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Hour 2 - C.J. Every Day · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Razzle dazzle. It's our number two, our number two, piping
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Speaker 1: But here in hour number two, general manager Nick Caserio
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Speaker 1: said that it would be quote moronic for the Texans
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Speaker 1: to trade quarterback c J. Stroud. Is that how you
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Speaker 1: see this? Also, the Cardinals GM Monte Osenford said all
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Speaker 1: options are on the table with the little guy Kyler Murray,
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Speaker 1: and he also said that he has had conversations with Murray.
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Speaker 1: The Murray camp says that's not the case since the season, Andrew,
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Speaker 1: We'll talk about that as well. How does this land
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Speaker 1: with you? And what is the Bengals messaging regarding Trey Hendrickson?
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Speaker 1: Some comments made vague comments by the Duke in Cincinnati
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Speaker 1: will go there as well. Right now here, it is
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Speaker 1: slash disclosures. So I leave this hour from the scouting combine.
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Speaker 1: We continue our in depth team coverage all night long.
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Speaker 1: And when I see, when I say team coverage, we've
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Speaker 1: got many people fast sleep right now that are giving
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Speaker 1: us inside information while they're sleeping. So Texans GM Nick
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Speaker 1: Caasario and ex pat who Nick Kasario, he addressed the
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Speaker 1: Komodo Dragon in the room, talked about the future of
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Speaker 1: his quarterback. Not a good one. Not a good one.
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Speaker 1: Been mentioned in multiple places that it appears that CJ.
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Speaker 1: Stroud his days are numbered in Houston. That's been the
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Speaker 1: rumors been bouncing all over the echo chamber here for
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Speaker 1: the last month or so that the Texans are going
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Speaker 1: to look to get rid of CJ. Stroud. Most people
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Speaker 1: would say that's a good idea. The guy's not not
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Speaker 1: very effective as a quarterback in big games. By the way,
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Speaker 1: let's get to the audio tape. If you didn't hear it,
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Speaker 1: Here is Nick Kasario, the GM of the Texans, addressing
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Speaker 1: the Komodo Dragon in the room, his quarterback, CJ. Stroud.
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Speaker 2: It's Marna's like, we're not trading a guy, but he's
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Speaker 2: a quarter So he's going to be playing quarterback in
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Speaker 2: the Eastern Texans in twenty twenty six. Any beyond that.
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Speaker 2: I mean, again, that's that's your world. You guys can
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Speaker 2: spect that we're not.
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Speaker 1: Uh he said, it's moronic. That was the money quote,
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Speaker 1: and we're not trading the guy and all that. So
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Speaker 1: that is a good jumping out point. Let us discuss
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Speaker 1: the question texas, GM, said Nick Cassio, saying it would
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Speaker 1: be quote maronic maronic to trade quarterback CJ. Strout. Is
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Speaker 1: that how you see it? So I have abstract art,
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Speaker 1: Fisher Price and the Mightiesultar, and we will combine all
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Speaker 1: of these things together and we are going to play
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Speaker 1: Connect three, not Connect one, not connect two, Connect three,
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Speaker 1: so number one. So Nick Cassario, the GM there. I
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Speaker 1: love the fact that this is the mountain he wants
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Speaker 1: to stand on and he wants to die on, right,
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Speaker 1: the failed Quarterback Mountain. And he's waving a flag on
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Speaker 1: top of failed Quarterback Mountain like he's conquered Mount Everest.
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Speaker 1: It's just outstanding. It's just fricking great. And of course
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Speaker 1: he thinks he's conquered Mount Everest. He's really drowning in
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Speaker 1: a puddle at this point. It's the arrogance. It's an
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Speaker 1: extra strength dose of Hubris by the GM of the Texans.
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Speaker 1: Imagine looking at what CJ. Stroud has put on tape
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Speaker 1: the last couple of years and saying, that's my guy,
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Speaker 1: that's my guy. Who would ever do that? Right, Well,
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Speaker 1: I know who would do it, Nick Kosario would do it.
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Speaker 1: The dumb dumb with the Texans. Seriously, my vision chart
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Speaker 1: says that if you were to shop CJ. Stroud, the
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Speaker 1: word I would use is pragmatic. That would be the
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Speaker 1: word I would use, not moronic. Pragmatic would be the
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Speaker 1: word I would use. It would be wise to put
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Speaker 1: him on the fleet market. Why well, c J. Stroud
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Speaker 1: had this amazing rookie season, look like he had the
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Speaker 1: back of the NFL defenses, of the defense on his
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Speaker 1: back hand, back of his hand. There was so good
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Speaker 1: c J. Stroud. But that is a distant memory and
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Speaker 1: you've got back to back stack like hotcakes, garbage, and
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Speaker 1: so three years ago is ancient history. The way the
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Speaker 1: NFL works, the league has figured some things out. The
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Speaker 1: book has been changed. There's a new book out and
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Speaker 1: the sequel for CJ. Stroud. He's been unable to read.
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Speaker 1: He needs a Rosetta stone. He has been unable to read.
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Speaker 1: What the defenses are doing at this particular point, and
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Speaker 1: you're getting closer and closer, inch by inch to a
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Speaker 1: point where you're gonna have to give this guy one
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Speaker 1: of those dumb contracts like Kyler Murray got in Arizona
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Speaker 1: and to a tongue of Iloa, got these guys that
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Speaker 1: aren't very good, and you know they're not very good,
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Speaker 1: but you're afraid they're going to become good, and you
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Speaker 1: give them the contract and then they go out there
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Speaker 1: and they have projectile vomit and you've paid them a
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Speaker 1: ton of money. Happens all the time. And this idea
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Speaker 1: that these people that run sports teams are that smart,
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Speaker 1: not always. There's a lot of dumb dumps that get
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Speaker 1: in there, and this would be an example of one
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Speaker 1: of them. And then Nick Cassario, this was Sugarna. He
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Speaker 1: had the gall to say when he was asked about
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Speaker 1: the issues that CJ. Stroud has had, he said, well,
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Speaker 1: he's had his ups and downs. No no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: no no. He had an up that would be his
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Speaker 1: rookie season, and then down down, down, down, down, down
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Speaker 1: down down down to Dante's Inferno where he's been so
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Speaker 1: sugar coating it. I guess you must think your fans
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Speaker 1: are not that bright. Maybe they aren't. I don't know,
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Speaker 1: but anyone with half a brain would say, in Houston,
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Speaker 1: and who likes that team? I think only people in
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Speaker 1: Houston like that team or people from there. That's not it.
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Speaker 1: That's not the answer. And I have learned from watching CJ.
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Speaker 1: Stroud in these big games the last couple of years
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Speaker 1: that this guy is a big donor for abstract art
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Speaker 1: in playoff games. His favorite type of art is abstract art.
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Speaker 1: He likes, he likes being a choke artist. He enjoys that.
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Speaker 1: And but wait, not just a choke artist. But he
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Speaker 1: uses finger painting, not Bob Ross. He's using finger painting.
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Speaker 1: And that's what he's doing here. How bad is he? Well?
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Speaker 1: C J. Stroud owns. Congratulations CJ the NFL record the
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Speaker 1: first player in the one hundred year history of the
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Speaker 1: NFL to have five interceptions and five fumbles in a
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Speaker 1: single postseason. Way to go, and for that. The general
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Speaker 1: manager of the Houston Sexton said it would be moronic
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Speaker 1: to get rid of this guy. So bad. Oh, it's
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Speaker 1: so bad. It's good. I am so happy I'm here.
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Speaker 1: If people did the right thing, then what we talk about,
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Speaker 1: we'd just be boring. It'd be so boring. I think
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Speaker 1: these idiots in sports, it's wild. He has been. The
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Speaker 1: word for c J. Stroud in the playoffs is bedraggled.
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Speaker 1: He has been bedraggled. And even when the Texans have
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Speaker 1: won the I think they've won three games with CJ. Stroud,
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Speaker 1: he's gotten the federal bailout from the White House. He's
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Speaker 1: gotten the bailout. Right, it's the defense. When the lights
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Speaker 1: get bright, it's always Halloween for CJ. Stroud. He turns
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Speaker 1: into a pumpkin. He does. And you're wasting And this
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Speaker 1: is why you should be offended the hutzpah of the Texans.
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Speaker 1: You're wasting what has been a generationally good defense, at
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Speaker 1: least statistically the last couple of years. And when you
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Speaker 1: have a defense like that, you just need a guy
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Speaker 1: to stay out of the way. And they can't even
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Speaker 1: get that. They can't even get the bear necessities out
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Speaker 1: of CJ. Stroud's wild. You just need a custodian for
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Speaker 1: the offense. Right guy sweeps up the floors, mops the floors,
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Speaker 1: don't burn down the damn bill. They make sure the
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Speaker 1: toilet paper rolls are in there, clean behind the toilet.
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Speaker 1: That's what you need. Yeah, don't need the hero. He's
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Speaker 1: not very good. He's not so I would say if
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Speaker 1: you were to unload him now and rather than give
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Speaker 1: him a big contract, which is what you're ultimately looking at,
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Speaker 1: if this does not go well this year or you know,
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Speaker 1: you're just can eventually give him that that contract. Maybe
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Speaker 1: he'll cut you a little bit of a deal, but
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Speaker 1: you're still gonna pay him a ton of money and
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Speaker 1: he's not worth it. And any sensible football observer would
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Speaker 1: say that you don't want to be anchored to this player.
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Speaker 1: You do not want to be anchored to this player,
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Speaker 1: And yet you're getting closer and closer to it, and
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Speaker 1: it sounds like the Texans are going to triple down. Normally,
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Speaker 1: you're allowed one bad year. You can't have back to
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Speaker 1: back bad year. CJ. Strats ad back to back bad years,
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Speaker 1: and they're going to give him a chance to have
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Speaker 1: a third bad year. The issue is, what if he's
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Speaker 1: not bad? What if he's just average next year? What
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Speaker 1: do you do with him then? What do you do?
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Speaker 1: So he said one good year, two bad years and
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Speaker 1: then an average year, you're gonna give that guy the
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Speaker 1: big contract. Are you okay? Who's moronic? Then? All right
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Speaker 1: to mean moronic? Let's go to Arizona, Arizona, that is
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Speaker 1: where the Cardinals GM Monty Austin Fort. That's a mouthful.
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Speaker 1: Monty Austin Fort said that he's had conversations with Kyler
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Speaker 1: Murray about how the Terrible twenty twenty five season unfolded.
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Speaker 1: So then some reporter went to somebody with Kyler Murray
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Speaker 1: and said, Okay, what did this what happened? How did
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Speaker 1: this go? Uh? And so people around Kyler Murray who
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Speaker 1: are writing his coat tails there are little coat tails.
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Speaker 1: They said that the two have not talked since the
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Speaker 1: season ended. So then he said, oh, this guy live
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Speaker 1: Austin Fort, the Cardinals, he's a liar. Got all excited.
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Speaker 1: Here's a liar, okay. Austin Ward also said that those
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Speaker 1: conversations about Murray's future are happening daily. Boy, that must
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Speaker 1: be really exciting. Wow, And he reiterated the Cardinal GM
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Speaker 1: Monty Osenford reiterated that all options are on the table,
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Speaker 1: all options, all right, So question you got the Cardinals
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Speaker 1: GM Monty osen Ford saying that all options are on
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Speaker 1: the table. With the little fella Kyler Murray and his future.
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Speaker 1: So how does that land with you? How does that
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Speaker 1: land with you? So this is not a declaration, This
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Speaker 1: is not a statement. It is a talking points memo
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Speaker 1: that he was just repeating the talking points here. And
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Speaker 1: it's like going to the Disco Tech. You go down
12:54
Speaker 1: to the Disco Tech and you get to Bell Bottoms,
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Speaker 1: you get the hippie Boss and you drive that down
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Speaker 1: there and you drive straight in to a game of
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Speaker 1: he said, he said, because you got the GM said, hey,
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Speaker 1: I talked to the player. Somebody with Kyler Murray who
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Speaker 1: might have been Kyler Murray said we haven't talked. We
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Speaker 1: have not talked. And so my theory on what happened
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Speaker 1: I got theory, the malord theory is that the GM
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Speaker 1: Austin Ford claimed he said he talked to Kyler Murray,
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Speaker 1: but he meant his agent. Agents are the conduit, the
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Speaker 1: conduit between the player, the middlemen between the player and
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Speaker 1: the team. So a little Murdy, who may or may
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Speaker 1: not be flying through the Valley of the Sun, tells
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Speaker 1: me it's almost impossible to get a hold of Kyler
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Speaker 1: Murray this time of the year because he's a two
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Speaker 1: sport athlete. A lot of people don't know this, but
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Speaker 1: he's a two sport athlete and it is in the
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Speaker 1: middle of Call of Duty season. Do you expect Kyler
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Speaker 1: to put down the joystick, to get off the Twitch
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Speaker 1: stream and talk to his part time boss? Come on,
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Speaker 1: come on, he's a brand ambassador, brand ambassador for Call
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Speaker 1: of Duty. You think he's gonna worry about a little
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Speaker 1: sid hustle. I don't care if they're paying like forty
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Speaker 1: or fifty million dollars a year, whatever it is. I
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Speaker 1: don't care about that. It'd be nice if the the
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Speaker 1: Cardinals just said we're getting rid of me. They don't
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Speaker 1: want to do that until they trade him, obviously, and says,
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Speaker 1: all we decided it's better we go our separate way.
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Speaker 1: So for now they're playing the game good luck. At
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Speaker 1: some point, I guess they realize, well, he's not very
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Speaker 1: good and he needs a Fisher Price plastic toddler step
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Speaker 1: stool in the huddle. That's not great, and so he'll
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Speaker 1: be wearing some different laundry. It'll be kid laundry, but
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Speaker 1: he'll be wearing some different laundry. Kyler Murray. Next year's
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Speaker 1: he go to the Dolphins, the Falcons, the Vikings, the Steelers,
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Speaker 1: or my favorite mystery team. I love the mystery team.
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Speaker 1: So they said, it's a dry heat in Arizona. Dry
15:01
Speaker 1: heat doesn't sting quite like the humidity in most other places.
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Speaker 1: But you're still turning into dust. All right. Last point,
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Speaker 1: we go to Cincinnati. We go to Cincinnati and they've
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Speaker 1: got some issues. The GM there, Duke Tobin, the duke
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Speaker 1: good name, not a good gym. So Duke Tobin was
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Speaker 1: asked about the future of defensive end Trey Hendrickson and
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Speaker 1: what did he say at the scouting combine. Well, the
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Speaker 1: GM there, the Cincinnati Bengal said, I don't throw anything
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Speaker 1: on or off the table. Sounds like the default answer
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Speaker 1: at the combine is everything's on the table. That must
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Speaker 1: be one fin big table the combine for the NFL.
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Speaker 1: Everything's on the table. Yeah. Anyway, I went on to
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Speaker 1: say that we are excited about attacking this offseason. See
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Speaker 1: his nose growing when he said that we have resources,
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Speaker 1: not many resources, to attack the offseason in a big way,
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Speaker 1: and we want to do that raw raw. I added
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Speaker 1: that other part. I added that other part. All right,
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Speaker 1: So there has been speculation that the Bengals the Bengals
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Speaker 1: will use these redded Franchise tag yet again on Trey Hendrickson.
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Speaker 1: They're gonna lock him down. Now, Tobin did not clarify
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Speaker 1: on that issue, whether or not the team would actually
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Speaker 1: do that. He said, quote in terms of how we're
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Speaker 1: going to deploy the tag, if we are going to,
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Speaker 1: that's not something I'm gonna talk about here. Why not?
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Speaker 1: Who cares? Anyway? All right? So let us discuss this
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Speaker 1: the question what is the Bengals message regarding Trey Hendrickson?
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Speaker 3: So?
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Speaker 1: What is the Bengals message regarding Trey Hendrickson? So this
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Speaker 1: is a what I call a SOOP situation in Cincinnati,
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Speaker 1: a shop situation in Cincinnati, Standard operating procedure SOP, that's
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Speaker 1: what it is. So you got the GM there, Duke
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Speaker 1: Tobin who gets up at the dais at the combine
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Speaker 1: and it's like he's speaking in pungs. He's acting like
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Speaker 1: he's trying to sell you a funnel cake at the
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Speaker 1: Ohio State Fair. Or more likely, I guess the analogy
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Speaker 1: would be as like oatmeal, but it's corporate GM oatmeal,
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Speaker 1: which is warm room temperature, it's bland, It fills the
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Speaker 1: bowl and there's really nothing there. There's really nothing there.
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Speaker 1: Trey Henderson would like a nice Mellia that the great
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Speaker 1: steakhouse there. That is Jeff Ruby's I believe in Cincinnati
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Speaker 1: all the baseball writers go to. You want to go
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Speaker 1: there and get that big steak. The Bengals are like, listen,
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Speaker 1: if you want to stay here, we need a discount code.
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Speaker 1: We need a discount code. It's like they're shopping on
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Speaker 1: the clearance rack here. So the franchise tag it's thirty
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Speaker 1: million over thirty million. That's a nice neighborhood. If they
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Speaker 1: give that to Trey Henderson, they could tag him. That's
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Speaker 1: option number number one is to tag him. So they
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Speaker 1: could do that. They could tag him and trade him.
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Speaker 1: That's option number two. Yeah, or they could do none
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Speaker 1: of the above and just say bye bye, get out
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Speaker 1: of here, Get out now. We did check with the
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Speaker 1: Mighty's Altar for some council on this. No other radio
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Speaker 1: show has access to the Mighty's Ultar, and the Mighty
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Speaker 1: Zultar told us that all things end. That's a message
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Speaker 1: from the Mighty's Altar, all things end. This does feel
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Speaker 1: like the final scene that Hendrickson is going to raise
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Speaker 1: a hullabaloo if he is not traded and the Bengals
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Speaker 1: don't seem like they're wired, they don't have that thick
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Speaker 1: rhino skin to handle the criticism, because then it'll be
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Speaker 1: a dog pile. You'll have Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase
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Speaker 1: and these guys will pile on and all that stuff.
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Speaker 1: So it's more likely than not that Hendrickson will pack
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Speaker 1: up the station wagon and go up on I seventy
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Speaker 1: one there, maybe head to Baltimore, see what's going on
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Speaker 1: in Baltimore or Chicago or Detroit or anywhere, and then
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Speaker 1: the Bengals will get a They're gonna get a back.
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Speaker 1: It's not a big bang. It's more like a fanny pack,
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Speaker 1: like a fanny pack of draft picks. They'll get a
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Speaker 1: classic nineteen eighties fanny pack and Cincinnati that is where
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Speaker 1: ambition and trying to win goes to take a nice nap,
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Speaker 1: take a really nice nap, and have a good time.
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Speaker 1: And it's the same issue the Raiders have in so
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Speaker 1: many of these teams. It's old family money. It's the
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Speaker 1: Great Gatsby, old family money. Every dollar that the ben
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Speaker 1: Gals do not spend on player pay roll goes back
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Speaker 1: into the Brown family piggy bank. So if you get
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Speaker 1: to take that money that you don't spend on that
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Speaker 1: extra linebacker or that offensive tackle, and that goes into
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Speaker 1: your vacation fund, so you can affward an extra private jet. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so just the plan is. I'll tell you what the
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Speaker 1: Bengals plan is. As a distant relative of Nostradamus and
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Speaker 1: friend of Nostradinas, I think we're back being friends. He
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Speaker 1: lives in Seattle. I think we're back being friends. So
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Speaker 1: the Bengals plan is that just do the very minimum,
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Speaker 1: you know, ces get degrees, just get a C grade
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Speaker 1: and then hope that Joe Burrow is Superman. That's it,
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Speaker 1: at the end of the show, and he took a
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Speaker 1: Late night drug tester says reports are the mystery team
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Speaker 1: for Kyler is the chiefs in case Mahomes isn't ready. Also,
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Speaker 1: the Players Association says they have a decent daycare with
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Speaker 1: the latest PlayStation titles. Well that's really what's important. That's
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Speaker 1: really what's important. Supermarket Steve disagrees that Paul mckeeskey is
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Speaker 1: the ugliest player. He says, the ugliest player ever in
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Speaker 1: the NBA is Greg Oaster tag. Second place was his
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Speaker 1: teammate Jeff Foster. I'm gonna push back on that. I
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Speaker 1: stand by my Paul mckeeskey. I believe he played for
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Speaker 1: the Box million years ago.
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Speaker 6: No way, this guy is the ugliest NBA player of
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Speaker 6: all time.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, you remember he played not. I guess it's
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Speaker 1: probably been twenty years since he played, but it was
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Speaker 1: not that long ago, I guess.
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Speaker 6: I mean what about like, uh like Popeye Jones or pop.
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Speaker 1: Eye Jones had he has weird earplacement, small doesn't like
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Speaker 1: the ears don't really match the head and all that,
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Speaker 1: and uh, you know, there's been a lot like Sam
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Speaker 1: Cassell was not a looker. He was mentioned. Sam Cassell
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Speaker 1: was mentioned because he looks like he's from somewhere else
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Speaker 1: out there. George Murrasan was really not not easy on
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Speaker 1: the eyes, but he was just a giant. Well the
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Speaker 1: guy who's homeless now Lebron's mom's favorite player was his name?
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm talking about.
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Speaker 6: He's homeless, right, yeah, he's not all there?
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Speaker 1: Uh no, man, what was his name? I don't know
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Speaker 1: he's but he was. He was ugly. I mean, that's
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Speaker 1: you know, that's unfortunate. But you know, Delante Delante West.
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Speaker 1: There you go. L was there where a confirmation on
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Speaker 1: that story from the Eastern Conference Finals and the Celtics
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Speaker 1: and Cavs. No surprised Lebron's mom didn't confirm that. I
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Speaker 1: thought she would. All right, let's go to the pots
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Speaker 1: and let's say hello to Meenie miney Moe. Let's go
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Speaker 1: now to the Bay Area and our friend Andrea, she's
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Speaker 1: back for her weekly appearance. She is the astrology insider,
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Speaker 1: she's our friend. Is there a cosmic event on the
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Speaker 1: horizon that we do not know about? Could there be
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Speaker 1: a full moon?
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Speaker 3: It's a little more intense than that. Oh, mercury retrograde.
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Speaker 7: Oh my god, no, no, not right now, please no,
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Speaker 7: it's in red.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, give me the information. Come on, give
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Speaker 1: me the skin.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the astrology insider's job. I got the info
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Speaker 3: for you, and we're right on the cuff of it.
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Speaker 3: So I wanted to mention mercury will be retrograde February
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Speaker 3: twenty six until March twentieth, which is interesting timing, Ben,
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Speaker 3: because that's coinciding, you know, with spring training and baseball
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Speaker 3: and a lot of travel and as you may know
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Speaker 3: the drill, there's travel delays more so during mercury retrograde.
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Speaker 3: Double check all communications, some technologies snaffoos, so you know,
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Speaker 3: mechanical items, try not to buy them unless you have to,
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Speaker 3: and double check before you sign on the dotted line.
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Speaker 3: And what's interesting ben this year mercury retrograde three times,
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Speaker 3: So February twenty sixth to March twentieth in the sign
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Speaker 3: of Pisces. So then June twenty nine to July twenty
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Speaker 3: three in the sign of cancer, and then October twenty
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Speaker 3: four to November thirteenth in the sign of Scorpio. So
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Speaker 3: mercury retrogrades three times this year in the water signs.
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Speaker 3: So those I know you got some Scorpios like Coop
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Speaker 3: and Lorena. So that's when mercury will be retrograding in
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Speaker 3: Scorpio October twenty four to November thirteen, June twenty ninth
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Speaker 3: to July twenty third in cancer, and coming right on
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Speaker 3: up February twenty sixth to March twentieth, mercury retrograde in Pisces.
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Speaker 3: A bit of a hot mess there in Pisces. So
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Speaker 3: just you know, information is power. Double check before you
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Speaker 3: sign anything, and allow extra time for travel. And I
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Speaker 3: don't know if you heard there was a spring training
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Speaker 3: game with the Giants and the smoke alarm went off
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Speaker 3: and created some chaos.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they had a triple play in that game, right,
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Speaker 1: And not only that, this past weekend, the new York
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Speaker 1: Yankees had a raw sewage leak in their clubhouse, covered
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Speaker 1: in raw, disgusting feces in the in the clubs. Now.
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Speaker 1: When you deliver this information, I would like you to
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Speaker 1: quote the great Casey Casem who worked in my building
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Speaker 1: right here where I broadcast from. Huh, and just toss
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Speaker 1: in keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching
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Speaker 1: for the stars.
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Speaker 3: Yes. I always liked that man.
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Speaker 1: It was his catch that's his famous catchphrase.
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Speaker 3: Yes, so absolutely stay grounded, but reached for the stars.
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Speaker 3: And I think it was really good timing. Then you had,
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Speaker 3: you know, a segment on Pete Alonzo last night, and
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Speaker 3: I was listening. It's like, you know, he mentioned his Sagittarius,
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Speaker 3: really open minded, philosophical. He mentioned mercury being retrograde and
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Speaker 3: said he was in a slump because of mercury retrograde
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Speaker 3: and was glad that it came out. I don't know
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Speaker 3: if you knew that about him, but he You know,
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Speaker 3: more and more players are tuning in to planetary cycles.
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Speaker 3: It's just another tool in the toolkit. You know.
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Speaker 1: Well, I do know Darryl Strawberry, you know very well.
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Speaker 1: He was the one saying that Pee Alonzo is going
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Speaker 1: to regret leaving the Mets, although it would appear, if
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Speaker 1: you believe the chatter, that he had no path back
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Speaker 1: to the Mets, that they had essentially blown up the
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Speaker 1: road back and that was it. He had to leave.
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Speaker 1: So Strawberry was like goofing on him. But that's more
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Speaker 1: about Strawberry. If he had had a good approach and
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Speaker 1: not futched around with the nosecandy with the Dodgers, he
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Speaker 1: could have been okay, it fine, and he would have
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Speaker 1: been a Dodger hero and all that, and he just
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Speaker 1: couldn't handle it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, that was kind of a disappointing chapter there,
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Speaker 3: but yeah, a lot of important Mets have left and
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Speaker 3: moved on. And sorry to see Alonso go. Like I said,
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Speaker 3: he would talk about mercury retrograde. He was, you know,
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Speaker 3: really kind of spiritual and outgoing. Sagittary is really fun philosophical.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, I got you, I got you. I well,
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Speaker 1: and you're doing okay, you're hanging in there. Yes, you're
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Speaker 1: doing all right.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so a lot of dental work. So thanks for Barry.
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Speaker 1: All right, hanging there. We're here for you. You'll get
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Speaker 1: over that, and you see the end of the tunnel
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Speaker 1: and you'll be all.
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Speaker 3: Right, all right, yes, thank you, Ben.
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Speaker 1: All right, there she goes. Our friend Andrew Virgo in
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Speaker 1: service on X stay in northern California, although his heart
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Speaker 1: is in Chicago. Get the dump button ready. It's Lucky Tony.
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Speaker 8: Hey, Ben, I was listening to an old conversation with
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Speaker 8: you and Eddie, and you guys are talking about one
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Speaker 8: of lebronz james teammates having sex with Lebron's mom, and
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Speaker 8: I looked at her picture. If she wants a dancing
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Speaker 8: bear service, I just need some beer goggles.
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Speaker 1: Thanks the work of Lucky Tony. Hollering James is in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Hello,
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Speaker 1: hollering James, Oh my god, he's awake. Can I put
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Speaker 1: you back on hold so you go fall asleep?
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Speaker 8: Because let me too.
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Speaker 4: He's cheating me.
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Speaker 1: He's a cheater, the coop. Is this true? You're being
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Speaker 1: called a cheater, Cooper, You're a cheater with hollering James.
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Speaker 9: I told him he couldn't play because he's played too
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Speaker 9: much or not enough, like twice within the last year,
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Speaker 9: a couple of months.
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Speaker 1: James, you do understand we want to at least give
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Speaker 1: the illusion there's more than five people listening, so we
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Speaker 1: need other people to play the games. You do understand? Yes,
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Speaker 1: I understand? What do I what's my line? What's my line?
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Speaker 1: When I say what do we do here? James? What
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Speaker 1: kind of what kind of work do we do? James?
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Speaker 1: Tomorrow's knew me that, But no, we do broadcasting, not
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Speaker 1: narrow casting. Right, that's right? Look at you. You're learning,
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Speaker 1: you're learning, James.
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Speaker 7: I know you say you understand, James, but I feel
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Speaker 7: like you're gonna call back?
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Speaker 1: Is this true?
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Speaker 4: Bath?
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Speaker 1: Yeah?
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Speaker 8: Come on, Lorena? What can you judge me like that?
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Speaker 7: Because I'm in because I'm in the same room and
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Speaker 7: I hear when you call twenty thousand times keep on
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Speaker 7: asking to get on the same games.
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Speaker 1: Come on, I think that's just you echo.
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Speaker 8: What we need.
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Speaker 6: Oh is it?
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Speaker 1: It's like you're just making stuff up now, James.
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Speaker 8: Lorena, I ask you something, man, Ben the Lorena, let
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Speaker 8: mens this.
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Speaker 1: If you put me a guest today, you can ask
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Speaker 1: you a question.
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Speaker 2: All right?
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Speaker 1: How about it? If you want to call up for
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Speaker 1: that segment, are you just gonna call up and say, uh,
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Speaker 1: Tammy and Montana Tammy and Montana Tammy and Montay I
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Speaker 1: just gonna do that because if that if that's the casete. No, Nope,
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Speaker 1: that's not it. It's Kirk Cousins. We possibility, Okay, I
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Speaker 1: don't care.
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Speaker 7: You could definitely date Kirk Cousins, shoot for the stars.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you're his type, though. I think
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Speaker 1: he's married, so that might.
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Speaker 7: Be a married man could shock you.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, really, I get that. Unbelievable. All right, baffling, hollering, Jim,
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Speaker 1: We're all apoplectic after hearing that conversation. We speaking of
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Speaker 1: amazing reactions. The Buffalo Bill's new stadium is under construction's
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Speaker 1: almost done, and they were the victims of some vandals
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Speaker 1: who decided they wanted to do some outdoor art, and
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Speaker 1: they went into some luxury suites at the new stadium
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Speaker 1: in Buffalo, and they vandalized it with offensive graffiti, which
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Speaker 1: I'm told are the twigging berries of the male Genitalia
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Speaker 1: and the flower of the women Genitalia. And so they
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Speaker 1: put those up all over the stadium the private parts,
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Speaker 1: and the people freaked out in Buffalo. So before I
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Speaker 1: tell it, so the I looked it up. In America,
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Speaker 1: typically the average says the reward for information leading to
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Speaker 1: the arrest and conviction of someone for a crime like homicide.
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Speaker 1: If it's just a normal not someone famous, just a
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Speaker 1: normal person that gets killed and they're looking to find
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Speaker 1: a suspect, the normal bounty is five thousand dollars. It's
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Speaker 1: a little bit, not a lot. The Buffalo bills. The
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Speaker 1: reward this is not from the bills, but the reward
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Speaker 1: being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction
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Speaker 1: of the people that did the vandalizing. One hundred thousand dollars.
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Speaker 6: Now I would turn myself in.
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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, So supposedly they know who did it, at
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Speaker 1: least they know what they were, construction workers, So you'd
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Speaker 1: think the construction company would know who's on the site,
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Speaker 1: the job site, and would be able to know who
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Speaker 1: their primary suspects are. But they're still offering one hundred
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Speaker 1: thousand dollars. That the part which amazed me as I understand. Now,
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Speaker 1: maybe there's something more I don't know about, but as
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Speaker 1: I understand, this was just basic graffiti of private parts.
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Speaker 1: They're claiming to repair the damage, it's going to cost
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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. How about this.
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Speaker 7: I just have a hard time believing that, right.
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Speaker 1: Why don't you pay me. I'll make a deal. Pay
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Speaker 1: me one hundred thousand. I'll go down to home depot.
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Speaker 1: I'll get a couple of cans of paint. I'll get
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Speaker 1: some paint brushes, get some primer I get. I'll even
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Speaker 1: get a sander, and I'll sand down the part and
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Speaker 1: then all beyond Ben exactly. And that'll cost me what'll
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Speaker 1: a It's gonna cost me a couple hundred bucks probably, yeah,
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Speaker 1: maybe two fifty. Okay, boom done, problem solved, all right,
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35:55
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Speaker 1: Just two years later, he floated onto the scene, let
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Speaker 1: the entire NFL and passing yards after being a tenth
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Speaker 1: round pick and completed three hundred plus passes through and
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Speaker 1: fifty plus passes led the NFL in that and as
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Speaker 1: a tenth round pick again intertribat. Blank selected in the
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Speaker 1: tenth round of the NFL draft just two years later,
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Speaker 1: was selected in the tenth round of the NFL draft.
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Speaker 1: Just a couple of years later, Exploded led the entire
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Speaker 1: NFL in passing yards as a tenth round pick and
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Speaker 1: also completed the most passes in the NFL that season.
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Speaker 1: Became a bit of a folk hero in his era.
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Speaker 1: In the NFL. That is the question. What's the answer?
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Speaker 1: Econ Rosevild, Minnesota, says Sammy Baugh. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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Speaker 1: from Keylin Pie, Bobby in Florida, Jamila Jamil, Who's forty Today?
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Speaker 1: From Late Night Drug Tester, Robbie the Josh Allen graffiti
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Speaker 1: fan from Third Dog, Justin Jefferson guest by Scrooge in
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Speaker 1: the Younger Demo, Femi the Uber East Driver going with
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Speaker 1: Joe Webb, Kathy the Investigator going with Ley. Who else
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Speaker 1: do we have? Vandalism Mastermind Flexus from Milkman, Mike Doctor
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Speaker 1: No guests by King Rory. Who else you have? Page
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Speaker 1: Dan the Great, Neil Lomax from Greg the real Estate Mogul,
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Speaker 1: Johnny Unitis guests by Robbie the Mariner fan. Who else
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Speaker 1: do we have? Mark Herman from Steve the Misplaced San
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Speaker 1: Diegan Steve de Berg guest by Paul JaMarcus Russell from
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Speaker 1: Jared Loraina. Do you have an answer? Stifler's Mom? Nope,
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Speaker 1: it's the Magic Man. Don mccowsy of the Green Bay
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Speaker 1: Packers nineteen eighty seven tenth round Pick eighty nine had
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Speaker 1: more yards than Dan Marino and Joe Montana. It's Mallard.
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Speaker 1: How about that?
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Speaker 4: To the third degree, this is one big Ben gets
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Speaker 4: quick coolo.
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Speaker 6: Joey Bosa as a free agent, and many have been
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Speaker 6: pushing the idea that he should sign with the forty
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Speaker 6: nine ers and team up with his brother Nick and
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Speaker 6: Santa Clara. Ben do you think Bosa would be a
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Speaker 6: good addition for the forty nine ers?
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Speaker 1: Yes, for they'd sell some T shirts. They'd sell a
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Speaker 1: lot of the hats and crap like that, Bosa and
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Speaker 1: Bosa and for four games, those guys would dominate the
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Speaker 1: NFL for four games. Unfortunately, play seventeen. Next, Urban Meyer.
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Speaker 6: Was asked on a recent podcast about the NC Doublea's
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Speaker 6: repeated legal defeats. Meyer went on to deem the NC
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Speaker 6: Double A quote a powerless organization right now, Benasy.
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Speaker 1: Right, well, they don't have any teeth, they don't have
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Speaker 1: a backbone, and they have no balls. Other than that,
39:27
Speaker 1: they're fine. I don't even know what they do. I
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Speaker 1: really don't know what they do. Don't the Big Ten
39:32
Speaker 1: in the Southeastern Conference? They run college sports.
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Speaker 9: Next, it was reported that that avoiding of Kawhi Leonard's
39:39
Speaker 9: contract with the Clippers is on the table as a
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Speaker 9: potential punishment for the team's allegend salary cap circumvention scandal.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, then what are the chances that this happens.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't seem like they're in a hurry to do it.
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Speaker 1: If he's everyone thinks he's gonna go get released and
39:51
Speaker 1: side with like the Knicks or something like that. But
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Speaker 1: they have to release him by March first. I don't
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Speaker 1: think that's gonna happen. Like the Clippers, if they did something,
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Speaker 1: they should be pun but I know the President is
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Speaker 1: to get rid of Kawhi Leonard if they did do
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Speaker 1: what people are saying. So if that's the case, he'll
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Speaker 1: be gone. I'm fine with it. How do we do cool?
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Speaker 1: You pass the sent