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  Speaker 1: Welcome in the beginning, have another night of the Ben
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  Speaker 1: hour flight. That's a long time to talk in the
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  Speaker 1: darkness in the void here late at night, but we
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  Speaker 1: will attempt to do that take you to the early
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  Speaker 1: morning hours here on a smooth flight. But our lead
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  Speaker 1: this hour from the coaching carousel, round and round and
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  Speaker 1: round and round round. Yeah, it's always good content when
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  Speaker 1: you're a struggling, fledgling overnight gas bag to do some
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  Speaker 1: coaching carousel talk. But this story is it's good. It's
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  Speaker 1: a good story. So I like talking about good stories.
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  Speaker 1: So the story out of Baltimore still has legs. We've
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  Speaker 1: had some new developments in the Baltimore Ravens excommunicating John Harbaugh,
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  Speaker 1: and we're hearing that that Harbaugh he's not going to
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  Speaker 1: interview today or tomorrow or the next day. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: he's expected to sit it out until after the weekend,
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  Speaker 1: which is a savvy move. More on that in a minute.
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  Speaker 1: And the other story, which is quite detail. See if
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  Speaker 1: you believe it or not. Perhaps you don't, maybe you've
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  Speaker 1: heard about it. I don't know. There's chatter, and we
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  Speaker 1: know I love my chatter. That John Harbaugh could that's
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  Speaker 1: a weasel word, could land a contract in the neighborhood.
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  Speaker 4: Of one hundred million dollars. I know, right, Come on,
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  Speaker 4: now he's good?
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  Speaker 2: Is he?
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  Speaker 1: That good? One hundred million dollar pyramid for John Harbaugh?
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  Speaker 1: That noise coming out of northern Ohio, much to the
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  Speaker 1: dismay of our caller Dick from Dayton, who's upset because
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  Speaker 1: he wants Bill Belichick to go coach the Browns. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the noise is that owner Jimmy Haslam, the truck stop guy,
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  Speaker 1: is a smitten kitten and he loves to blow money.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't believe me, ask the creepy quarterback to
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  Speaker 1: Shaun Watson. Now, John Harbaugh may may get what in
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  Speaker 1: NFL parlance is called the John Gruden deal. So that
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  Speaker 1: means ten years, one hundred million dollars, which is a
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  Speaker 1: good jumping off point, So let us discuss the question.
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  Speaker 1: Would now former Baltimore coach John Harbaugh coach the Browns
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  Speaker 1: for one hundred million dollars? So my thoughts on this,
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  Speaker 1: I've got drive through at Mickey D's dueling Pianos and
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  Speaker 1: Kentucky Derby and we'll throw all of these ingredients into
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  Speaker 1: the air fryer and we're gonna make some pastrami fries
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  Speaker 1: because that sounds pretty good. So a to answer the question,
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  Speaker 1: would John Harbaugh take one hundred million dollars from Cleveland police?
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  Speaker 1: This is not complicated, This is not hard. This is
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  Speaker 1: two plus two is what this is. We're not doing algebra,
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  Speaker 1: we're not doing calculus here. You don't have to be
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  Speaker 1: a rocket scientist to figure this out. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: care how many purple sweaters Harball owns. And one hundred
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  Speaker 1: million dollars, that's the Godfather off. You don't turn down
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  Speaker 1: the Godfather off. Fact, that's not a contract, that's a
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  Speaker 1: suitcase with a blinking red light on it. And I
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  Speaker 1: know as I've gotten I learned this years ago. But
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  Speaker 1: everyone's got a price, and whatever you say, you won't
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  Speaker 1: do If the dollar figure is big enough, you'll do it. Everybody.
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  Speaker 1: So my opinion, it's the law of the land. I
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  Speaker 1: learned this. There was a book called The Magic Christian,
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  Speaker 1: not a religious book. But back in the day, they
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  Speaker 1: made a movie. It was terrible. I should remake that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't really make good movies anymore, but that could
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  Speaker 1: be a really solid movie. Anyway. It's just human behavior,
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  Speaker 1: just watching human behavior. And we know this as a
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  Speaker 1: universal truth. Every man, woman and child knows that nobody
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  Speaker 1: wants to coach the Browns. Its football purgatory is what
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  Speaker 1: it is. However, for one hundred million dollars, you don't walk.
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  Speaker 1: You sprint to the docu sign in tap shoes and
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  Speaker 1: you have your jazz hands, and that's what you do.
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  Speaker 1: That is a trip to the drive through at Mickey D's.
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  Speaker 1: That is the ultimate happy meal with extra thick golden arches.
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  Speaker 1: If you know what I'm saying. It doesn't whisper, it screams.
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  Speaker 1: And Jimmy haslm we know he can afford it. All
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  Speaker 1: these owners are aristocrats and all that, but Jimmy Haslam
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  Speaker 1: is swimming in cash like Scrooge McDuck. Plus hardball would
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  Speaker 1: get to haunt Baltimore twice a year, or the Ravens
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  Speaker 1: could haunt him. Either way, it's a good storyline. However,
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  Speaker 1: here's the fly in the ointment to turn in the
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  Speaker 1: punch Bowl Harball. John Harball wants to get back and
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  Speaker 1: win another Super Bowl if he wants to get another ring,
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  Speaker 1: and he's got to turn down the money, which is
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  Speaker 1: gonna be hard to do. Say, it's a hard thing
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  Speaker 1: to do to turn down that money. And you wait.
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  Speaker 1: I like the fact that he's waiting. He's taking the
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  Speaker 1: Malard council. Clearly we gave advice. We gave a sermon
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  Speaker 1: yesterday about this in a previous episode of the show.
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  Speaker 1: And the move here as career counselor is to just wait,
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  Speaker 1: wait for the playoff choke jobs to start coming in,
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  Speaker 1: and then cherry pick what job you want. Green Bay
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  Speaker 1: Packers lose to the Bears, does that job open up?
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  Speaker 1: The Buffalo Bills go down in Jacksonville. Then all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden, the Bills need a new head coach, So
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  Speaker 1: you go there, does that job open up? Who else?
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  Speaker 1: Around the end? But what are the gigs and teams
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  Speaker 1: that are going to lose on wild card weekend, What
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  Speaker 1: are their jobs open up. There'll be a couple, there'll
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  Speaker 1: be a couple at least that consider firing their coaches.
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  Speaker 1: So the balls in your court, right, the balls in
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  Speaker 1: your court at that particular point. Now, the second part
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  Speaker 1: of this page two, the Ravens Drama Hour continues. We
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  Speaker 1: love the drama, O rama, and there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: it around the Ravens. So there's conflicting reports on why
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  Speaker 1: exactly John Harbaugh was whacked as coach of the Ravens.
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  Speaker 1: The popular opinion by popular people, which was promoted by
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  Speaker 1: the state sponsored prov the news service of the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: was that Harbaugh had launcht the locker room. Now we
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  Speaker 1: have insider on insider crime here, Adam Schefter, Shefty. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of you don't know this, but when Fox Sports
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  Speaker 1: Radio started, Adam Schefter was a contributor to Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know whatever happened to him anyway, He refuted,
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  Speaker 1: He refuted the NFL networks in rappaport and his report
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  Speaker 1: that John Harbor had lost the Ravens locker room said
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  Speaker 1: that couldn't be further from the truth. The question, you've
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  Speaker 1: got these dueling, conflicting reports here on John Harball losing
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  Speaker 1: the locker room. Where is the truth? All right? So
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  Speaker 1: I've done a minutes long mallar investigation, and this is
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  Speaker 1: dueling pianos in a hotel lobby at just after two
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  Speaker 1: in the morning, and everybody's completely schnockered. They're drunk. No
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  Speaker 1: one's listening. One guy's playing Heartbreak Hotel. Oh, what a
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  Speaker 1: sob story. The other guy's banging out Kumbaya. Schefter basically
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  Speaker 1: said a report couldn't be more wrong. Players were crying, hugging, sobbing,
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  Speaker 1: like John Harball was just shipped off to war. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: if you go to Cleveland you could argue that's the
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  Speaker 1: football version of that anyway. So where's the truth? The
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  Speaker 1: truth lies in the void. It lives in the void
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  Speaker 1: between the press releases and the leagues. And this based
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  Speaker 1: on years of dealing with these kinds of stories. It
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  Speaker 1: just my horse sense tells me that it's water carrying.
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  Speaker 1: You've got Ian Rappaport from the state sponsored news service
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  Speaker 1: of the NFL pushing the ownership narrative, making the owners
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  Speaker 1: in Baltimore look good. Listen, we had no choice. We
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  Speaker 1: had to do a clean break. We had to do it.
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  Speaker 1: We have no blood on our hands. The players just
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  Speaker 1: didn't listen anymore. We had to get rid of John Harball,
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  Speaker 1: had to do it. And then you've got Schefter and
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  Speaker 1: he's writing Shotgun with John Harbaugh. He's handing out tissues
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  Speaker 1: and violins. And of course we do know also that
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  Speaker 1: losing the locker room does not mean losing every single play,
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  Speaker 1: all fifty three players on your active roster. It means one.
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  Speaker 1: It means when what we've talked about, if Lamar Jackson
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  Speaker 1: I mean run this by see which I mean nod
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  Speaker 1: or shake your head. No, if Lamar Jackson was the
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  Speaker 1: player that isn't buying John Harbaugh, and there was some
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  Speaker 1: testy comments that were parsed during the season, whatnot. If
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  Speaker 1: that's the case, the closed, the store is closed, right,
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  Speaker 1: that's it. I mean, the end of discussion. So not
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  Speaker 1: a mutiny, not a mutiny on the Baltimore Bounty. More
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  Speaker 1: like a bad smell. And it's one of those things.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, it's great for talk radio because nobody can
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  Speaker 1: prove it, no one's gonna cop to it, right, and
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  Speaker 1: everyone's blaming the fridge. But whether that's smell, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what's smell is what. I don't what is that? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's it's got to be the frig. Well
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  Speaker 1: maybe it's not the fridge. It may something else and
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. All right, last word, we quickly go
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  Speaker 1: to the NFL playoffs. We sidestep our way to Chicago,
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  Speaker 1: where ya Femi and Tree and all the boys Eugene
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  Speaker 1: in Chicago, all fired off as the Bears have a
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  Speaker 1: home playoff game this weekend Green Bay Packers, and the
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  Speaker 1: storyline here Bears quarterback Caleb Williams and coach Ben Johnson
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  Speaker 1: in agreement with glowing commentary that Caleb Williams is for
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  Speaker 1: these moments. So the question, Kayla Williams and Ben Johnson
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  Speaker 1: both in lockstep, about how prepared Caleb Williams is for
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  Speaker 1: these big playoff games, big postseason moments. Are you on
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  Speaker 1: board with this? So? Absolutely not. I am not buying
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  Speaker 1: the hype package. I've never been the guy to buy
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  Speaker 1: the hype package. I'm not buying it now. The glossy brochure,
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  Speaker 1: the hey, you know, sign the deal here and you
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  Speaker 1: can stay in Hawaii for a week a year and
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  Speaker 1: go to Florida. You know, it's that scam. No, I
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  Speaker 1: don't I'm not believing the brochure or the pregame perfume
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  Speaker 1: or any of it. Here's why, all right, you don't
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  Speaker 1: tell me that you're built for these moments. Go out
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  Speaker 1: and show me. Go out and dominate the Green Bay Packers.
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  Speaker 1: Go out and win the game and make the big plays,
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  Speaker 1: and then you don't have to tell me. I'll see it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't need some kind of ted talk about how
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  Speaker 1: prepared where Caleb Williams is and all that. It's it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of like the Kentucky Derby, right, Caleb Williams is
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  Speaker 1: the thoroughbred everyone's been hyping up and they say, look
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  Speaker 1: look at how nice his nails are. Everyone keeps calling
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  Speaker 1: Kayleb Williams. Oh, he's like secretariat, Oh, generational quarterback. We've
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  Speaker 1: seen this a lot over the years. These guys get
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  Speaker 1: hyped up. However, the gates haven't even opened up yet.
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  Speaker 1: They haven't opened up yet, And you don't get roses
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  Speaker 1: for warm ups and the exhibition game, which is the
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  Speaker 1: regular season and for most teams that are trying to
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  Speaker 1: that have ambitions of winning championship, trying to win a championship,
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  Speaker 1: and right now he's still learning where the rail is right,
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  Speaker 1: is at the derby trying to figure out now the
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  Speaker 1: advanced numbers. They're not that kind the killer. Who are
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  Speaker 1: you talking about? The birds of a great record? What
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  Speaker 1: are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Him?
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  Speaker 1: Going out? Condown? Right, Colm down, I'm just going by
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  Speaker 1: the nerd stats. They say that he still holds the
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  Speaker 1: ball too long, that he drifts into trouble, and that
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  Speaker 1: there are stretches where Caleb Williams the engine flat out sputters.
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  Speaker 1: And you can't say that. Listen, when you win a lot,
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  Speaker 1: that stuff goes away. People don't talk about that stuff. Right,
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't mean it's not there. And so it looks
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  Speaker 1: more like a prototype than a finished product. That the
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  Speaker 1: winds are great and all that you need receipts. We
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  Speaker 1: need receipts, right, we need a blood desk. Got to
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  Speaker 1: crack open the old DNA this weekend. And even if
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  Speaker 1: you play well this weekend, right still said, well, that's
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  Speaker 1: just wildcard weekend all. But is there actually a postseason
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  Speaker 1: clutch genie there It does cut a little different or
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  Speaker 1: is this just a bunch of coach speak for breeze,
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  Speaker 1: as we like to say, sprayed over reality. Right, you're
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  Speaker 1: covering up the smell, and I used to get used
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  Speaker 1: to be a guy that worked at Fox Sports ready
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  Speaker 1: years ago as an ex athlete, a prominent person in sports,
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  Speaker 1: and became I'm a person in sports media. After he left,
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  Speaker 1: of course the company, and he would go work out.
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  Speaker 1: He wouldn't shower and uh, and he come, there's a gym.
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  Speaker 1: There's a gym right across the street, twenty four hour
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  Speaker 1: gym across the street from Foxporths. The guy we go
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  Speaker 1: and he would do his thing whatever, work out. He
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  Speaker 1: would shower and I said, well, just shower. What he
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  Speaker 1: would do is he'd just spray a bunch of cologne
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  Speaker 1: so he'd cover up the smell. Uh. And that was
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  Speaker 1: his mooking. I guess he didn't like showering there whatever.
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  Speaker 1: But so it's like, it's not, go, are you just
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  Speaker 1: spraying cologne or for breeze covering up the reality of
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  Speaker 1: the situation. The Bears took a giant step forward this season.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not debating that. There's no debate they actually work
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  Speaker 1: competitive at the end. They got off to a slow start,
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  Speaker 1: won a bunch of games, and that's great new coach, right,
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  Speaker 1: and they brought some excitement back to Chicago was a
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  Speaker 1: better product than a lucky Tony's very excited about that.
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  Speaker 1: It's shinier wrapping paper. It absolutely is. However, Christmas morning,
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  Speaker 1: that's the That's the thing that decides everything right, that's
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  Speaker 1: the And if Caleb hops on the vomit comment in
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  Speaker 1: a big mallment, all of this success. We've seen these
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  Speaker 1: movies before, all of this success. If Caleb goes out
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  Speaker 1: throws three interceptions against the Packers and the Bears lose
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  Speaker 1: at home, and he's oh my god, the Chicago fan,
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  Speaker 1: you think they're gonna be patient, methinks not so much.
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  Speaker 1: Methinks they'll have their pitchforks out, torches lit and'll be
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  Speaker 1: ready to flip over the Bear's bandwagon be like, Ah,
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  Speaker 1: these guys suck. It was all fake. It was all fake.
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  Speaker 1: All that. It is the Ben Mallor Show. If you
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  Speaker 1: So if you want to be part of the show,
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: This is one of the last old school call in
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  Speaker 1: Hoy poloy. We love it. We can't get enough of it.
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  Speaker 1: So if you want to be part of this, the good,
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  Speaker 1: the bad, and the uglies, we like to say, from
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  Speaker 1: all parts of the world. We have people committing crimes,
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  Speaker 1: we have people stopping people committing crimes. We have people working.
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  Speaker 1: We have people that are on government food snamps, EBT cards.
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  Speaker 1: We have more Obama phones than any other show in America.
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  Speaker 1: We dominate that demographic. But yet we also have college
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  Speaker 1: professors and people that run major corporations that make a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of money. It's amazing. It's a melting pot, is
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  Speaker 1: what it is. Absolutely in melting pot, and it's fascinating.
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  Speaker 1: When you out and do these Mallard Meet and Green
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  Speaker 1: you meet people like mouthwash Mike in Vegas, who's always
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  Speaker 1: got a nice bottle of yellow mouthwash. And then you
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  Speaker 1: meet the person running the construction company who also happens
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  Speaker 1: So I leave this hour from Park Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan,
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  Speaker 1: and the NFL power Brokers have been accused of some
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  Speaker 1: shenanigans developing hot dot dot. Have you seen this?
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  Speaker 6: No?
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  Speaker 1: And year about it?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Stevie, meet Paul's I know what the right hang on?
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  Speaker 1: Is that Van the one legged Bama Man. He's shaking
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  Speaker 1: his head.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. Conspiracy theorists, and you know we love a good
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  Speaker 1: conspiracy if we believe it. So conspiracy theorists are up
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: in arms angry with the National Football League. What did
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: the NFL do? Why are they upset? Well, they're upset
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: because someone named Alan Eck. Who the eck is? That
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Alan Eck will be an official for the Eagles forty
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: nine Ers playoff game on wild Card weekend. Now, what
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: exactly is the issue? Well, the issue is this guy,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Alan Eck grew up in Pennsylvania, which apparently is not allowed,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: and he grew up a fan of the Eagles. Oh MG,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: but wait, there's more. Every good conspiracy, every good infomercial needs.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: But wait, there's more. When Eke was refereeing in the
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: past Philadelphia games, he's done it nine times. The Eagles
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: have won eight of the nine games, including the NFC
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Championship game. So that's a good jumping off point. Let
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: us discuss question. Are you gonna go thumbs up? Are
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: you gonna go thumbs down? Thumbs up? Thumbs down on
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: the tinfoil hat crowd calling out NFL bias with official
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Alan Eck and when he calls Eagles game, so Eagles game.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: So my observations, I got jumbo sized Kodak moments and
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: New World Order, and we'll put all of these things
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: together and put the biscuit in the basket. Now number,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: what number is it? Number? That's right? All right? So, uh,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: this is not a kwinkie dick. It is not. There's
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: a pattern, and it's wearing the zebra uniform. Now, now
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: some carrying the water for the NFL. Or listen, dude,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: it's not. Everything's a conspiracy. It's just a small sample size.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: And to that, I say, gobbledee gook with a capital G. Please,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: So let's do some Malor math. We love Malard math,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: So say nine games, small sample size, doesn't matter. That
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: is nim rod thinking. That makes play. Why one NFL
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: game is worth ten Major League Baseball games? One NFL
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: games worth ten Major League Baseball games. That means that
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: this is ninety games. Ninety games. That's a reality check, right,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: and the Eagles in that ninety game stretch have an
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: eight eighty nine winning percentage. So forget M and M. Right,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: this is the real slim shady, the real slim shitty,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: a subliminal message hiding in playing sight, it would appear.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: And this is jumbo size tubris from Roger Goodell. Protect
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: the shield that all costs. Wait, he's starting for intrugrity
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: of the game. Well, on this one, the NFL went
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: down to Adam Silver's office at the NBA headquarters over
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: I think on Fifth Avenue, and said, hey, can we
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: get that old dusty book in the back that David
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Stern that Shore We could do that? Why not? Well,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: that's the NBA playbook, That's what this is. This guy
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Eck is the pig skin version of Scott Foster, the
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: extender Scott Foster. Now, if avoiding hometown refs is all
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: you have to do, like, it's just an easy fix
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: right now, even if there's nothing going if everything is kosher,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: there's nothing funny going on here, everything's all right, Like,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: just why would you even bother having him? There's other
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: playoff games. You don't have to assign him to this
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: particular game. Why not just do it? Well, they won't
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: do it because the league clearly they broke their nose.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Somebody punched them right in the schnas and they broke
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: their nose. This thing smells like a rotting corpse. However, right,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: what do we know? Just an overnight show? So who knows?
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: All right? Now pay two to Tampa Bay we go
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: where Buccaneers coach Todd Bowles. He's back. Yeah, now, he
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: said he planned on returning his coach, but he didn't
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: get to make that decision. Ownership said yeah, so he
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: will be returning for the twenty twenty six campaign. Holy TJ.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Seimer's batman. Now. Earlier this week, Bulls met with the
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Glazer family, the aristocrats that own the team, and the
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Robber Barons said okay, we would like to continue our relationship.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay a losing record, and Todd Bowles has won
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: that division three times. Because the division blows. He's got
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: a record as coach of the Bucks. Todd Bowles just
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: two games over five hundred and four seasons and three
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: division championships, and he's one in three. His Buccaneers are
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: in the postseason. So the question, what is your word
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: on Todd Bowles continuing as coach of the Buccaneers? What
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: is your word? My word is palatable. That's my word.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: This is palatable all right now. If you look at
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: it from thirty thousand feet, Todd Bowles is room temperature
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: chicken soup. It's one of those things that you eat it.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: You're not really happy about it. Yeah, I'm excited about it.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: You don't send it back, but you're not instagramming it either,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: you know, what I'm saying. All right, So Todd Bowles
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: is what I would classify as a better SoundBite than
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: he is a coach. And he's a sneaky good SoundBite,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Todd Bowles. And for our purposes as a talk show,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: that works, that's all we care about. We're selfish. He's
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: the straight man coach in the league, right and a
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: lot of clowns honking their horns and all that stuff,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: wearing the clown makeup. Todd Bowles is never going to
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: be Dan Campbell biting kneecaps like it's on all you
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: can eat buffet of wings. He's certainly not Mike Tomlin. Well,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: the standard is the standard. He doesn't have that stitched
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: on a pillow like Tomlin does. Todd Bowles comes off
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: as emotionless. He's a coaching mannequin. Blink and you miss it. However,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: doing a daily show here at Fox Sports Radio over
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: the years, I have noticed and told Todd Bowles coach
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: the Cardinals and the Jets as well, he's a vagabond
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: coach and all that stuff, not very good coaches. He's
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: a better sound by than he's the coaches. We said. However,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: the Kodak moments. That's a dated reference, but you get
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: the point. It's legendary. Remember a couple of years back
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: that the race baiting media tried to turn Todd Bowles
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: coaching against Mike Tomlin into a some kind of sociology project,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: and they wanted this question. They already had the story written,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: you know, about this being a champion of race relations
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: in America, and Todd Bowles shut it down like a
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: librarian shushing the room. It was so great. He pissed
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: off those race baiting media guys so much because Todd
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Bowles didn't take the bait. He said, hey, we don't
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: look at color. He said, the minute you guys stopped
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: making a big deal about it, everybody else will as
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: well drop the mic. He didn't drop the mic though.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Todd Bowles added on that the media turned black coaches
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: into odd balls by constantly highlighting their race. It was
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: a beautiful body blow, body blow by Todd Bowles. That
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: was the day I completely fell in love with Todd Bowles.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: I love when the media has got their narrative and
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: he just shoved it down their throat. Now, another great
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: moment with Todd Bowles was when he was asked about
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: the Buccaneers playing the Lions in a playoff game a
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: couple of years back, and a really really smart reporter
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: from Tampa take a TV person asked Todd Bowles, what
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: are you going to do? How do you prepare for
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: that cold weather in Detroit? The forecast looks pretty bad,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: And Todd Bowles paused for a second, and he stared
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: at the reporter. He looked to the side a little bit,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: and then he paused a little longer, and then he
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: said to the reporter, you do know we play indoors, right,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: that is an Alzheimer. Now listen on the field the
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Bucks have They haven't overachieved. No one's gonna say, Todd
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Bowles teams have overachieved. They have not. I would argue
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: they haven't underachieved. There's no real surprises here. There's no spikes,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: there's no dips, there's no dipsy new there's none of that.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: This has been a team performing at its baseline expectation
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: in Tampa, and Baker Mayfield was the MVP for five weeks,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: then they had to play the rest of the games.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: They're serving milk toast for breakfast in the NFC South.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: When you have milk toast. That is the breakfast of champions.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: That is the breakfast of champions. Now the malor verdict
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: on Todd Bowles again great soundbites, shrug, He's a stable guy?
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Is he a little boring? At times? He can be
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: a little bit boring? I somehow like. I don't. It's
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: in terms of average coaches. I like Todd Bowles. I
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: admit it all right. Now, final point to college football.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: We go hap b Valley to be exact where Penn
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: State recently hired former Iowa State coach Matt Campbell. After
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: seventy five coaches said no to Penn State, they finally
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: hired Matt Campbell. I'm sure LeVar Arrington's very excited about that. Anyway,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: this prompted how many players to leave Iowa State to
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: go to Penn State? Not one, not two, not three,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: not four, not five, not six, not seven, not eight, No, no, no, no,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: how about nineteen cyclone players said I'm leaving Iowa. I'm
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: saying bye bye, and I'm going to the Keystone State,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: including supposedly a star. I don't know if this guy's star.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Rock O Beck is at a star. So all those
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: guys transferred via the portal. This of course led to
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: what that's right, It led to a hullabaloo, hullabaloo social media.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, there's these things. I guess college football
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: people say he was called message boards. I thought that
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: died in the nineties, but maybe not. They're still run
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: and it's not fair and this is cheating the rules
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: and Penn State shouldn't be allowed to do this. It's
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: not right. It's recreation. I am. I'm doing performance right,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: I'm recreating what it sounded like during the hullabaloo, right
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: the Kerfluffel. So question, how do you process the rage
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: at Penn State coach Matt Campbell for taking so many
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: of his Pycombe players with him from his old outposts.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: So I classify this and I process this as hysteria
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: with the capital h hysteria with the capitol age. Penn
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: State is apparently, I don't know how this happened. Public
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: enemy number one for taking Iowa State players? Is that
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: right now? I gotta tell you something. I'm getting old office.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, people are dying all around me. But my
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: whole life I was told cyclone talent was subprime, that
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: great players don't go to ames Iowa they don't do it.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: And yet now I'm supposed to believe because State hired
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Iowa State's coach. And then there's a conga line, there's
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: convoys of Iowa State players coming in, and so now
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: suddenly what these guys are all crown jewels like pick
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: a lane? How about you stay in your lane? Now,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: this is the nil new world order, is what it is.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: It's the wild wild West. It's not new. You are
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: allowed to relocate around college football. You can change schools,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: you can take your couch with you, if you want,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: your lamp, your dog, whatever, it doesn't matter. And look
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: at the Indiana Hoosiers who are just a couple wins
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: away from a championship. And Kurt Signetti, the coach there,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: he brought a bunch of his guys to establish his
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: wants and needs in Indiana from his old job. Lickety
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: split turned the Indiana Hoosiers into a Big ten bulley,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: a buzz saw, much to the dismay of All State
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: and Michigan and every other team in the Big Ten.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: So spare me the violence, that's the whole, but spare
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: me the violins on this one. This is loyalty, obviously,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: just cash. I saw something the other day I was reading,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: and do not ask me where because I read a
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: lot of things and I'm not sure where I saw this.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: But seventy percent seventy percent of transfers follow the people
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: that recruited them originally, meaning they just me who were
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: recruited and they fall them along. That's according to the
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: NCAA some of the stats they have. So it's again
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: a reminder is not what you know, it's who you know,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: which is just the secret to life. Like everyone should
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: know that. When you're a young person, you should know.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: It's really you need to have a wide circle of
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: people in your life because it's not how smart you are.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: If nobody knows about it, you're gonna get gigs by
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: people recommending you and all that. So for the and
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: I don't how many people are really complaining, but does
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: it seemed like a large number. So people who are complaining.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Take a chill pill, maybe two, how about three? And
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: make sure you have a picture of water and it's
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: a super califragilistic xbali docious is what it is. There
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: you go, the water will help the medicine go down.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: It will help it go down, down, down, Down Down.
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• 32:20
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  Speaker 6: His name is Julius Pringles by the way, Oh happy
• 32:33
  Speaker 6: wow Berkely.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 32:35
  Speaker 6: On Tuesday, it was reported that a rival executive thinks
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: that Max Crosby is quote done with the Raiders. Crosby
• 32:42
  Speaker 6: has been in the NFL seven years and has been
• 32:44
  Speaker 6: through five head coaches. Now it will be a six
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: if he stays with them. Ben, do you think the
• 32:49
  Speaker 6: Raiders will finally trade Crosby?
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: So I would say there's like a seventy percent chance
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: he's traded. Obviously depends on who the Raiders hire as
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: a coach. Could be somebody that Max Crosby likes a lot.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: He was really pissed off at Pete Carroll and Tom
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: Brady and those guys. He just had surgery supposedly over something.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I said, there's a seventy percent chance that
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: these traded by the Raiders and we fit start getting
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: some coaches higher in the next couple weeks.
• 33:12
  Speaker 6: Next Jets GM Darren Mogi was asked if the team
• 33:16
  Speaker 6: will push to bring back question Mark. There's a question Mark, Yeah,
• 33:19
  Speaker 6: push to bring back Breece Hall. He replied, Breeze is
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: a good player. I won as many good players back
• 33:23
  Speaker 6: as we can. Ben, what do you think happens with Hall?
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: So I'm told Coop it takes two to tango and breese.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: Hall was pretty clear that he did not did not
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: like the organization, that he did not believe in the
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: franchise charter, and then violated the code of conduct with
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: some of the things he sent out. So if you
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: don't want to be there, as everyone's taking shot to
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: the Jets right now, I say that he's a running back.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: How import is a running back? He's not like the
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: greatest running back of the world. I say he's gone.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Also next, there's.
• 33:51
  Speaker 6: Reporter This week, the NFL saw a dip in attendance
• 33:54
  Speaker 6: this season. Though the drop was just under one percent,
• 33:56
  Speaker 6: it's still the first time that's happened since the pandemic.
• 33:58
  Speaker 6: But is this a big deal?
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Little?
• 34:00
  Speaker 6: No deal?
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: It's no deal because it's all because of the fans
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: in Nashville. Did you see this? Ben? A nine percent
• 34:08
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• 34:11
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• 35:02
  Speaker 6: Look all right, we're gonna start off with a question
• 35:05
  Speaker 6: for you, Ben.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: Okay, I get to go first, outsiding? Is that all right?
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  Speaker 1: This is wonderful, amazing, all right?
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: This is from Andy and Lino lakes Hi.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Andy.
• 35:16
  Speaker 6: He wants to know do you ever get nervous about
• 35:18
  Speaker 6: certain subjects or talking about certain people on the air.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: Uh, yes, anything that can get me fired. No, it
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: was very dicey for a few years back in like
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty and whatnot, and we were all walking on
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: eggshells here the cancel culture, which I guess is still
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: out there. I also don't like talking about death, but
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: I've talked a lot about death recently, done a lot
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: of tributes on my podcast and things like that. But
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: I've never been I don't think I'm very good at it.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: But I've done a lot of eulogies recently because people
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: Of dot.
• 35:55
  Speaker 6: Right, We're gonna go on to a question from the
• 36:00
  Speaker 6: King Rory, and the King Rory would like to know
• 36:05
  Speaker 6: what is the biggest animal that you think you can
• 36:08
  Speaker 6: fight with only your bare hands? And I guess we'll
• 36:11
  Speaker 6: start with Lorena. Yes, well, Ben finds his gremlins and
• 36:15
  Speaker 6: beats them to a pulp.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: Maybe that's who Ben.
• 36:17
  Speaker 6: Is gonna fight, is gremlins. That would be good, right, Okay?
• 36:21
  Speaker 6: I when I could fight with my bear hands, even
• 36:27
  Speaker 6: dogs intimidate me there? Well, yeah, I mean I think
• 36:30
  Speaker 6: a dog would. I don't think he would do well.
• 36:32
  Speaker 6: So let's go with Koala Bearkala bear, that's the biggest
• 36:36
  Speaker 6: animal you think you I think the biggest animal I
• 36:39
  Speaker 6: could fight with my bare hands would be a milk cow,
• 36:43
  Speaker 6: A milk cow. Yes, now, like I wouldn't want to
• 36:46
  Speaker 6: because they're adorable, right, Like I mean, it's like lay
• 36:50
  Speaker 6: on top of that's all it's got, right, I could
• 36:53
  Speaker 6: I could fight that. Uh And Ben Roy gonna say
• 36:57
  Speaker 6: Ben picks uh.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: Bear? Yeah, because they're because no Koala bears sit in
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: the tree and they they get high on the eucalyptus
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: where I guess they're not. Actually every time I say
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: kuali bear a bear, dummy, but koala I could take
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: down a koala because they get high all the time
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: and they just sit in the tree. I remember when
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: they first had San Diego.
• 37:19
  Speaker 6: I said, Kuala bear or is that just coincidence?
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Did you say that?
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: I did?
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: I did?
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: I did? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Really I did. Oh. I was hitting the I was
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: hitting the thing here, the thing of Jake, whatever it is.
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  Speaker 1: Do we take the same animal? Then I wasn't listening,
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  Speaker 1: but no, yeah, because I remember as a kid, my
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: mom she was all excized. She hyped it up. San
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Diego's here they finally had Koala bears. Oh my god,
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: this is so exciting. At that time, they come Quober.
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  Speaker 1: So we went to the zoo and it was the
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: most disappointing thing because you couldn't even see them because
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: they were up in the trees sleeping. All I remember
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: is the gift shop had seventy five stuffed animals of
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: a koala. That's all I remember. What's next year? It's
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: ask man and Gremlin's all.
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  Speaker 6: Right, we'll do a we'll do another question for you, Ben,
• 38:01
  Speaker 6: just because we don't know how much longer we'll have you.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 6: This is from This is from ferg Dog.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: He want dog.
• 38:08
  Speaker 6: He wants to know how many listeners have threatened you?
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: I have?
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: My life has been threatened?
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: Uh?
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: Booh four times? Four times a lot, most for different listeners. Yes,
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: most of it's on social media. I can think of
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: two of them.
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  Speaker 6: Right, we got we got Mark, the full name guy
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  Speaker 6: probably blind Scott blind Scott.
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  Speaker 1: Uh and oh okay, you know so actually it's five.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Because I've been threatened by fans in Cleveland, Oh yeah, Baltimore. Yeah,
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: they there's a Yeah, it's been bad. Houston, Houston. Also,
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: they apparently didn't like my commentary about the Astros. I
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: don't know why, Coop, I don't know. I don't know why.
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  Speaker 1: I think I'm so upset. I have no idea the
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: cheating as one thousand O my first time in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six. First time.
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  Speaker 6: All right, let's do a question from Donkey Sausage.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, Donkey.
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  Speaker 6: He wants to know this for everybody. Are you related
• 39:16
  Speaker 6: or distantly related to anyone famous?
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: Uh?
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: Like, what level of fame? Like people?
• 39:24
  Speaker 6: I don't know what you know that somebody that somebody
• 39:27
  Speaker 6: else might have heard of.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to think. Not at the top of my head.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, I've been to places where there's like famous
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: people who are friends of the family but not related
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: to So I don't like Loraina any famous relatives more.
• 39:41
  Speaker 6: No, not that I know of that you know, Okay,
• 39:44
  Speaker 6: Coop Michael Cooper is my uncle.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Oh that's right, the Laker six man. Yes, and you
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: look just like him, very similar.
• 39:55
  Speaker 6: Alf the Iliino Piner wants to know have you ever
• 39:57
  Speaker 6: locked yourself out of the house? How did you get
• 39:59
  Speaker 6: back in?
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: No, I've never locked myself out of the house. I've
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: locked myself out of obviously hotels. Cars. That's a pain
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: in the ass trying to get the car. You get
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: somebody to break into the car you get you know,
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: that's uh. Back in the old days, you could leave.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: You could use your keys and leave them in the
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: car and the door couldn't get open. Now usually if
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: you have because they have the technology, but at the
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: cars the worst. What about you were ever locked out
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: of your house?
• 40:26
  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I have been a couple of times. Actually, yeah,
• 40:29
  Speaker 6: We've done different ways of getting to like pop the
• 40:31
  Speaker 6: screen off.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: You're like, I'm sure one of these windows is open.
• 40:33
  Speaker 6: I've gone in through your bathroom window, bedroom window. I've
• 40:37
  Speaker 6: had to do the same, and then you like, actually
• 40:39
  Speaker 6: you have to like almost break the screen.
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 40:41
  Speaker 6: I've done a basement one too, one of those really
• 40:43
  Speaker 6: small basement ones. I am tiny.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, gotcha. That's ass Man every week.