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  Speaker 3: But our lead.
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  Speaker 1: Seattle. We go to Seattle to the victor goes to
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  Speaker 1: the parade. Close to a million people the estimated crowd.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why they didn't include everyone who was
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  Speaker 1: alive in the greater Seattle area, but there's about a
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  Speaker 1: million people, supposedly men, women and children that ditched school
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  Speaker 1: and work and showed up there the celebration the Hawk
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  Speaker 1: Tua as it was their second championship celebration there in
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  Speaker 1: the Pacific Northwest.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm assuming you in that hawk that night.
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  Speaker 1: There was a lot of hawk too at this thing.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't watch the whole thing. I watched some clips
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  Speaker 1: online that was going on, kind of sleeping working the overnight,
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  Speaker 1: but saw enough of it to give you some takes
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  Speaker 1: on it. And fortunately we have boots on the ground,
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  Speaker 1: Mike who listens on kJ R and Seattle, and he
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  Speaker 1: was I don't think he was there. He was watching
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  Speaker 1: the local TV feed and he claims Mike that we
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  Speaker 1: absolutely nailed it on our Bingo card for the championship parade,
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  Speaker 1: that every prediction that we made, everything I tossed out happened.
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  Speaker 1: According to Mike, it was the we're gonna run it
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  Speaker 1: back again comment that happened. Nobody believed in us, happened,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of profanity, a lot of drunk people and
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  Speaker 1: players the parade route.
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  Speaker 3: They had a trophy.
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  Speaker 1: I guess they took it off the buses that wander
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  Speaker 1: around among the crowds. So all of that stuff happened.
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  Speaker 1: Now for many, though, the pinnacle was the speech by
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback Sam Donald. Yes that's Sam Donald, who claimed
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  Speaker 1: he was grateful in a very boring way for the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks Super Bowl victory. We have a little taste of it.
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  Speaker 1: Here is some of what Sam Darnold had to say.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to the audio tape, take a listen.
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  Speaker 4: I just want to say I've talked a lot this
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  Speaker 4: last week about belief. A lot of people, you know
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  Speaker 4: it didn't believe in me, but it didn't matter because
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  Speaker 4: the ones that are close believed in me, including y'all
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  Speaker 4: I appreciate so much.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, that that's the money quote and a good
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  Speaker 1: jumping off point.
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  Speaker 3: So let us discuss the question where do you fall on?
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks quarterback Sam Donald pointing out that a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people didn't believe in him, and then he said that
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  Speaker 1: all you people did. So my thoughts, I've got spirit airlines,
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  Speaker 1: singing Cowboy and the Friars Club, and we're gonna put
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  Speaker 1: all of these things together and make some homemade OUI
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  Speaker 1: gooey cinnamon rolls.
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  Speaker 3: Man. That sounds good, all right, so a sounds delicious.
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  Speaker 1: So let me address Sam Donald directly as a fellow
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  Speaker 1: Orange County guys. Sam Donald grew up in South Orange County,
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  Speaker 1: so let me address him directly from ococ guy. The
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  Speaker 1: reason Sam, that people didn't believe in you is because
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  Speaker 1: you gave people.
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  Speaker 3: No reason to believe in you. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: The distrust was earned, and you were actually given a
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  Speaker 1: lot of early on a lot of belief. You were
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  Speaker 1: drafted very high in the NFL draft, right top five
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  Speaker 1: draft pick, and all that went to sc which at
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  Speaker 1: that time meant something in football power.
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  Speaker 3: Not much anymore, but they used to be They used
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  Speaker 3: to be.
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  Speaker 1: Good but in your body of work in the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: you just haven't done anything. The distrust was earned. This
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  Speaker 1: was not a one semester slump. It didn't fail algebra
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  Speaker 1: and that was it. No, no, no, this was a
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  Speaker 1: lifetime achievement award for Sam Donald in the artistry of
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  Speaker 1: the flop. Okay, it's like a secret menu item at McDonald's,
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  Speaker 1: the McDonald's Sunday, the mcflop with this man and his
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  Speaker 1: report card for Sam Donald in his career was d
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  Speaker 1: D D triple D was his report card deplorable deadbeat
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  Speaker 1: defeat because he was deplorable, played like a deadbeat and
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  Speaker 1: then his team got defeated. That's what happened on an
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  Speaker 1: almost weekly basis. So Donald was running a small airline.
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  Speaker 1: It was a competitor for Spear Airlines. It was called
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  Speaker 1: the Vomit Comet and come fly the Barfy Skies and
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  Speaker 1: that's how it went. And people are trying now and
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  Speaker 1: this is always in it. I don't quite grasp it.
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  Speaker 1: It happens quite a bit. I still don't quite understand it.
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  Speaker 1: Why some people are trying to rewrite history like Sam
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  Speaker 1: Donald was some kind of misunderstood genius as a quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: and he was being held back by the man what
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  Speaker 1: are we doing? Like stop, you realize how stupid you
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  Speaker 1: sound throwing that kind of stuff out. No, Sam Donald
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  Speaker 1: was now the quarterback. He was getting manhandled on a
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  Speaker 1: weekly basis. He was seeing ghosts throwing gifts to linebackers.
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  Speaker 1: Why would anyone again, why would anyone believe? And even now,
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  Speaker 1: like even now after the Super Bowl, the Lombardi Trophy
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  Speaker 1: given out, all of that stuff, Sam Donald is still
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  Speaker 1: on double secret probation. He's he's on probation from the
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  Speaker 1: naughty list. And if you're honest, most Seahawks fans rolled
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  Speaker 1: their eyes when Sam Donald agreed to a contract, like.
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  Speaker 3: What are you doing? What do you please? And so
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't like they believed in him.
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  Speaker 1: And Sam was trying to make it seem in that
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  Speaker 1: soundby like he had this belief among the Seahawks fans.
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  Speaker 3: No, even the.
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  Speaker 1: Front office likely didn't believe in Sam Donald's. Let's be
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  Speaker 1: completely transparent here and the parade was powered the whole
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  Speaker 1: championship thing. Sam Donald was along for the ride, and
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  Speaker 1: that's great. Congratulations game manager Sam Donald, although he really
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  Speaker 1: wasn't this year in many ways. But if you look
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  Speaker 1: at the formula for Seattle. They won with their defense
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  Speaker 1: and then the phantom two point play the Zebra Guardian
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  Speaker 1: Angels of the NFL helping Seattle get home field advantage
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  Speaker 1: throughout the playoffs because they just handed two points to Seattle.
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  Speaker 1: He did not earn against the Rams and one of
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  Speaker 1: the most corrupt calls that has gone unlooked by many.
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  Speaker 3: Not on this show. We're not part of the mainstream.
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  Speaker 1: We're not trying to suck the toes of the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: so we can point out how ridiculous that was in
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  Speaker 1: Week sixteen. Now, Sam Donald, he's one of now thirty
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  Speaker 1: four quarterbacks I am told that have won the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: There have been some that have won a bunch like
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  Speaker 1: Tom Brady, but there are thirty four individual starting quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 3: That have won a Super Bowl. And Donald, though, is
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  Speaker 3: still the kitty table.
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  Speaker 1: He's still he's he's asking Nick Foles, can you pass
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  Speaker 1: the biscuits?
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  Speaker 2: Nick?
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  Speaker 3: Can you?
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  Speaker 1: Pat?
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  Speaker 3: And Joe Flacco can you give me some of the
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  Speaker 3: what is that? That is that garlic? Can I get
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  Speaker 3: some of the gard?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, give me some of the gard?
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  Speaker 1: And Trent Dilford can can you pass the mashed potatoes.
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  Speaker 1: I'd like the mashed potato.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. So it's a nice story in all all right,
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  Speaker 3: but let's cool your jets.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, literally, cool your jets in this story book. Here
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  Speaker 1: for Sam Donald, he led the NFL in turnovers and
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  Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl. The crowning moment for Sam Darnold,
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  Speaker 1: he had the worst yards per pass of any winning
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl quarterback of all time, which means he is
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  Speaker 1: the worst winning quarterback based on Super Bowl performance in
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  Speaker 1: the game yards per pass in the history of the
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Congratulations, way to go, Sam. We're proud of you.
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  Speaker 1: We are very proud of you. We didn't believe because
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  Speaker 1: we actually watched you play. Okay, all right now, page two.
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  Speaker 1: Among the other highlights from the parade that I saw,
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  Speaker 1: we saw the Super Bowl MVP Kenneth Walker, who it
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  Speaker 1: would appear tried to negotiate a new contract with the
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  Speaker 1: general manager, John Schneider at the parade.
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  Speaker 3: Now, Schneider, it's hard.
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  Speaker 1: To know if he'll remember any of this, but he
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  Speaker 1: was feeling no pain, the general manager of the Seahawks,
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  Speaker 1: and he said, talking about Kenneth Walker, he tried negotiating
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  Speaker 1: with me five minutes ago.
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  Speaker 3: It was really weird. So Walker who is going.
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  Speaker 1: To be a free agent barring some kind of intervention
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  Speaker 1: by the Seahawks, like a franchise tag or something like that,
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  Speaker 1: which seems pretty outrageous. So Kenneth Walker is said to
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  Speaker 1: be a free agent, and the question is how do
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  Speaker 1: you grade Kenneth Walker attempting to get a new Seahawks contract.
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  Speaker 1: It appears during the Seattle Championship parade. So this was,
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  Speaker 1: I believe, a master class in opportunistic larceny in the
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  Speaker 1: Pacific Northwest.
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  Speaker 3: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: Right, while the rest of the Seahawks are drowning in
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  Speaker 1: a sea of lime green confetti, You've got Kenneth Walker
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  Speaker 1: out there trying to get the bag.
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  Speaker 3: What's in the bag?
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  Speaker 1: Money miney money at Walker in my head, he looked
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  Speaker 1: at the GM John Schneider of the Seahawks, a man
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  Speaker 1: clearly enjoying the victory spirits, if.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I mean, A man whose guard is well.
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  Speaker 3: He wasn't just down. It was in the witness protection program.
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  Speaker 1: And then kevinth Walker, like he saw daylight in the
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  Speaker 1: B gap. He just went for the be gap. And
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  Speaker 1: it reminded me of one of my favorite stories. I've
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  Speaker 1: been a radio a long time. One of my favorite stories.
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  Speaker 1: When I first got into radio, and when I got
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  Speaker 1: into LA radio, I was told this by multiple people.
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  Speaker 3: There was a person.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know who this is, and you know unless
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  Speaker 1: you're old, this person named Gene Autry. He was a
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  Speaker 1: very famous man in American country music. Gene Autry owned
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  Speaker 1: the California Angels, and every was like, oh, the greatest
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  Speaker 1: guy in the world. And Gene Autry is the star
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  Speaker 1: of this little story. Back in the golden age radio
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  Speaker 1: when you could make a lot of money owning radio stations,
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  Speaker 1: and Gene Autry was He was known as the singing cowboy.
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  Speaker 3: That was his shtick.
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  Speaker 1: He was the singing cowboy. And he owned a couple
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  Speaker 1: of big radio stations, owned some stations in Seattle in
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  Speaker 1: LA and he would throw these massive, massive Christmas parties
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  Speaker 1: and he would get a little bit of that holiday
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  Speaker 1: hey you feel me on that little holiday cheer in
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  Speaker 1: his system. And he handed out at least one although
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  Speaker 1: I heard this happen more than one time, like one
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent raise in a contract and he wrote the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing on the back of a cocktail napkin for some.
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  Speaker 5: Dj Remlin's already been more than fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, all right, well, so anyway to finish the
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  Speaker 1: to finish the tail here. So so Gene Autry was
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  Speaker 1: on the back of a cocktail napkin. He wrote for
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  Speaker 1: one of his DJs at this campc like he was
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  Speaker 1: bad Santa this lifetime contract and.
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  Speaker 3: He actually honored it. He actually honored the contract.
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  Speaker 1: And so in that respect, Cannibal Walker is a sharp cookie. Like,
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  Speaker 1: you don't negotiate when the general manager is completely sober
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  Speaker 1: and he's got spreadsheets in front of him in his
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  Speaker 1: sterile office or something like that, with a group of.
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  Speaker 3: Nerds around him.
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  Speaker 1: You negotiate when the blood alcohol level is higher than
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  Speaker 1: the salary cap. That's when you negotiate. And Schneider was schnuckered, bamboozled,
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  Speaker 1: and completely defenseless at that point.
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  Speaker 3: So you strike while the iron is hot.
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  Speaker 1: And of course it apparently didn't work, but the attempt
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  Speaker 1: was there. It's brilliant, right, it's ruthless, and it gets
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  Speaker 1: the Malor's seal of approval. Kenneth Walker gets the Mallard's
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  Speaker 1: Seal of approval. All right, Now, last word here, So
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  Speaker 1: you got the Seahawks head coach Mike McDonald who took
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  Speaker 1: shots at a comedian during the parade. This also happened
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  Speaker 1: at the Seahawks championship parade. The comedian drew Ski, he
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  Speaker 1: got some strays, he got some shrapnel here. This following
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  Speaker 1: the famous event that happened a week prior there Jackson
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  Speaker 1: Smith and Jigba had finished up his speech, Drewski. You
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  Speaker 1: might remember they had their incident at NFL Honors and
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  Speaker 1: McDonald barked.
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  Speaker 3: Put some respect on that man's name. Oh my god,
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  Speaker 3: respect now, in case you forgot.
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  Speaker 1: In that viral moment from NFL Honors in the Bay Area,
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  Speaker 1: San Francisco about a week ago.
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  Speaker 3: A little less than.
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  Speaker 1: That, Drewski co presented jsn's Offensive Player of the Year
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  Speaker 1: award and deliberately mispronounced Smith and Jigba.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, he said a word that if I said,
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  Speaker 3: I would not be on the range tomorrow. Yeah. But now,
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  Speaker 3: of course he did it for.
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  Speaker 1: And he got ripped by a handful of people that
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  Speaker 1: have a stick up there tuk us.
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  Speaker 3: Many of them happened to be employed by the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 1: So the question, does Drewski deserve the heat that he
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  Speaker 1: still getting for deliberately mispronouncing the Seahawks star Jackson Smith
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  Speaker 1: and Jacob's name. So the Seahawks coach here, McDaniel or
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  Speaker 1: McDonald rather McDonald is up there acting like a like
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  Speaker 1: a suburban dad defending his kids honor at a PTA meeting,
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  Speaker 1: is what it sounded like. Put some respect on his name.
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  Speaker 1: Give me a break, Seriously. I thought this was sat tire.
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  Speaker 1: I thought, well, that's ai. I'm not gonna fall for that,
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  Speaker 1: but it happened. It's drusky like this, just in to
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  Speaker 1: the Ben Maler Show on Fox Sports Radio. You're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be blown away by this. Nobody else has this content.
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  Speaker 1: The man's a comedian. Now you might not think he's funny,
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  Speaker 1: but he's a comedian. He's paid as a comedian to
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  Speaker 1: stir the pot, and that's it with jokes. He's not
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  Speaker 1: there to read the Encyclopedia Britannica, if that's even still
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  Speaker 1: a thing. This is like going to It's like somebody
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  Speaker 1: going to the Friars Club roast in New York City
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  Speaker 1: and getting mad when someone may your hairline.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, if you.
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  Speaker 1: Can't handle a mispronounced name at some NFL Honors Fugasy
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  Speaker 1: Award show, you are softer than a marshmallow. It's been
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  Speaker 1: in a microwave for five minutes. And your problem should
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  Speaker 1: be with the NFL, who dared hire someone who's a comedian.
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  Speaker 3: And I get the whole Wow, it's us against the world.
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  Speaker 3: That Seahawks. Boy, they boring, by the way, the Seawks
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  Speaker 3: are so boring.
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  Speaker 1: Manfortunately they won't win again or anytime soon, so we
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  Speaker 1: have to worry about it. But if you, if you
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  Speaker 1: are that uptight, go on Timu and buy yourself a
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  Speaker 1: sense of humor.
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  Speaker 3: You can buy them on Timu right now. It's a joke.
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  Speaker 3: It's not some.
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  Speaker 1: Grand global conspiracy and low hanging fruit.
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  Speaker 3: I know we're living in a dimension.
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  Speaker 1: Where feelings are more important than first downs for some
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  Speaker 1: and all that bunch of babies. Back in my day,
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  Speaker 1: Back in my day, if a comedian poked fun at
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  Speaker 1: you and told the.
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  Speaker 3: Joke, you laugh, then you bought them a drink.
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  Speaker 1: Now we've got Mike McDonald acting like he's defending the Alamo,
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  Speaker 1: and I wouldn't do that. You remember how the Alimo ended.
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  Speaker 1: It was not good for those that defended the Alamo.
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  Speaker 1: He did not end very well there.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway. It's embarrassing, is what it is.
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• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Our lead this hour from pro Bouncy Ball and we
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: begin with this as we prepare for Influencer Weekend. It's
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: not All Star weekend, it's Influencer Weekend. The NBA gave up.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: They said, listen, this product sucks. Nobody wants to watch it.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Let's just allow a bunch of annoying TikTokers to run
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: around and then people still won't watch it, but at
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: least we'll say we're doing something. So there is a
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: fog of apathy that has covered the NBA.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: It is. It's very odd.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Because they're making money, yet it's not a good product.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: It's not an entertaining product. And yet you've got grossve
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: people that are like, well, not that bad, and then
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: the other people are like, oh, it's pretty bad.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: It's not great.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: You know this, this is what happens before the bottom
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: falls out. So the unthinkable, the unimaginable has.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Started to happen. And you might know where I'm going
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: with this, but maybe not. For a number of years,
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: it has been.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Tamboo to mention anything negative about the silver tongue devil
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: who runs the NBA as the leader of the Cartel
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: of Basketball. Well, the tide is starting to turn against
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, a handful of media dopes, some
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: more prominent than others, including at one point a mainstream commentator.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Now he's just a podcast guy. Bill Simmons that they
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: have started to question whether Adam Silver is the right
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: person to lead the NBA. So that is a good
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: jumping off point. Let us discuss the question. We'll keep
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: it simple because look at the time, thumbs up or
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: thumbs down, thumbs up or thumbs down, should NBA owners
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: look to replace the commissioner Adam Silver. So my observations,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: I've got the Phantom of the Opera, TSA and Gumbo,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: we are gonna go ABC is.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: What we're going to do, all right.
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: So number one, I'm gonna give this one a thumbs up,
• 21:41
  Speaker 7: a thumbs up on booting the lizard person.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Commissioner Adam Silver has proven to be a total fraud,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: a total fraud. He's a glorified accountant who has benefited
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: from the Peter principle reaching his highest level of incompetence,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: and he's just kind of settled in and that's it.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: And I wish he had learned from a real commissioner
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: like David Stern. But unfortunately he didn't.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: And there's dumb people that act like Adam Silver is
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: a genius all because of the television.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: Money that keeps going up up on away. Please, all right,
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: let me tell you something right now.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: I consulted with my guy Fergdog and he confirmed to
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: me that you could put Patrick Starr in the NBA
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: headquarters on Fifth Avenue and have Patrick Starr drool all
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: over the desk for eight hours a day and the
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: networks would still dump billions right there in the office building.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: In a streaming world. Professional sports is an idiot proof business.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Now It's not going to always be like this once
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: the younger generations get in charge. They don't like sports
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: as much as the older generations, and that's part of
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: the greed of the professional sports industrial complex. They have
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: been able to convince enough younger people to like sports
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: the way the older generations did.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: But right now it works.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: It sells itself despite the leadership, not because.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: Of the leadership. Do you feel me on that? It's not.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: It's despite the people in charge, not because of the
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: people in charge. And under Adam Silver's guardianship, if you will,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: the NBA has become the only business on Earth where
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: the product calls in sick more than the customers.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: It's wild. It's so crazy.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: People pay hundreds of dollars, paying five hundred bucks for
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: a ticket because they want to watch Wemby or Luco
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: or Lebron.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: And what do you get.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: You get, Like the case of Lebron, you get a
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: dnp old or some phantom injury. And then you also get,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: as an added bonus, a middle finger from the box
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: office is what you get. Their customer service model at
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: the NBA is yeah, we heard your complain, Now go
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: kick rocks, get out of here, you losers. So yeah,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: get get rid of Adam Silver. Right, what's the what's
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: the downside of it? Like, seriously, what's the downside of it?
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Make me be interim commissioner the Mather Doctor. The first
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: thing I do on day number one.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: Where I've.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Everything, okayler renon, first thing I do, Okay, first thing
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: I do here is I stop fleecing the fans.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: I do that. It's I know it's a copycat league
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: and all that.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: So the NBA should rip off the Phantom of the
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: opera back.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: In the day, Wicked, the Book of Mormon on Broadway.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: If the headliner is absent because of illness, vacation, or
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: any other reason, you are entitled to a full refund
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: or exchange. This is a long standing but not widely
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: advertised norm on Broadway in Manhattan. So when it really
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: killed the NBA, they'd lose a couple of bucks. Most
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: people wouldn't even take advantage of it. Most people are
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: so lazy. So I got to fill out a thing
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: on my phone and then I get another ticket.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: I don't want to do that. I forget it. I
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: don't want to go.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: So yeah, they'd lose a few bucks. However, they would
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: gain goodwill. They gain goodwill. They gained the trust to
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: people that spend money to go to these games, and
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: that's worth something. There's some value in that, because right
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: now they look like a bunch of dopes and dingle
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: berries and.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: All that now.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Page two to the leftovers Department. The leftovers department, circling
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: back to the NBA trade deadline. The NBA trade deadline.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: One name that we had highlighted as a stone cold
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: lock to be traded and wasn't traded, is miffed by
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: the whole situation.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: We're talking about. Grizzly star Jah Morant. Did you see this? Okay?
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Jah Morant, who was said to be shocked that
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: no team, no team wanted him this season. And according
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: to what we were reading here, there's a major wake
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: up call for Jahn Morant, and now he's committed to
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: restoring his value.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: A great comeback story. So the question how much stock?
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: All right, how much stock do you put in Grizzly
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: star Ja Morant changing his ways because he's baffled that
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: he became untradable at the deadline.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: So how much stock do I put?
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: I put a pinch of salt. I don't you want
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: to put the whole thing, the whole shaker, put the
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: whole I.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: Don't care put the whole thing in Jaws.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Talent nuclear his judgment in a smartphone world, he is
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: a flip phone when it comes in fact, I would
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: even argue rotary phone when it comes to judgment. The
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: NBA's mantra, all these professional sports leagues of the mantras,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: you never give up on talent.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: You never give up on.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Talent ever, unless the talent keeps giving up on itself. Now,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Jahn Morant basically put himself on the basketball version of
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: a TSA no fly list. Radioactive right, radioactive Ja Morant,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: he's a radioactive asset.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: Contract too big, baggage, just too heavy even for the NBA.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's guys who have done some really nasty stuff,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: which actually worse than what John Moran's done, and they're
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: playing in the NBA.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: But Jahn Morant, now, they're not gonna talk him. They're
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: not gonna go there now.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: As for the Great Awakening, all right, this is a
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: spin off of the A and E franchise Beyond Scared Straight.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: It's a spin off. It's called Beyond self Aware starring
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Ja Morant. Beyond self Aware three seasons now removed. You
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: realize we're three seasons removed from that after glow of
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: the All Star Game appearances, the all NBA stuff. And
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: so when you look at those two years, he's a
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: two hit wonder, not a one hit wonder. John Moran
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: a two hit wonder. And that's about it. The highlights
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: when he plays hadn't played that much, but when he plays,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: they still pop pogo stick athleticism, which is great and electric,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: exciting player to watch, good ballplayer when you're watching as
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: a fan. The availability is a skill that's lacking, and
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: the reliability is a currency which is also lacking. So
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: you keep waiting for that epiphany. While Jaw lives in
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: his own world, he lives somewhere up in the wackadoodle land,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: and where he lives, consequences are optional and all that,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: and apologies are not worth the bandwidth they took to
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: send the apologies.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: You might remember.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: The great and the incident in Denver there with the
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: strippers and the guns and all that. Then he they
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: sent him to some for Gaysey rehab by and then
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: he came back and like, did the same stuff. It
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: was the whole thing was so stupid. Did the same
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: thing again or close to it. But I'll believe there's
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: some kind of great real life, real world switcheroo.
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: When this lasts longer than an NBA road trip.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Until then, it's a tee situation, talented entertaining enigma.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, we go now final point to the Bay area
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: where the Warriors recently said bye bye, bye bye. They
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: said bye bye to Jonathan Kaminga. It was traded. We
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: were on the air that night. It was broadcasting from
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: the remote studio in San Francisco, and a little bit
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: before the show Cominga was traded to the Atlanta Hawks
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: for the often injured Unicorn. So there was a story
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: this is a good start. I love this guy. This
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: like NBA the These stories are better than the product
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: on the court, which says a lot about the NBA.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: But the story is that the Warriors and Jonathan Kaminga
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: reached a tense They call it a flare up.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: In the story, they call it a flare up.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: You could use some other verbiage on this, but this
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: was in December when Jonathan Kaminga missed a team event
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: and was told that someone around him was taking too
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: much food from the family room so barely they had
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: a hall monitor, and somebody was getting too many snacks,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: and somebody a deep throat for the Warriors then rated
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: out Jonathan Kminga well. The Warriors traded him to the
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Hawks for Christops. Porzingis who I saw sitting.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: On the bench. I was watching some of the Golden
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: State game with the Spurs.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: I had it on the background. He was sitting on
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: the bench. Porzingis there. He's got an expiring contract.
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: The reporting says that the disconnect between the player and
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: the Warriors had grown so petty, so petty by that point,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: and then the news came out about this food fetish
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: situation thing of a jig, the what you mnna call it,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: and even Steph Curry, the most boring man on the planet,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Steph Curry offered what was essentially an eye roll in response.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: His response was, I'm sorry, bro, this is ridiculous.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: Go be great. That's it. That's all he said.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: That's nine words, nine words, and that's it. So the question,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: because of that, Steph Curry is being praised for being
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: a class act and defending a former Golden State Warriors teammate,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Jonathan Kaminga.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: Is that how you see it?
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Does Steph Curry deserve praise for saying, I'm sorry, bro,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: this is ridiculous, Go be great.
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: So the long answer is no.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: The short answer is me shaking my head like it's exhausting.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Like now we're handing out class act metals to Stephan
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Curry because of an Instagram post that is nine words
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: long about Jonathan Kaminga. That's where we are right now.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: The bars at that point. Okay, it's like a nice
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Hallmark card. You can go up to Vermont and shoot
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: a Hallmark card and put a jump shot on it
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: and all that stuff.
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: The whole thing with the Golden State.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Warrior is the food room drama, the.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: Leaks about that.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: It's so great, the Cold War so dramatic, simmering like
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: a big giant tub of bad gumbo, just sitting there
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: for months and simmering and bubbling up.
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: And all that. Now we're pretending Steph just discovered empathy.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: All right, that's gluten free. By the way, I would
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: argue the word I will use on this one. I
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: love words. I didn't love words. I wish I love
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: words in school. I've loved words since I got out
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: of school. I hated words in school, I hated math.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: I hated words.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: But as an adult, I guess I'm an adult.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: I talk about athletes, I talk about balls all the time.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: But it is performative. My word is performative. Is the
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: word I will use on this It's a polite shrug.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: While the team that Steph Curry is the face of
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: is leaking petty stuff. I'm gonna go out on a
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: limb and say, Jonathan Kaminga was not the one leaking
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: that that that came from the Warriors, and we traded
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: this guy, this guy was so out of control that
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: he was even eating too much kettle corn.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: He was hoarding the kettle corn.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: He had bad etiquette at the buffet, bad buffet etiquette.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: Gotta get rid of him, all right. Keep in mind
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: my theory, and I'm never wrong about this. If Steph
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Curry truly wanted Jonathan Kaminga to still be in the
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Bay Area, he'd still be there. Superstars move mountains in
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: that business. And Kaminga was stuck in a basketball detention
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: and living in the penalty box of Steve Kerr, and
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: everyone knew that eventually he was going to get out.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: He was supposed to be traded Kaminga before the year,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: and they kept him around till the trade deadline. But
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: STEP's quote, it's a nice cologne, it's an expensive cologne,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: and it's being sprayed right over a dumpster.
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: Smells nice.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: However, the trash is still still there. It's still there.
• 34:29
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• 34:45
  Speaker 5: Cool.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: But by the way, I did see the Great slug
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: the hostess with the Moses.
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  Speaker 3: Who guess it's a great name.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: I didn't see this until a second ago, The great
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• 34:54
  Speaker 1: not world b Free, but a great name.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: All right, Cooper, what do we have here?
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: Deshaun Watson has started his growing program as he looks
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: to regain the starting job in Cleveland. A new Brown's coach,
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: Todd Munkin has expressed interest in working with Watson. Ben,
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: do you think there's any chance that he starts for Cleveland?
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: A lot of people would have to have ankle injuries
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: and knee injuries. No, I think there's a better chance
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: that they just get rid of him and he's not
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: even on the team next year than he's actually.
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: Playing for the Browns.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: But it is the Cleveland Browns, and they are the
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: poop emoji team, the Cleveland Browns, so's it's a very
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: I'd say it's a less than ten percent chance they
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: go with Deshaun Watson. But they don't really have a quarterback.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: Sure Sanders sucks, so it's not like they have anybody
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: who's any good.
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: All right, next, Dan Quinn met with the media on
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: Tuesday and said he expects the offense to look different
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: with Jayden Daniels going under center more often, with David
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: Bloun now calling the plays. Ben, do you think the
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: Commanders can get back to being contenders in the NFC?
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Well, they were a fluke team when they got to
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: the Final four. They were not They played much like
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: the Patriots this year, played a soft schedule and they
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: took advantage of it, and Washington took advantage of it.
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: And then went after Burners and get got there.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: I would say they're a middleweight team in the NFC,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: that they're gonna be right around eight or nine wins,
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: and we don't. I they can make some great moves
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: this offseason, but right now you're asking me, right now,
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: Coop the answers. I see them as an eight or
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: nine win team in a pretty blot NFC East. The
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Cowboys are no good, the Giants are no good. Philadelphia
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: is on the way down, so it's not a great division.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: Next.
• 36:34
  Speaker 5: Former number one pick Kenyon Martin recently went off on
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: NBA team's tanking, saying, quote, this disgusting display of non
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: competitive organizations. I think it's awful for the game. I
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: think it's awful for sports. Something has to be done, Ben.
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: What can be done?
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Well, you get rid of Adam Silver because he's allowed
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: this to happen, So you got to get rid of him,
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: and I would get I would consider getting rid of
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: the lottery.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: Or they've tried to tweak it, but it's really the culture.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: Of the NBA. They embrace it. The people that work
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: in that business embrace It's really sad.
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: How did we do? Cupolo?
• 37:05
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  Speaker 3: Time for Horry Horry Honey. Wait ask Ben Twitter, send
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  Speaker 1: Your questions are answers and for the reading of the questions,
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  Speaker 1: we go over to the coopo loop.
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  Speaker 5: All right, We're gonna start off with a question from
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  Speaker 5: Ferg Dog. Hi, Ferg Dog, you would like to know
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  Speaker 5: do you like driving with the windows up or down? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: The only time I really drive with the windows down
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  Speaker 1: is if I'm near the ocean, or if I'm driving
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  Speaker 1: through Gilroy to smell the garlic. Other than that, the
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  Speaker 1: windows are almost always up, you know, summertime.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes I used to have a car with a sun
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  Speaker 3: roof that was kind of cool for a while. That
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  Speaker 3: futs around with that.
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  Speaker 1: But normally the windows are up only if I'm near
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  Speaker 1: the beach or where it smells like garlic.
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  Speaker 5: What about you, Lorena, I agree, location matters. If it's
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  Speaker 5: too windy or cold, though, or I'm on the freeway,
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  Speaker 5: always windows up.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there's a on my way home from the studios,
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  Speaker 1: I go through this stretch of factories in La where
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  Speaker 1: they I can literally smell the chemicals even with the
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  Speaker 1: air condesting on. I can't imagine if I had my
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  Speaker 1: windows open. I don't know what kind of junks.
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  Speaker 3: In the air there. But they do it all overnight
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  Speaker 3: when everyone's sleeping. But I'm not sleeping.
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  Speaker 5: What about you, Coop, I only open up the windows.
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  Speaker 3: When we share.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, there we go, perfects. You put it perfectly. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Other than that, the windows.
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  Speaker 1: Are up, I hear you right and very you all
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  Speaker 1: have great tinted windows.
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  Speaker 3: I don't have the tinted windows like that. You have
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  Speaker 3: epic tinted windows. What is next? What do we have here?
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  Speaker 5: I'll just say this real quick. The King Rory nobody
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  Speaker 5: prefers miracle Whip. Moving on, rushing Robin the three two
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  Speaker 5: one wants to know who is your favorite cartoon character.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think Rob, your SpongeBob was amazing. It was
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  Speaker 1: a great call by you, Rob. It really depends when
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  Speaker 1: I was a kid. I live in the Stone Age,
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  Speaker 1: so it was like the Flintstones and the Jetsons when
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  Speaker 1: I was a kid. But as an adult, like Homer
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  Speaker 1: Simpson obviously, but I enjoy cartoons.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like the old dude watching cartoons. I don't mind them.
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  Speaker 3: I think they're fun.
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  Speaker 1: The Family Guy's been great. I don't watch it every week,
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  Speaker 1: but every one so all watch it.
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  Speaker 3: What about you, Lorena?
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  Speaker 5: I know you would think my answer would be something Disney,
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  Speaker 5: But as a kid, my favorite cartoon was Sailor Moon.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I got you. Oh couple of Tom and Jerry
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  Speaker 3: when he was a kid.
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  Speaker 5: No, I'm not that old.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: My favorite cartoon character, like I guess it's like now,
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  Speaker 5: I'd have to say BoJack Horseman, great character.
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  Speaker 3: Uh. You liked that for a while though, right, did
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  Speaker 3: you like that.
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  Speaker 5: For yeah, yeah, I mean it is it is an
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  Speaker 5: old show. Now that's a fantastic show.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: But like as a kid, I want to say, like
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  Speaker 5: maybe like hey Arnold, I like I like Arnold guys.
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  Speaker 1: But for me, like it was a big deal as
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  Speaker 1: a kid. If you're around my age, the Saturday Morning
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  Speaker 1: cartoons were massive, Like.
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  Speaker 3: That was you know that's a that's all the cartoons
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  Speaker 3: on Saturday Morning. He was all so good as a kid.
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  Speaker 5: Man ash ash ketch him Pokemon, Pokemon. Yeah, that was
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  Speaker 5: Saturday Morning.
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  Speaker 3: All right, what's next? What do we got? It's ask Ben.
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  Speaker 3: Your questions are answers.
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  Speaker 5: This is a good one. I like this donkey sausage.
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  Speaker 5: Wants to know how dark? How dark do you like
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  Speaker 5: your toast?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I don't really eat breakfast food that much, but when
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  Speaker 1: I do eat breakfast food, I don't want it. Like
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  Speaker 1: the meat I eat is the color of the tires
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  Speaker 1: on my car that I don't want that with the toast.
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  Speaker 3: But I it's kind of a sweet spot.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not like Jim Nance where I take
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  Speaker 1: a photo of it like it's gotta be well done.
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  Speaker 1: But there's a sweet spot if you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Like it's on the darker side the toast, but not
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  Speaker 1: not too much.
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  Speaker 3: What about you, Raine?
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, chocolate?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, there you go? Cool? What really?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 5: I like darker toast, but like a brown or too
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  Speaker 5: dark brown? If it's if it's like black, that's that's
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  Speaker 5: that's too it's too charred.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, all right, very important to be like Jim Nansen.
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  Speaker 3: Have a photo your toast. What's next?
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  Speaker 5: It's a it's a number four on my toaster setting.
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  Speaker 5: That's what I That's what I like.
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  Speaker 3: Number four, number four.
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  Speaker 5: All right, let's see Wayne and Delute, who I've never
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  Speaker 5: seen work. Wants to know are the majority of your
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  Speaker 5: callers mentally ill?
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  Speaker 1: What is your definition of mentally ill? Didn't they Ronald
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  Speaker 1: Reagan in the eighties closed all the mental hospitals otherwise
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't have a job.
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  Speaker 3: What are you talking about? Come on? My people couldn't
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  Speaker 3: talk to me. Come on, I love these are the
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  Speaker 3: greatest characters.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so lucky these people they find me, these guys,
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  Speaker 1: I love them, every one of these knuckleheags my people.
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  Speaker 3: These are my friends.
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  Speaker 5: Kevin would like to know have you ever been to
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  Speaker 5: a metal or punk concert.
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  Speaker 1: No, I've only been to a few concerts. I've never
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  Speaker 1: been to one of those. What about you, Lorena, what's the.
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  Speaker 5: One warp tour? I think that counts. I've been to
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  Speaker 5: Warp Tour, Yes, yes, many metal, a couple couple punk shows.
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  Speaker 5: Metal is my favorite.
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  Speaker 3: Arby Metal Coop. What's next?
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  Speaker 5: Alfie? Alin Opiner wants to know. Do you enjoy cooking shows?
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  Speaker 1: Not as much as my wife, who watches them all
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  Speaker 1: the time. I used to like them occasionally, but she
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  Speaker 1: loves like British.
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  Speaker 3: Baking Show and I'm not that into it. What about you, Lorena?
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  Speaker 5: I love cooking shows, but I just can't.
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  Speaker 1: Cook all right?
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  Speaker 3: Cool some of them.
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  Speaker 5: I like the competition cooking shows.
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  Speaker 3: Well, anything with competition. Yes, the way to do it
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  Speaker 3: is to do a competition.
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