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  Speaker 1: chair and our lead. This hour is the matchup of
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  Speaker 1: the year in the NFL, this upcoming weekend, which ironically
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  Speaker 1: is not not the Thursday night NFL game between Sam
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  Speaker 1: The Green Bay Packers, fresh off losing to Joe Flacco
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  Speaker 1: and the Cleveland Browns. The Green Bay Packers with Micah
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  Speaker 1: Parsons take on Dallas Cowboys Sunday Night football. So the
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  Speaker 1: Micah Parsons revenge game, and this is the thing everyone's
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  Speaker 1: talking about. At prem episode of this show, we discussed
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  Speaker 1: the reality that Micah Parsons was talking out of both
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  Speaker 1: sides of his mouth.
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  Speaker 3: He was giving mixed messages.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there's some new information out around this game, and
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  Speaker 1: that is the head coach. I say that he's a
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  Speaker 1: figurehead in Dallas who has now entered the chat and
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  Speaker 1: would like to have his saying this.
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  Speaker 3: We're talking about Cowboys.
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  Speaker 1: Coach Brian Schottenheimer, who downplayed attempted to downplay the impact
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  Speaker 1: of the Micah Parsons trade as his team off to
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  Speaker 1: the one and two start as they head into Week four.
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  Speaker 1: Schottenheimer said, quote, we have not been playing to the standard.
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  Speaker 1: That's a big word, it's a word of the week standard.
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  Speaker 1: We have not been playing to the standard that would
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  Speaker 1: what we would want to play with, he said. But
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  Speaker 1: if we had Micah, you can't predict. Schottenheimer said, you
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  Speaker 1: can't predict that we'd be playing any better, he told
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  Speaker 1: they gaggle of reporters, and Day says, are you are
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  Speaker 1: you three and zero? Are you zero and three? You
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  Speaker 1: don't know, man, those are projections.
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  Speaker 3: Close quote.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so let's good jumping off point. Let us discuss
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  Speaker 1: the question. Brian Schottenheimer, coach in name only. Coach in
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  Speaker 1: name only, Brian Schottenheimer says, you cannot predict if the
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys will be playing any better with Micah Parsons on
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  Speaker 1: that defense had that trade not happened.
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  Speaker 3: Does this make sense to you? So I've got on
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  Speaker 3: this one.
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  Speaker 1: I've got wedding cake, I've got shoelaces and lunch box,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll put all these things together. We're gonna make
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  Speaker 1: a French onion burger, is what. We're gonna make a
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  Speaker 1: burger with the French onion to dip there. That's what
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna do. So a listen. Unpopular opinion. I actually
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  Speaker 1: agree with Brian Schottenheim on this.
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  Speaker 3: I do.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't detect any lies, and it's one of the
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  Speaker 1: oldest tricks. You learn this when you get in a
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  Speaker 1: talk radio, and I'm guilty of it. Every once in a while,
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  Speaker 1: But hypotheticals are great. And the reason hypotheticals are great
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  Speaker 1: is you're never wrong. You are never wrong. When you
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  Speaker 1: dabble in hypotheticals. It's impossible to prove you wrong, right,
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  Speaker 1: It's impossible to prove you right. You can't prove or
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  Speaker 1: disprove a hypothetical because they're hypotheticals.
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  Speaker 3: And now I do believe in the multiverse.
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  Speaker 1: And so there is a dimension where Michael Parsons stayed
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  Speaker 1: in Dallas and the Cowboys have the same exact record.
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  Speaker 1: There's also a dimension where Parsons stays in Dallas and
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  Speaker 1: they have a better record. But I do know that
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  Speaker 1: Michael Parsons is not he man. I know that he's not.
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  Speaker 3: That he's not.
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  Speaker 1: Walking out of the tunnel with the sword yelling by
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  Speaker 1: the power of Greyskull. He's not doing that. And then
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  Speaker 1: suddenly the Cowboys win. No, Michael Parsons is an impact guy. However,
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  Speaker 1: he is not a.
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  Speaker 3: One man demolition crew.
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  Speaker 1: And the idea that the Cowboys' entire defense and the
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  Speaker 1: secondary mainly collapsing and in harassmen when they played the
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  Speaker 1: Chicago Bears, if you want to call it that, and
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  Speaker 1: that Parsons being out.
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  Speaker 3: There, they would have been a different situation.
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  Speaker 1: It's just nonsense. It's absolute nonsense. And so on this one,
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  Speaker 1: shady Shotty is telling you what you already know, that
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  Speaker 1: the suck runs deep in Dallas for their football team,
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  Speaker 1: and it's systemic dysfunction and incompetence. The defense is like
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  Speaker 1: a poorly made wedding cake. There's layers upon layers of problems.
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  Speaker 1: And you could have Micah Parsons on one side, Lawrence
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  Speaker 1: Taylor on the other. Put Ray Lewis out there somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: I don't put bat Batman out there. I don't care
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  Speaker 1: put Batman out there. And they still be giving up
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  Speaker 1: chunk plays because there as one pundit said, they're doing
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  Speaker 1: a cover zero is what they're doing. They're covering No One,
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  Speaker 1: the cover zero defense of the Dallas Cowboys. And so
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  Speaker 1: Schottenneimer is es sense telling you. He's telling me without
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  Speaker 1: saying it, that they've got no depth, they have no creativity.
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  Speaker 1: They can't cover for the mistakes, which is mostly what
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  Speaker 1: coaching is. You cover for the shortcomings of your players.
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  Speaker 1: And it appears some of these guys have no backbone.
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  Speaker 1: So the Cowboys coach is pretty much admitting that listen,
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  Speaker 1: Micah was good, He's not.
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  Speaker 3: A miracle worker.
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  Speaker 1: Translation, we stank and we'd stank with him as well.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, so keep in mind Green Bay has Micah
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  Speaker 1: Parsons and they just lost to a team led by
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  Speaker 1: Joe Flacco and his dad Jeans.
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  Speaker 3: So congratulations on that.
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  Speaker 1: Now, turning the page to Atlanta, we go, why quarterback drama?
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  Speaker 3: Quarterback drama? We love quarterback drama. So the Falcons, who.
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  Speaker 1: Every year are supposed to be good and then usually
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  Speaker 1: pretty mediocre.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty mediocre.
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  Speaker 1: So Falcons coach Rahem Morris declared that he is not
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  Speaker 1: considering benching incompetent quarterback Michael Pennex junior and making a
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  Speaker 1: move permanent to the veteran Kirk Cousins as the starting QB,
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  Speaker 1: and Morris explaining that quote, Pennix is.
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  Speaker 3: Is our guy.
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  Speaker 1: Still, he's our guy until I let you guys know,
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  Speaker 1: all right, well, just to prove I'm not making this up,
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  Speaker 1: here's why. He Morris commenting on Michael Pennex and the
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  Speaker 1: situation there in Atlanta, Tikolaus, he said, sunny Kirk kwall
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  Speaker 1: Baker Pete for the starting job.
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  Speaker 5: Meltwad why Mike's out quarterback, you know, like Mike's at quarterback.
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  Speaker 5: We got a lot of confidence in Mike. We're moving
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  Speaker 5: forward with Mike. Mike's the guy. Mike is the guy
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  Speaker 5: until I'd let you guys know otherwise.
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  Speaker 3: But Mike so guy. Okay, he's your guy. Stand by
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  Speaker 3: your guy.
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  Speaker 1: As you heard and later on, is not even close
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  Speaker 1: to the point where Penex would be demoted. He was
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  Speaker 1: benched in the game against Carolina over the week. And
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  Speaker 1: so the question, how do you categorize the Falcons what
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  Speaker 1: appears to be blind loyalty to quarterback Michael Pennex Junior.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so on this one, we don't know what
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  Speaker 1: Raheem Morris is watching. Maybe he's not watching the games.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what he's doing. Maybe he's got like
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  Speaker 1: a tablet, he's watching some other games here. However, the
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  Speaker 1: games we've watched when we flipped over to watch the Falcons,
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  Speaker 1: that Michael Pennex Junior hasn't shown us anything that would
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  Speaker 1: indicate that he's going to be a long term good
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  Speaker 1: option at quarterback in Atlanta. Certainly nothing to have blind confidence,
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  Speaker 1: you know, zippo, zilch bupkis all those things. He's the
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  Speaker 1: thirtieth rank quarterback in the league so far this year.
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  Speaker 1: Small sample size, but that's all we have to go with.
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  Speaker 3: And if he's the answer, I do not want to know.
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  Speaker 3: If he's the answer, I do not want to know
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  Speaker 3: what the question was. I don't want to know. Now.
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  Speaker 1: I'm certainly not sitting here and singing the virtues of
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  Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins.
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  Speaker 3: He's got his own issues.
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  Speaker 1: But you're paying kirkus starter money to essentially be a
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  Speaker 1: quarterback coach. While Penex looks like he's afraid to throw
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  Speaker 1: over the middle.
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  Speaker 3: Everything is a checkdown.
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  Speaker 1: You look at the spray chart on where Penex throws
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  Speaker 1: the ball and almost everything is to the dump off
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  Speaker 1: area on the right side or the left side of
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  Speaker 1: the field. There's almost nothing in the middle of the field.
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  Speaker 1: They attempted one pass in the middle of the field,
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  Speaker 1: So he's Charlie checkdown and you've got Raheem Morris who's
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  Speaker 1: doubling down on Charlie checkdown. And one of the things
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  Speaker 1: he was like, he really just had a bad game.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't just a bad game. It was not it's
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  Speaker 1: three bad games. And really the games he played last
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  Speaker 1: year were not all that impressive either. Michael pennex to
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  Speaker 1: this point, and again, I like the player in college,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm just being fair here in the NFL. Michael Pennix, junior,
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  Speaker 1: the highlight of his career so far is the fact
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  Speaker 1: that he did not trip over his own shoelaces.
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  Speaker 3: Running out of the locker room and down the tunnel. Congratulations.
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  Speaker 1: And while you look at this, whether it's regressing or
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  Speaker 1: this is just who he is, Raheem Morris is standing
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  Speaker 1: on the sidelines and getting buried neck deep in quick
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  Speaker 1: sent He sucked as a head coach the first time,
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  Speaker 1: and it appears he still blows as a head coach.
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  Speaker 1: But he's really nice and the guy that owns home Depot,
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  Speaker 1: that owns the Falcons likes him a lot. So the
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  Speaker 1: Carolina loss wasn't just a bad game. That was a
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  Speaker 1: total organizational no show. They got shut out thirty and
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  Speaker 1: to zhering by one of the most god awful teams
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL, and they appear to have some problems
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  Speaker 1: admitting and I can't understand why they don't want to
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  Speaker 1: admit Michael Pennix is not any good at this point
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  Speaker 1: and may never be any good because they don't want
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  Speaker 1: to go back to Cousins, because then they would be
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  Speaker 1: admitting we fed up because we already benched Cousins. That
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  Speaker 1: was a vote of no confidence. We think he can't play. Okay, fine,
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  Speaker 1: you think he can't play. So then you drafted this
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  Speaker 1: guy's insurance. Well, your insurance is a bad, insane insurance policy,
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  Speaker 1: and you you know it's not worth anything. So you
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  Speaker 1: got bad insurance on the You had the original investment
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  Speaker 1: which was bad. Then you doubled down on some insurance
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  Speaker 1: saying one of these ways is gonna work then and
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  Speaker 1: the insurance isn't good. Like then everyone loses their job.
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  Speaker 1: So you have to go with Pedix, every dump off pass,
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  Speaker 1: every incomplete pass, every every time he looks like a
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  Speaker 1: deer in the headlights and he's hair brained.
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  Speaker 3: You got to go with it, all right.
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  Speaker 1: Last word, we had a trade, not a big one,
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  Speaker 1: but an interesting trade.
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  Speaker 3: Now, not a big one, but an interesting trade. And
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you why.
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  Speaker 1: So the Jets picked up what the nerds tell me
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  Speaker 1: is a very talented defensive back named Jarvis Brownlee Junior
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  Speaker 1: from the Tennessee Titans for a pick swap in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six. So the question is why would the Tennessee
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  Speaker 1: Titans make what most say is a foolish trade based
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  Speaker 1: on the talent of the player, Jarvis Brownlee. And is
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  Speaker 1: this just an amazing mitzvah for the New York Jets.
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  Speaker 1: So after a minutes long, a minute long deliberation, I
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  Speaker 1: have determined it's for the culture. It's for the cultures.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I'm seeing here. This guy I don't know
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  Speaker 1: a lot about, Jarvis Brownlee Junior, bounced around, went to
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  Speaker 1: I believe, Florida State and Louisville. But he has been
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  Speaker 1: described as a nut, a cancer, and high maintenance. Strike one, strike, two,
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  Speaker 1: strike three. I believe you're out unless Rob Manford adds
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  Speaker 1: a fourth strike. But then you've got him going on
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  Speaker 1: the defensive apparently, And he tried to delete this, and
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  Speaker 1: so he went on social media, went on the defensive
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  Speaker 1: about the attacks against his good name mentioned he deleted it,
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  Speaker 1: and that is a dead de boy, that is a
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  Speaker 1: dead do it that it's a sore subject. And teams,
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  Speaker 1: even bad ones like the Tennessee Titans, and they do stink.
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  Speaker 1: They don't dump cheap productive defensive backs unless unless they
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  Speaker 1: think that they show up to the locker room and
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  Speaker 1: they've got a lunch box, and in that lunch box,
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  Speaker 1: it's filled to the very top of the lunch box,
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  Speaker 1: which as best as it's a hogy, it's an as
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  Speaker 1: best as hogy, and it's going to poison the locker room.
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  Speaker 1: And then the Titans are saying, well, we essentially what
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  Speaker 1: they're saying by the trades, we'd rather be bad and
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  Speaker 1: have our wits to us then be bad and even
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  Speaker 1: more dysfunctional. And so what a week it is for
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  Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans. They traded one of their somewhat productive
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  Speaker 1: defensive backs, gave that player away, they demoted their offensive
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  Speaker 1: play caller who's also their head coach. So things are
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  Speaker 1: going very well there in Tennessee. And now the Jets
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  Speaker 1: they're all feeling good about themselves because they get this
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  Speaker 1: young player. And however, the teams always think that will
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  Speaker 1: be the ones to fix them. Now, I will tell
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  Speaker 1: you that, based on years of talk radio what sometimes happens.
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  Speaker 3: It'll work in the short term. Okay, to work with
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  Speaker 3: the short term.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen that with basketball players and football players, even baseball.
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  Speaker 3: Guys that are little nut jobs on the.
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  Speaker 1: Spectrum, that it'll work for maybe a year and then
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  Speaker 1: eventually it blows up. Eventually it blows up, like Antonio
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  Speaker 1: Brown went to Tampa and it worked for a little
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  Speaker 1: while and then it didn't work. And there's also another
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  Speaker 1: piece of evidence when I started digging around here for
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  Speaker 1: the player here, Jarvis brownly Junior was traded to the
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  Speaker 1: Jets from the Titans. The draft is also a tell
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  Speaker 1: that is a good piece of evidence because I went
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  Speaker 1: back and I looked at my notes because I have
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  Speaker 1: keep everything saved in my email here, and I went
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  Speaker 1: back and I looked at the draft notes, and some
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  Speaker 1: of the stuff that I read that my eyeballs want
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  Speaker 1: to pop out of my head when I read this crap.
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  Speaker 1: But I went back, and I don't really remember the player.
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  Speaker 1: So I went back and I read the Scotty point
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  Speaker 1: and said, well, he was greater as a first or
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  Speaker 1: second round pick, character issues, and he ended up getting
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  Speaker 1: drafted in the fifth round. So they don't always get
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  Speaker 1: the draft right. They get it wrong a lot, but
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  Speaker 1: on this one it appears they got it right. Teams
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  Speaker 1: had heard that there were some issues there, and typically
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  Speaker 1: typically there's some kind of smoke, there's usually some kind
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  Speaker 1: of flame. That's normally how that goes there and so
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  Speaker 1: the Titans it doesn't look like it based on how
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  Speaker 1: they played so far this year, but in theory, they're
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  Speaker 1: trying to build a very sturdy house there in Nashville.
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  Speaker 1: And it's hard to build a sturdy house when you
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  Speaker 1: get wood that already has termites in it, it's a bit.
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  Speaker 1: of Gotham and follow up to the follow up, follow
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: up to the follow up.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: Russell Wilson mode it better.
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  Speaker 1: Story is in the losing locker room, and that is
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: where Russ is hanging out these days, the losing locker room.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Even when he plays, he's in the losing locker room.
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  Speaker 1: So Russell Wilson informing the assembled media that he will
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: not will not be requesting a trade or two be
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: released by the Giants this season. There had been some
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: speculation about that. He also wants you to know that
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: he has not done. Let's go to cut two on that.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Here's a Russ pointing out he has not done.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: I'm not done. I got so much belief in myself
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: and know what I'm capable of.
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: I believe I was able to show, especially you know
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: on the road in Dallas and everything else.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: You played the Cowboys. I think I would have had
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: three touchdowns in that game.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: All right, So let us discuss the key part of
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: this is Russ telling reporters that he won't be requesting
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: a trade or to be released by the Giants. So
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: the question should the Giants now back up quarterback Russell
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Wilson be applauded for not demanding out of the Giants'
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: locker room. So I've seen some glowing stories saying well
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Russ even in defeat, Russell's doing the right thing.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: So my observations on this.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: I've got the Ford Modeling Agency, overhead projector, and direct
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• 21:01
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• 21:06
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• 21:09
  Speaker 1: favorite French onion soup. So number W Now, the answer
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: to the question should Giants backup quarterback Russell Wilson be applauded.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: For not demanding out? The answer is no. But I
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: have to do a talk show, so I can't just
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: say no.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: I have to expand on that. Here's why I say no.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: I can say absolutely not. That's two words. I said no,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: and then I said absolutely not. Now up to three words.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: But you don't commend someone for not quitting when the
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: truth is, and it's an ugly truth.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: Nobody wants him.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: See, it's not a situation where he's doing this because
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: he's loyalty. He's loyal It's not about loyalty for Russell Wilson,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: it's about reality. There's a difference there. Russ is not
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: making some kind of noble stand here. He is a
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: floppy disc. He's dated tech, he's washed up. He's a
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: relic of a different era. He had his time in
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: the sun. Congratulations. But this is like we all know
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: somebody that still has a VCR, right, And it's like
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: that person that has the VCR in their living room
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: and they're bragging it's a conversation piece. Now it's like, well,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: what do you have that? What's a VCR? I know
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: what it is, boy, i'd have it. Well, you know,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: it's a throwback to the old days and all that.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: And I just haven't decided I had that streaming thing.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: I don't like the streaming thing. I haven't switched to
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: streaming yet. Well I know, but you should do that.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: It's better. No, No, I like the VCR.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: So the way he's played, he's lucky that the Giants
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: are even paying him to pretend that he's a quarterback,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: like as a backup. He's not a backup. I don't
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: think you can call him back. He's like working at
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: the Ford Modeling Agency as a clipboard model when he's
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: wandering around.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: Mister, mister unlimited.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: And if Russell Wilson had any value, and I guarantee
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: I'm never wrong about these things, If Russell Wilson had
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: any value on the market, he would go to market.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: If there was one GM who is stupid enough to say,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: I need that guy, I need that's my guy, I
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: need Russell Wilson, then I guarantee you that his agent
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: would be tooting away there on the phone right now,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: demanding the Giants release him or trade him and all
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: that through back channels. But the fact that he's not
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: tells you everything you need to know about the value
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: of Russell. This is what we knew anyway privately, even
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: with that decree by Russ. Privately, you know his people
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: are working the text machine, trying to drum up some interest.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: Out of thin air.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: And what about Russ, how would you like to play
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: for the Bengals or whoever?
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: And the tape does not lie, and what's on the tape?
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: All right? So if it was a movie, it would
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: be a horror show, is what it would be.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: It's jumps, jumps right off the video there, right off
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: the computer laptop, bad endings and the whole thing ghosts
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: and goblins. So again, this is not something you commend
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Russell Wilson for because you just acknowledged the obvious that
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Russell Wilson's career, while he had some great moments in Seattle,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: is on life support. He's been on life support through
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: three teams, now Denver, Pittsburgh, and now the Giants, and
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: he's hanging around because the Giants are the only ones
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: still footing the bill, although not very much because most
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: of Russ's money was based on the incentives, which you're
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: not going to cash in because.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: You're not playing now.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Brian day Ball commented the road Ton coach of the Giants,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: who will be an offensive coordinator somewhere.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: Next year, but not with the Giants.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: But here's Brian day Ball, who gave his first comments
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: on the decision to say bye bye to Russ as
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: a starter taking list. I met both with Russ yesterday
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: and privately, and Russ was nothing but a pro, which
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: I expect them to be.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: It's my decision. We're going with Jackson.
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: We're gonna get him ready to play this week and
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: the remainder of the season.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: He's gonna do everything he can. Russe will be the backup.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: It's my decision, and we're going with Jackson, all right.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: So the key part of that he kept saying, it's
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: my decision, it's my decision. It's my decision, mad Yeah, okay,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: which is a tell. It tells you that that was
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: one of the talking points that he wanted.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: To get in.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: He kept repeating it, like you go into these things
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: and you have a couple of points you want to make,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: and so you keep going back to those points. Now,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: there's another part of this where Brian day Ball did
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: not even tell the locker room. Right, people are up
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: in arms. I saw some things being passed around.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: People say, oh, I can't believe this.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: I can't believe it that he decided to bench the
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: quarterback for the Giants, Russell Wilson. He went this rookie
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Jackson Dart and the players found out on social media.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: O MG, oh my god, says and so and of
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: course people are clutching pearls saying it's not right, it's
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: not fair.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: So question, did Brian Dayball disrespect the Giant locker room?
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Did he break the korum by not informing the players
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: at they were making a change and letting them find
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: out on social media about the quarterback change.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: So my response on this is police, what are we
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: doing here. It's not nineteen eighty five, it's twenty twenty five. Okay.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: You don't send a telegram, you don't send a carrier pigeon,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: you don't send the pony Express. You don't post it
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: on a bulletin board next to the coffee machine. There's
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: a laundry schedule there.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: In the break room.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: It's Twitter, it's Instagram, it's TikTok.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: Probably not Facebook, these guys are too young.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: But that's the megaphone, right, that's the megaphone. That's the
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: way it works. And this isn't Bill Parcells calling a
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: team meeting and he's got the overhead projector and he
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: puts a thing on the projectors and that's how they
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: find out. I know, guys find out the news the
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: way the rest of the world does. They scroll, they swipe, boom,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: goes to dynamite, done and listen. It's part of the
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: times we're in, right. People are chronically, whether you're an
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: NFL player just a regular smoll, you're chronically addicted to
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: the online world.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: And they're just refreshing their feeds.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: And before practice, if you played for Cliff Kingsbury back
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: in the day, during practice, probably in the huddle, the
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: whole thing, and you think Brian dayball owes each player
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: like a personal courtesy call, you know, like there's an
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: emergency and you send an emergency text out to everyone
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: and say, oh, here's what.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: You need to do.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: Foolish and let's not act like this is some massive scandal. Again,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: it's a lot of pearl clutching, a lot of that.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Even coaches themselves.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: Have been finding out that they've been.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Fired via social media. The last coaching cycle where they
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: changed coach at Robert Sala, coach of the Jets, found
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: out on social media. Gerrod Mayo, the Patriots coach who
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: used to be the Patriots coach, he found out on
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: social media. And Matt Eberflus, the terrible Chicago Bears coach,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: also found out.
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: They all got canned.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: They saw confirmation on social media before the team officially
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: told them they were fired.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: But that is the world that we live in. Man.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Years ago, I got whacked by this company, and I
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: found out before they told me, and I found out
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: from the New York Post, who sent out a story
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: about it. So that's how I found out. Am I
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: still am I bitter? I wouldn't even better. At the time,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: I was like, all, well that sucks. I'll go get
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: another job.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: I'm out and I six months in twenty six days
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: and that was that was away, and that was it.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: But social media is the fire alarm, and if you
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: want news first, that's where it often breaks.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: And complaining about it.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: It's like being mad at your local gas station because
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: they don't have a payphone anymore and you wanted to
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: use a payphone.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: Well, they don't need a payphone, they don't have it.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: Get over it, Get over yourself.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: This idea that players need to be coddled and sat
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: down and walked.
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: Through, it's just nonsense. It's nonsense.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: They're not children. They're supposed to be pros. They act
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: like children a lot, but they're supposed to be pros.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: And Brian dave Ball doesn't owe the room some kind
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: of group therapy session where they sit around the campfire,
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: roast marshmallows and sing Kumbaya. You want the news first,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: you know, we win some games, be indispensable and maybe
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: if you're one of those headline players, you'll get a
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: courtesy tap on the shoulder. Otherwise you get the same treatment.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: Everyone else, the rank and file, get the hoypol ow.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: You get the same treatment, just like if you were
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: nicking Nebraska. Right a push alert on your phone. The outrage,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: it's faux outrage.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: Is what it is.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Social media is the scoreboard of can Unication. Is the
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: jumbo tron right there. If you don't like it, you
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: can always take the blue pill. You can always take
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: the blue pill, delete the app. The story ends. You
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: wake up in your bed, believe whatever you want to
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: believe because you don't have access to it, so you don't.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: Know, and you don't know what you don't know. But
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: good luck doing that.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: And these guys would rather have I'm convinced they would
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: rather give up oxygen the modern athlete than Instagram.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: They would they would.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: All right, final point to motown we go and a question.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: A question.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Some people are basically up in arms, you know, wringing
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: their hands. They're wringing their hands here that Lions quarterback
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Jared Goff does not get enough love. He just needs
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: more love. He's underappreciated. So I asked the question is
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Lions quarterback Jared Goff underappreciated after Detroit ended up stopping
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: the Ravens back on Monday night. So the answer to
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: this is an overreaction. This is an overreaction. In fact,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: if you look at my mallor scorecard, which is never wrong,
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: never wrong about these quarterbacks, never wrong about these quarters.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: So if you look at it right there, if you
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: look at my scorecard, we put a graphic up, but
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: it's radio so you can't see it, and we don't
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: have graphics on the YouTube feed for this channel, so
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: you're pretty much stuck. But he's exactly where he needs
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: to be. Jared Goff is exactly where he needs to be.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: He is not in the top percentile, he's not in
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: the bottom percentile. He's right in the middle. He's in
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: the middle of the pack. He's your standard dome quarterback.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: You give Jared Goff perfect conditions, clean pocket, he will
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: carve you up. He will carve you up like your
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: prime rib. However, the second there's any kind of adversity,
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: cold weather, defensive pressure gets right in his face.
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: Forget about it, forget about it.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: He turns into all pumpkin pumpkin, and Jared Goff.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: Is he's not some plucky underdog.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: That's the other thing, Like it's it's very We've had
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: a couple of quarterbacks who were number one picks in
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: the draft who have really leaned in, really leaned in
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: to the fact that they're the the underdog, right, they
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: really lean to that. Baker Mayfield in Tampa. But Jared
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Goff also, I guess the number one broke the button
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: broke on that, but a little delayed.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: But these guys were the top pick in the draft.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: And that's the thing.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Like Jared Goff, if you were the number one overall
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: pick in the draft he was in twenty sixteen, you
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: can't say, well, I was, I was underappreciated and all that. No, no,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: that that's not possible. He was spoon fed in la
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: by Sean McVeigh and then spoon fed in Detroit by
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Ben Johnson. And you put training wheels on Jared Goff
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: and he can ride the bike, ride the bike. You
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: take them off and he's wobbling all over the place.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: And let's not act like the league doesn't appreciate him.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: What is the what is the way that you are
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: shown appreciation.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: In that business? Uh, if you you want to cue
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: up the old.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Respect song from Aretha Franklin back in the day riespect
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: direct deposit.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: Direct deposit is.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: A direct indicator that you are somewhat of value. Jared
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Goff is currently on a one hundred and thirty four
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: million dollar extension. Where I come from, that means he
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: is appreciated. And by the time he's done with this
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: current contract, he will have cashed checks just on the
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: field earnings for four hundred million in career earnings. For
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Jared Goff. That is appreciation with a capital A is
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: what that is. And the the money is the love letter.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: That's the love letter.
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: And fans some I don't.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: I think most people in Detroit to pretty level headed,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: but there's some fans in Detroit that may throw roses
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: at him.
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: Right, the league doesn't get it right.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: I would argue that the league does. They've got this one right.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: They view him correctly. He's good, not great. He's the
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: middle of the road quarterback. You can win with the
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: middle of the road quarterback. Rams got to a Super
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Bowl with jaredy Goff, and if everything goes right in
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, you can win. But he's not gonna
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: make players around him better, right, and honestly, listen, that
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: is not bad for a guy everyone thought was absolutely finished.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: They thought he would never start when he played for
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Jeff Fisher, meaning that he was so bad it's like horrible.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: And then with McVeigh, McVeigh was fed up with him
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: and shipped him out like an old couch when you're
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: moving out of college.
• 34:39
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• 34:41
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  Speaker 2: This is one big Ben gets grilled.
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  Speaker 8: Kolo Dean Sanders called out the j Aguars on a
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  Speaker 8: podcast this week, saying that they underutilize Travis Hunter. He
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  Speaker 8: said that Hunter needs more reps to be effective, but
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  Speaker 8: are they not using Hunter enough?
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  Speaker 1: Well, generally, the way it works is you have to
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  Speaker 1: show the wow factor. I have not seen it. It's
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: very exciting the idea of Travis Hunter in the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: but if he's going to be a middling defensive back
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: and nothing really electrifying on offense, it doesn't excite you.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing eye popping. So if you play well, you're
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  Speaker 1: going to get more opportunities. I disagree, and Dion's going
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: to defend his guy.
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  Speaker 3: I get it. I understand why Dan said it. I
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  Speaker 3: don't agree with them.
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  Speaker 8: Next, so the Cleveland Guardians have made history with the
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  Speaker 8: largest September deficit overcome to tire or take the lead
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  Speaker 8: in a division or league. The Guardians were eleven games
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  Speaker 8: back and they took the division lead on Tuesday. They
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  Speaker 8: still have it right now, Ben, are the Guardians legit contenders?
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Well, they're obviously contenders going they're in the playoffs. They're
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: going to be in the playoffs. But in terms of
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: are they a real threat to win everything? I don't
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: consider them a real threat. But it's been amazing. We're
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: going to talk about this coming up next hour because
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: it's really more about the Tigers and the Guardians. But
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: the Guardians are They're They're a pesky team. Those teams
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: do cost some problems, but they're not a real contender.
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  Speaker 8: Next, it was supporter of this week that Anthony Edwards
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  Speaker 8: has been watching tape of Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant
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  Speaker 8: to help develop his post up game. Ben, do you
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  Speaker 8: think Edwards will finally realize his potential and become the
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  Speaker 8: face of the league.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Coop, you know I listened to Rush Limba and
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  Speaker 1: Howard Stern tapes. Look at me now, I'm just as
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  Speaker 1: good as them, so clearly. And Paul Harvey, good day,
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  Speaker 1: Come on listen. I like Edwards, I like his Rasthmatazzy.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not buying it. How do we do? How do
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  Speaker 3: we do?
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  Speaker 6: There?
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  Speaker 1: We go?
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  Speaker 3: I passed it. I passed, I passed Matt.
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• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Time for Harry Henry Harvey wa ask bad Twitter said
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  Speaker 1: us your questions on Twitter now and no way we
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• 36:59
  Speaker 1: attempt to not fly too close to the sun. And
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: here is the Kooper loop with the reading of the questions.
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  Speaker 9: All right, We're gonna start off with a question from
• 37:08
  Speaker 9: blind Scott.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, Blind Scott.
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  Speaker 8: For some reason, Blind Scott would like to know if
• 37:13
  Speaker 8: we can do a meetup in Baltimore.
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  Speaker 3: Why would why? Well, I don't understand what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: I'm supposed to actually at some point get to Baltimore
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  Speaker 1: because my guy sports with Coleman, who I have known,
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: he's a radio friend. But I've never actually been to Baltimore.
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  Speaker 1: I was close, and I had I was at a
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: fork on the road and I was like, I was
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: in Gettysburg and Baltimore is not that far away from Gettysburg.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: But I didn't end up going, so I know I'm
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: not going anytime soon. Though, Well does he why does
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: he want to go?
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  Speaker 9: I don't know.
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  Speaker 8: But now that I've been to Wrigley and Fenway, uh,
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  Speaker 8: Camden Yard is actually the number one on my list
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  Speaker 8: right now.
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  Speaker 3: Now, you should go to Pittsburgh. I do want to
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: go to Pittsburgh. Is Pittsburgh is amazing?
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: They bad baseball team, good ballpark, Loraina, do you want
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  Speaker 1: to go to Baltimore.
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  Speaker 9: I'm down to go anywhere and everywhere.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know where Baltimore is?
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  Speaker 9: Somewhere over there on the eastern side?
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: What state is Baltimore?
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  Speaker 4: New York?
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  Speaker 9: Stop fans? All right, no, be be for real right now?
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  Speaker 3: Oh man, Okay, okay, I don't think she knows. All right?
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  Speaker 3: What is next to?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 8: Go ahead, and mister irrigation would like to know what's
• 38:27
  Speaker 8: the most heard of him? What's what's the most money
• 38:29
  Speaker 8: you have spent at a gentleman's club in one night?
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  Speaker 3: Well?
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  Speaker 1: I never spent that much, but I did go out
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  Speaker 1: with some baseball players who spent a couple thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 3: But I was along for the ride. It wasn't my money.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: It was only my money.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe one hundred bucks or something like that,
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  Speaker 1: the most when I was younger.
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: But yeah, Loraina, what about you? Most money you ever
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: spent at a gentleman's club?
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: Fourteen dollars ben for one drink, one streamer?
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  Speaker 9: Oh all right, what do you mean just dollars at
• 38:58
  Speaker 9: a time? Yeah, fourteen singles? Okay, gotcha, gotcha?
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  Speaker 3: That's an Oregon Yeah all right. Uh cool.
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  Speaker 8: So it was probably like somewhere like in the range
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  Speaker 8: of like two fifty to two sixty.
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  Speaker 9: And that was not even I didn't even mean to
• 39:14
  Speaker 9: do it. But was it worth it?
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  Speaker 8: It was my It was my bachelor party and somebody
• 39:20
  Speaker 8: had somebody had somebody had bought.
• 39:22
  Speaker 9: Me a dance with two girls, and I was.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: Did you go to the champagne room? Coop?
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  Speaker 8: I was, I was already like I was already pretty inebriated,
• 39:30
  Speaker 8: and I had two hundred and sixty cash in my
• 39:33
  Speaker 8: pocket when I went in there, and I didn't have
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  Speaker 8: it when I left there.
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  Speaker 3: So, oh cool, it was that good?
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  Speaker 9: Huh No, I don't think so.
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  Speaker 3: I just I don't remember.
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  Speaker 9: I'm pretty sure they just took it out of my pocket.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: Now. Years ago, there was a stripper from Houston that
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: used to call the show and pick NFL games when
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: I first started here, and she told me that the
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: whole key to being a stripper.
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: Is the upcharge. That you you have the basic rate,
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: but then you up charge, you got the add on.
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: It's just kind of like buying a car. Yeah, of course, right,
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: you want a tinted windows, and that's exact you want
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: those times? You want those rims on the tire?
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  Speaker 9: Do you want the top down? Anyway?
• 40:16
  Speaker 8: Moving on, Yes, moving on. Let's see ferg dogs and
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  Speaker 8: a bunch of questions. Oh, let's go. This one's from dogs.
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  Speaker 8: Some of them are not from Fergut. Do you have
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  Speaker 8: a favorite blanket?
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  Speaker 3: I do?
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  Speaker 1: Oh well, I actually have a pretty good blanket. Right now,
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say it's my favorite blanket. If the blanket
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  Speaker 1: went into the Twilight Zone and left today. I'd be okay,
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: I'd get another blanket, but I do like the blanket.
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: I'm a blanket guy.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: I always need the room cold, I need a blanket
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  Speaker 1: on top of me, or I don't sleep well.
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  Speaker 3: So I have a good blanket. But I'm not.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like I'm Linus from the Peanuts or anything
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  Speaker 1: like that.
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  Speaker 3: What about you, Lorena.
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  Speaker 9: I absolutely love blankets. I love being warm.
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  Speaker 8: I have three on my bed right now, and my
• 41:01
  Speaker 8: favorite one is actually the one that Bobby and Florida
• 41:03
  Speaker 8: sent with the villains on it, because it is so
• 41:06
  Speaker 8: soft and it's so cute for the season.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that's cool, That's very cool. Bobby has been very
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: kind here.
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  Speaker 8: He's sending us jerky too, by the way, Oh nice
• 41:15
  Speaker 8: fun jerky kangaroo jerky.
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: Oh okay, what about is it actual kangaroo?
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  Speaker 2: Is it?
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  Speaker 3: I say? Yeah?
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  Speaker 9: Wow?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, what about you? Cool?
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  Speaker 8: I have a favorite couch blanket. But as far as
• 41:28
  Speaker 8: like in bed, like we have we have a one
• 41:31
  Speaker 8: comforter that we use.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, like, I actually have a favorite pillow that
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: I have. It's like the perfect size. I sleep on
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  Speaker 1: my side. It's the perfect size pillow, and I actually
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: got it. I used to do commercials for sleep number
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: years ago and they sent me the pillow.
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  Speaker 3: And I love it. I cannot find that pillow. I've
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: been trying to find that same size pillow. I cannot
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: find it.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: So I use it, and it does not look good
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: at this point, but I still use It's what's the
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: next cool?
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: All right?
• 41:58
  Speaker 9: Staying on theme, we have this question for Cowboy Killer.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, Cowboy Killer, you would like to know do you prefer.
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  Speaker 9: A firm or soft bed?
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: More more?
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: It's it's not I'm in the middle. I'm not firm.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: I do have the sleep number, so I like it
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  Speaker 1: in the middle. In fact, my sleep number is fifty,
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  Speaker 1: which is right in the middle. So not too firm,
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  Speaker 1: not too soft, but in the middle.
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: What about you, Lorena?
• 42:20
  Speaker 9: Oh, I love to sleep on a cloud.
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  Speaker 3: The softer the better, Okay, cool?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm gone with Loraina. I lean towards a softer bed.
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: Wait a few more years, you'll change your position, all right?
• 42:31
  Speaker 9: Sleep around?
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: Yes? What is next year? To ask? Ben?
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour.
• 42:39
  Speaker 8: Out the alien Opiner would like to know, are you
• 42:41
  Speaker 8: old enough to have had a soda from a three
• 42:43
  Speaker 8: liter bottle.
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: No, no, yeah, I don't know.
• 42:48
  Speaker 9: I'd never recall that. I didn't even know there was
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  Speaker 9: a thing.
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: I am old enough to. Are those old credit card machines?
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: Remember they slid the credit card?
• 42:56
  Speaker 8: Do you remember the old soda machines that used to
• 42:58
  Speaker 8: have like the circles and the metal thing down the side.
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  Speaker 2: I do.
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: There's one in there's one in Passadena. There's there's one
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: over in Pasadena.
• 43:05
  Speaker 9: I want to play.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: Let's go, Okay, we'll go to Pasading. They're closed right now,
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: they're open.
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  Speaker 4: Turn it