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  Speaker 1: From below the Mason-Dixon line, Southern Fried Fury. Man, is
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  Speaker 1: this a great story. So a baton rouge judge who
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  Speaker 1: may or may not have been wearing LSU boxer shorts
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  Speaker 1: ruled against the NCAA, and that clears a pathway. The
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  Speaker 1: A-gap is now open for former NFL players Daquan Wright
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  Speaker 1: and Zavion Harris. and others to return to college. So
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  Speaker 1: if you didn't see this, this has been bubbling up
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  Speaker 1: throughout the nighttime hours, and it will continue to percolate
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  Speaker 1: through Friday because there'll be more legal wrangling taking place
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  Speaker 1: as last-minute injunctions are requested and whatnot. But for now,
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  Speaker 1: we'll focus on what has happened. So it's good. These guys,
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  Speaker 1: Daquan Wright and Xavier Harris, who went off to the
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  Speaker 1: NFL and didn't make it in the NFL, can now reunite,
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  Speaker 1: and it feels so good, with the troublemaker, the rabble-rouser,
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  Speaker 1: LSU coach Lane Kiffin, who previously coached both these guys
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  Speaker 1: long ago at Ole Miss, unless it really wasn't that
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  Speaker 1: long ago. And the dispute, centers on the NCAA. They've
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  Speaker 1: got this five-year eligibility thingamajig, this rule, the five-year eligibility.
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  Speaker 1: So I'll give you the layman way this works. It
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  Speaker 1: extended to players from the 2022 recruiting class. And COVID
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  Speaker 1: is tied into this. And so the ruling says that players,
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  Speaker 1: players who spent time with pro teams can still return
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  Speaker 1: to within that five-year window. Now, the judge there, the honorable, wink, wink, nod, nod,
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  Speaker 1: someone named William Jordan, I have no idea who that is,
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  Speaker 1: sided with the players, sided with the players, heard testimony,
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  Speaker 1: hours and hours of testimony that included the SEC commissioner,
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  Speaker 1: Greg Sankey, who was in Baton Rouge to give his testimony.
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  Speaker 1: So that is where we are as of this hour. LSU,
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  Speaker 1: when they take the field on Saturday night in Death
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  Speaker 1: Valley against Clemson, they will have a couple, possibly a
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  Speaker 1: couple of NFL players, at least on the field. Now,
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  Speaker 1: whether they play or not. That's up in the air.
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  Speaker 1: So the question is this, as we discuss, how big
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  Speaker 1: a deal is Coach Lane Kiffin's LSU courtroom victory right now?
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  Speaker 1: So I've got hot tub, lifeboat, and Himalayan. And we
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  Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together, and we are
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  Speaker 1: going to face the music in this courtroom drama-o-rama. I'm
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  Speaker 1: ready for it. So you've got my first thought on this.
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  Speaker 1: You've got the micro and you have the macro. You
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  Speaker 1: have the micro and the macro. We'll start with the micro.
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  Speaker 1: So LSU for now adds a couple of former training
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  Speaker 1: camp players in the NFL as Lane Kiffin tries to
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  Speaker 1: stockpile his roster. And Lane, by doing this, has been
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  Speaker 1: able to unlock college football's ultimate recruiting weapon. What is that?
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  Speaker 1: The temporary injunction. Forget the five-star quarterback. Baton Rouge, best
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  Speaker 1: offseason signing, and they've signed a bunch of players. You
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  Speaker 1: look at these stupid Fugazi recruiting things, and I don't
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  Speaker 1: really pay attention to that much stuff, but some of
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  Speaker 1: you idiots send it to me. So good recruits, right,
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  Speaker 1: big players and whatnot, but the biggest offseason move was
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  Speaker 1: the legal team and what they've been able to pull
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  Speaker 1: off in cahoots with Lane Kiffin. And at this point,
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  Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin hasn't just bent the SEC rulebook. He has
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  Speaker 1: dragged it into court, screaming and shouting, and then subpoenaed it.
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  Speaker 1: And then you've got the macro. And the macro, this
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  Speaker 1: isn't an eligibility spat. It's being described as what's about eligibility.
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  Speaker 1: It is a jurisdictional, it's about jurisdiction. It's a cage
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  Speaker 1: match situation. about jurisdiction, and the SEC's stance is, we
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  Speaker 1: make the rules, and that's it. And LSU said, okay,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to channel our interleague corso and say, not
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  Speaker 1: so fast, my friend. So now the SEC has already
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  Speaker 1: sprinted over to federal court, and they're arguing that, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you cannot join our little club, our members-only club, And
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  Speaker 1: then rewrite the clubhouse rules. That's not how any of
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  Speaker 1: this works. You're not allowed to do it. And Lane
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  Speaker 1: Kiffin says, no, no, no, no, no, no. We just
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  Speaker 1: did it, suckers. And I was thinking about this as
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  Speaker 1: I was making my way into the studio, walking down
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  Speaker 1: the hall. And I was like, do you imagine if
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  Speaker 1: you could fire up the hot tub time machine and
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  Speaker 1: go back to, I don't know, 1995 or 2005? Let's
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  Speaker 1: go 2005. And there's somebody that is there in 2005.
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  Speaker 1: They love their college football. And you tell them 20-something
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  Speaker 1: years from now, there'll be an NFL player that got
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  Speaker 1: released at the end of training camp who will then
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  Speaker 1: go back to LSU. And then the Southeastern Conference will
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  Speaker 1: sue LSU. And it'll all be playing out in real time.
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  Speaker 1: They'd have you committed. They'd have you come in, oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's never going to happen. Because back in 2005, they
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  Speaker 1: were still feeding us the bull crap about student-athlete, although
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  Speaker 1: I saw that annoying. I was watching some college football
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday night, and I saw a fair amount of
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  Speaker 1: the Nick Saban propaganda. And he used the term student-athlete,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, Nick, come on, buddy. They're all
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  Speaker 1: getting paid, dude. What are you doing? That's why you quit,
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  Speaker 1: because they're all getting paid. And so you ran off
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  Speaker 1: to do your little TV thing and make your annoying commercials.
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  Speaker 1: And now you're trying to advocate votes in Capitol Hill
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  Speaker 1: to make it closer to the way it was and
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff. And just it makes me want to
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  Speaker 1: puke in my mouth. So we're just now waiting to
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  Speaker 1: see who actually runs college sports. Is it going to
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  Speaker 1: be the conference or whichever judge has the gavel? We'll
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  Speaker 1: find out now. Page two. As we continue our in-depth
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  Speaker 1: team coverage of this southern drama. The question here, what
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  Speaker 1: comes next in the saga between LSU, led by Lane Kiffin,
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  Speaker 1: and the NCAA, and really this is more about the SEC.
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  Speaker 1: So at this point, the way I read the room,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm in the corner of the room, the upper
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  Speaker 1: right-hand corner of the room, and I'm looking down. I'm
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  Speaker 1: in a bird's nest in the upper right-hand corner, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking down. They can't see me. I can see them.
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  Speaker 1: So what I'm looking at here, Lane Kiffin isn't just
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  Speaker 1: coloring outside the lines of He's using his superpowers of
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  Speaker 1: being a pest, and he's like, well, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to sue over who owns the coloring book.
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  Speaker 1: I know it says it's the SEC coloring book, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm coloring outside of it, and then I'm saying, well,
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  Speaker 1: I own the coloring book. That's it. So LSU can
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  Speaker 1: have on their roster ex-NFL players because of this judge.
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  Speaker 1: And the injunction and all that. And there's conflicting reports
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  Speaker 1: about whether or not these guys are actually going to play.
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  Speaker 1: One of the stories that I've been coming across here
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  Speaker 1: is Daquan Wright cannot play against Clemson because of the
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  Speaker 1: seven-day practice rule. So I saw that and I thought, well,
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  Speaker 1: that's funny. You know, that's pretty funny. Pardon us for
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  Speaker 1: not not betting the mortgage on anyone following the rulebook
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  Speaker 1: anymore in Baton Rouge. So it's like, oh, you got
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  Speaker 1: to practice for seven games or seven days or whatever. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: he practiced for the Cleveland Browns. I think he's ready
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  Speaker 1: to go. Okay, good. Sounds good. So the SEC wanted
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  Speaker 1: to make an example out of LSU. They're still trying
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  Speaker 1: to do that. At this point in the story, instead,
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  Speaker 1: Louisiana State made the SEC hire more lawyers. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: Just more lawyers there. And the commissioner, Greg Sankey, who
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  Speaker 1: traveled over to Baton Rouge to flex his authority, the
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  Speaker 1: Southeastern Conference authority, right? And he left there needing a
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  Speaker 1: federal lifeboat. That's what the SEC needs. They're going to
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  Speaker 1: a higher court here. And so now comes the SEC's
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  Speaker 1: federal lawsuit. And at this point, think of it like
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  Speaker 1: a boxing match. And LSU won round one 10-9. 10-9,
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  Speaker 1: they won round one. They have not won the heavyweight
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  Speaker 1: title yet. If Kiffin wins this, NFL cut-down day will
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  Speaker 1: become the new shopping day for the, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: like the day after Christmas. You know, you return stuff,
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  Speaker 1: you get sales and all that stuff. In this case,
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  Speaker 1: it's the transfer portal. So can the SEC punish LSU
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  Speaker 1: any way? It's the billion-dollar question. College football's chain of
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  Speaker 1: command is now what? The NCAA conference school and whichever
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  Speaker 1: judge answers the phone first. And there's many people say, well,
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  Speaker 1: this is a one-time situation. and it's not going to
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  Speaker 1: change precedent in college sports it's because of the 2022
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  Speaker 1: class and to those people i love your naive way
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  Speaker 1: of looking at the world because what i see is
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity and some lawyers to say well there was
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  Speaker 1: this loophole But college players are getting paid anyway. They're professional.
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  Speaker 1: The people that are in college sports don't want to
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  Speaker 1: admit that. When you're getting paid to do something that's
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  Speaker 1: a job, we call it what you want, but to me, professional.
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  Speaker 1: You're being paid, compensated to play football. That's it. And
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  Speaker 1: that's where we are. And so we'll see how this
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  Speaker 1: plays out. But the SEC has officially, for now, rebranded
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  Speaker 1: from it. It just means more, which has been their slogan.
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  Speaker 1: It just means more. to it just means more litigation.
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  Speaker 1: It's the new slogan. I just added an extra word.
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  Speaker 1: All right, last word from us to the popularity contest.
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  Speaker 1: We'll keep the theme going, but we'll move away from
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  Speaker 1: LSU and Georgia. Got Georgia on my mind. Coach Kirby Smart.
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  Speaker 1: Kirby Smart planting the Southeastern Conference flag in a recent interview,
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  Speaker 1: insisting that the NFL... personnel the nfl people consistently tell
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  Speaker 1: him that the southeastern conference is superior to the big
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  Speaker 1: 10 when it comes to future nfl pedigree smart says
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  Speaker 1: nfl scouts and coaches alike overwhelmingly overwhelmingly favor the sec
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  Speaker 1: ball player when asked which league produces the top player
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  Speaker 1: and he said it's not even close Now, Kirby Smart
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  Speaker 1: claiming that even Big Ten coaching friends privately agree, although,
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  Speaker 1: of course, they will not admit it publicly, can't do
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  Speaker 1: it publicly. Now, Smart argues the gap extends beyond just
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  Speaker 1: NFL talent. He said the SEC is tougher, more physical
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  Speaker 1: as a conference, he said, and challenging those who criticize
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  Speaker 1: the SEC to compare the schedules and the week-to-week competition standards.
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  Speaker 1: and all that. Well, this is not a great time
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  Speaker 1: to talk about this because Rutgers lost to UMass from
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  Speaker 1: the Big Ten, which means they'll probably be decommissioned from
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  Speaker 1: the Big Ten. But let's address this anyway. So the question,
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  Speaker 1: Georgia coach Kirby Smart says the SEC remains ahead of
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  Speaker 1: the Big Ten despite what has happened on the field.
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  Speaker 1: So how does this reshape the situation, if at all?
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  Speaker 1: So Kirby Smart is a senior fellow at the prestigious
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  Speaker 1: Trust Me Bro Institute. Yeah, the TMBI is what it's
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  Speaker 1: called there, the Trust Me Bro Institute of NFL Scouting.
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  Speaker 1: So just kind of roll your eyes, and you're like, well,
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  Speaker 1: come on, Kirby. I mean, that's just a great name, Kirby.
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  Speaker 1: You don't hear a lot of people named Kirby. You don't.
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  Speaker 1: And you're the head coach at Georgia. You sell the
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  Speaker 1: product of SEC football for a living. When you go
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  Speaker 1: out and offer those big cartoon checks to various players,
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  Speaker 1: various recruits, you're selling the SEC. This is not Consumer
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  Speaker 1: Reports breaking things down. So you take Kirby Smart's opinion
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  Speaker 1: with a grain of salt and probably the entire Himalayan
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  Speaker 1: pink salt shaker. Just have all of that Himalayan pink
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  Speaker 1: salt and just enjoy it. Methinks the gentleman from Athens,
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  Speaker 1: Georgia might be slightly biased, Your Honor. It's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like asking a person that works as a car dealer
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  Speaker 1: at a Ford lot whether or not you should go
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  Speaker 1: across to the other dealer and buy a Toyota. It's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that's a good idea. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: got these cars right here. And NFL people privately agree
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  Speaker 1: with you is what he said. Kirby Smart at Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: How convenient. How convenient. Now, I would like to point out,
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  Speaker 1: I want to point this out, that my imaginary friends
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  Speaker 1: also agree with all of my hot takes. And it's
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  Speaker 1: just a fact of life. And my imaginary friends believe
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  Speaker 1: that these are the greatest monologues you've ever heard. And
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  Speaker 1: it's really wonderfully packaged malarkey. That's the cut of beef.
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  Speaker 1: Premium USDA certified malarkey. It's propaganda. It's just absolute propaganda.
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  Speaker 1: Because in modern times, the Southeastern Conference keeps winning the
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  Speaker 1: hypothetical national championship. And they have the NFL scouts who
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  Speaker 1: are slobbering and licking their chops. And the Big Ten
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  Speaker 1: keeps winning the actual one. You said Indiana. Indiana won
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  Speaker 1: the last championship from the Big Ten. One of, if
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  Speaker 1: not the single worst college football program In my time
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  Speaker 1: and in everyone's time, won a championship, and that was
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  Speaker 1: not a SEC school. That was not an SEC school.
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  Speaker 1: From Atlanta, we'll get back to the Lane Kiffin story.
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  Speaker 1: Story is LSU in a legal brouhaha with the SEC
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  Speaker 1: and the NCAA, whether or not these NFL bounce back
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  Speaker 1: players can play. But there's other stories in college football
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  Speaker 1: as the beginning, the first weekend, first full weekend of
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  Speaker 1: college football is well underway, well underway. And it looked
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  Speaker 1: for a while like we would see a knockout blow
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  Speaker 1: early in for the Colorado football team. And I got
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  Speaker 1: suckered into watching this game. I did. It was delayed
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  Speaker 1: because of a storm passing through Atlanta. And it had
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  Speaker 1: a humdinger of an ending. Most of the game, most
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  Speaker 1: of the game, the Ramblin' Wreck were in the lead.
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  Speaker 1: It was a close game. Not a good game. A
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  Speaker 1: close game. In the end, though, some high drama as
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  Speaker 1: Colorado freshman quarterback Julian Lewis... hit someone named Charlie Williams, boy,
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  Speaker 1: that's a generic name, for a 20-yard touchdown with 42
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  Speaker 1: seconds left in the game, and that gave the Buffaloes
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  Speaker 1: a 14-13 season opening win over Georgia Tech. The reason
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  Speaker 1: they won the game, not just because of that touchdown,
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  Speaker 1: the Yellow Jackets had matriculated the ball down the field.
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  Speaker 1: They got into field goal range within 42 seconds. They
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  Speaker 1: got into field goal range, but Colorado's Boo Carter. Now
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  Speaker 1: that's a good name.
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  Speaker 2: Boo Carter.
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  Speaker 1: Boo. I like that name. I hope he makes it
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  Speaker 1: in football. Boo Carter blocked the kicker who was attempting
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  Speaker 1: a 45-yard, what would have been a game-winning field goal
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  Speaker 1: attempt as time expired. Good afternoon, good evening, and good
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  Speaker 1: night to Georgia Tech. And that is a good jumping-off point.
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  Speaker 1: So let us discuss. Now what do you think happened?
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  Speaker 1: following that win by colorado on prime television prime time
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  Speaker 1: television on cable what do you think happened well i
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  Speaker 1: think you know what happened so the question does this
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  Speaker 1: late win with high drama for colorado move the needle
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  Speaker 1: for deon sanders it's all about deon sanders so i've
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  Speaker 1: got Louisiana Purchase, State Department, and Rhino. And we will
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  Speaker 1: combine all of these things together, and we are going
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  Speaker 1: to find a bargain. We're going to try to find
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  Speaker 1: a bargain. Goodness gracious me, we're going to find a bargain. Now,
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  Speaker 1: to kick off the festivities here. Colorado did not, did
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  Speaker 1: not make a statement. All right. Despite what you may
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  Speaker 1: have heard from some bumbling blowhards or some social media bots,
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  Speaker 1: what they did here is they sent a text message
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  Speaker 1: out in the group chat, and they had not one,
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  Speaker 1: not two, but three typos is what they did. The
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  Speaker 1: Buffaloes trailed this game. Colorado trailed for 99% of the
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  Speaker 1: game before they ended up beating Georgia Tech, and suddenly,
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  Speaker 1: of course, what happens immediately is, well, Coach Prime stands.
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  Speaker 1: The Coach Prime stands are out there. They're acting like
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  Speaker 1: Deion climbed Mount Everest, and he had his flip-flops on,
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  Speaker 1: and that was it, and he had no backpack, no water, nothing,
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  Speaker 1: just climbed all the way up, and yeah, congratulations. There
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  Speaker 1: was a broken coverage by Georgia Tech that set Colorado up,
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  Speaker 1: and then they got the touchdown, which was a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a fluke thing, considering how ineffective completely inept colorado
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  Speaker 1: had been with julian lewis throughout the game their quarterback
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  Speaker 1: there but they made a play late and then the
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  Speaker 1: special teams play that was big time by boo carter
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  Speaker 1: boo so mazel tov i would also say relax relax
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  Speaker 1: you'd think colorado just knocked off the 95 nebraska corn
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  Speaker 1: huskers the way people are reacting here colorado looked very
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  Speaker 1: ordinary about where they were last year they looked about
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  Speaker 1: where they were last year now it was a typical
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  Speaker 1: southern night there in september hot nasty humidity And oh,
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  Speaker 1: the stupidity with all the humidity. And it was rough.
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  Speaker 1: It was rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough, rough. It
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  Speaker 1: was just, my God. Colorado looked like they did last year.
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  Speaker 1: They were ordinary against an ordinary opponent. But apparently ordinary
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  Speaker 1: is now extraordinary if Deion is involved. And that's the
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  Speaker 1: beauty of the Deion Sanders hype machine. It can turn
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  Speaker 1: a two-yard gain into the Louisiana purchase. Congratulate. Well, it
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  Speaker 1: was just a two-yard gain. But no, no, it was Deion,
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  Speaker 1: so it was like the Louisiana purchase. I don't hate Deion.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, I'd love for Deion to work out. I
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  Speaker 1: also am realistic that I watched this game, and it
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  Speaker 1: was very boring. It was not entertaining. The product was
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  Speaker 1: not good. It was a slog through the mud, even
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: though there was no mud there. and a mid-rambling rec
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: team from Georgia Tech. And so Colorado, a lot of mistakes, right?
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: It's mistakes, style for substance, and people confusing those things
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: and plodding along on offense. Man, they were afraid to
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: throw the ball. I guess they know their quarterback's not
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: all that good right now, and just questionable play here, there,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: and everywhere. There was no rhythm. Now, some of that
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: was it's the first game of the year, you'll say.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: all right, we'll give you a little bit of a mulligan.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: But the Buccaneers, the Buffaloes, Buccaneers, the Buffaloes offense has
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: all the rhythm of a washing machine. If you toss
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  Speaker 1: like a brick and a couple of hammers in there
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  Speaker 1: and turn on the spin cycle. And Georgia Tech is
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: just a middle of the ACC team. I think they
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: were projected to finish somewhere between fifth and seventh in
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: the ACC. So it's not like they're an amazing team
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. And But they are in the ACC,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: so I guess involving Deion Sanders, you can brag about that.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: And they were mediocre enough to beat. And so Colorado,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: they certainly did not plant the flag. Deion Sanders did
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: not plant the flag. They did put down a nice
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: yellow post-it note is what they put down there with
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: the sticky post-it note. That's about it. That's about it.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: All right. Furthermore, to Anaheim we go. Fallout, Fallout, Fallout.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Big news. Big news this week. Stan Kroenke. one of
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: the richest people in America, buying the Woebegone Halos. A
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: couple of things here. So after some panic at the
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: disco about the Angels leaving Southern California and going somewhere else,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: at least the Angels are saying, no, no, Stan Kroenke's
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: not going anywhere. He wants to keep the team in Anaheim.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: If the sleazebag politicians give Stan Kroenke what he wants,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: of course, or at least give him a little bit
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: of what he wants, he'll likely finance... the stadium himself
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: because he's got the FU money and all that. Now,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: the other story involves Stan Kroenke. It also involves Dodger
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: pitcher Tarek Skubal, who is a pending free agent after
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: the season and got lit up by the Cardinals in
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: terms of he was not getting swings and misses and
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: give up a bunch of hits and all that stuff.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Ten hits is not a good number. I didn't play baseball.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: I know I didn't play baseball. Anyway, so get to
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: the point, please. So Scooble believes that the new owner
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: in Anaheim, Stan Kroenke, immediately makes the Angels more attractive
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: to free agents because of his deep pockets and record
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: of success with the Nuggets and the Rams and these
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: other teams. So that's that. Now, Scooble praising Stan Kroenke
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: as an owner who, quote, cares about winning, he said,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: and will invest in players, the facilities, all that stuff, upgrading...
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: You know, all the creature comforts the spoiled baseball players need.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: You know, they all need those things. And they can't
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: perform unless they have their latte machines and all that. Now,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: speaking generally, he made sure to say, generally speaking, not
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: about his own situation. No, of course not. Scooble said
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: players who previously would not have considered the Angels may,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: that's a weasel word, may now consider playing for that team.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: So the question here, Dodger pitcher Tarek Scooble, who said
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: players who previously would not have thought about playing for
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: the Halos will now be willing to do that because
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: of Stan Kroenke buying the team. Is this news or nonsense?
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Is this news or nonsense? That's the question. So I'm
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: trying to process this. Stan Kroenke arrives and suddenly the
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Angels have now been discovered like Christopher Columbus sailing into
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: the OC or something like that. Give me a bloody break.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: It's a bunch of nonsense. Even Ozzy was down there.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: He knows it's nonsense. Anaheim. this is going to blow
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: you away, was never Pyongyang, all right? You didn't need
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: a State Department travel advisory to sign with the Angels.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: And nobody, nobody was ever hanging garlic around Angel Stadium
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: to keep free agents away. That is nonsense. It's revisionist history.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Southern California has issues. There's a lot of stuff going
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: on in California. They've never had a problem with... The
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: players wanted to come play in Southern California. The baseball
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: operation was a problem. And even as big a stooge
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: as Artie Marino was, you couldn't call him a tightwad.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: He wasn't cheap. He repeatedly threw enormous amounts of money
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: into the fire pit that they had there behind the
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Big A, top of the market free agents. His problem
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: was not spending. It was spending... like a dum-dum, stupidly.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: And I saw the number, which blew me away, and
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: I knew it was a lot of money, but like, wow,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: almost a billion dollars. There was one group of marquee
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: players that were added in the Artie Marino ownership group.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: This is the Albert Pujols, Josh Hamilton, C.J. Wilson, Anthony Rendon,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: and a couple of other guys. Anthony Rendon led it,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: and that group was over $ 800 million, and they delivered
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: practically nothing. Every single one of those guys either failed completely,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: had half a good year, or were just zeros. And
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: so it's like Artie went grocery shopping. He went down
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: to the store. He had the platinum card, and he
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: repeatedly came home with expired milk and cheese that had
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: mold on it. You know, that black mold and the
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: meat had stuff growing on it. And Artie, couldn't you
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: get some of the groceries that didn't have this? Well,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: I tried. I don't know what happened. His free agent
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: batting average was so far below the Mendoza line. How
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: far was it? It was so far below the Mendoza
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: line that Mario Mendoza was filing a defamation suit against
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Artie Marino. The Angels weren't undesirables. They were incompetent. And
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: that's the thing about free agents. They'll go anywhere.
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: Anywhere.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: They don't care. This idea, well, I got to go
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: to a team that's trying to win. No, no. Anthony
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Rendon was on a team in Washington that won the
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: World Series. He didn't care. He certainly didn't want to
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: live on the West Coast, didn't want to play baseball,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: hated baseball, but he signed with the Angels because they
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: offered him a ridiculous contract. And that's it. All right,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: last thing. We go back to the courthouse. We have
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: a update, update on Rabble Rouser, firebrand, former, former NBA player, half-man, half-woman,
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  Speaker 1: Ennis Cantor Freedom. You might remember that he was ejected
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: recently from a WNBA game in Chicago. Well, we now
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: have the rest of the story, as the late great
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: radio man Paul Harvey would say. The rest of the story. So,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: former NBA player Ennis Cantor Freedom suing the Chicago Sky.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: I'm told that's a WNBA team. Chicago and the authority
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: operating the arena in Chicago are also being sued there
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: after he was ejected back on August 23rd. And he
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: was banned indefinitely because, man, who wants to be denied
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: going to a WNBA game? So Freedom is involved in
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: this lawsuit. 15-page, 15-page federal lawsuit claims his First Amendment
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: rights were violated. And he posed no safety threat at all. Now,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: that followed. There was a verbal back and forth, some
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: old-fashioned trash-talking between someone named Natasha Cloud. I'm told that's
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: a guard for this WNBA team. Freedom stood up. And,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: you know, just hollering and all that stuff. Now, the
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: WNBA team's claiming that he moved in an aggressive manner.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: From what I read, they're claiming he moved in an
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: aggressive manner, threatening Natasha Klein, this WNBA player. And that's
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: what happened and all that. Again, it was mostly a
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: verbal situation. security then came over and intervened and police
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: escorted him out now the sky owner some rich dude
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: defended the ejection saying that freedom was a potential threat
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: yes Now, he argued that the dispute is ultimately about
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: protecting his free speech rights. At least that's what his
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: lawyer told him, so that's what he said. All right, question.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: What are the chances that Ennis Cantor Freedom can actually
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: beat the WNBA in this legal kerfluffle, this lawsuit? So
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Cantor Freedom, he gets booted. from the game he's handed
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: this indefinite ban and all this stuff right and it's
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: uh it's essentially the equivalent of saying hey there's a
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: mosquito on the wall okay i'll take care of it
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: thank you for i'd really like you to take care
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: of the mosquito okay i'm gonna go to the garage
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: i'll be right back well why are you going to
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: the garage well i need to get something to kill
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: the mosquito okay please come back kill the mosquito okay
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: i'll come back i'll kill the mosquito so you come
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: back from the garage and And your wife's like, well,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: kill the mosquito. Okay, I'm going to do it. And
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: then you turn on the flamethrower. Well, that's seemingly unnecessary
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: to kill a mosquito. You don't need a flamethrower to
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: kill a mosquito. Why'd you get a flamethrower? Well, we
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: had it. Why not? Now, as for the question, as
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: you know, I am not a lawyer. But I did
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: stay at a Holiday Inn Express the other night.
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: So.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: He actually has a decent case here. Believe it or not.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: It's a First Amendment case. And let me explain why
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: he's got a... I didn't say great. I said a
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: decent chance of getting something here. The arena in Chicago,
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: as I understand it, is publicly owned. That's something that
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: pops up. Well, wait a minute. First Amendment, publicly owned arena.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Chicago police helped eject him from the news reports. And
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: the courts generally... if you look at some of these
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: First Amendment stories, they take the viewpoint that discrimination on
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: public property is a problem. And they look to protect
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: your First Amendment rights on public property. And again, as
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: I understand it, the arena in Chicago is owned by
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: the leaders of Chicago. They're the people of Chicago. Now,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: was he actually a threat? Or did Cantor Freedom stand
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: up in a courtside seat Just to kind of get
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: a reaction out of the WNBA wokester crowd and all
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: that stuff. Because I watched the play. Not that I
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: would ever watch these games. They're terrible. But I watched
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: the highlight online. And this, I guess, Natasha Cloud, what
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: I saw looked like she was charging at him. And
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: it looked like she was the aggressor. And it wasn't
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: really the security enforcement and all that. It was her
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: that was like a rhino running over an angry rhino.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: trying to get into Cantor and all that stuff. And
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: if she had just stayed back and ignored what he
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: was doing, it would not have escalated. She was the
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: one that escalated the situation and went on a rampage
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: over to freedom. She attacked freedom. Now, this guy gave
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Ennis Cantor freedom exactly what he wanted, maximum attention, maximum attention,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: by trying to silence the shirt And his takes on
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: women's sports, they turned a simple courtside heckler into a
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: full-blown martyr of the culture war. So tremendous job, complete
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: incompetence by everyone involved there. And will video proof net
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: him a massive payday? That's highly unlikely. He does have
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: a realistic shot, though, of having that lifetime ban lifted.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: So that's probably what's going to end up happening here.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: considering it is a publicly owned arena in Chicago and
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: it's a, he's claiming first amendment. There is something there
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: that he could win with.
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• 33:53
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• 33:57
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• 34:00
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• 34:02
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• 34:04
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• 34:08
  Speaker 4: It's kind of a crappy matchup, but do you think
• 34:10
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• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely. The Titans and Jets are pretty similar teams,
• 34:16
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• 34:19
  Speaker 1: The Jets fired him. He wants to get revenge. And
• 34:23
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• 34:25
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• 34:27
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• 34:29
  Speaker 4: Speaking of the Jets, the team worked out a number
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: of kickers on Wednesday, and Justin Tucker was among them. Ben,
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: no one signed Tucker after his 10-game suspension last year.
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: Do you think he'll find a new home this year?
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Well, the Jets would be perfect because they're not really
• 34:41
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• 34:43
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• 34:46
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• 34:48
  Speaker 1: they're not really football players, I'd say the chances aren't great,
• 34:53
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• 34:56
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• 35:02
  Speaker 4: Mariners won the AL West for the first time in
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: 25 years last season. This year it looks like they
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: may miss the playoffs altogether. Dan Wilson's probably out at
• 35:08
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• 35:10
  Speaker 4: reportedly going to be gone. Do you think Seattle will
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: reload and get back into competing or is Seattle in
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: for another long drought?
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're just going to try to be average Koopas.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: They don't care about winning. They want to be average, unfortunately.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: How'd we do? How'd we do? How'd we do? How'd
• 35:22
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• 35:22
  Speaker 4: I passed.
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• 35:42
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• 35:44
  Speaker 1: It's Big Ben's Lame Joke of the Week. All right,
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: right to it we go. Are you ready, Weed Man?
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Weed Man Hippie, Miami, right there.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: I'm going to try to download Zoom right after this call.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: You're not going to download Zoom, Weed Man. What are
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: you doing? I'm going to try and it just doesn't work,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you. I know, I know, I know. I
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: love you, but you're not... I'm very shy. I know.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: What is Weed Man's favorite color?
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: What?
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: Hazy. Michael in Tulsa. What did Weed Man say when
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: he was offered a trip to Maui? What?
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: Maui?
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Wowie is what he said. That's Surfer Todd, the comedian.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: It was great to see Surfer Todd and his lovely
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: wife last week there. In Vegas, what did Weed Man
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: say when he heard Stan Kroenke bought the Angels?
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: Wow, what?
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: He said, if I change my name to Angel, maybe
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Stan will pay me too, said Eric in Kansas. That'd
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: be great. I'm sure it would. Why does Weed Man
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: get frustrated with an apple?
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: Well, he can't bite into it because he can't find
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: his teeth. That's why. That's Michael in Tulsa. Any luck
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: with your teeth? No luck with your teeth. No, terrible.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: Did you hear that Weed Man's son, what his son's
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: name is? Did you hear about that? Michael. No, no,
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: that's actually not true. Your son's name is Bud. You
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: ruined the joke, Weed Man. Bud, is there something? That's
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: Brendan from Boston. Did you hear the lifeguard couldn't save
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Weed Man hippie? Did you hear about that? Oh, no. Why? Yeah,
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: he said you're too far out, man. You're just too
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: far out, man. That's from George. George, George, George. All right.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: Why is Weed Man's electric bill so high? Why? Two words,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: grow room. That's Brendan from Boston again. That'd be great.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: He also sent the Weed Man son joke. Why did
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Weed Man invite Jed York to Florida? Why? Well, Florida
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: has the greatest trailer parks. That's from our friend the
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: leprechaun in Boston. Why, or Worcester, why did Weed Man
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: want to become a carpenter? Why? Well, he thought it
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: was where they made joints. You know, the carpenters make
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: the joints. All right. Also from the leprechaun. That's funny.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: This one's from Eek in Roseville, Minnesota. Why do Lorena
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: and Coop break out in a rash when they get
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: their paychecks? Why? They're allergic to peanuts. All right. There
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: you go. Very funny.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: Why? Yes, it is, Jeannie. Why did Lorena throw a
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: box of Lucky Charms at Michael Leprechaun? Why? Because she's
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: magically malicious. That's pretty good. That's Kurt.
• 39:00
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• 39:10
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• 39:14
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• 39:16
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• 39:16
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• 39:19
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• 39:27
  Speaker 1: Mike from Wisconsin sent that one in. What kind of...
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: cousins are Anthony in Louisiana and Lorena?
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: What?
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Kissing. That's just Josh from Cincinnati who sent that one in.
• 39:41
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• 39:49
  Speaker 1: next week. Did you hear that the WNBA is expanding
• 39:53
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• 40:00
  Speaker 1: news that they're going to be putting a team there.
• 40:02
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• 40:06
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• 40:09
  Speaker 1: That's Gordon at Tacoma. Dad Joke Dan sent this one in,
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  Speaker 1: dad joke, Dan. Tiger Woods was told he can't drive
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  Speaker 1: it's no big deal for the last five years he
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  Speaker 1: hasn't been able to drive, chip, or putt. So it's
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  Speaker 1: think I might have butchered that one. But George in Rochester. Minnesota. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Did you hear the 49ers owner Jed York is considering
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  Speaker 1: fake prostitute. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently the new team is a simple change. The San
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, Marcel. As always here on Coop's Hoopin' Entertainment,
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  Speaker 4: we're going to start off in the movie theaters. Opening
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  Speaker 4: this weekend, a couple of movies I want to point out.
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  Speaker 4: First one is called By Any Means. And now this, yes,
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  Speaker 4: this is based on a true story. A young black
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  Speaker 4: FBI agent played by Yaha Abdul-Mateen II is.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm not familiar with his work. Me neither.
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  Speaker 4: He's sent into 1960s Mississippi to investigate a wave of
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  Speaker 4: brutal killings targeting civil rights leaders. He's forced to work
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  Speaker 4: alongside notorious mafia hitman Greg Scarpa, who is played by
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  Speaker 4: Mark Wahlberg.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yes. I'm glad they're still making mob movies. That's good. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Finds himself pulled into a deadly hunt where justice and
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  Speaker 4: vengeance begin to blur.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, okay.
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  Speaker 4: Also starring in this one is Giancarlo Esposito of Breaking
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  Speaker 4: Bad fame.
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  Speaker 1: Looks pretty good.
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  Speaker 4: Reviews so far are.
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  Speaker 1: Good.
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  Speaker 4: I'd say mediocre to good. But I'm going to check
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  Speaker 4: it out. Mark Wahlberg, you know, looks like he puts
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  Speaker 4: on an interesting performance.
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  Speaker 1: All that money, and he's still... I heard those Wahlbergers.
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  Speaker 1: He made a ton of money on those Wahlbergers. That's
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  Speaker 1: what I heard. Never been there. I don't think, I
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  Speaker 1: maybe was there once, but it wasn't memorable because I
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  Speaker 1: don't obviously remember.
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  Speaker 4: Right, that makes sense. Another movie I want to point out,
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  Speaker 4: this is called Fall 2, Deadpoint. Now, you may remember
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  Speaker 4: a number of years ago, I'd say like, I don't know,
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  Speaker 4: maybe like three to four years ago, there was a
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  Speaker 4: movie called Fall where it was these two women trapped
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  Speaker 4: on top of this tower way up in the sky.
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  Speaker 1: It was actually a pretty good movie. I watched it.
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  Speaker 4: It was one of those, you know, sweaty palms type
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  Speaker 4: of movies where you just... Sitting there in the theater,
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  Speaker 4: you're like, you're uncomfortable the whole time. This one tries to,
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  Speaker 4: you know, play off that same experience. It follows two
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  Speaker 4: new characters. This time they're on a perilous climb across
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  Speaker 4: Thailand's Mount Kwan. And they become trapped thousands of feet
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  Speaker 4: above the ground. Now, the reviews on this one, not
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  Speaker 4: quite as good as the first one. I don't know
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  Speaker 4: if that's just because it's no longer like a unique
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  Speaker 4: idea or if it's just simply not as good. But
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure it's exciting either way. I will probably check
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  Speaker 4: that out. That's in theaters right now. Fall 2, Deadpoint. Now,
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  Speaker 4: moving on to television. We have a new movie on Netflix.
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  Speaker 4: Apple TV. It's called Mayday. It is available to stream
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  Speaker 4: right now. It is an action comedy from the writer, director,
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  Speaker 4: doer of Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daly. They did
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  Speaker 4: Dungeons and Dragons, Honor Among Thieves.
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  Speaker 1: That was very popular.
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  Speaker 4: This one finds Ryan Reynolds playing a U.S. Navy pilot
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  Speaker 4: stranded behind enemy lines while on a top secret mission
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  Speaker 4: in the USSR. He forms an unlikely bond with an
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  Speaker 4: ex-KGB agent.
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  Speaker 1: Ooh. Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Yes. Yeah, that one's got, again, kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 4: OK reviews. And last but not least is a new
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  Speaker 4: series on Apple TV. This one doesn't premiere until Wednesday,
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  Speaker 4: September 9th. It's called Last Scene, and it is a
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  Speaker 4: six part Australian thriller where a police dispatcher receives a
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  Speaker 4: distress call from a teenage girl whom he believes to
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  Speaker 4: be his daughter who disappeared without a trace over a
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  Speaker 4: decade earlier. First two episodes will be available on Wednesday,
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  Speaker 4: September 9th. That's on Apple TV called Last Scene. And
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  Speaker 4: that is Coop's Group on Entertainment.