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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: We begin our lead this hour in the Valley of
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  Speaker 1: the Sun, Arizona. And here we are sitting in relatively
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  Speaker 1: early August, about to pivot over to the middle of
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  Speaker 1: August and a NL West showdown kind of. You had
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  Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks and the Doyers over the weekend. Now, remember
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  Speaker 1: Dave Roberts said everything would be fine after the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: got there. Asked by the Cobs, he said not I
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  Speaker 1: everything will be okay, nothing to worry. But so they
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  Speaker 1: went to Arizona and Survey says, yeah, the d Backs won.
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  Speaker 1: The weekend series was despite the hostile takeover. There aren't
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  Speaker 1: very many Diamondback fans with mostly Dodger fans in that ballpark,
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  Speaker 1: and shockingly, it didn't matter as In the end, the
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  Speaker 1: Diamondbacks win the series two out of three, which led
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  Speaker 1: to a State of the Union address if you will
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  Speaker 1: by one of these stalwarts of the Dodgers. If you
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  Speaker 1: didn't hear or seeing this, perhaps not, you might have
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  Speaker 1: missed it. We have a little taste. Well let's we'll
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  Speaker 1: get to it in a second. But the Dodgers are
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  Speaker 1: stuck in this prolonged slump and there's no end in sight.
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  Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman A. I guess he's been with the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: a long time now. It seems like I always to
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  Speaker 1: me be in Atlanta, brave. But he's been with the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 1: I had one of the biggest World Series home runs
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  Speaker 1: in Dodger history against the yank He's in Game one
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  Speaker 1: of the World Series. So Freddie Freeman wants you to
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  Speaker 1: know there's no reason to panic, nothing to worry about. Here,
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  Speaker 1: just to prove I'm not lying, we have a Q
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  Speaker 1: and A. Let's go inside the Dodger clubhouse, and here
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  Speaker 1: is Freddie Freeman with some random, lowly played a lowly
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  Speaker 1: paid reporter. Take a list. You know, it's a long
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  Speaker 1: season and they're going to be ups and downs with
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  Speaker 1: the offense. But when you look at just kind of
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  Speaker 1: what's been going on with the group right now, the
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  Speaker 1: double plays and just maybe some kind of unfortunate situation. Question,
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  Speaker 1: are you seeing personally just right now exactly what you
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  Speaker 1: just said. It's face fall, ups and downs. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to go through it. No one's worried in here. Just
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  Speaker 1: goes happen to be, you know, during the time were
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  Speaker 1: our pitching has been pitching good the last couple of
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  Speaker 1: games and has an offense forgot to do better. So
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  Speaker 1: hopefully it's our smart There's been more than just this
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  Speaker 1: losing streak. You're nine and fifteen in the last month.
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  Speaker 1: Is that more of a cause for concern? There's concerning here?
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  Speaker 1: Be We're a good team, all right, There's something there
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  Speaker 1: that's so Freeman there pushing back against the doom. And
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  Speaker 1: by the way, whoever that woman, I don't know who
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  Speaker 1: that was, but can she take a class on how
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  Speaker 1: to ask a question? It's short questions, not you don't
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  Speaker 1: need to give a long question. It's just terrible. That's
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's embarrassing. Anyway. I don't know who that was,
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  Speaker 1: but Freeman pushing back against the Oh my god, the
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  Speaker 1: sky is falling on the Dodgers, and as you heard,
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  Speaker 1: he essentially said, these things are going to happen over
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty two games. There's no concern here
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  Speaker 1: and we're a good team. So that was the message
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  Speaker 1: and the vibe, and this is not just Freddie Freeman.
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  Speaker 1: The general vibe around the Dodgers is, ah no, everything's great.
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  Speaker 1: There's too much talent here and we're not going to
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  Speaker 1: be defined by this bad month of baseball they've been
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  Speaker 1: playing here of late. So that is a good jumping
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  Speaker 1: off point. Let us discuss the question where are you at?
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  Speaker 1: On Freddie Freeman in State of the Dodgers' address during
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  Speaker 1: this slump For the team that is playing against the
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  Speaker 1: entire field in baseball, it's the Dodgers of the field.
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  Speaker 1: Would you rather have the Dodgers in the playoffs or
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  Speaker 1: the field in the playoffs? That's the bet most are making.
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  Speaker 1: But where you at Freddie Freeman? You just heard a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of it the State of the Dodger address.
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  Speaker 1: So I've got I hop, Walter White and giant ceramic pig,
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  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
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  Speaker 1: we are going to walk the thin blue line, is
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  Speaker 1: what we're going to walk, so a giving this response
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  Speaker 1: the rebuttal by Freddie Freeman giving this some side eye,
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  Speaker 1: little side either the Dodgers, who have absolutely been sleepwalking
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  Speaker 1: going back until right around the All Star Game up
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  Speaker 1: until now. In fact, it's more than sleepwalk walking. They're
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  Speaker 1: enjoying their rim sleep here, the Dodgers, and they even
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  Speaker 1: have a nice weighted blankie that they're enjoying. They're getting
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  Speaker 1: some quality sleep here. Freddy free been sounding a bit
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  Speaker 1: like that classic scene from nineteen eighties Hollywood, Leslie Nielsen
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  Speaker 1: and the naked gun move on. Nothing to see here,
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  Speaker 1: please disperse while the fireworks go off in the background,
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  Speaker 1: and all kinds of craziness and all that stuff. So
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  Speaker 1: this has been my problem in this era of Dodger baseball.
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  Speaker 1: The I called the Dodger hubris, which I don't particularly enjoy,
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  Speaker 1: I don't care for. I don't like it. If Freeman
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  Speaker 1: saying don't panic, don't panic, don't panic, which is baseball's
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  Speaker 1: version of thoughts and prayers, thoughts and prayers, which really
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  Speaker 1: fixes nothing and is just annoying, So stop saying it. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: don't say don't panic. You might as well say, well,
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  Speaker 1: thoughts and prayers to us thoughts and no stop. Lately
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers their sponsorship. I know they've got pretty much
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  Speaker 1: only Japanese sponsorship, but they should have Eye Hoop as
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  Speaker 1: a sponsor here because they are serving up pancakes a
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  Speaker 1: night after night after night after night here of late.
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  Speaker 1: How bad is it, Mookie Bets? This how soft la
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  Speaker 1: is at time? Mookie Bets is literally stealing money from
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers. Stealing money from the Dodgers right now. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: has the balls to put it out put it out there,
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  Speaker 1: but we'll talk about it. Why not, We don't care.
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  Speaker 1: Mookie Bets since July first is betting. I looked it up.
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  Speaker 1: Two hundred since July first through Sunday, two hundred. So
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  Speaker 1: move over. Mario Mendoza, welcome to the Mooki line, the
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  Speaker 1: Mookie line. He's right on it. Two hundred batting average
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  Speaker 1: for Mookie Bets. He got that forever contract and it
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  Speaker 1: was great for a while. Right now, the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of years, he has been stealing money from the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 1: Two hundred batting average since July first. It's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like Apple right now, they say, you know we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: we don't releasing a flip phone. Well, why would you
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  Speaker 1: do that? Why would you release a flip phone? Makes
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  Speaker 1: no sense. Everyone's confused. Watching Mookie Bets try to hit
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  Speaker 1: a baseball makes no sense. Everyone's confused. Everyone's confused. And
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  Speaker 1: for all the swagger of ti Oscar Hernandez, he's betting
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  Speaker 1: to a Lee Evan with four home runs since June first,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't play in the major leagues. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: that's particularly good. Andy Pies was mister May for the Dodgers,
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  Speaker 1: one of the great starts in Dodger history through April
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  Speaker 1: and May. Andy pyes, who since the beginning of June
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  Speaker 1: is now the real Andy Pies with I think he's
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  Speaker 1: got six home runs since the start of June, which
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  Speaker 1: ain't that many. It's now all in August early August here,
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  Speaker 1: So that's not good. How about the pocket Ace Baby
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  Speaker 1: Ace Justin Robleski his last nine starts for the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 1: This guy was great for a few months, last nine starts,
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  Speaker 1: and he's working in an Italian bistro serving up meatballs
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  Speaker 1: and also an urn run average of four point five
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  Speaker 1: to nine. Ah, you're being mean, Mallard. I'm just pointing
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  Speaker 1: out these are all factual things. You can look them up.
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  Speaker 1: Don't believe me, go back and look yourself. My favorite, though,
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  Speaker 1: is Edwin Diez mister timmy trumpet. He you shove a
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  Speaker 1: trumpet up his You know what, Edwin Diaz, mister big
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  Speaker 1: free agent signing, got signed a free agent every year,
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers. So they got in for the Mets and
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  Speaker 1: he pitched like dog poo pooh. Edwin Diaz did the
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  Speaker 1: first part of the season. So the Dodgers said, up,
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  Speaker 1: we figured it out. We figured it out. It's the
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  Speaker 1: loose bodies, poltergeist, the loose bodies. Okay, so they had
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  Speaker 1: the operation no problem, went on a three month sabbatical,
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  Speaker 1: probably playing video games with Blake Snell and the other
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  Speaker 1: malfeasent players on the Dodgers that don't show up. So
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  Speaker 1: edwhen Diaz three months sabbatical and loose bodies, and since
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  Speaker 1: he's come back, his earn run average is eleven point
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  Speaker 1: two the price of popcorn edwhen Dzra, so, my piece
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  Speaker 1: of advice, unsolicited is just stop hitting the snooze button.
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  Speaker 1: And he said, oh, that's only August, and that's true. However,
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  Speaker 1: these things settle in and he said, well, it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter a bit. It's not obviously the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: It's just disheartening how disheveled and frazzled the Dodgers appear
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  Speaker 1: to be, and how there is just so arrogant about
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing here, and this thing completely unravels and
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  Speaker 1: then you can't put it back together, and then what
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  Speaker 1: do you do? Not meanwhile to the NFL and we
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  Speaker 1: go to Detroit. A veteran quarterback has said bye bye
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  Speaker 1: to his career, retirement, training camp, retirement, Teddy, two gloves,
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  Speaker 1: Teddy no more as he exit, stays left quitting the
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  Speaker 1: Detroit Lions. Is Teddy Bridgewater putting his NFL career on
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  Speaker 1: pause yet again? That's it. Dan Campbell, the man that
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  Speaker 1: will eat your kneecap, the head coach of the Lions,
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  Speaker 1: telling reporters Bridgewater's quit. He is stepping away from the
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  Speaker 1: NFL because he can't play anymore, so he's quitting. As
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  Speaker 1: a result, the Lions immediately went out and replaced him
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  Speaker 1: on the roster, adding quarterback Josh Dobbs. That's right, that
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  Speaker 1: Josh Dobbs. That is correct. Ding ding ding ding ding
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  Speaker 1: ding Ding. Chances are Josh Dobbs played for your favorite team.
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  Speaker 1: He's played for thirty percent of the NFL teams thirty
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  Speaker 1: three hundred hitter. He's in the Hall of Fame when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to changing laundry. So Dobbs in Bridgewater out
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  Speaker 1: put on the reserve retired list, Teddy two gloves out there,
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  Speaker 1: Dobbs signs a one year contract. He gets an extra
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  Speaker 1: four hundred and seventy five thousand garaon teed sight unseen
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  Speaker 1: guaranteed for Josh Dobbs there thirty one years old, and
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  Speaker 1: he will now be the number two quarterback behind Jared
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  Speaker 1: Goff in Motown. So the question how big a loss
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  Speaker 1: is backup quarterback Teddy Bridgewater to retirement for the Lons. Lions,
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  Speaker 1: so on this one and Teddy Bridgewar's retirement is it
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  Speaker 1: is a minimal move. It just is. That's just the
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  Speaker 1: way the Lions are replacing him with Josh Dobbs, which
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  Speaker 1: is by definition a lateral move that is not a downgrade,
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  Speaker 1: that is not an upgrade. Detroit essentially traded in a
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  Speaker 1: night light for a flashlight that has dying batteries. That's
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  Speaker 1: the transaction, that's the move that they made. Now Dobbs
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  Speaker 1: is the NFL's version at this point of duct tape.
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  Speaker 1: And he's not a flashy guy, Josh Dobbs. He's not.
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  Speaker 1: You'd rather not use him. Your preference would be not
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  Speaker 1: to use the duct tape or to use Josh Dobbs.
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  Speaker 1: You wouldn't want that. And somebody always seems to keep
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  Speaker 1: duct tape and Josh Dobbs around very similar, like every
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  Speaker 1: junk drawer has some duct tape. Even if you haven't
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  Speaker 1: used it in thirty years, you still have it. It's
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  Speaker 1: very odd now the pastor Not, which is right up
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  Speaker 1: there with great nicknames. You think of the the big
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  Speaker 1: nickname big board, not a list Terry in England, the
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  Speaker 1: big board when you have legends like the Amish Rifle
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  Speaker 1: and the hefty Lefty. The past or not pretty good,
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  Speaker 1: Pretty good there. I studied aerospace engineering. I think we
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  Speaker 1: all know the story by now. If you paid attention
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  Speaker 1: to the NFL, chose football, and then became a pig
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  Speaker 1: skin hobo traveling to the boondocks of the NFL here
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  Speaker 1: wandering through nine different teams. Now the Lions will be
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  Speaker 1: Josh dobbs ninth team, as he's the new backup in
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  Speaker 1: Detroit and Kemo what he has three wins in his career.
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  Speaker 1: He's earned over fourteen million dollars. Josh Dobbs and he
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  Speaker 1: has three career wins to his name, And so I
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  Speaker 1: guess he made the right call because otherwise what we
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  Speaker 1: do working on like NASA or SpaceX or something right now,
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  Speaker 1: if he had gone that other direction, that's what he
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  Speaker 1: would be doing. Now. I don't think you make that much.
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  Speaker 1: You make good money, but you don't make that much
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  Speaker 1: money in that profession. So there you go, and you
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  Speaker 1: look around Jared Goff, who's still QB number one. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if Jared Goff goes down, down, down, down, down down.
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  Speaker 1: If Goff does goes down, Josh Dobbs is not changing
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  Speaker 1: the season trajectory in terms of a super Bowl for
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  Speaker 1: the Lions. And he's basically it's like Josh Dobbs on
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  Speaker 1: your team. He said, Oh, there, I've been backup quarterbacks
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  Speaker 1: should have got it. Yes, you know, once in a
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  Speaker 1: generation there's a Tom Brady or Nick Foles or if
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  Speaker 1: you go way back, Trent Dilford, Jeff Hosteller, guys that
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  Speaker 1: have had success as a backup. However, there are literally
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  Speaker 1: Amazon stores like the warehouses of Amazon filled with backup
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  Speaker 1: quarterbacks who couldn't get it done. And when you have
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  Speaker 1: Josh Dobbs on your team, it's basically like having the
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  Speaker 1: Walter White breaking bad health plan. Technically you're insured, right,
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  Speaker 1: technically you insured, but when something really bad happens, bad, bad, bad,
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  Speaker 1: bad bad, You're going to have to sell some meth
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  Speaker 1: to pay for it. So that's the problem. Okay, here
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  Speaker 1: you go, and having Dobbs. Having Dobbs is like it's
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  Speaker 1: like having your emergency parachute and said, well, can I
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  Speaker 1: see it? Yeah, I'll show you. It's right here in
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  Speaker 1: my duffle back. Okay, good, thank you. So here's the
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  Speaker 1: emergency parachute and it's just a bed sheet. Well that's
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  Speaker 1: not gonna work. That's not gonna work at all. All
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  Speaker 1: right now, last word, I did want to spend a
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  Speaker 1: couple of minutes because I'll do old guy radio. Why
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  Speaker 1: not do old guy radio? What the hell? I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to spend a few good minutes talking about the life
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  Speaker 1: and times of the second winning as coach in NBA history,
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  Speaker 1: Don Nelson, a five time champion as a player for
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  Speaker 1: the Boston Celtics, whose numbers retired by Boston, which is
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  Speaker 1: not all that impressive, because anyone who's visited the Garden
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  Speaker 1: more than seven times has had their number retired. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: don Nelson is dead. He lived a full life. Don
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  Speaker 1: Nelson was eighty six years old. The news came out
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend that his death was announced on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Longtime NBA coach and someone that I was around in
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  Speaker 1: my formative years as a young radio lad, and I
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  Speaker 1: stuck microphones in don Nelson's face when he was coaching
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  Speaker 1: the last few years of his career as an NBA coach,
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  Speaker 1: and so our pas crossed, and I wanted to spend
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  Speaker 1: a couple of minutes. Now that this is it for
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  Speaker 1: don Nelson, lights out video game ends. The question is
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  Speaker 1: how are you going to remember? How are you going
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  Speaker 1: to remember former NBA coach Don Nelson who lived to
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  Speaker 1: the full age of eighty six. So, as I said,
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  Speaker 1: when I started doing this, he was still walking the
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  Speaker 1: sidelines of the NBA, and I will remember, and you
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  Speaker 1: can decide how you want to remember Don Nelson, but
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  Speaker 1: I will remember Don Nelson as the I called him,
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  Speaker 1: the like the real life nutty professor of basketball, and
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  Speaker 1: that really fits exactly, like Eddie Murphy but the real
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  Speaker 1: life nutty professor of basketball, the mad scientist who was
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  Speaker 1: scribbling potions in basketball formula on whiteboards. But they were potions,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the chalk Back then they had chalkboards. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: if we had white boards, they had chalkboards. And he
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  Speaker 1: was doing things thirty plus years prior that. The rest
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  Speaker 1: of the NBA thought, well, that's never gonna work. You're
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  Speaker 1: just messing around. You're ruining the integrity of the game.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the weird experimentation by the nutty professor Don
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  Speaker 1: Nelson back in the in the day. And then you
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  Speaker 1: think about now, in hindsight, Don Nelson, in all those
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  Speaker 1: years ago, Nelly was playing what is modern NBA twenty twenties,
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  Speaker 1: NBA basketball In the nineteen eighties and early nineties, he
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  Speaker 1: was doing that I woul point forwards, small ball pay shooting, mismatches,
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  Speaker 1: dragging the use. They used to have these big, useless,
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  Speaker 1: lumbering centers like Alton Lister and players like that. If
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  Speaker 1: you know who that is, typically capty year old. And
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  Speaker 1: he put these guys out above the basket, and it
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  Speaker 1: was unorthodox because you always wanted your center to be
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  Speaker 1: near the rim to block shots and get rebounds that
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  Speaker 1: don Nelson said, screw that, And so he did not
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  Speaker 1: believe in the traditional positions of the NBA and kind
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  Speaker 1: of like he was using an iPhone when everyone else
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  Speaker 1: had rotary phones and don had an iPhone. Well, how
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  Speaker 1: can you use an iPhone because nobody else has them?
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  Speaker 1: And that was the problem. Nobody else had the tech
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  Speaker 1: that don Nelson had back in those days. And he
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  Speaker 1: invented what at the time was called Nelly Ball and
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  Speaker 1: won over thirteen hundred games. Don Nelson and never was
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  Speaker 1: able to get a team to the NBA finals, never
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  Speaker 1: got to the NBA finals as a coach despite all
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  Speaker 1: those wins, great regular season coach, which could not get
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  Speaker 1: it done in the playoffs. But the sport eventually morphed
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  Speaker 1: into this world, you know, his worldview, don Nelson's worldview
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  Speaker 1: of what basketball should be like. And naturally, of course,
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  Speaker 1: a career that was unconventional, unconventional and he needed the
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  Speaker 1: proper accessories. You got accessories, and he accessorized. Don Nelson,
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  Speaker 1: this guy coach. He hated having to wear suits. There
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  Speaker 1: was a time where they had decor him in the
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  Speaker 1: NBA and coaches had to wear suits because it was
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  Speaker 1: classy now they can just like slobs, and don Nelson's like,
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  Speaker 1: I want to dress like a slob. He was ahead
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  Speaker 1: of his time there too, all these coaches just like
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  Speaker 1: slobs now. Don Nelson he was forced to wear a suit,
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  Speaker 1: so he'd occasionally take his tie off. He'd get fined
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  Speaker 1: for that. Then he wore one point a fish tie
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  Speaker 1: that used to be a thing, a tie that looks
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  Speaker 1: like a fish, and that was part of his shtikola.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: And at one point when he was coaching the Milwaukee Bucks,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: the famous story that's been passed down, who knows if
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: it's true or not that don Nelson would drive around
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: to raise money for charity and he had a giant
• 19:02
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• 19:06
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• 19:10
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• 19:16
  Speaker 1: For many, many years, don Nelson has been embedded in
• 19:20
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• 19:22
  Speaker 1: and there's some amazing stories about him and Willie Nelson
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: gambling and smoking weed all the time and just living
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  Speaker 1: the life that you'd want to live. Most people when
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• 19:37
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• 19:41
  Speaker 1: years a marijuana farmer. Don Nelson was selling drugs in
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: his later years, but again five championships as a Celtic
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: and did not get it done there as a coach
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: winning a championship, but had the all time wins record
• 19:57
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• 20:01
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• 20:04
  Speaker 1: the conversation when don Nelson was doing that stuff. I
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: watching minute ball shoot three point shots. It was the
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: dumbest thing in the world. And now you look at
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: it, it's like, well, everyone's doing what he did thirty forty
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: years ago his ideas. The NBA caved into don Nelson's
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: ideas on how to play basketball and he was just
• 20:21
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• 20:25
  Speaker 1: if it were a movie, don Nelson was the director
• 20:28
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• 21:48
  Speaker 1: I continue to be fascinated by the story that's not
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: a story if you're in the mainstream football establishment media
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: continues to give every possible red flag you could possible
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: we want of a cover up, and it just was like,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: We'll move on. There's nothing to see here. It's like, what,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: so our lead is from San Francisco, a electrical substation
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: near you. Wink wink, nod nod, dateline Santa Clara where
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: forty nine Ers coach Kyle Shanahan yep. Kyle Shanahan spoke
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: publicly over the weekend about the car accident. You know,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: the car accident where nothing came out for eleven days
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: and then there was a police cover up of the
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: car accident. Because that happens all the time. Yeah, Shanahan
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: reiterated that he caused the accident. He says he did it,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: saying anyone responsible for an avoidable crash that you know
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: it could hurt someone else would feel pretty stupid. So
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: he feels he feels stupid. Okay, Now the big new detail,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: the juicy lucy detail, Shanahan saying that his Tesla was
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: on auto pilot when he turned around to retrieve his phone.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Wink wink nod not. I added that phone had fallen
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: from his lap into the back seat. So I've had
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: my phone I've dropped it and then it falls between
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: the seats. I've never had it go to the back seat.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: I've never had that happen. Have you ever had that happen?
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: I feel like that's hard to have the phone go
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: to the back seat. Anyway, that's what he said. He
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: said the phone went to the back seat of the car.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Shannan said he had it was using the autopilot for
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: He's used it for nine years. Nine years on autopilot
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: must be nice, and he said, became very comfortable with
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: it and just turned around and the next thing, you know,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: come boom right there. So that is a good jumping
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: off point. Let us discuss the question for the esteem panel.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: How does forty nine ers coach Kyle Shanahan adding the
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: latest Tesla auto pilot nugget to the crash story? How
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: does that change things? So I've got Antie Ann's roast
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Master General and Britney Spears and we'll combine all of
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: these things together. We're gonna play Connect three now. In
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: order to play Connect three. In order to play Connect three,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: you have to go number one on one on one
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: one one one one. If you're keeping score at home,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: and if you're keeping score at home boy, what a loser.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Uh So, the first there was the accident check, then
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: there was the eleven day cone of silence. The story
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: was in bargoed check check, no body cam footage ever
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: to be released. The police cover up check check check
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: and now plot twist. Blame it on the pilot, Blame
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: it on the autopilot. It was involved story. They Kyle
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Shanahan car accident story has had more twists than an
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Anti Ann's pretzel factory. Just a twist there, and a
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: twist over here, and twist for you and for you
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: in the back. Everyone has this wist. Now, adding autopilot
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: just makes the whole thing even more suspicious, even more suspicious. Now,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: So the forty nine ers, along with Shanahan and the
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: security advisors of the forty nine ers and the pr bozos,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: these guys got together and they they created this fire
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: breathing dragon. Now, fortunately a lot of the media are
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: they're friendly, useful idiots, and they don't really care about
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: the story because they just want to hang out and
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: have lunch with the executives and the forty nine ers.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: They don't want to rock the boat. And so the
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: fire Breathing Monster was created by the franchise there in
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: San Francisco, and that they handled this story like they
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: were trying to smuggle plutonium, okay, And had they simply
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: acknowledged this was an honest accident. If they'd simply acknowledged
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: it right away instead of treating it like it was
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Area fifty one and the lizard people were going to
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: see you and you were going to see them, and
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: that's the problem, there would be far less scrutiny, far
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: less scrutiny. And I raise a lot of people just lazy,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: and they don't really care because you know, anything interesting, Oh,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: I don't know. We shouldn't pry around about that and
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: all that crap. But eleven days is an absolute fricking
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: eternity in damage control time. So again, as we said
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: in previous episodes, and so the math isn't mathing, And
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: now you add this latest wrinkle to the story, and
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: we've officially entered the twilight zone. Do do do Do
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do do doo. Yes,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: reality bends in a press release. It does. Now. The
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: good news is I have been told by my friends
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: that have teslas, the Bougeie people with their little teslas.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: That these things, our computers are wheels. They love to
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: brag and tell me how amazing these teslas are. They
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: always tell me that, and they say they have the
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: receipts there, they have all the data. And you were
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: always being tracked when your little tesla. So everything's being tracked,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: and that will tell the real tale if that is accurate.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: If everything I've heard, you know, I've heard it over
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: the years. If this is accurate, everything's tracked, that tesla
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: would know whether there was an actual malfunction or not
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: in Kyle Shanahan's autopilot. Until then, every new creation out
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: of thin air, I say, creation of an explanation out
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: of thin air, creates three more questions, at least three
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: more questions. So again, if there was nothing to hide,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: why are you hiding stuff? Explain that. I'll wait, I'll
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: take your answer off there all right now, Page duo
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: to Canton, Ohio Hall of Fame weekend. There, why they
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: really milk it, don't They used to be real quick,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: get that thing over with. Now they milk it to
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: get the Hall of Fame game. They got a dinner
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: event on Friday, they got the ceremony on Saturday. It's
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: a whole big to do this Hall of Fame, whole
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: big to do. So the Hall of Fame class included
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Roger Craig. We found out Roger Craig has some health problems,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: some bad stuff going on with Roger Craig. So good
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: thoughts his direction, So that's terrible. And Drew Brees got
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: up there and boring as always, and then Adam Vinitieri though,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Adam vinitary this guy, what a lightning rod? Did you
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: see this? No? All right, So Adam Vinitera used the
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Pro Football Hall of Fame induction speech to goof on
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Bill Belichick and his little girl friend thing. Yeah, all right.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: He used to punchline about Belichick's relationship with his twenty
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: five year old floozy, jeord Don Hudson, who is I
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: believe forty nine years younger than Bill Belichick, and that
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: inspired Adam Viniteria. Let's go to the audio tape, take
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: a listen.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: I would repeat those last few stiss about coach Bill
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: Belichick as well. Thank you for demanding excellence every single day.
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: Your preparation, discipline, and attention to detail shaped far more
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: than my football career. Unfortunately, Bill couldn't make it here today.
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: There's a lot going on at UNC right now.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: Huh.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: He may be on a recruiting.
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: Trip right now, looking for the next Lawrence Taylor. I
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: thought it was because training camp had already started, but
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: in truth, it's because he's judging his girlfriends cheerleading competition.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: My god, I can't believe it. I can't believe it.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: There you go, there's Adam Vinitari. So this created a hullabaloo.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: And I always love a good hullabaloo. I don't know
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: about you, but I enjoy a nice hullabaloo. So the
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: question is, did Adam Viniteri cross the line planting a
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: joke about Bill Belichick's Was he forty nine year younger girlfriend?
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: There at the Hall of Fame speech in the hallowed
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: hall of Canton, Ohio. So I'm gonna ask you this, listen.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Crossing the line a bit too dramatic for me. It's
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: a stupid Hall of Fame speech. It's a bit too
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: dramatic to say that. But to use a line from
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Bill Belichick's days with the Patriots, this was an emmy,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: meaning a mental error by Adam Veniti. It was an emmy?
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Was it was a mental error, completely unforced. Canton is
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: a football mausoleum, a cathedral of the pig skin, and
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: that is where you are able to go if you're
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: lucky enough and get up on the stage there in Canton,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: and you get to deliver your own eulogy. You know,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: when you're gonna die. We're all gonna die, and someone
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: else is going to speak on our behalf at a
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: funeral in the Hall of Fame. You're dead as a player,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: and yet you get to serve as your own speaker
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: at your funeral. You get to give the eulogy of
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: your life. And and so this is a very special
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: thing to a lot of people because you're still breathing,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: you're not dead. It's a big deal. So future generations,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: you would think down the line, you know, a couple
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: generations down the line, say, what was that game football
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: they used to play in America? Yeah, it was called
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: the NFL, and it just went away, It really went away.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: And did we have a relative, Yeah, yeah, your third
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: uncle twice removed from the gardener's daughter's cousin played. Yeah,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: he's in the Hall of Fame. Oh really, can I
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: watch the speech? Yes, well, just download it. To your brain.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: You can watch Adam Vanity's speech. Who is that woman
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: that he was talking about? Don't I don't know what
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: was it? Yeah, so his family down the line, future
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: generations will be able to watch the tape of Adam VINITII,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: who turned this into a bit of an open mic
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: night at the Comedy Store. But wait, there's more. It
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: wasn't just Belichick who got the razzle dazzle from Adam
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: Vinitari the joe. He also goofed on podcaster Pat McAfee,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: who was a punter for the Colts when VINETTERI was
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: on the Colts. He said, the only person who enjoyed
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: holding my balls more than my wife was Pat MCAVIEE.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: That's good balls joke, right, Come on, solid, it's trying
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: to get a job at barstool, it sounds like to me.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: But anyway, all right, so hey, listen this just in
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: to Fox Sports Radio Adam Vinetaria. It's going to shock
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: you at him. You are not the Roastmaster General, Jeff Ross.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: You're not doing a Netflix comedy special. You're not Time
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: and Place. You save those jokes at least for the
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Ramada in Lounge and Akron you can do those on
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Friday night, We'll book you for the Ramada in lounge
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: and Akron. Now, besides, keep in mind the Sigmund Freud
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: theory on this. We quote this a lot, that there
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: is truth in every joke, that there is a bit
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: of truth in every joke. Besides, listen, Vinitary, I believe
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: he was annoyed that Belichick wasn't there. I think he
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: was annoyed, and Belichick was annoyed because he didn't get
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame and he's dealing with the
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame snub Belichick and people goofing on him,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: shooping much younger lady, And then you've got the unc
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: pressure cooker that's not going very well. Vintary just said,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: you know what, let's get some Morton's kosher salt and
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: we'll pour that all over the open wound. Who says, no,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: why not right over Belichick's clam chatta. We'll put that
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Morton's kosher salt. Okay. So it wasn't offensive. It was
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: just like the whole thing was just like playful, awkward.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Unnecessary would be the word I would use. Unnecessary. And
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: a guy who was the definition persona of clutch Adam Vinitari.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: If you needed a big kick, Adam Viniteri was your
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: guy for most of his career. And then he walks
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: into this cathedral of football and he's dressed like Krusty
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: the Clown, wearing crusty shoes and the whole thing. All right, now,
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: final point to DC. We go, and we had Stefan
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Diggs agree to a contract while we were away. Diggs
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: joining the Washington football team formerly known as the Redskins
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: over the weekend. Agreed to a one year deal worth
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: up to up to twelve million, and he returns to
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: the team that's from his home area when he was little,
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs growing up. So there you go. And immediately
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: over the weekend he became part of a viral moment
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: at training camp and that if you didn't see this,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: this is pretty funny. So Commander's guard, Sam Cosme, I
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: believe that says is name. Nobody knows offensive lineman names
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: unless they're really bad or really good. He's not really
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: bad or really good. He's just there, so we'll call
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: him Sam Cosmy. So this guy, welcome Stefan Diggs. He
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: was doing an interview about Diggs and all that stuff
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: because I guess they couldn't get anyone else to interview.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: So the interview the offensive lineman and was goofing about
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: the long standing reputation of Diggs with the Ladies, and
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: man legendary asked about his new teammate, the Washington offensive
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: lineman cracked. I wouldn't let him date my sister, is
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: what he said. Now that comment was a callback my
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: brothers and sisters in Minnesota. They know the great line
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: from a couple of years back there when many teams ago,
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: when Stefan Diggs was playing for the Minnesota Vikings, and
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: they went around the locker room and they asked the
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: players and who would you want to date your sister?
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: Who do you not want to date your sister? And
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: overwhelmingly the player that they did not want to pick
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: to date their sister was Stefon Diggs and didn't want
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: that all right. So the question, here's the question, how
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: did you score? Wide receiver Stefon Diggs taking shrapnel from
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: his new commander's co worker, this offensive lineman over his
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: mad riz with the Ladies. So I've got I got this.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: I wrote down an E on my scorecard as in
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: earned well earned for Now, I don't know Stefon Diggs
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: from a lamppost. I just heard the same thing year
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: after year after year. So there must be something there.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: I just gotta be something, A little colonel, a little
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: colonel of truth. There has to be something there. So
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: Sam Cosmi didn't serve up something out of left field.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: This has been simmering on the back of the stove
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: for a while, and it's a classic joke. It's really
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: not even a joke. It's more of a PSA doing
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: overnight radio. I know a thing or two about PSA's
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: public service announcement delivered with the rage of a man
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: who's seen Stefan Diggs body count. And you know, they
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: have pro football Reference, they have Baseball Reference, they have
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: basketball reference for Stefan Diggs. They have Booty Reference on
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: there for him. You can go check that out. And
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: maybe not because that might be a dirty site. I
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: don't know. I just made that up, so that's probably not,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: probably not legit. Now Diggs walks in to the Commander's facility,
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: Stefon Diggs there, and it's it's like in my head,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: the cartoon bubble in my head, Like the guys start
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: clutching their family photos like the you know, the I
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: R s. He's the irs, you know, like, oh crap,
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: here comes the I R S to the classic Britney
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: Spears song back in the day womanizer, and Digg's reputation
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: precedes him as he is dangerous apparently for the ladies.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: He's seductive. He's mister beefcake and women find him irresistible
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: before he chews them up and spits them out, which
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: I think is the opposite of man eater. Now, which
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: is that's that with the opposite of how that works there?
• 37:35
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  Speaker 5: Ben Jaden Daniels had a stellar rookie season, then he
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  Speaker 5: tackle Laramie Tunsel has torn his triceps and is thought
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  Speaker 5: to be out for the majority of the regular season.
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  Speaker 5: You think it's time for the Commanders to hit the
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  Speaker 5: panic button already.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I think they should just forfeit the first eight
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  Speaker 1: games of the season and just not even show up
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  Speaker 1: and say that this is not ideal obviously, Cooper Loop.
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  Speaker 1: This is a pivot year for Jayden Dangls was his
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  Speaker 1: rookie season of fluke. Now, you can have a year
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  Speaker 1: have another bad year and you're not productive, then that's
• 39:19
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  Speaker 1: hit wonder. So he's looking very bleak in Washington, and
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  Speaker 1: they're signing washed up players like Stefan Dicks. Next.
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  Speaker 5: There was a port over the weekend that Anthony Richardson,
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  Speaker 5: a former number four overall pick, may not even win
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  Speaker 5: the backup quarterback job in Indianapolis. How much longer before
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  Speaker 5: Anthony Richardson's out of the NFL completely.
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  Speaker 1: He will be playing for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Before
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  Speaker 1: you can count to seven. This is not going well.
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  Speaker 1: He did something that is a cardinal sin. As you know, Coop,
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  Speaker 5: Next, the Panther said recently that they're not ready only
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  Speaker 5: Young extension. They said his ceiling is currently unknown. Ben,
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  Speaker 5: do you agree with that?
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  Speaker 1: No, listen, if he wasn't he played better last year? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's He's sporadically good. And anytime he has a good game.
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  Speaker 1: This is how pathetic Bryce Young. Anytime he has a
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  Speaker 1: good game, you think it's a fluke. You're thinking, well,
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  Speaker 1: he's not gonna happen again. Oh, men once every you know,
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  Speaker 1: seven year. I wouldn't bet on him. I certainly wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: pay him. Yeah, it's a bad situation. How we do
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  Speaker 1: how do we know how passes? Unlike the Seahawks, they're
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: not gonna win this year. No Streudinus, they're not gonna win.
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  Speaker 1: believe it or not, the Dodgers, of all people who
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  Speaker 1: last nine games. And it's even worse than that going
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  Speaker 1: back to last month. They've been very mediocre, and so
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers need some help. Freddy Freeman says, everything's fine.
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  Speaker 1: parachute down from the ceiling, it's all good. Hello, call
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  Speaker 4: You said something about gravity.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Colm down, Rick and Maryland there. Caller three,
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  Speaker 1: you're on the airline three. Hello, line three.
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  Speaker 2: Wait, this is going You might want Kenny Jensen back.
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  Speaker 1: I think we're good on that. I think you're a
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  Speaker 1: good supermarket Steve there. You worry about your Yankees hollering? James?
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  Speaker 1: I see he's online. Are you there, James? You're my
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  Speaker 1: fourth caller, James. No, still, we'll hang up on him.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see your next line five. Hello, line five. Get
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  Speaker 1: you back to school in Vegas too, baby, No, no,
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  Speaker 1: back to school in Vegas. That that sucks. All right,
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  Speaker 1: let's see who needs our advice? Who else? Page Dan,
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  Speaker 1: Page Dan. That was a slug, of course. Your next
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  Speaker 1: caller advice to the Dodgers caller, Hello.
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  Speaker 2: It matters in October.
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  Speaker 1: Remember, Uh well, no, I met, I have a show.
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  Speaker 1: I have a show new today, Sean the hood guy.
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  Speaker 1: It matters to me today because I have to do
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  Speaker 1: if they tell me they'll pay me until October and
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  Speaker 1: I'm good. I'll shut up your next line five? Hello,
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  Speaker 1: line five, you have to learn.
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  Speaker 4: To go back to Brooklyn and learn how to play
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  Speaker 4: better baseball.
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: That's good, good advice. Move back to Brooklyn. Why not? Yes,
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: bring back Ebitttsfield call it. You're on the air line six. Hello,
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  Speaker 1: don't eat the brown acid? All right, thank you for that. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: let's see we do one more, only one more of us. Good.
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  Speaker 1: I'll take credit at not. I'll Bama Coople. Final call.
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  Speaker 1: Instant advice line for the struggling Dodgers, Line three, Line three.
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  Speaker 1: You're on the air line three.
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  Speaker 2: Go it seems like chance in Alabama.
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  Speaker 1: And the Dodgers. That's something in common. All right, I
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  Speaker 1: know what you were about to say and I cut
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  Speaker 1: you off because you can say a bad thing. You
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: can't say that, so