speaker 1: up for the rest of the NFL said you thought
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  Speaker 1: we were slipping, I think again. Now. They had looked
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  Speaker 1: like a team that was sleepwalking, losing to all the
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  Speaker 1: good teams they had played, and then beating the bad
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  Speaker 1: teams they had played. And this is the first quality
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  Speaker 1: opponent the Chiefs had beaten. The Ravens are a bad team.
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  Speaker 1: The Giants are a bad team, but they would last week.
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  Speaker 1: They're still a bad team. You know, don't mistake Jackson
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  Speaker 1: Dart playing well, they didn't play that game. That was
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  Speaker 1: a Russell Wilson game. That started the Sunday night game
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  Speaker 1: against can Zaw City. So everything seemed like it was
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  Speaker 1: in place. Even Andy Reid's mustache seemed like it belonged there,
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  Speaker 1: It had extra hair to it. It was good to
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  Speaker 1: go there. So the lesson do not sleep, do not
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  Speaker 1: sleep on the Chiefs there. They are still the standard,
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  Speaker 1: the gold standard in the AFC. And you know here
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  Speaker 1: we'll see Buffalo plays on Monday Night, the Bills play,
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  Speaker 1: I believe Atlanta on the Monday night card. And that's
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  Speaker 1: the other team. I mean, you look around, who else
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  Speaker 1: the Ravens falling apart Pittsburgh's four and one? Are you
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  Speaker 1: considering them legit in the AFC? The Chargers? Who's the team?
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  Speaker 1: All right? Now, last word, let's address the heel, A
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  Speaker 1: monster in the room, the story that everyone will be
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  Speaker 1: talking about over the next twenty four hours when they
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  Speaker 1: talk about the NFL weekend. And that'll be one week,
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  Speaker 1: one week after it was uglee with a capitol U
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  Speaker 1: ugu lee for the Chiefs. They flipped the script in
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  Speaker 1: this game against the Lions. I'm talking about from the
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  Speaker 1: officiating standpoint on Sunday, the Detroit Lions the opponent. There
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  Speaker 1: there were no accepted penalties, none, none. Against Kansas City.
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  Speaker 1: Detroit declined an offside penalty on Chris Jones late in
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. But that's it, that's all. That's all
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  Speaker 1: there was. Detroit was penalized four times for thirty eight yards,
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  Speaker 1: and those mistakes swung the game. All four of them
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  Speaker 1: swung the game. It's not my opinion, it's a fact.
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  Speaker 1: You can go down point by point. An illegal motion
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  Speaker 1: penalty wiped out a trick play touchdown on the first
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  Speaker 1: quarter against Detroit. There was a defensive pass interference call
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  Speaker 1: that extended Kansas City's go ahead drive before halftime. The
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  Speaker 1: roughing the passer penalty in the fourth quarter set up
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  Speaker 1: a touchdown that pushed the Chiefs lead to double digits.
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  Speaker 1: So you see where I'm going with this. Now, question
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  Speaker 1: here's the question, what do you make of the Chiefs
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  Speaker 1: being we are told the second team in the last
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  Speaker 1: seventy years, just the second team in the last seventy years,
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  Speaker 1: to have no accepted penalties against them in a regulation
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  Speaker 1: NFL game. It's only the second time in seventy years
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  Speaker 1: that this has happened. So this one, hey, it smells
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  Speaker 1: all right, I mean, just call like it's the smells does?
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  Speaker 5: I mean?
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  Speaker 1: It reeks of the shield doing what the shield does best,
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  Speaker 1: protecting the crown jewel. And I'm not above buying into
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  Speaker 1: a conspiracy. I'm not. I mean, but he didn't say
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  Speaker 1: by the fourth quarter, I didn't notice the body language
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  Speaker 1: of the Detroit line. Some of the guys in the secondary.
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  Speaker 1: It looked like they were in a telephone tree with
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  Speaker 1: the irs and they were getting bounced around and all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. Detroit had measured the fourth penalties for thirty
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  Speaker 1: eight yards in this game, and just about every single
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  Speaker 1: one of them, as we laid out here, took points
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  Speaker 1: off the board or helped Kansas City put points on
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  Speaker 1: the board. And that is not just bad luck. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that's not just bad luck. That is again the heal
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  Speaker 1: of monster in the room biting the kneecap, nibble, nibble, nibble,
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  Speaker 1: right at the kneecap there. And this is the part,
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  Speaker 1: this is the part where the NFL deep state comes
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  Speaker 1: slithering right out. Now. Is that the Taylor Swift effect,
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  Speaker 1: is that what that is was a phone call made.
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  Speaker 1: Was this a point of reference, a point of emphasis
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  Speaker 1: for the NFL referees in this game? It stands out
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  Speaker 1: so much that it'd be hard to believe for a
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  Speaker 1: rational person that this was not a point of emphasis
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  Speaker 1: for the NFL. The officials are given their directions before
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  Speaker 1: every game what to look for, what's a point of emphasis.
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  Speaker 1: I find it impossible that a message was not sent
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  Speaker 1: down to just kind of observe and only call the
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  Speaker 1: obvious penalties. Don't interfere with Kansas City at all. And
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  Speaker 1: you've got the most marketable pop star on the planet
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  Speaker 1: who's now an NFL wag wag Wag wag wag. She's
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  Speaker 1: a wag. Yeah, And you think the league wants a
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  Speaker 1: sub five hundred two four Kansas City team they lose
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  Speaker 1: this game, they'd be two and four. Please, no, No.
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  Speaker 1: They want those cutaways, those reaction shots, they want the
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  Speaker 1: merch sales, the TV hype. Is it built in? It's
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  Speaker 1: baked into the NFL. It's absolutely baked in. And this game,
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  Speaker 1: with the lack of penalties, was the shortest Sunday night
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• 19:29
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• 19:33
  Speaker 1: That happens because there's no those no penalty flags of
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: the officials. I'm sure it was just a kuinkie dink
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: that they decided to swallow the whistle like they were
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: entering the witness protection program and they're like, it's like
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: those kids. Kids are supposed to be seen, not heard.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: And that's the referees there. And then when the NFL
• 19:50
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• 19:53
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• 19:57
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• 20:02
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• 20:07
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• 20:11
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• 20:14
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• 20:17
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  Speaker 1: as the final four underway in Toronto, the curtain going
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: up on game number one of the American League Championship Series.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: There baseball the spotlight not to its own because they
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: start well. The Sunday night NFL game is going on,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: but it's the beauty of Rob Manford and the geniuses
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: at Major League Baseball. God forbid you start on a
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Tuesday when you have the stage to yourself. But I digress.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: So the Mariners opening things up in Canada, and a
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: surprise as Bryce Miller starting the game. A couple of
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: days after the Seattle baseball team played a fifteen hour
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: thrill over the Detroit baseball team and Bryce Miller six
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: sharp innings and Jorge Polanco getting it done there yet again.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: He had the go ahead ribby single in the sixth inning.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: The Mariners getting it done a domination situation after falling
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: behind early, and the Blue Jays had the brief one
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: nothing lead, but the Mariners end up winning it three
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: to one as they returned to the American League Championship
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Series Seattle for the first time in twenty four years.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Once a generation, the Mariners get to the League Championship Series.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Cal Rolly adding the tying solo home run, the second
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: home run he's had here in the postseason led Baseball
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: with sixty homewerns. Did Aaron Judge hit a home run
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: in the Ales? No, he did not. Oh he didn't
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: play in the Ale, but he did rub some suntan
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: lotionan onto the Bahamas, so he's got that going for him,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Aaron Judge. So anyway, the Blue Jays will be right
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: back at it. Game two will be the early game
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: five five o'clock eastern, two o'clock in the West against
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: the Mariners, who will start Logan Gilbert in that game.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: He threw thirty four pitches in the fifteen inning game
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: the other night. But the better story is in the
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: losing locker room. So let us discuss the question here.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Toronto star Vladimir Guerrero, who did bupkiss in this game,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Vladimir Guerrero said of Toronto's loss, he said, quote, we
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: just didn't hit close. Quote Does that explanation work for you?
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Short and sweet? Four words? Vladimir Guerrero said, we just
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: didn't hit all right. So my observations, I got drug store,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: MythBusters and cartoon size, and we will combine all of
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: these things together and we are going to say hello
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: to Krusty the k clown is what we're going to do,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: all right. So number one, all right, number one? So
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: I'm shaking my head. No, I do not approve the explanation,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: while it is factually correct from Vladimir Guerrero Junior. The
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Toronto offense was flatter than a pancake in Saskatoon, a
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: nice diner there in Saskatoon. That is accurate. This was
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: supposed to be the Honky Tonk Jubilee for the Toronto
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: baseball team. You look at that scene there in Toronto.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: The game was on Fox, and you look at the
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: building there. The ballpark was absolutely buzzing. You got that
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: cheating a hole George Springer, forever tainted as a cheat
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: from the twenty seventeen Cheating Astros George Springer hits a
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: lead off moonshot bang. Bang must have been a home
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: run because it was a bang on the trash can
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: and the place was louder than a Rush concert. And
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: then they had to play the rest of the game.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: And then they had to play the rest of the
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: game and nothing. Absolutely Crickets Crickets, zip bow. The baseball
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: team from Canada, had one hit in twenty eight at bats.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: One for twenty eight. Now that works out to an
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: thirty six batting average, which I'm told is not good.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: That was their offense. It was like a tax ride
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: off one for twenty eight. The rest of the game.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: The Jays house man was not was not Drake. They
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: did not have Drake. They had Limp Biscuit keep part
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: of that limp because the Toronto Blue Jays very limp
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: their total buzzkill for the Toronto side of things on
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: this one. After the Springer home run, it was an
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: early Christmas Carol, even before Halloween, a silent night. They
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: had that going for them. So the Blue Jays, you
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: look at this offense and they were really flexing against
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: the Yankees, right They for the most part, even the
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: games they lost, exception maybe one. They had a really
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: good offense going really good in that ballpark. The accusations
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: had been made that Toronto was up to some funny
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: business because they've been so much better at home offensively
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: than on the road. And so they're using some kind
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: of special cam to spy and do they know something
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: we don't know? Anyway, in this game, the Blue Jays
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: they needed to go down to the drug store right
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: across the street from the ballpark there, go to the
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: pharmacy at the drug store and pick up the bottle
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: that there's a prescription for them. It's a little bottle
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: of blue pills. Because they did not rise to the occasion.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: They did not rise to the occasion here. You only
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: get one opportunity. I might be wrong this, but I
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: think I'm right. You only get one opportunity to make
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: an opening impression in the American League Championship Series. You
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: get one opportunity here. And how did that go? Let's
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: see you set the tone they what kind of tone
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: did they set? Alarm bells? Yeah? Not good? And so
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: so much for planting the flag. The Mariners were the
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: team that planted the flag. The Blue Jays they tripped
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: across the border is what they did there. And as
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: for Vladimir Guerrero and his quote saying about the offense,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: we just didn't hit. That was his quote, we just
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: didn't which is again no kidding, Sherlock. I understand. I
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: watched the game understanding you didn't hit, all right, We
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: all saw that you did not hit. You did not
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: do much of anything. It was right boring to watch
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: you attempt to do anything, kind of like Wayne Gretzky
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: coming out and saying, oh, we just didn't score enough goals.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: You think you think now? I prefer the Mike Tomlin
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: approach to these things. I always go with Mike Tomlin
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: went in doubt, throw Mike Tomlin quote out. When the
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Steelers don't play well, tom will come out with some
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: over the top quote. For example, Tomlin's quote, I think
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: it was last year when things were not going well
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: for the Steelers, and he said, we make no excuses.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: He said, we seek no comfort. We didn't play well.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Coach well, period, hardstop, boom done. That's it. That's all.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: That's all you need right there. That should be carved
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: in to the Toronto Blue Jays. Dugout right there, just okay,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: I get it now, The good news for Toronto and
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: the bad news for Seattle is there is no such
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: thing as momentum. It just doesn't exist. There is no momentum.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: So you don't have to worry about this some kind
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: of spillover a situation that you just put the baby
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: to bed. And then's Game two is brand new game
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: and we'll see what you got now on the winner
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: side of things, winners on the winter side of things
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: not as good as story. How do you process the
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: big dumper? Cal Raley and Seattle winning Game one with Gusto?
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: All right, so on this one, this is a myth
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Buster specially. It's one of those things I love. The
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: media narrative gets slashed apart because we're not part of
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: the mainstream. I don't get paid like mainstream media. We
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: do the thing overnight here, we're not mainstream. Mainstream is
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: six am to six pm. Anything after that is not mainstream.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: So we're on the fringes in the shadows. Do Do
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Do Do Do Do Doo. But this was a MythBusters October edition.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: It really was right because remember all the handwringing and
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: the gas baggery. I don't know if you paid any
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: attention to maybe you weren't. You were watching football a weekend.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: But if you're a baseball person, the story was, oh
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: my god, the Mariners are porked. They have no chance.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Right they played fifteen innings two hundred pitches against the
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Tigers on Friday. Now they have to fly across North
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: America and play right away on Sunday. There's no chance
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: they can win. Of course, the problem with that is
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: they discounted. They discounted the fact that they were not
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: traveling by stage coach from Washington to Ontario. They were
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: not doing that. Here. It turns out that when you
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: travel and you stay at five star hotels, you have
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: chartered flights, private air travel, you have police escorts. You're
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: not exactly taking the Oregon Trail. You know, you don't
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: have to worry about getting dysentery. Nobody died of dysentery
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: from the Mariners traveling party on their way to Toronto.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: So the Mariners didn't just survive. They've obviously flourished in
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: this situation. Here they showed up and after that early
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: kick to the shins by the Toronto baseball team, the
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: rest of the way it was bigfoot, heavily caffeinated holding
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: a Louisville slugger and just going for here. There was
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: a surgical game on the mound in the American League
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Championship Series. Now, I don't know how much of this
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: is Toronto just being bad. I don't have Bryce Miller
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: on my really good card. Should I have him on there?
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: I don't have him on there. I don't have him.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Not a list. I have like a big board card thing,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: not a list. Terry Newey, but Bryce Miller. I look
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: at him. I was like, you know, okay, fine, average
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: major league starting pitcher, nothing over the top grade, you know,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: good during the regular season, hadn't been all that great
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: in the playoffs, unless I'm maybe my TV was broken
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: again vintage, though not Jamie Mooy. It was like Jamie
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Moyer with more gusto, a few extra ticks on the
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: gun there for the Mariners. They're slicing up, slicing and dicing.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: The Toronto Blue Jays. There was six innings of one
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: run ball and painting the strike zone like he was
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Bob Ross with the paint brush there, and good job
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: by him and the big dumper doing big dumper things,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: sitting a home run there. Boom yachtsee longball, ding dong,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: whatever you want to say. Their home run for him.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: So there you go, just like that home field advantage gone.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Although we do know since the Mariners are like an
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: honorary Canadian team, right because so many people from Vancouver
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: come down to watch the Mariners, and there'll be a
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: lot of Canadians that make their way down across the
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: border there when they get back to Seattle. But there's
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: a game again in Toronto later on this afternoon, but
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: no home field advantage. And it was supposed to be
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: the party, as we said, supposed to be a party
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: there Ballpark formerly known as the sky Gnome back in
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: the day. Now it's got a corporate name. But buzzing.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: The fans showed up early there. They had their blue
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: that's a lot of powder blue jerseys when they showed
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: the crowd and ready to scream their lungs out, and
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: there were just a handful of Mariner fans, not many,
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: not many, And how did that go well? That did
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: not go well for the home team at all. And
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: so very savvy performance for the Mariners. They're a good start,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: very un Mariner like, I would say, not very un
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Mariner like. There it's a team that's like, well, that's
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: a nice little story out of the Pacific Northwest, and
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: it's not approaching it that way, not exactly approaching it
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: that way. Here after falling behind early, coming back and
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: monster mashing here and so there you go. They took
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: the early punch and bounced right back. And that's where
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: we are. Now we move ahead in the broadcast. We'll
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: get back to the baseball. But I did want to
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: go to college football. We had a very high profile
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: shakeup in college football while the NFL was being played,
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: and then later on baseball we had a little wackety
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: whack as a prominent head coach has been decommissioned pre season,
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: top five in all of college football, fired before Halloween.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: Hard to do, It's hard to do, but it happened.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: James Franklin gone, Nana Anna, good bye, see you later. Hey,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: going Franklin out. Now. That led to condemnation from some
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: powerful alumni, you believe it or not, of Penn State.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: You'd think after what is transpired here in the last
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: couple of years that this would not be something to
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: be upset about. But there we saw it. The question
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: on this one Packer's defensive end and a former player
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: for James Franklin, Micah Parsons says James Franklin quote deserved
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: better close quote after Penn State dismissed him. So the
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: question is is that based in any kind of reality,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: did James Franklin get a raw deal from Penn State?
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: All right, So with all honor, with all due respect,
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Michael Parsons is out of his bloody mind. Okay, he
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: got the utmost James Franklin respect. Do you understand when
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: you're at one of these power schools? I think we
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: all know this, whether you're a fan of Penn State.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: I'm not a Penn State fan by any means, but
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: I know watching college football casually, I don't talk about
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: it much because it's not as popular as the NFL,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: but watching the big time schools, the power, the elite
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: of the elite, the top of the power conferences, and
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: Notre Dame, which is not in a conference, but Notre Dame,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: SC Michigan, Georgia, Alabama, Penn State, Ohio State, that pedigree
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: of school. It's how you do against the top teams,
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: It's how you do in the made for TV matchups.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: That is what separates and twenty five games against top
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: ten teams, or James Franklin at Penn State four and
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: twenty one, four and twenty one against top ten teams.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: How about the top five one in fifteen one and
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: fifteen against top five teams, And you can't have that
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: record and then claim somehow there's some kind of mistreatment.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: It's just not true. In fact, I would argue that
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: James Franklin got the ultimate, the ultimate celebration. This is
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: one of the great things in his life, James Franklin,
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: because he was failing, he was drowning as coach at
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: Penn State, and they rewarded him with one of those
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: cartoon sized lottery checks. You know those giant oversized checks
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: when you win the lottery. This was there. I want
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: one of those Pennsylvania lottery They're pretty cool. He left
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: with forty nine million dollars. Penn State will be paying
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: him through twenty thirty one. Forty nine million dollars forty
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: a minute. Not to work now you should be. I realized,
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: after taxes and all that, it's probably like twenty two
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: million or something like that. But still you should not
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: ever have to work again. You should be set for life.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: If he wants to coach. He can coach. But this
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: is not a sad thing. This is the ultimate to
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: think that you suck so much that somebody wrote a check,
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: some booster. Now, the rumors are that Adidas, who's got
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: a big deal with Penn State, they're the ones. I
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: don't know if that's true or not. I read that
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: on the internet. I read a lot of things. I
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: don't know whether that's accurate or not. But the rumor
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: is that Penn State so embarrassed and they've got the money.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: They're like, they need Penn State to be good because
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: they want to sell overpriced athletic gear. And no one's
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: going to buy overpriced gear with Penn State's logo on it,
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: with the Adidas logo if they blow, and right now
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: they blow. They lost a winless UCLA. Now you Seela
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: came back and kick the snot out of Michigan State
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: over the weekend. But my gut, but you look at
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: that and also the Northwestern loss this weekend, So no
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: pity party and all that. Uh, this was this was
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: a platinum handshake that James Franklin got. It was he
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: was given handcuffs, golden handcuffs. He got golden handcuffs. He
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: didn't just get left on the tarmac. He's not. He
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: didn't show up drunk like Steve Sarkis in at usc
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  Speaker 1: and get a rude you know, departure Lane Kiffin on
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  Speaker 1: the tarmac. None of that stuff right, he got. If
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  Speaker 1: the math is right on this, James Franklin the second
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  Speaker 1: largest go away, don't come back. Check this side of
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  Speaker 1: Jimbo Fisher. He got the Jimbo. He got the Jimbo
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  Speaker 1: and he deserves better. How does he deserve better? He'll
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  Speaker 1: he'll end up these guys, these coaches are cockroaches. He'll
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  Speaker 1: end up somewhere else at a medium sized program, and
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  Speaker 1: power five school or top power five school will bring
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  Speaker 1: James Stranklin back. But the the ones that deserve better
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  Speaker 1: were the players at Penn State. The people that watch
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  Speaker 1: Penn State football. To lose to again, UCLA look like
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  Speaker 1: they were't gonna win a game, and they kicked your
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  Speaker 1: ass on offense up and down the field. They scored
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  Speaker 1: I'm and you have a roster that was a top
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  Speaker 1: I understand he likes Michaeh. Parsons. He played for James Franklin.
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  Speaker 1: He obviously has an allegiance to James Franklin. Franklin went
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  Speaker 1: out and recruited him. Micah Parsons makes a lot of
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  Speaker 1: that much money if he had not run into James Franklin.
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  Speaker 1: pretend this is some kind of Shakespearean betrayal by Penn State. No,
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  Speaker 7: Then it was reported over the weekend that Brian Dayball
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  Speaker 1: What do you think is gonna come of this investigation?
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  Speaker 1: They'll reprimand him and they'll find him and then that'll
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