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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: Our lead story though, don't bear the lead, my man,
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  Speaker 1: don't bear the lead. All right, We're not gonna bear lead.
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  Speaker 1: So continues to be. Everyone is talking about this the
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  Speaker 1: game the other night at Madison Square Garden, and we
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  Speaker 1: have a new chapter to dissect from the greatest choke
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  Speaker 1: job in bouncy ball history right there. The NBA released
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  Speaker 1: its last two minute report for Game four of the
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  Speaker 1: NBA Finals, as it is a game that we'll remember
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  Speaker 1: at least for a couple more days and then we'll
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  Speaker 1: forget about it and think about something else, and fair
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  Speaker 1: to say they added salt to the wound the NBA
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  Speaker 1: as the Spurs had the single greatest collapse that you
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  Speaker 1: can have in a basketball game of meaning. So if
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  Speaker 1: you didn't see this and maybe not the report. A
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  Speaker 1: last two minute report found a major error. And this
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  Speaker 1: is a little over a minute left. The Spurs guards
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  Speaker 1: to fawn. Castle was dribbling along the baseline trying to
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  Speaker 1: go around underneath the basket, and he was called for
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  Speaker 1: out of bounds and out of bounds violation, which would
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  Speaker 1: have been fine if he had actually stepped out of bounds.
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  Speaker 1: He did not. The officials helping the Necks out gave
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  Speaker 1: New York that call incorrectly. The NBA says the day
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  Speaker 1: after the report says that John Heart should have could
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  Speaker 1: have would have been called for a foul instead if
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  Speaker 1: the officials had done their job. He impeded Stefan Castle
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  Speaker 1: on that drive, so Josh Hart got away with one.
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  Speaker 1: And at that moment when that play happened, the Knickerbockers
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  Speaker 1: had a one point lead after a Jalen Brunson shot,
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  Speaker 1: and so the Knicks were out of team fouls. Castle
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  Speaker 1: would have walked all the way to the foul line
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  Speaker 1: and would have had a chance to shoot a couple
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  Speaker 1: of foul shots. He was eight eight for eight from
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  Speaker 1: the cherity strip. I believe my math is correct in
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  Speaker 1: that game, so it is reasonable to assume the position
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  Speaker 1: that he would have likely made both of those foul shots,
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  Speaker 1: which would have flipped the game from New York up
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  Speaker 1: by one to the Spurs up by one. Alas, that
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  Speaker 1: did not happen because of incompetence by the NBA referees,
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  Speaker 1: And now people saying, see san Antonio would have won,
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  Speaker 1: the NBA won the Knicks to win. That's what happened,
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  Speaker 1: all right. So that's a good jumping off point. Let
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  Speaker 1: us discuss the question. We've now had some time to
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  Speaker 1: process everything that took place the other day, so we're
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  Speaker 1: processing everything, and the question did the NBA referees cost
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  Speaker 1: the Spurs the victory because of that wrong call on
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  Speaker 1: Stefan Castle, which, oh, by the way, the nick cheerleading
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  Speaker 1: broadcaster did not mention Mike Breen had his Knicks onesieon
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  Speaker 1: as he was calling the game. So my thoughts on this,
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  Speaker 1: I have Mary Poppins, Rodeo Ruter, and Pyromaniac and we
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  Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together and we were
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  Speaker 1: going to zoom along, zoom, zoom zoom, all right. So
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  Speaker 1: a to answer the question, did the NBA referees cost
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  Speaker 1: the Spurs the victory? With that incorrect call on Stefan Castle.
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  Speaker 1: I'm giving this one side eye, is what I'm doing.
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  Speaker 1: Come on now. The referees did not help, however, the
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  Speaker 1: Spurs literally dropped a piece on their own heads, which
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  Speaker 1: is very hard to do, all right, very hard to do.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, just keeping it real here. The last two
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  Speaker 1: minute report is a distraction from the real story here.
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  Speaker 1: So let's not avoid the real story. The biggest Finals
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  Speaker 1: choke in NBA history, all right, that was not a collapse.
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  Speaker 1: That was Malfeasan's malpractice, a total dereliction of duties. You
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  Speaker 1: simply cannot blow a twenty nine point lead and then
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  Speaker 1: go on, I guess file what a complaint with HR
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  Speaker 1: because of the referees. Did the refs make a mistake? Absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: they made a mistake. The Spurs made forty of them.
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  Speaker 1: Forty of them they made blowing a twenty nine point lead.
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  Speaker 1: The Spurs did not lose because of a whistle. They
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  Speaker 1: lost because of spontaneous human combustion. They burned up baby
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  Speaker 1: wemby Fox Castle. Everyone on this group project for San
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  Speaker 1: Antonio gets an f The Knicks shouldn't have even been
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  Speaker 1: in the same time zone to have a chance at
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  Speaker 1: the end of that game for the referees to help
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  Speaker 1: them out. San Antonio said, well, you know what, I
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  Speaker 1: know you shouldn't be in our time zone. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: book you a nice presidential suite at the hotel. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna help you out. And Wemby, as we mentioned the
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  Speaker 1: other night, he got his pilot's license. Now he's qualified
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  Speaker 1: to fly the Vomit Comet. And then you've got Dearon
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  Speaker 1: Fox who hit the self destruct button, and Mitch Johnson
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  Speaker 1: who turned Professor Doom, and all these things up. You
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  Speaker 1: can't blame that one call as to why you lost
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  Speaker 1: this game, and if you do, you're confused. My advice,
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to quote the Great Mary Poppins. A spoonful
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  Speaker 1: of sugar helps the medicine go down, helps the medicine
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  Speaker 1: go down. It was super califragilistic, xpialidocious the way they choked.
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  Speaker 1: And the medicine, by the way, for the spurs, tastes
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  Speaker 1: like battery acid and they got to swallow all of that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's the whole sermon right there, past the
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  Speaker 1: collection plate. Now, meanwhile, we go to Texas, deep in
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  Speaker 1: the heart of Texas, and that is where a hostile
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  Speaker 1: takeover is underway. We are told the Knicks fans, and
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  Speaker 1: these are people that have phones with area codes from
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  Speaker 1: New York and New Jersey, have bought almost fifty percent
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  Speaker 1: of the tickets for the game on Saturday, Game five
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  Speaker 1: in the Alamo City. Keep in mind this is despite
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  Speaker 1: the best laid plans of mice men and employees of
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  Speaker 1: the San Antonio Spurs who attempted to blockade the Knickerbocker
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  Speaker 1: fans from the arena. And by all accounts, if this
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  Speaker 1: is accurate, at half the tickets nearly half purchased by
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  Speaker 1: Nick fans, that would mean they are going to turn
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  Speaker 1: the Spurs home elimination game into a de facto road
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  Speaker 1: environment for the home team. So the question will, and
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  Speaker 1: we're going to compare notes, it will the Knicks fans
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  Speaker 1: take over? Will the Knick fans take over of the
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  Speaker 1: gymnasium there in San Antonio, New York? An extra edge
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday? So my position on this is no, Nope,
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  Speaker 1: it's an unpopular opinion. I know you're supposed to say,
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  Speaker 1: oh man, there's no way the Spurs are gonna be
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  Speaker 1: able to win because the buzzsaw of Spike Lee and
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  Speaker 1: all these other dopey New York celebrities out there shaking
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  Speaker 1: their pom poms. No, the Nick fans turning I think
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  Speaker 1: is called Frost Bank Center. I think turning that arena,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it's called in the Madison Square Garden South does
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  Speaker 1: not move the needle for me. The only thing rattling
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  Speaker 1: the Spurs is the Spurs. That's it. The days and
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  Speaker 1: this has been this way for a long time, the
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  Speaker 1: days of fans pushing a team over the top, helping
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  Speaker 1: to decide the outcome of games. That is an archaic
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  Speaker 1: take from back in the Stone Age. To travel, everything's VIP,
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  Speaker 1: first class, all that stuff. And while the Nick fan
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  Speaker 1: base has unbelievable enthusiasm, so they can chuck stuff at
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  Speaker 1: Victor Wimbanyama and dance around like lunatics after a win,
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  Speaker 1: which is not a championship win, it is not gonna
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  Speaker 1: have any impact on the outcome in terms of the
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  Speaker 1: way the Spurs play. This is not like the Knick
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  Speaker 1: fans did not give New York an edge in the
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  Speaker 1: games at Madison Square Garden and they're not going to
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  Speaker 1: do it in San Jo. The Spurs took care of
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  Speaker 1: this themselves. It wasn't because any of New York. It
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  Speaker 1: wasn't because Taylor Swift was dancing the entire game on
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  Speaker 1: the sidelines. Here and all this does is give the
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  Speaker 1: Spurs an audience, a different audience for another collapse. And
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  Speaker 1: the issue here, and there's really no way around it,
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  Speaker 1: is San Antonio has an underlying condition. They don't need
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  Speaker 1: a coach that, they don't need a pep talk, they
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  Speaker 1: need a trained professional from roto ruter. Now it's been
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  Speaker 1: said that pipes burst from pressure. So do the Spurs
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  Speaker 1: from clogg to clear in no time. All three losses
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  Speaker 1: were what we call ifs and butts games. All three
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  Speaker 1: ifs and butts were candy and nuts. The Spurs would have,
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  Speaker 1: could have, should have won all three, and congratulations to
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  Speaker 1: San Antonio. They keep inventing new ways to cough up
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  Speaker 1: fur balls in the finals. They're just handing it over
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  Speaker 1: to the next They're basically the Pixar of panic at
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  Speaker 1: this particular point, from being outscored eleven nothing to close
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  Speaker 1: game one at home, then having Wemby miss a wide
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  Speaker 1: open shot in Game two that would have won the game.
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  Speaker 1: A shot in minds you that your beloved talk show
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  Speaker 1: host makes ten out of ten times It's like leaving
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  Speaker 1: the garage door open overnight and then the masterpiece, the
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  Speaker 1: Mona Lisa blowing a twenty nine point third quarter lead
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  Speaker 1: in Game four. That is spontaneous combustion is what that is.
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  Speaker 1: And so the Spurs, they don't lose games. They they're
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  Speaker 1: very charitable, they donate games. They are the better team.
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  Speaker 1: They just choke. They're obviously more talented than the Knicks.
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  Speaker 1: The Knicks are able to pull these games off, but
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  Speaker 1: the Spurs are the more talented team. They're qualified. Now,
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  Speaker 1: good news for the Spurs. They're qualified to teach a
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  Speaker 1: masterclass on wilting under pressure. The syllabus updated nightly during
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  Speaker 1: the NBA Finals. All right, last word, we're gonna move
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  Speaker 1: away from basketball. Some NFL stuff I wanted to get to.
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  Speaker 1: We get a lot of bills mafia. I say a lot,
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  Speaker 1: at least five that have reached out to me over
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  Speaker 1: the years that are fans of the show. Some of
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  Speaker 1: them work at night, A lot of them. Three of
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  Speaker 1: the five I know our day guys. Anyway, some excitement.
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  Speaker 1: I guess there's some online buzz about Stefan Diggs. Apparently
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  Speaker 1: he posted some old highlights and some interactions with Dion
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  Speaker 1: Dawkins and CJ. Gardner Johnson who's now apparently on the Bills,
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  Speaker 1: and that has sparked chatterer. We know our chatter of
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  Speaker 1: a reunion between Stefan Diggs and the team in Buffalo.
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  Speaker 1: So the question what are the chances that free agent
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver Stefawn Diggs returns to the Bills. So on
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  Speaker 1: the Malord scale of probability one to ten, with ten
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  Speaker 1: come on back, now, come on back, now, come home.
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  Speaker 1: For Stefon Diggs scale of one to ten, Diggs reunion
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  Speaker 1: is at a zero point seven on the Malor scale
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  Speaker 1: of probability. That is not a mistake. That is a
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  Speaker 1: health warning, is what that is.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Digs returning the Bills would be kind of like getting
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  Speaker 1: back together with the pyromaniac X who was really hot
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  Speaker 1: and also torched your house because she needed closure. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't turn a new cheek by leaving the Bills.
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  Speaker 1: He went to the Texans and the Patriots, and it
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  Speaker 1: is the same shtick in Houston and New England. And
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  Speaker 1: he didn't just burn bridges on his way out of
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  Speaker 1: Western New York. Stefan Diggs he brought dynamite and he
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  Speaker 1: had a permit from the State of New York for demolition.
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  Speaker 1: He's doing some demo there and the bills have they
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  Speaker 1: have digs on the permanent He's in the permanent spam folder.
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  Speaker 1: You know how I've blocked Blind Scott because he's threatening
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  Speaker 1: to kill me a bunch of times over the years.
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  Speaker 1: So I blocked Blind Scott, our guy from Boston, and
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  Speaker 1: I just don't even get his emails anymore. Diggs is
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  Speaker 1: the same thing the bills have blocked. If his name
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  Speaker 1: pops up on caller ID, it goes straight to voicemail,
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  Speaker 1: and Buffalo would rather gamble on the mystery box. DJ
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  Speaker 1: Moore coming off a bad year in Chicago, a rookie
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  Speaker 1: named Skuyler Moore. I believe he's the guy's name. They'd
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  Speaker 1: rather take their chances than reopen the file titled digs.
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  Speaker 1: Besides that, he's thirty two, Stefan Diggs. He's just not
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  Speaker 1: old in the real world, but in sports are at
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  Speaker 1: the end of your prime, coming off injuries and the
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  Speaker 1: the insurance table if you look at it, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: not exactly sending Valentine's Day cards. Buffalo's final message to
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  Speaker 1: fon Diggs. We'll text you don't text us, We'll text you.
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  Speaker 1: Do not text us.
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  Speaker 1: This hour is from the Bay Area, Santa Clara, where
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  Speaker 1: the forty nine making some news thanks to tight end
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  Speaker 1: George Kittle. If you did not hear, perhaps not George
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  Speaker 1: Kittle going endorsement road. He went down endorsement road. Kittle's
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  Speaker 1: strongly defending the embattled forty nine Ers head coach Kyle Shanahan,
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  Speaker 1: calling anyone anyone who puts him on the hot seat
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  Speaker 1: not the smartest quote. Anybody who says George Kittle anybody
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  Speaker 1: who says Kyle Shanahan is on the hot seat, you
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  Speaker 1: guys are not the smartest. It doesn't make any sense
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  Speaker 1: to me. Close quote. All right, So that's it. It's
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  Speaker 1: pretty good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question.
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  Speaker 1: You've got George Kittle, who's at the microphone and thinks
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  Speaker 1: you're an idiot if you believe the chatter. However, is
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  Speaker 1: it really outrageous to think that forty nine er coach
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  Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan is on the hot seat? Is it really
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  Speaker 1: that outrageous? So my observations, I've got judge, Judy ranger
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  Speaker 1: things and bluetooth speaker, and we'll combine all of these
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  Speaker 1: things together, and we're gonna go from frying pan to
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  Speaker 1: fryar is what we're going to do. Frying pan to fryer.
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  Speaker 1: And we always start with number. Why, number one, number one,
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  Speaker 1: number one, number one, number one, like fox one. It's
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  Speaker 1: number one, all right. So we're gonna play the wheel
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  Speaker 1: of fortune. Okay. And I'd like an end. And I
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  Speaker 1: would like to buy a vowel. I like an O. Rather,
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  Speaker 1: I want to oh, I want to buy a vowel.
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  Speaker 1: I want I want end. So as in no as in, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable, it is in polite. It's
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  Speaker 1: also something that George Kittle would call not the smartest,
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  Speaker 1: but it is perfectly reasonable. I can make a compelling
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  Speaker 1: football argument that Shanahan is in a make or break season, hey,
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  Speaker 1: into the next NFL regular season, and I'm not shocked.
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  Speaker 1: No one can be shocked that George Kittle has come
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  Speaker 1: out guns of blazing defending his head coach. And the
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  Speaker 1: reason he's in the inner circle. That's not analysis, that
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  Speaker 1: is blind loyalty. Judge Duty would bang the gaffl Judge
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  Speaker 1: Dudy would say, sir, your objectivity is compromised. And Kittle
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  Speaker 1: sounds to me like the teacher's pet yelling at the
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  Speaker 1: class for criticizing the teacher. It's like, this is the
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  Speaker 1: greatest teacher of all time. Why are you questioned the teacher? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and you can be brilliant and still underachieve. And the
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  Speaker 1: Niners have had some teams over the Shanahan run here
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  Speaker 1: that were absolute wagons, and they didn't get it done
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  Speaker 1: on the biggest stage. Oh and two, oh and two
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  Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl with some really good football players,
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  Speaker 1: really good rosters there and The argument has been for
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  Speaker 1: Shanahan that he is unable to get his team into
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  Speaker 1: the higher levels and he can't close the big one,
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  Speaker 1: and that label is tattooed on the toukis of Shanahan
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  Speaker 1: and it collapses or not rumors, they're documented for the
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  Speaker 1: future generations. This almost their era of forty nine or
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  Speaker 1: football has gone on for a long time now. I
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  Speaker 1: hope Shanahan stays as a Ram fan because I know
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  Speaker 1: in the end they'll choke. I feel bad for my
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  Speaker 1: friends like Ornesto and some of the other great forty
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  Speaker 1: nine er fans that listen. At some point, there's always
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  Speaker 1: that point where almost there becomes never got there, and
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  Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers window is not closing. It's wheezing
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  Speaker 1: right now. You might want to see a doctor on
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  Speaker 1: paper or on a tablet, because who uses paper anymore?
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  Speaker 1: On a tablet. San Francisco is a st behind the Rams.
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  Speaker 1: They're behind Seattle. They got smoked in that playoff game
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  Speaker 1: against Seattle. Make no mistake, though, I truly believe in
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  Speaker 1: my heart of hearts that this upcoming season is a
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  Speaker 1: make or break season for Shanahan in the forty niner land,
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  Speaker 1: and the reason being every year there's roughly eight to
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  Speaker 1: ten coaches that get whacked. They get taken out. Shanahan
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  Speaker 1: has been winning regular season games. It's not even about
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  Speaker 1: the regular season. It's about not embarrassing, embarrassing yourself in
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs, going on a deep run, and making something
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  Speaker 1: happen in the playoffs. If that does not happen, I
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  Speaker 1: have missed the playoffs or end up doing a belly
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  Speaker 1: whopper when they get there. I believe Shanahan will, the
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  Speaker 1: consideration will be made to get rid of him and
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  Speaker 1: bring somebody else in. Now page two, we now go
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  Speaker 1: to the criminal justice system. Viva Las Vegas. I remember
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  Speaker 1: the Raiders had three first round picks, if I remember correctly,
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  Speaker 1: and the Raider fans told me that they were set
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  Speaker 1: up for the future, that they were made men. They
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  Speaker 1: had all these first round draft picks. Well, could not
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  Speaker 1: have f that up more. The crown jewel of that
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  Speaker 1: draft years ago was a player named Henry Ruggs. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Henry Ruggs did get a ten year contract with the
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  Speaker 1: state of Nevada, not with the Raiders, and he's nearly
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  Speaker 1: five years in. I believe it was November of twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty one, so I guess a little less than that
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  Speaker 1: as far as the prison sends. But if you don't
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  Speaker 1: remember the story, Henry Ruggs was driving and drinking and
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  Speaker 1: driving and ended up killing a twenty three year old
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  Speaker 1: woman and a dog while driving drunk around Vegas. And
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  Speaker 1: he was the Raiders' first round pick, and so he
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  Speaker 1: was up for parole, and I am surprised he was
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: denied parole Henry Ruggs. All right, So the question how
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: did you react to the news of former Raider first
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: round pick Henry Ruggs being denied his release from jail
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  Speaker 1: there in Nevada. So, for once, the parole board did
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  Speaker 1: not read the script the way everyone expected, So bravo.
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  Speaker 1: I'm surprised. This was the rare moment where the system
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: did not rubber stamp the celebrity treatment. As we mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: Ruggs got three to ten years in prison, which was
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: an absolute sweetheart deal, right just I mean, there's dudes
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: in prison that sold drugs that are in for much longer,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: much longer than that, and he killed somebody. The way
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  Speaker 1: this had been reported in the last couple of months,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: you would have thought, Henry Ruggs, it was already fitted
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: for a new helmet and shoulder pads, and they had
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: his name plate on the locker ready to go for
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: some NFL team. Well, it turns out the hype machine
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: got ahead of reality yet again. And the sports media guys,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: they love a comeback store like this isn't one, not yet,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Like this is tragedy with a legal process attached to it.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: And I can't understand how you look at this situation
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  Speaker 1: and you think, well, I'm upset that he didn't get released.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: It genuinely sounded like rugs. I think it's twenty seven,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: might be a little older than that, and he's twenty seven.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: His camp thought he was going to walk out of
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: prison and go stranger things and be teleported immediately to
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: an NFL training gimp. And again, if you missed the story,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: if you weren't paying attention, he drove one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty six miles per hour drunk in his Corvette Stingray,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: twice the legal limit in Nevada, which is bad, and
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: then became much worse because he plowed into a Toyota
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: rav four with a young woman and her dog that
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: were burned alive. They were alive when the accident happened,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: and they couldn't get out of the car and they burned.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: And that's it, game over. And that's the part people
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: conveniently forget when they start talking about second chance for
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Henry Ruggs and all that NFL future. And remember the
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: old phrase, actions have consequences and rugs. He just got
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: a refresher course. Now this is only temporary and he
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: will be eligible for parole again in August of twenty
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: twenty seven, so a little over a year from now.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: There's even one report that said it could happen even
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: sooner than that. With good behavior, he could appear before
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  Speaker 1: the board sometime in May, like a year, a little
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: less than a year from now. All right, now, final
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: point to Denver. We have some coaching news other than
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: the Shanahan story. Sean Payton has agreed to a five
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: year contract extension with the team that plays Pro football
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: in Colorado, the Broncos. The real Martin at the airport
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: in Denver. Very happy there. I don't think Queen Roxanne
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: is because she's like a Tom Brady fan. I don't
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: think she cares about the Broncos, although she does. Also,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: we're very big at the airport in Denver. A lot
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: of fans of the show at the airport in Denver anyway.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: So get back to the point. So Sean Payton gets
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: an extension keeping him under contract through the twenty thirty season,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: which is actually not that far away. The deal replaces
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: the previous contract. He already had two years left on
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: his contract. Must be nice, and that aligns with the
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: extension of George Peyton the GM there in Colorado. So
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: he's sixty two, Sean Payton, and he said he's got
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: a lot of juice left. That was the quote lot.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: That was the money quote, A lot of juice left.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: He enjoys coaching, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: the question everyone's like, this is great, this is wonder
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Is there any risk? Is there? I'm gonna play Devil's advocate?
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Is there any risk with the Broncos extending Sean Payton
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: five more years? So I'm not gonna lie and say, well,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: this is like the worst thing in the world. You know,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: the risk is limited. However, it's not zero. It's never zero,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Like this is mostly a low risk, high reward move.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Sean Payton's considered one of the top ten coaches in
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: the NFL. Some years he's top five, other years he's
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: closer to ten. That's fine. It's low risk, high reward
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: right now. Because the recent results, you were a win
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: away from the Super Bowl. You've got stability. The ownership
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: group there, the Walmart people, the gm BO Nicks, they're
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: counting on him getting better and better and better. The
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: downsides are mostly age related. Sustainability is a big problem,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: and also you've get flexibility down the line and all
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: that stuff mentioned. His age sixty two. By the end
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: of this deal, Sean Payton will be sixty seven. You
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: see how that works. If you get a five year contract,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: you're sixty two, and then when it's over, your sixty seven.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: The NFL coaches generally do not They don't exactly hit
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: their prime when they reach medicare. Age generally does not happen.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: They don't age like wine. They age like a carton
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: of whole milk left in a rental car in the
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: summer in Saint Louis, all right, So it becomes a
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: bit of an issue. Most coaches hit their mid sixties
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: and start sounding like they're coaching through a bluetooth speaker
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: with three percent battery left, not two percent chance, like
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: our buddy in Alabama, three percent battery left on that bluetooth,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: and there's more risk obviously of health issues, reduced energy declining. Innovation.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: That's the other big thing, the innovation thing, right, because
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: the NFL people love to brag about they're very braggadocious
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: about how the NFL evolves every fifteen minutes. You give
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: us fifteen minutes and blah blah blah. So if Peyton
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: stops innovating, and I know they brought in a new
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: offensive coordinator now and all that this year who was
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: already on the staff, but Denver's offense, If you're not innovating,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: you become this historical reenactment and you don't want to
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: be that team. And so, for better or worse, the
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Broncos are now married to Sean Payton, their head coach
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: through twenty thirty. If the team regresses, it means higher
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: prices at Walmart. The Walmart family will just pass that
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: on to the consumer. So good luck, good luck on that.
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  Speaker 6: All right, Ben, we have we have a quick version
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  Speaker 6: is going to be dominated by the movie that is
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: out this weekend, and that is Disclosure Day.
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: Toy story, haven't no, no, it's it's been a couple
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: of weeks.
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: Disclosure Day is the latest movie from Steven Spielberg. And
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna read you the tagline here, Uh, if you
• 31:17
  Speaker 6: found out we weren't alone, if someone showed you, proved
• 31:20
  Speaker 6: it to you, would that frighten you?
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: This summer? The truth belongs to seven billion people? We
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: are coming close to Disclosure Day.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Is it possible Coop that the aliens the goblins told
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: him to make this movie? Is is this a preview of
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: coming Maybe?
• 31:35
  Speaker 6: I mean, it's it's very timely with what with all
• 31:37
  Speaker 6: the you know the yeah yeah. So this this movie
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: stars Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor, Colin Firth, Coleman Domingo, among
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: some other names as well.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm I'm pretty excited about this.
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: It's got it's got pretty good reviews from the critics
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: so far, and we'll see how.
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: Audience is like it. I'm gonna see it Saturday. Nice. Nice,
• 32:02
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• 32:06
  Speaker 6: The next thing I'm going to talk about is on television,
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: and this is I don't normally mention this, but this
• 32:11
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• 32:15
  Speaker 6: things that I do not have, but this one sounded
• 32:18
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• 32:20
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• 32:22
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• 32:26
  Speaker 6: is called The Listeners, and yes, it is a five
• 32:31
  Speaker 6: part adaptation of a novel about an English teacher who
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: suddenly begins hearing a low, persistent, humming noise, a sound
• 32:38
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• 32:41
  Speaker 6: triggers migraines and nosebleeds. So it's a kind of a drama, drama,
• 32:44
  Speaker 6: mystery kind of situation here.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: That's not about remember they had that there was that
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: thing that was making people death and they give it him.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: It was down in What am I thinking of?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know about.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was like the some military thing they were
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: sending low. I don't have time, go ahead, go oh.
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: And then the last, but not least, on Wednesday, June seventeenth,
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  Speaker 6: it is a show a movie called Never Change. High
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  Speaker 6: school class that had their senior year cut short by
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  Speaker 6: a tornado has to return to school to finish their
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: courses two decades later, with the students now in their thirties.
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  Speaker 5: That will be on Hulu and movie on Hulu June seventeenth.
• 33:21
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