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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: Problems problems for the forty nine Er franchise or are
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  Speaker 1: there really problems for the Niner franchise? Well, if you
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  Speaker 1: have not heard by now, I don't know what you've
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  Speaker 1: been doing. Bad job by you. Forty nine Ers owner
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  Speaker 1: Jen York, Jed York. The headline all over the football
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  Speaker 1: were what did Jen York do? Did he donate money
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  Speaker 1: to charity? Well, kind of not the kind most people
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  Speaker 1: get all fired up for. It doesn't get the good
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  Speaker 1: head lines when you donate to this kind of charity,
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  Speaker 1: When you donate to a children's hospital, that gets good publicity. This,
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  Speaker 1: for some reason, this does not get a lot of publicity.
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  Speaker 1: If you have not heard Jed York, who I think
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  Speaker 1: is in his mid forties, here arrested over the weekend
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  Speaker 1: in Ohio in a prostitution sting. Yes, yeah you didn't.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't see this. No, I don't know how you
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  Speaker 1: could have missed it. So York was arrested. This is
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  Speaker 1: This is a line I never thought I would say.
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  Speaker 1: And I get emails everyone so on because, oh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you've been doing sports radio for so long, you must
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  Speaker 1: be bored. It just must be so training doing the
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  Speaker 1: same thing. No, I've been doing this a long time.
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  Speaker 1: I have never mentioned an NFL owner arrested at a
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  Speaker 1: trailer park. At a trailer park, the forty nine ers
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  Speaker 1: owner is trailer trash. I never thought I would say that.
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  Speaker 1: I never here. I am, yes, in of all places,
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  Speaker 1: East Palestine, Ohio. And if that sounds familiar, I've ever
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  Speaker 1: been to East Palestine. Oh I've been close to that,
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  Speaker 1: but I've never been there. That is a town that
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  Speaker 1: became famous a few years ago. It was a town
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  Speaker 1: that was pretty much abandoned by a bunch of political
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  Speaker 1: people because there was a toxic train derailment, like a
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  Speaker 1: horrific train derailment in that part of Ohio. That was
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  Speaker 1: three years ago. I think it was three years ago.
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  Speaker 1: It all runs together one giant bob. So as far
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  Speaker 1: as the forty nine Ers owner, then give you the
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  Speaker 1: bullet points on this. There was a sting operation on
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  Speaker 1: a website where the Ladies of the Night advertise their services,
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  Speaker 1: and the authorities allege that Jed York respond to that
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  Speaker 1: advertisement or one of the advertisers there on a website
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  Speaker 1: where you get your prostitutes. Well, it's a website for everything,
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  Speaker 1: so why not that? And he arranged to meet a
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  Speaker 1: young lady there for some wambam right there at the
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  Speaker 1: trailer park, because where else are you gonna go for
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and forty dollars? That's at the Wheat Hill
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  Speaker 1: Mobile Home Park. Now, when I'm in East Palestine, Ohio,
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  Speaker 1: I always make sure to stop by the Wheat Hill
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  Speaker 1: Mobile Home Park. Now York was initially charged with engaging
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  Speaker 1: in prostitution, possessing this is the greatest part, possessing criminal tools,
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  Speaker 1: both of those first degree misdemeanors. Okay, there you go,
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  Speaker 1: all right, so that is a good jumping off point.
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  Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question you've got the forty nine
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  Speaker 1: ers ce all the owner Jeed York shopping for a
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  Speaker 1: hooker online there finding one and obviously finding the wrong one.
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  Speaker 1: So how does a billionaire NFL owner end up arranging
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  Speaker 1: a one hundred and forty dollars encounter addin oal Io
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  Speaker 1: trailer park. How do you end up in that spot?
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  Speaker 1: All right? So I've got walkie Talkie, Bermuda Triangle, and
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  Speaker 1: the Jerry Springer Show, and we will combine all of
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  Speaker 1: these things together, and we are going to attempt to
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  Speaker 1: have the Midas touch, not the Sadom touch. We want.
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  Speaker 1: The Mitas touch is what we want. So we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: get right at it. Number on.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So Jet York's arrest proves more of a fresher course
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  Speaker 1: that just because you have massive wealth, huge amounts of money,
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  Speaker 1: you can't always buy common sense. You cannot buy common sense.
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  Speaker 1: That the whole story here is wacky Tobacci. It's another
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  Speaker 1: one of those stories. I'm not gonna lie. I woke up.
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  Speaker 1: I was a little dazed, you know, get up, You're like,
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  Speaker 1: all right, what happened while I was in a comatose
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  Speaker 1: state to the world. So I grab my phone like
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  Speaker 1: everyone does, and I put on my bifocal and I
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  Speaker 1: look at my phone. I got all these messages. I thought, well,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it seems like there must this must be legit.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's sports talk Barry. It seems ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: And a bunch of people were, who'd you see this all?
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  Speaker 1: But you wake up? Wake up? I eventually woke up
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  Speaker 1: and I saw the wacky tobacco story. So you've got
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  Speaker 1: a guy here, Jed York, who can afford Johnny Walker,
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  Speaker 1: not blue Black. He can afford Johnny Walker nineteen thirty eight,
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  Speaker 1: like the big stuff, and so on this little exercise,
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  Speaker 1: he went shopping for the Keystone Light instead of the
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  Speaker 1: Johnny Walker. He's like, I want some Keystone Light. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: why not? Can I get a coupon? I'm a value
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  Speaker 1: shopper for the Devil's Dance. I would like to do
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  Speaker 1: the Devil's Dance, but I want to get a coupon.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to hold onto that five hundred million
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  Speaker 1: dollar fortune. You want to hold onto that money, So
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  Speaker 1: you end up doing the walkie talkie. Know what does
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  Speaker 1: that mean? Well, you do the walk of shame in
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  Speaker 1: this case out of a I guess a police station
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  Speaker 1: there with the bitter beer face from the Keystone Light.
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  Speaker 1: You got that going for you. Now, legally, this is
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  Speaker 1: a nothing burger. This is nothing like in terms of
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  Speaker 1: like the legal system, this is this is zero right
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  Speaker 1: because you the prosecutors reduced I was readding the story.
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  Speaker 1: The prosecutors reduced the prostitution charge to a disorderly conduct.
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  Speaker 1: So time served, bought a bing, bought a boom. Well
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  Speaker 1: he didn't get the bottom boom part. But you hit
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  Speaker 1: the boy. So he paid one thousand, one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty dollars and walked away. That's it, see you later, Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Now the other part of it, the criminal tool. You
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  Speaker 1: know what that was. What do you think he had,
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  Speaker 1: like a shank or a knife, a machete, Because I
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  Speaker 1: think criminal tools, I think, well, stuff to break into
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  Speaker 1: a place to rob someone. No, no, no. According to
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  Speaker 1: these numbskulls, the Keystone cops there in Ohio, they confiscated
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  Speaker 1: his criminal tool. It was his cell phone. I gotta
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  Speaker 1: tell you, I feel like a bit of a bad boy.
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  Speaker 1: Bad boy, bad boy. I feel like a bad boy
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  Speaker 1: because I have a cell phone. And by that standard,
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  Speaker 1: every man, woman and child over the age of like
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  Speaker 1: twelve is walking around America with criminal tools contraband I
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  Speaker 1: feel like I am a criminal. I have a phone
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  Speaker 1: that is a criminal tool professionally. Now it's nothing criminally professionally,
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  Speaker 1: while we got something, it's certainly a pr disaster for
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  Speaker 1: the forty nine ers and all that, and Roger Goodell
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  Speaker 1: will slap him with the usual punishment, which is always absurd.
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  Speaker 1: You can't punish an owner. They don't play in the games.
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  Speaker 1: They'll try, right, personal code of conduct policy, and a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of people will be saying, you have to punish
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  Speaker 1: York for seeing the horror in Ohio. You got to
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  Speaker 1: punish him. Okay, fine, so you'll punish him. The real damage, though,
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  Speaker 1: is the forever damage for Jed York. This becomes for
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  Speaker 1: him the ultimate boogeyman, for Jed York, the embarrassing guy
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  Speaker 1: that went to the trailer park for a little making
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  Speaker 1: whoopee right there at the trailer park, there the whole scandal,
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  Speaker 1: and it will follow him around. And this has legs.
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  Speaker 1: This has legs every owner's meetings, some guy in the
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  Speaker 1: back in Manhattan will be screaming about a trailer park
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  Speaker 1: every time he goes to a super Bowl. The owners
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  Speaker 1: love to go hang out at these super Bowls, even
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  Speaker 1: when their team's not there, so this will be part
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  Speaker 1: of his story for Eternity the trailer park rendezvous for
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  Speaker 1: the forty nine ers owner there and if you don't
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  Speaker 1: believe me, ask Robert Kraft. It's been seven years. Can
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  Speaker 1: you believe it's been seven years since he went to
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  Speaker 1: the orchards of Asia day Spa there in Florida, And
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  Speaker 1: still there are people that joke around. I still also
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  Speaker 1: remember that old lawyer guy that called us up, Well,
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  Speaker 1: that story just broke and told us that Robert Kraft
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  Speaker 1: was going to get out of trouble because of the
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  Speaker 1: fruit of the poisonous tree. And he was absolutely right.
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  Speaker 1: Some old retired lawyers in Florida and was like, couldn't
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  Speaker 1: sleep and he was listening to the show and he
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  Speaker 1: gives like great legal advice for free and nobody else
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  Speaker 1: had that. We were the first people to have that
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of the night. So that was kind
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  Speaker 1: of cool. Now, page two, So let's keep the train
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  Speaker 1: of thought going here. Let's take a couple of steps
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  Speaker 1: back and kind of look at the entire Sarrengetti for
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  Speaker 1: this story wide view of everything going on. All right,
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  Speaker 1: So the question what is the biggest mistake that the
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  Speaker 1: forty nine ers owner Jed York made in this re rendezvous.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so let me give you the training wheels
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  Speaker 1: edition of this. Okay, Jed York's biggest mistake was obviously
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  Speaker 1: he got horny in Ohio. That was his biggest mistake.
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  Speaker 1: All right, that's a rookie mistake. Bad job by you. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I tell you. I was texting some buddies mine. We
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  Speaker 1: were talking about this via text and if Jed York.
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  Speaker 1: We determined if Jed York had gone shopping for some
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  Speaker 1: female companionship back in the Bay Area. All right, if
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  Speaker 1: you'd just say, I'll see a nice lady to cuddle with,
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  Speaker 1: you know, wink wink in the Bay Area the forty
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  Speaker 1: nine ers, if he had gotten popped, the forty nine
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  Speaker 1: ers security machine would have been activated and they would
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  Speaker 1: have pulled out a General pencil company number two pencil,
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  Speaker 1: a number two pencil with a supersized neon eraser. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: and poof, just like that. We don't hear about it.
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  Speaker 1: We don't hear pete. Now, what is my evidence? Well,
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  Speaker 1: my evidence rather obviously looked no further than the coach's
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  Speaker 1: office for the forty nine ers. You and I both
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  Speaker 1: know there was some funny business that went on in
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  Speaker 1: the coach's office. We don't know how much funny business.
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  Speaker 1: We might never know, but just to have a conversation
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  Speaker 1: with Kyle Shanahan, who must have had a cheshire Cat
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  Speaker 1: smile when he got a phone call. Hey, uh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the owner there, York's in some trouble. Well really, what
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  Speaker 1: did you Well, you know he was in Ohio. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so was nothing wrong with being in Ohio. Oh yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he was in Ohio and he he went to see
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  Speaker 1: a lady. Okay, well, yeah, that's fine, you want to
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  Speaker 1: see yeah, okay, yeah, she's a She was a hooker,
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  Speaker 1: but not a real hooker. It was a cop. Oh.
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  Speaker 1: He must have laughed his ass off, right, because Kyle
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  Speaker 1: Shanahan was part of that mysterious Tesla accident. Remember the
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  Speaker 1: eleven day the eleven day cone of silence around the
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  Speaker 1: Shanahan story before h he popped up and they said
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend, on a Saturday, they dropped the story
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  Speaker 1: that Shanahan was in a car accident. And then they
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  Speaker 1: were like, well what about the police footage. Wow, we're
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  Speaker 1: not letting the police footage out. The cops aren't gonna
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  Speaker 1: let the footaget Well, why not? We want the footage, Well,
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  Speaker 1: we can't make it public. We can't make it public.
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  Speaker 1: Why not? Uh? And Jed? In this case, Jed did
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  Speaker 1: not need to reincarnate Johnny Cochrane, the greatest attorney of
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  Speaker 1: all time. There Johnny Cochrane. He needed simply home field advantage.
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  Speaker 1: If Jed York had home field advantage, things would have
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  Speaker 1: been fine. Security would have cleaned this up. The goon
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  Speaker 1: security guys for the forty nine ers, the thugs would
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  Speaker 1: have cleaned this thing up. And that's it. And if not,
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  Speaker 1: he could have just blamed the fact that he saw
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  Speaker 1: prostitute on that electrical substation near the forty nine ers
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  Speaker 1: practice facility, and it caused him to want to see
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  Speaker 1: a woman who was charging for her services. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: So instead of course, Jed wandered off the reservation and
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  Speaker 1: in Ohio there looking for the bow Chicka wow wow,
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  Speaker 1: and suddenly there was nobody around to make the mess
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  Speaker 1: go away. He fell into a situation he could not
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  Speaker 1: get anyone to put this into the Bermuda triangle. He
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  Speaker 1: wanted to, he couldn't do it. He discovered the heart
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  Speaker 1: away the hard way, that what happens in East Palestine
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  Speaker 1: Ohio trailer park. Does not stay. Does not stay in
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  Speaker 1: East Palestine, Ohio at a trailer park. All right, final point,
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  Speaker 1: Let's get to the chatter. A number of you have
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  Speaker 1: been emailing. I mean you must talk about it. You
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  Speaker 1: can't ignore this story, all right, I'm want ignore and
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  Speaker 1: I'll mention it. So, former NBA player and actually two
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  Speaker 1: former NBA players, Ennis Canter Freedom and Royce White, are
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  Speaker 1: not eligible to play in the WNBA, according to a announcement
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  Speaker 1: from something called Front Office Sports, despite both declaring to
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  Speaker 1: enter the twenty twenty seven WNBA draft claiming they identify
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  Speaker 1: as women. So does this mean the WNBA has figured
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  Speaker 1: out what a woman is? No? Not quite. The WNBA
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  Speaker 1: dismissing the declarations from these two beautiful ladies who want
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  Speaker 1: to play in the WNBA as simply publicity stunts, saying
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  Speaker 1: the league will not amplify attempts intended to mock the
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  Speaker 1: WNBA or demean or marginalize others, even though they're doing
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  Speaker 1: that by announcing this. There's these people are so stupid.
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  Speaker 1: Did they have a contest to hire the dumbest people
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  Speaker 1: to work at the WNBA? My god? So a WNBA
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  Speaker 1: source dismissing all this. As we said, the league said
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  Speaker 1: there is no legitimate or immediate eligibility issue requiring action,
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  Speaker 1: meaning they're not saying that this is a woman. That's
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  Speaker 1: a woman. Whatever. The WMA says, it will not allow
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  Speaker 1: outside pressure to manufacture controversy. It's toulay. It's tou lay. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: all right, So the question what happens next in this
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  Speaker 1: epic dogg and pony show that is the modern WNBA. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: all right, so the WNBA, which is not about basketball,
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  Speaker 1: because if it was, it would be out of business.
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  Speaker 1: They tried being about basket ketball, nobody watched. So it's
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  Speaker 1: not about basketball. It is in the WNBA is an
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  Speaker 1: NBA funded chaos generator, disguised camouflaged as some kind of sport.
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  Speaker 1: I look at the WNBA now as a modern Jerry
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  Speaker 1: Springer show. I was a little child when Jerry Springer
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  Speaker 1: was on. It was a look it up kids. He
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  Speaker 1: was this very popular show back in the day. And
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  Speaker 1: it's like Jerry Springer with a shot clock. Oh, let
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  Speaker 1: me put these guys on a hold real quick. The
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  Speaker 1: phones are ring. Me be real quick here, let's see
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  Speaker 1: put these guys on hold. There we go all right,
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  Speaker 1: So no, it's like the Jerry Springer Show with a
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  Speaker 1: shot clock. Let me explain my lunch. Like, as I remember,
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  Speaker 1: nobody tuned in to the Jerry Springer Show for thoughtful dialogue.
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  Speaker 1: That was not what that show was about. You just
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  Speaker 1: watched waiting to see the chairs flying in the air
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  Speaker 1: everywhere and the hair pulling cat fights. Is why you
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  Speaker 1: watched the Jerry Springer Show. And that's it. It wasn't
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  Speaker 1: about some kind of deeper meaning or anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: The same principle applies for the modern WNBA. It just does.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a psyop with the scoreboard, is it really?
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  Speaker 1: You can't run a circus and then complain when the
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  Speaker 1: people want to see the clowns. Okay, the people want
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  Speaker 1: to see the clowns. The WNBA needs to give the
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  Speaker 1: clowns there to the people. So enter Ennis Canter, Freedom
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  Speaker 1: and Royce White declaring themselves for the for the WNBA
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  Speaker 1: draft and now being declared ineligible. And I saw cantor
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  Speaker 1: Freedom or whatever the guy's name is, writing back or
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  Speaker 1: firing back. I think it was on one of the
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  Speaker 1: cable news shows saying I am a woman, I should
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  Speaker 1: be allowed to play, all right, so the next layers
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  Speaker 1: rather obviously, you file a lawsuit and you force the
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  Speaker 1: WNBA to go on the record defining that you are
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  Speaker 1: not a woman, because this is what a woman is.
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  Speaker 1: I think most people that learn the birds and the
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  Speaker 1: bees know what a woman is, but maybe not easyps
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  Speaker 1: lemon squeezy. Right, Just there you go. That's it. So
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  Speaker 1: every time, and I don't watch the wOBA, I think
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  Speaker 1: the product's in just terrible when I've tried to watch it.
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  Speaker 1: But every time a WNBA coach or player opens their mouth,
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  Speaker 1: and it happens all the time, it feels like there's
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  Speaker 1: another glitch in the simulation, like this is just again
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  Speaker 1: some kind of psyop thing that's going on with the
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  Speaker 1: scoreboard and all that. And at this point I would
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  Speaker 1: advise the WNBA to just embrace every publicity stunt because
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  Speaker 1: your product is terrible, all right. The people that you
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  Speaker 1: employer idiots, So just embrace it.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: The basketball part of it's terrible. It's not appointment viewing.
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  Speaker 1: No one's watching it. They're just waiting for something crazy
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  Speaker 1: to happen so they can rant about it. It's a
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  Speaker 1: political battlefield for the culture war. That's why you exist.
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  Speaker 1: So lean into it.
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from the Big announcement.
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  Speaker 1: The big announcement. It happened while I was sleeping and
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  Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns made the move to Sean Watson named
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  Speaker 1: the starting quarterback for the Browns. He supposedly beat out
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  Speaker 1: Shader Sanders after they split first team reps during training
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  Speaker 1: camp and throughout the preseason, the offseason, all of that.
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  Speaker 1: So if you didn't see this, perhaps you missed it.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: I don't know why Watson will start in that epic
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: matchup September thirteenth, when the Brownies played the Jacksonville Jaguars,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: a team filled with a bunch of Jags, just a
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: guy there and everywhere in Jacksonville. Now, my favorite part
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: of his story is Todd Munkin. Well, there's two parts
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: of that. The first part is Todd Munkin who said
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: the decision was based on everything, the entire offseason, the
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: training camp, all that. Well, in fact, here is Todd
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Munkin announcing the decision to go with the Shawn Watson,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: the creepy quarterback, as the Brown's choice. Take a listen,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Shawn's going to start against Jacksonville.
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: Took in the full body of work off season, to
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: training camp, to the games, the joint practice, and ultimately
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: felt like to start the season on the road, Deshaun
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: gave us the best chance to move the ball and
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: score points. I mean, that's really what it's about. And
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: felt that way going in the last game, but wasn't sure.
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: And after we talked as a staff and after we
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: relooked at everything, we're gonna go that direction.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Liar, Liar, Sorry, I had a fing in my throat.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Liar.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: All right, that's Todd Munkett. More from Todd Monkey They
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: have a lie right to your face.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: A friend of mine text me and said, the reason
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Todd Monkin got the job is for these kind of days,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Like he's totally shameless, totally shameless. A lot of coaches
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: would have problems lying like he just did not Todd Munkin,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: he doesn't have a problem.
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: Now.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: The other story is obviously the issue with the fans
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: and the fact that the fan base hates Deshaun Watson.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: And you're in a business where you need the public
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: to support your product. Most businesses need the product to
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: be popular and people like the product, right, This is
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: kind of how it works. So you have a bit
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: of a problem here the fan base Boode Watson. Watson
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: thinks the fans are schmucks. So it goes back and forth.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Here is Todd Munkin addressing the internal issue on how
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: to handle the relationship with the fans. Take a list zero.
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: There was nothing to do with that. I mean, ultimately,
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: the fans want us to win. I mean ultimately put
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: a good product on the field. That's really what they want, Okay,
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: And so that's our job as coaches and why we're hired,
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: how to try and put the best product on the field.
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: And when we don't, then I understand the frustration. But
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: ultimately they don't decide who plays. I mean, who would
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: I be if I let someone outside of the building
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: decide who plays?
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: You'd be just like every other coach in the in
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Cleveland's history. So it seems like Todd Muckin's trying to
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: get the pay out, the quick payout on that. You know,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: coach the Browns for a year, get three years years
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: of payout. It's the golden parachute a pro football. You
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: get that Brown's job, you coach a year or two,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: and then you get paid for several more years to
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: go sit on the beach in Burma. Why not?
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: discuss the question. Does Brown's coach Todd Munkin and the
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: explanation that he gave here for picking Deshaun Watson past
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: the smell test very bad at playing poker. I've already
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: revealed my hand. I've got mushroom, soup, porta potty, and
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: good housekeeping. And we will combine all of these things
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: together and we are going to give away the farm,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: something the Cleveland Browns did years ago. They gave away
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: the farm for Deshaun Watson. Oh m G O MG.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: So my first thought, A not even a thousand pottery
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: barn scented candle, burning it once can clear up the smell,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: the stench coming from the Cleveland Browns facility. There. Todd
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Munkin is in this case stuck between the devil and
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: the deep blue sea and performing this was essentially a
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: humiliation ritual. That's the way I looked at it from
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: like the Middle Ages there where Todd Munkin was clearly
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: told by the owner, Hey, you got to play Watson. Okay,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: I'll play Watson. I'll be your little stooge, your little puppet,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: and I'll go out there and I'll talk to the
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: media because I don't care. You're paying me a lot
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: of money. Beat's getting a real job. So Todd Munkin
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: did the walk and he talked to talk and that
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: was that. It just smells like ownership meddling. The fan
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: base doesn't like Watson. Watson played like Doo Doo for
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: the Browns in the exhibition game, so why else would
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: you name him the quarterback other than the owner said
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: we got to get something out of this guy, and
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: it's ROI return on investment and Deshaun Watson making forty
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: six million dollars this year garanteed. So if you're Jimmy Haslin,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Jimmy Haslin, the truck stop guy there that owns the team,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: and you're like, all right, I gotta get something back
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: from my investment, and Haslam and his wife there like,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: let's put him out. Why not? At this point the
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Browns trying to get something out of Deshaun Watson. You'd
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: have as much success if you went down to the
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: mountains and you took some rocks and you tried to
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: squeeze them and get juice, and that wouldn't work. So
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: you put him in a blender. Let me put the
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: rocks in a blender. Maybe I get some juice out
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: of the rock. No, you're not getting any juice out
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: of the rocks. So again I go back to the point,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: what exactly did Deshaun Watson do to get the QB
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: one job? What did he do? So the obvious one
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: is he he went down to the Walgreens and he
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: picked up his prescription and there was a bottle of
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: pills there and it was the poison pill. Now, some
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: of the salary cap dorks are saying, it's the salarycap.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: It's the swerycap. The cap, please, the cap is crap.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: How many times must you be exposed as frauds before
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: you realize the cap is crapped. I'm old enough to
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: remember when the La Rams sold their soul. They made
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: a faustian bargain to get to the Super Bowl and
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: win it against the Bengals in the greatest Super Bowl ever.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: And y'all told me that the Rams would never be
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: heard from again, that that was it. No, I remember
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: when the Denver Broncos got rid of Russell Wilson, mister unlimited,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: y'all told me the Broncos would never be heard from
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: anytime soon. Salrycap purgatory. It seems like the Broncos were
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: in the AFC Championship Game last year, and if I'm
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: not mistaken, the Rams were on the doorstep also of
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: going back to the Super Bowl. So it seems like
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: they overcame the salary cap. And the Brown would do
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: the same thing. Figure it out, pay a bunch of
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: guys minimum wage, figure it f and out, get rid
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: of the guy, all right, But they claim, oh, it's
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: a salary cap, it's the poison pill and all that stuff,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: and so somehow it's like, well, if they cut him,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: it would have created mushroom soup, and we don't want
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: to eat mushroom soup. Well, it wouldn't be mushroom soup, dummy,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: it would have been a mushroom cloud. And you figure
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: it out, an eighty six point two million dollars sowarycap
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: catastrophe of dead money. Oh, the boogeyman, the salary cap boogeyman.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: The whole thing is just fake. It's for gayzy, it's
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: made up. And so yeah, would it be a boondoggle
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: for a year. Yeah. There has never been a team
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: because of salary cap purgatory that has not been able
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: to field eleven players on offense and eleven players on defense.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: They always seem to have the required number of players,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: the full roster. So what exactly? So you're giving someone
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: else an opportunity paying the minimum wage? So who cares?
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: The watson is such a you know what, you get
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: rid of the guy and you figure it out, and
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: they couldn't do that. Now. The good news, meanwhile, is
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: business is booming for the birds, the boo birds, the
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: angry birds in Cleveland here and they should not stop.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Crank up the temperature. Now, if you really want to
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: upset the Browns, just don't go to the games. Don't
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: watch the games on TV. Remember, the most powerful thing
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: that you and I have is apathy. And if we
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: ignore these people, they will freak out. They will go
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: death con at the highest level of deaf con. They
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: will lose their fricking mind. If you don't watch the
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: games on TV and you don't go to the games,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: they won't know what to do. Seriously, apathy is the
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: neutron bomb in that business. But since you're not going
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: to do that, the next best thing is just make
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: their life a living hell. And if you're gonna pay admission,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: knock it out of the park. The Shakespeare's series at
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: the Factory of Sadness, Watson will stink in September, He'll
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: play terribly. The booze will get louder. SHOULDU chance rhythmic
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: chance for Shooder Sanders will crank up there and somehow
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: the Browns, the good old Cleveland Browns, will turn an
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: already dysfunctional operation into an even bigger, big top three
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: ring circus. It's great with luxury seating. Gotta have the
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: luxury box all right now, page two. So the runner
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: up spot in the hour of Brownham the runner up
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: spot here goes the silver medal in this pathetic quarterback race.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: We know who the runner up is. So the question
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: with Deshaun Watson getting QB one status getting the gig
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: with the Cleveland Browns, how bad does it make Shaudur
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Sanders look? Well, okay, so we understand. I believe the
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: owner medal, so that's part of it. However, Shoudur Sanders
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: had the ultimate power to play so well and to
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: do such great things that he would have put pressure
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: on the Brown's ownership to go with him. He didn't
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: do that. He did the opposite, right, So QB one
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: was sitting on the counter with a massive take me
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: sign for Shudur Sanders to go out there and prove
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: that he's not just a stiff and a social media
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: influencer and all that. And Shouldur somehow walked right past
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: the take me free sign on the counter the thing
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: of a jig while right past it like he was blindfolded. Right,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: And in Cleveland, the bar is underground, subterranean is the
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: bar in Cleveland, And Shouldur still found a way to
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: do the limbo underneath the subterranean bar, which is hard
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: to do. To think that you couldn't dominate, couldn't give
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: the razzle dazzle, and outperformed Deshaun Watson, a guy whose
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: reputation in the NFL and with the Cleveland Browns is
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: that of an overflowing porta potty at the end of
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: the State Fair there on a Sunday night when it
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: has n't been cleaned since Thursday. That nice rich aroma,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: that is Deshaun Watson. And yet that guy who sparred
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: with fans had to apologize like a malfunctioning chat bot,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: had to apologize, and he still won the job. He
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: still won the job. This wasn't exactly Secretariat at the Belmont.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: It wasn't that Schadur simply fell off the horse, of
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: course before the first turn. Shaudur, you gotta stay on
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: the horse. You can't fall off the horse. What are
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: you doing? It's a by job by you.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: There were reports of sloppy practices by should Ear, that
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: he had issues with the cadence calling out to play
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Audibling at the line of scrimmage there, that his offensive
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: lineman didn't know what was going on because he wasn't
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: communicating the right plays and so he sounded like he
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: was running an escape room on the way it's being
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: reported he was a shooter, says was running an escape
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: room instead of the Browns offense. And so Cleveland gave
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: him the opportunity, and it wasn't the greatest opportunity because
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: with the brown sucker, whoever plays quarterback, they gave him
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: an opportunity and the incentive, every incentive imaginable to be
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: the starting quarterback for the team. Watson's yesterday's garbage. He
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: just is and no matter how long he plays in
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: the NFL, that's just who he is. And Shadur he's
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: still unfortunately ordering off the kidney menu. And it's a
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: parent here. Watson didn't really outperform anybody the owner wanted
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: him because of the contract to play, which I get.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: He didn't perform well when he played in these exhibition games.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: And Chadu just utterly surrendered and like a French soldier.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: So that's it. I retreat, all right. Now, last word
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: to the fans again. I'm wanna go back to the
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: fans because to me, this is a big part of it.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: We heard Todd Monkin earlier say and then we don't
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: let the fans decide what's going on. So did you
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: see Deshaun Watson opened up his news conference with a
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: two minute apology, a two minute apology to the fans,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: slamming them he had ripped them apart over the weekend
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: and take a listen to the level of bull crap
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: from Deshaun Watson. Take a listen.
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: First off, I want to address the comments from Saturday
• 32:44
  Speaker 6: after the game. I think just you know, human nature,
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: just myself been very emotional, spent a lot of time
• 32:51
  Speaker 6: these last two years to you know, get back, and
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: you know, spend time in this facility in the city,
• 32:57
  Speaker 6: meeting a lot of different people in the community. I
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: thought I was going to get you know, a little
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: different response, but you know, I think, you know, my
• 33:06
  Speaker 6: emotions got the best of me. My comments wasn't intending
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: to go at any of the fans around in the
• 33:12
  Speaker 6: city because there's been a lot of great fans that
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: have been supported me, and I know the frustration that's
• 33:17
  Speaker 6: a lot of this organization have put you know, a
• 33:19
  Speaker 6: lot of investment and coming, you know to get me
• 33:22
  Speaker 6: back in twenty two and and things haven't been going
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: the right direction that we thought it was, you know,
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: a lot of injuries, a lot of time off and
• 33:31
  Speaker 6: not pening the best football and my foot forward. So again,
• 33:35
  Speaker 6: just you know, I understand the frustration. I understand everything
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: that kind of goes into that, you know, and moving forward,
• 33:41
  Speaker 6: I just want to focus on football, making sure that
• 33:43
  Speaker 6: you know I'm putting the best product out there.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's so funny. This is real by the way
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: we make that off like this is such bull crap.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: They serve you fresh bull crap. The Browns must think
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: their fan base or a bunch of Neameovols with an
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: IQ a little bit better than a goldfish. All right,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: So the question how did what you just heard most
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: of it? How did Deshaun Watson's apology play to the
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: base the Cleveland customers there? So this was the way
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: I determined it. I wrote this on my scorecard. Deshaun
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Watson giving a groveling two minute apology was a performative
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: price of admission to get the quarterback gig as QB
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: won there in northern Ohio two days prior. Two days prior,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson made it perfectly clear his position on the
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: fan base in Cleveland. He hated the fans, he thought
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: they were disrespectful, and he took it personally, and in
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: less than forty eight hours after announcing all of that,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: abra cadabra, hocus pocus presto, he goes out there. Watson
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: does the dance and he gets the keys to the
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Factory of sadness back and he's tapped dancing like he's
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: the reincarnation of Fred Astaire out there at the PR seminar,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: knocking it out of the park. You got to knock
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: it out of the park. And it sure sounds like
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: someone who was with the media relations department with the
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Browns said, Hey, congratulations, Deshaun Watson, you're the QB one.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Before we name you the starter, we have one small
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: good housekeeping thing we'd like to do. What's the good
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: housekeeping thing? What the good housekeeping thing is? We need
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: to get to go out there on stage and claim
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: everything you said, what you felt a day and a
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: half ago, you don't no longer feel, and we need
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: you to apologize and so enter the PR talking points memo,
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: was that authentic If you're a low information fan, if
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: you're unknowledgeable, Watson dropped I counted twenty plus ums and uzz.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Twenty plus ums and uzz from Deshaun Watson in two minutes,
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: appearing like a man who was frantically trying to scan
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: the back of his mind the mental teleprompter on what
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: the PR people wanted him to say. That's what it
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: seemed like watching this and listening to the audio. And
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: he even consulted the top PR crisis management team, So
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: we consulted. We consulted the Bible of this kind of thing. Now,
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: the bible for this is the FBI's Handbook on Lying.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: The body language dead, give it dead, give right the
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: body language. For Deshaun Watson, he was touching his face
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: is kind of doing the chin rub and that kind
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: of thing. People who touch their faces they often itch
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: while they're lying, because you know your line, so you're
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: kind of itch, so you rub your face a little bit.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Was looking down in addition to saying the um and
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: the uzz. Deshaun was looking down quite a bit. That
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: is a classic sign that you are fabricating details and
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: we're calling what you're supposed to say in that teleprompter
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: in the back of your mind. So there it is.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: The Cleveland Browns naming Deshaun Watson. It's so good. The
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: goodness is, we don't really watch the Browns, so it
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter who plays quarterback. It's just fun to talk about.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: You know. It's just some really good fans, hard you know,
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: hard working love and fans, people working factories, good blue
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: collar jobs. They love the Browns. That's their chance to
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: get away from the world, and the Browns serve them
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: up absolute bull crap on a weekly basis. It's just great.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: It is so good. How incompetent that franchise is.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: Fons Mallard, how about that?
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: To the third degree?
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: This is one big Ben gets grilled Couvalo.
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: Mike Rabel explained sitting his starters during the preseason by saying,
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: I do not think we have a very deep team.
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: He then attempted to walk those comments back on Monday, Ben,
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: do you think the depth of the roster is going
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: to be a problem for the Patriots?
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: No, this is it's an issue because he took a
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: shot at the front office, which is odd because, as
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: I understand it, Rabel helps pick the players. So is
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: he really taking a shot at himself. If the roster's
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: not good, that's on the front office. You're part of
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: the front office also, So that's an excuse, is all
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: it is. The Patriots are not going to be as
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: good as they were last year. It's not going to
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: because of that.
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  Speaker 3: Next Bill Belichick admitted last week that North Carolina have
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: looked into adding some of these sixteen players who received
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: a fifth year of eligibility through the temporary restraining Order. Now, Ben,
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: do you think Belichick would be speaking out against this
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: ruling if you were still an NFL coach?
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Well, he wishes he was still in an NFL coach,
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: That's the first thought I have on that. So probably
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: probably would say, hey, once you go to the NFL,
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: that's it. He's from the Old Country and all that.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: But Belichick, how many more years is he to coach
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: North Carolina? It didn't go well last year, They're not
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: looking to be very good this year in the ACC.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: So at this point you do whatever you can if
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: you're Belichick, to try to at least get one good year,
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: one good year at Chapel Hill.
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: Next, the Dodgers have announced a plan for Edwin Diaz
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: saying that he will be used in a low leverage role.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: Once he is activated from the eye heel.
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: The hope is to build him back up towards reclaiming
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: the closer role.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: Do you think that'll work? No, it doesn't whether you
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: pitch in a low leverage or a high level that
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: The issue is not the leverage. The issue is he's
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: ridden the vomit comet and Edwin Diaz has choked on
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: the trumpet. He sucks at a time he cannot say.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: You don't matter when you pitch. If you're gonna pitch
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: like crap, you're not gonna get guys out. How did
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: we know you pass?
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: I won the game?
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Chicken Nah.
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  Speaker 2: to listen live now Malor's Mountain of Money? Do you
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  Speaker 2: have what it takes to get to the top? Probably?
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: Not?
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: All Right, here we go, let's do it right now.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. Our contestant. Slug is in Vegas and he's
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: hosting us this weekend. On Saturday. The Mallard Meet and
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Greet stakeout bar and grill, which.
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: Is why it's a bummer that I'm gonna have to
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: beat him.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: Now you're not You're not it depending on how many
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: beers Slug has had. And Tyler is in Boston and hello, Tyler,
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: you're teamed up with coops, so you're gonna lose. So
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: just deal with that, doubtful. All right, let's get part
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: the party started here. The category you picked, the Sean
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: Connery edition. You picked Indiana Jones. Is that correct, Slug? Yes, yes,
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: all right. These athletes aren't college professors, but they are
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: from the state of Indiana. Are you ready, Slug? Sure?
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: All right? Forty five seconds on the clock. We're on
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: our way. Go the Hick from French Lick the Wizard
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: of Westwood. Jesus, it is not Jesus, all right, Couter, Yeah, yes,
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: he played for the Raiders, also the Steelers. One with
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: the Ravens defense. Got a defensive back, safety cornerback. First
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: NFL player return from reconstructive knee surgery. Played for your Riders,
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: all right. Manager of the Miracle Mets of nineteen sixty nine,
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: played for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Come on, all right, what
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: terrible clues jeez, you got thirty point the manager of
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: the Miracle Mets and played for the We should just
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: let you go. You don't even get Rod Woodson was bad.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: You didn't get Woods. I'm gonna slap you when I
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: see you on Saturday. You didn't get Rod.
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: Woodson to too many threw out?
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh my god. Nobody knows him from the Ravens.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: Come on, yeah, nobody knows who the Ravens.
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: What do you play like?
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: What do you play like? Two years for them? Didn't
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: he win a Super Bowl with them? Yeah? That's it? Yeah? Okay,
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: all right, Tyler, Uh, we have medicine.
• 42:20
  Speaker 6: Man.
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: Uh. These athletes are slash, were often injured. Don't choke, Tyler,
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: do not choke?
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: All right? Forty five seconds you smell that. Forty five
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: seconds let's begin. I'm smelling a show, all right. The unibrow.
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: David Yes, Uh, the slugger that's always hurt for the Yankees.
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: Not Aaron Judge. The other guy, yes, shop. This guy
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: is a wide receiver on the forty nine ers. He
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: kind of plays a running back sometimes. He just got
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: re signed with them. Yep, that's right. This guy's on
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: the Pelicans. He like blew out his sneaker in college. Yes,
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: this guy is the dad of Luke. He had Curly
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: Harry loves the Grateful Dead. He just died recently. Yes,
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: this guy was a running back for the Chargers. He's
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: on the Broncos.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: Now choke.
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: Uh, that's right, all right. This guy is a shortstop.
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: He was on the Colorado Rockies. He's on the Red Sox.
• 43:16
  Speaker 7: Now you didn't run the board, sorry loser. Yeah, and
• 43:21
  Speaker 7: Ben tried his best to ruin the game. Choke, choke, choke.
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: I think due to that and his one second.
• 43:30
  Speaker 5: On the same story, Yeah, I think he ran the board.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: R You see where they're doing. You see what they're doing.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: Shut up, you see where they're doing. Slug this guy.
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: This guy hosts a party and he gets disrespected.
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: He's not even gonna try because he knows he can't
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: beat that scar.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: Taking You know what, slug. They're not invited. It's the
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: malor meet me. They can't go. How about that slug?
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: But me and you? That's right? My name? All right?
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: What do you want? You want Cuba or the Rock? Well,
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: I don't want people from Indiana.
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: I can tell you that.
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: I guess the Rock all right, These athletes all, uh well,
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: they all went to prison. Quarterback for the Falcons dogfights. Yes,
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: he was a receiver for the Carolina Panthers. He killed
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: his pregnant girlfriend. And I want, because you're not invited anymore,
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: either one of you, get out of here with that