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  Speaker 1: That's Cowboy Up, Cowboy down, Cowboy Everywhere. Welcome in the
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  Speaker 1: we are in the afterglow of the twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 1: Mallard Palooza. I waited until just before the show and
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  Speaker 1: we posted it. You can vote for the final four.
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  Speaker 1: There are four acts that reached the pinnacle of the
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  Speaker 1: Mallard Palooza. You can vote for your favorite there that
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  Speaker 1: will be the People's champ, the voice of the people,
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  Speaker 1: and you can chime in on that if you listen
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  Speaker 1: to the Mallar POLUSA, either live or on the podcast.
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  Speaker 1: We had a bunch of acts, some of them good,
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  Speaker 1: some of them will try to pretend didn't happen. And
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  Speaker 1: we made it through the night. We survived. We hope
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  Speaker 1: for better in the future, but we did it, and
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  Speaker 1: we thank you for participating those of you that did.
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  Speaker 1: And we'd like to have less comedy and more impersonations
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  Speaker 1: and some other stuff. So nonetheless, our lead this out
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  Speaker 1: not from me, Mallord palooza. No, no, no, it is
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  Speaker 1: all about Jerry's world. It's all about Jerry's world. So
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  Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys are back. You'd expect daily Cowboy updates?
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  Speaker 1: Why why not? What the hell? Right? So, if you
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  Speaker 1: have not been following the football news of the day
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  Speaker 1: is we are in the training camp portion of the
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  Speaker 1: schedule with a hardrey of teams with rookies, some veterans
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  Speaker 1: with certain teams have arrived. So if you haven't been
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  Speaker 1: following all this, perhaps not. The Dallas Cowboys always good
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  Speaker 1: at feeding the content machine in these parts, and they
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  Speaker 1: have done it yet again, so Jerry Jones admitted recently,
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  Speaker 1: In fact, in a gaggle with reporters, he admitted that
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  Speaker 1: there have been moments that he thought about stepping away.
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  Speaker 1: He has been the Dallas Cowboys GM my entire life,
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  Speaker 1: close to it, But Jerry Jones said there were moments
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  Speaker 1: he thought about stepping away as the general manager of
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys. But not very long, he said, not very long,
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  Speaker 1: small fractions of seconds, Jerry said. Jerry says he remains
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  Speaker 1: committed to winning a Super Bowl. All right, exciting and
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  Speaker 1: he knows that now these of course older, it's in
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  Speaker 1: his eighties. Now, he says, I'm living for now. Jerry
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  Speaker 1: Jones said, So let us discuss the question. Jerry Jones
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  Speaker 1: going on the record, Jerry Jones saying that he thought
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  Speaker 1: about stepping away from the Cowboy GM duties. Is this
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  Speaker 1: a big deal, a little deal or no deal? Now?
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  Speaker 1: That is the question. What is the answer. So I've
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  Speaker 1: got Johnny Walker, Blue Pontoon boat, and casting call, and
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  Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together and we
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  Speaker 1: are gonna make a delicious banana cream pie, homemade banana
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  Speaker 1: cream pie chef's kiss. So a to answer the question,
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  Speaker 1: this is no deal, right, this is no deal now,
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  Speaker 1: Jerry said small fractions of seconds when claiming that he
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  Speaker 1: did contemplate stepping away as the GM of the Dallas Cowboys.
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  Speaker 1: That is not a reflection. Okay. That's like indigestion. It's
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  Speaker 1: like I ate a little too fast, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: I eat frozen food, I eat ice cream or something
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  Speaker 1: like that. Sometimes I'll that's sometimes it happens all the time.
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  Speaker 1: I'll eat it too fast and then I get that
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  Speaker 1: ice cream headache. You know, you got it. It's just terrible.
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  Speaker 1: And then it goes away in like thirty seconds and
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  Speaker 1: you go right back to doing what you were doing.
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  Speaker 1: And so Jerry Jones saying, well, you know, it was
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  Speaker 1: small fractions of a second, the seconds that I thought
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  Speaker 1: about no longer being the Cowboys GM. That is the
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  Speaker 1: It's like the moment between eating taking a bite of
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  Speaker 1: a pastrami sandwich and realizing you didn't take the napkin
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  Speaker 1: and there's some mustard coming off the pastrami sandwich and
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna get all over you and it's a problem.
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  Speaker 1: It is, right, But Jerry Jones has been the Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: general manager since Ronald Reagan was the president. He's not
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  Speaker 1: stepping down. He's not. He's just doubling down, is what
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  Speaker 1: he is. And he's picking the groceries. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: people goof on Jerry Jones and all. That's fine to
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  Speaker 1: goof on him, because the Cowboys have been an embarrassment
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  Speaker 1: for over a generation. If I bought an NFL team
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  Speaker 1: and I was in charge of the NFL, that's the
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  Speaker 1: fun part. Who doesn't want to do the fun part.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to sit there and just hang out
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  Speaker 1: a cocktail parties. I want to pick the players. And
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  Speaker 1: Jerry gets to do that. He gets to pick the groceries,
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  Speaker 1: the famous old line by Bill Parcells years ago. And
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  Speaker 1: he gets to rearrange the pantry and all that and
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  Speaker 1: gives a chef's kiss when things go well, and when
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  Speaker 1: things don't go well, he points at is his other
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  Speaker 1: people in the kitchen and blames them. Jerry Jones, the
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  Speaker 1: idea that he would give up the general manager duties
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  Speaker 1: a non starter, right, it's a non starter. That is
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  Speaker 1: his identity. It is you know it, and I know it.
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  Speaker 1: He is the owner, he's the GM. I'm pretty sure
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  Speaker 1: he takes care of the catering. They have a catering
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  Speaker 1: business there. And I would imagine that Jerry goes into
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  Speaker 1: the locker roo woman decides what ply toilet paper? What
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  Speaker 1: ply toilet paper do we give the cowboy players in
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  Speaker 1: the locker room? Because really, any think about it, that's
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  Speaker 1: an expense that you could use that cheap one ply
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  Speaker 1: toilet paper where you end up having to use an
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  Speaker 1: entire role for one flush, and then you can use
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  Speaker 1: like the really high end product you can get at Costco,
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  Speaker 1: which will cost you a little bit more, and it
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  Speaker 1: adds up. Now. Jerry Jones also said, as we told you,
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  Speaker 1: he's committed to winning the Super Bowl and says he's
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  Speaker 1: living for now. So what does that mean? So let's
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  Speaker 1: try to decipher that part of the rhetoric from Jerry Jones.
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  Speaker 1: So it's an encrypted message. Jerry saying I'm eighty two.
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  Speaker 1: He's saying I'm eighty two and I think I can
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  Speaker 1: out scout half of the NFL is essentially what Jerry
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  Speaker 1: is saying. And he's not going to use AI. He's
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  Speaker 1: not going to use the NERD numbers. He's gonna go
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  Speaker 1: with binoculars and gut feeling. That is what's gonna He's
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  Speaker 1: not uneed AI, no point dexter, no analytics. Jerry's got
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  Speaker 1: his binoculars and he's looking around and he's got he's
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  Speaker 1: probably got a clipboard in a whistle and a number
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  Speaker 1: two pencil, and that's how he does it. Because Jerry
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  Speaker 1: Jones is from the old country. Jerry's from the old country.
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  Speaker 1: He's the kind of guy who watches a college football game,
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  Speaker 1: like he'll watch an SEC game on a Saturday afternoon
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  Speaker 1: and says, you know, I think that kid, that number
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  Speaker 1: fifty six has got brass balls. I like the way
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  Speaker 1: that guy plays, and I'm gonna draft that guy. Even
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  Speaker 1: though he's not projected to be drafted anywhere near the
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  Speaker 1: top of the jet. I'm gonna take him in the
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  Speaker 1: third round because he's got a handshake like a linebacker
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  Speaker 1: is supposed to have, and that's what I want for
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  Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. It is ceremonial cosplay is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: And know he's doubling down on all this, which is
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  Speaker 1: fine for my job here. I have to fill four
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  Speaker 1: hours of airtime every night, so thank god for that.
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  Speaker 1: But Jerry is the last of the Mohicans. You think
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  Speaker 1: about Jerry Jones his place in the football world, Jerry Jones,
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  Speaker 1: the last owner GM. All right with the Cowboy. This
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  Speaker 1: is a throwback to an era when it was a
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  Speaker 1: mom and pop business and teams did not have world
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  Speaker 1: class gymnasiums and training equipment and all that stuff. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: there was a time I remember we used to have
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  Speaker 1: Fred Dryer in here, was an NFL player for the
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  Speaker 1: Rams and was a TV star. And Fred would tell
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  Speaker 1: stories about when he was practicing with the La Rams
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  Speaker 1: back in the old days, and before practice, the players
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  Speaker 1: on the team would have to go pick up trash
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  Speaker 1: on the field so the field was usable. At some
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  Speaker 1: local high school in La. They were practicing it. Do
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  Speaker 1: you imagine going to an NFL locker room and saying,
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  Speaker 1: all right, buys, you got to clean up the rubbish
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  Speaker 1: on the field. We got some debris out there so
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  Speaker 1: we can practice. Are you kidding me? Do you know
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  Speaker 1: who I am? I can't be bothered? What's wrong with you?
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  Speaker 1: So it's obviously the ruld. But Jerry Jones is eight
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  Speaker 1: throwback to when the NFL is a mom and pop
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  Speaker 1: business and he'll be riding off into the sunset someday
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  Speaker 1: with the draft board in one hand and a bottle
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  Speaker 1: of Johnny Walker Blue in the other. And he loves it.
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  Speaker 1: We all know he loves it. The chaos, the drama,
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  Speaker 1: o rama, which is what he's all about. And in
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  Speaker 1: many ways, Jerry's not just the last of the mom
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  Speaker 1: and pop NFL ownership GM groups, but he's also the
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  Speaker 1: last of the football romantics. He is, right, I think
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones, we think about retirement for Jerry Jones, right,
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  Speaker 1: That is a dirty word. That is like you might
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  Speaker 1: as well say delegation. That is no. I think Jerry
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  Speaker 1: thinks delegation is like a French pastry or something like that. Now,
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  Speaker 1: page two so Micah Parsons, he's also out there the
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  Speaker 1: cows waiting to the very end there. Will they pay
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  Speaker 1: Michah Parsons or not? Now my belief is they'll wait
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  Speaker 1: till the eleventh hour and then they'll sign Micah Parsons.
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  Speaker 1: But the standoff is continuing and it's good for business
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  Speaker 1: for the Dallas Cowboys. So the standoff Jerry Jones on
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  Speaker 1: one side, Michah Parsons on the other, and it's a
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  Speaker 1: urinating match right now. So Micah Parsons reposted on the
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  Speaker 1: Socials some criticism by Jane Jay Want that's a terrible
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  Speaker 1: broadcaster ex jock, claiming the Cowboys owner took a shot
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  Speaker 1: at both Micah Parsons and Dak Prescott for getting hurt.
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  Speaker 1: So where are you at on this one? All right?
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  Speaker 1: So this is the give me a break? All right?
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  Speaker 1: This is that, Please give me a break? What is
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  Speaker 1: wrong with you? Michah Parsons. He's out there acting If
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  Speaker 1: I'm reading the room the right way, Michael Parson's out
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  Speaker 1: there acting like Jerry Jones just insulted his mother, his siblings,
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  Speaker 1: his dog. I'm sure he's got some anime. He loves
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  Speaker 1: all of that, just taking shots at all of those
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  Speaker 1: things that are very important to Micah Parsons. Uh. And
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  Speaker 1: really all the guy did say was what he said, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we paid Dak he got hurt. We might pay Micah
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  Speaker 1: and he also got hurt last year. So where I
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  Speaker 1: come from, that's not a personal attack. Now maybe for
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  Speaker 1: you it's a personal thing. For me, it's not a
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  Speaker 1: personal attack. That's Jerry Jones doing what Jerry Jones does
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  Speaker 1: better than anyone when it comes to running your mouth.
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  Speaker 1: He is usane Bolt when it comes to running running
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  Speaker 1: his mouth.
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  Speaker 4: And uh.
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  Speaker 1: And then of course about Micah can't help it, and
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  Speaker 1: he's got to get in on this, so he clicks
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  Speaker 1: the repost and then it's like he's filing a grievance
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  Speaker 1: with hr. Are you kidding me? Like, sirih, are you
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  Speaker 1: kidding me here? Like this is the NFL. It's not
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  Speaker 1: some group therapy session. We just sit around the campfire
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  Speaker 1: and roast marshmallows and sing Kumbaya and all that. You're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be a pass rushing beast. Micah Parsons, right,
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  Speaker 1: defensive freak of nature. I remember after two games a
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  Speaker 1: couple of years ago in the Cowboys season when they
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  Speaker 1: played the Jets and the Giants. The media had decided
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  Speaker 1: that Michaeh. Parsons was the second Coming, the reincarnation of
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  Speaker 1: Lawrence Taylor, and then they had to play the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the games. So we got this guy who's a
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  Speaker 1: freak on the field, and you're gonna let your feelings
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  Speaker 1: get bent out of shape because an eighty two year
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  Speaker 1: old owner say, hey, you missed some games, which, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, you did, so I would advise you to
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  Speaker 1: try to grow a spine. I think you can probably
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  Speaker 1: take a pill or a supplement that will grow a spine.
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  Speaker 1: That would be the way to go. I might want
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  Speaker 1: to get some thicker skin and all that stuff. We
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  Speaker 1: know that Jerry Jones is not buddy buddy. He's buddy,
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  Speaker 1: but he's not buddy buddy with the player. So he's buddy,
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  Speaker 1: but he's the boss. There's that separation between management and
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  Speaker 1: the players and all this. I mean, Jerry's always just
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  Speaker 1: fishing for headlines anyone, That's what this is all about.
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  Speaker 1: And I am right there. Jerry's on a pontoon boat
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  Speaker 1: and he's got a cooler full of cores light and
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  Speaker 1: he is just loving this. He is loving it, all
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  Speaker 1: of it. He can't get enough of it. And so
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  Speaker 1: on this one mission accomplished, Mission accomplished. Michael Parsons weaponizing, Like,
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  Speaker 1: we know what he's doing. He's weaponizing. This is what
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  Speaker 1: he's doing, right, because he's stirring the pot, and he's all,
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  Speaker 1: this is so offensive to me. This is not right.
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  Speaker 1: He's stirring the pot because he's going to use the
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  Speaker 1: cowboy fanboys. He's going to use them to start screaming
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  Speaker 1: pay Micah, you must pay michaeh Oh my god. And
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  Speaker 1: of course Jerry will eventually eventually pay Michael Parsons. We
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  Speaker 1: know that's going to happen. It's just gonna grab more headlines.
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  Speaker 1: It's like stacking hotcakes on top of each other. There's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a headline. It's gonna be a headline. And
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  Speaker 1: I said this in the past and I will repeat
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  Speaker 1: it for those that are new to the store and
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  Speaker 1: welcome into our store. We're open all night, we don't close.
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  Speaker 1: There are no locks on the door. But here's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: So Jerry must have been a huge Bond fan James
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  Speaker 1: Bond and Goldfinger James Bond. Remember the scene is the
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  Speaker 1: classic scene, wasn't the first I think it was I
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  Speaker 1: forget who it was somebody else that they came up
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  Speaker 1: with this scene, but it's been copied a million times
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  Speaker 1: in Hollywood where in this one James Bond and Goldfingers
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  Speaker 1: handcuffed to the Death and Destruction machine and the clock
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  Speaker 1: is ticking down until kaboom and then of course, shockingly,
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  Speaker 1: the machine of death, the Death and Destruction Machine stops
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  Speaker 1: with own only seconds left on the clock, and there
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  Speaker 1: we go. We stopped. Fade to black well that Michael
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  Speaker 1: Parsons is like, that's what's gonna be. The Cowboy's gonna
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  Speaker 1: wait till the very end is gonna come down? Is
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  Speaker 1: it gonna be right before the first game. It'll be
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  Speaker 1: one of those Jay Glazers stories on the NFL on
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  Speaker 1: Fox pregame where it's like, oh, the Cowboys have announced
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  Speaker 1: they will announce today that Michael Parsons has agreed to
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  Speaker 1: a new contract and there you go, all right, last
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  Speaker 1: word quickly. So former Bill's running back Nahim Heinz is
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  Speaker 1: back in the NFL. Now he became infamous for doing
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  Speaker 1: the wrong thing at the wrong time. So Nahim heimes
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  Speaker 1: heines running back playing with the Coles. Also, he has
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  Speaker 1: reached agreement on a contract with the Chargers. Show me
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  Speaker 1: your lightning bolt. And so what stands out about this one?
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  Speaker 1: So this is the classic interchangeable parts because it's not
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  Speaker 1: just a depth move by the Chargers. It's not that
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  Speaker 1: this is a neon lit billboard flashing the neon. Woo,
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  Speaker 1: that's what neon sounds like. Wooo. Just like that, the
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  Speaker 1: neon is flashing and it's Naji Harris. Naji Harris's injury
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  Speaker 1: is really bad. Bad, bad to the eyeball, bad to
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  Speaker 1: the eyeball. Now, remember that was the big offseason edition
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  Speaker 1: running back one was Naji Harris from Pittsburgh. He is
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  Speaker 1: already damaged. You don't go fishing for a guy like Hines,
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  Speaker 1: Nahiem Hines. You don't go fishing for a guy like
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  Speaker 1: that who's been out of the NFL for not one
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  Speaker 1: but two two years, right, because you're like, well, you know, listen,
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  Speaker 1: we just thought we'd add another extra running but no,
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  Speaker 1: this guy went full evil Knievel when he was in
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  Speaker 1: Buffalo on a jet ski. This is a panic move
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  Speaker 1: by the Chargers. Jim Harbaughs looking at the depth chart,
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  Speaker 1: He's like, man, I want to run the ball. I
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  Speaker 1: want to run first, I'm a running coach, and our
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  Speaker 1: running backs I don't trust him. I don't trust him.
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  Speaker 1: And so he's panicking. He's got a smile on his face.
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  Speaker 1: He's hiding behind a curtain looking out on the practice field,
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  Speaker 1: and he's looking at the depth chart and it's like
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  Speaker 1: it's like a receipt from CBS. Right. He keeps going
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  Speaker 1: and going and going. Not all of quality. There's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of stuff in there. The Chargers, by my count,
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  Speaker 1: have seven running backs. Now that is not running back
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  Speaker 1: by committee. Seven running backs. That is a casting call
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  Speaker 1: for dancing with the depth chart, is what Jim Harbaugh
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  Speaker 1: is doing on this. And again I go back to
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  Speaker 1: Naji Herris, because that's really what this is, is a
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  Speaker 1: dad giveaway that Naji Harris. We had heard reports as
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  Speaker 1: I was all messed up sucks messing around with fireworks
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  Speaker 1: on the fourth July and the thing went wrong, ended
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  Speaker 1: up in the hospital in Northern California at Stanford, and
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  Speaker 1: the agent's all, he'll be all, he'll be okay, he'll
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  Speaker 1: be ready to go. Well, if it's a superficial eye
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  Speaker 1: injury and you already have a bunch of running six
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  Speaker 1: running backs now five, you're gonna add another running back.
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• 19:27
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• 19:35
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• 19:37
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• 19:40
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• 19:43
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• 19:45
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• 19:48
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• 19:51
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• 19:54
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• 19:57
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• 19:59
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  Speaker 1: should be. So we'll get to the thing that you
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  Speaker 1: came here for in a minute but I'm gonna start
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: with this the protest department. I was told by several
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: p ones that I let down my guard in the
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: previous edition of the show. We were so hyper focused
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: on the Mallard palooza. We had lean and mean, lean
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: and mean malar monologues, and several of you knuckleheads said, well,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: how could you know talk about the story was the
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: biggest story in sports that you didn't talk about it.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: You should have talked about it. Why didn't you talk
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: about it? Those angry women? You should have talked about
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: the angry women. I was like, well, I don't really
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: talk about that sport other than Caitlin Clark, but if
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: you want me to talk about it, I will talk
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: about it. So your dreams have come true. Your dreams
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: have come true. So I think you might know where
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: I'm going with this, but maybe not so. Over the weekend,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: I did not see this. Why would I watch it.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: There's no reason for me to watch. I'm not a fan.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: I don't really care. Apparently, the two teams representing the
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: WNBA All Star Game wore protest shirts saying, hey us,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: what you owe us? Okay. That was in response to
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: the ongoing negotiation and the blowback. These angry women here
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: very upset that the WNBA is not paying them the
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: riches of Solomon, and so the players wore the shirts
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: during warm ups. They later apparently held up hey, the
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: player signs okay, well that's it. I'm sure the owners
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: were like, well, we're not gonna We're not gonna do this.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: But once we saw those T shirts, we're in. I
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: mean that, come on, we got to pay them. We
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: weren't gonna pay them, but those T shirts were done.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: So the the w NBA, which is a fledgling operation
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: with literally a few people watching. Uh, they've got this
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: labor dispute going on, and of course all of this
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: is getting overshadowed by the dog pile of people that
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: cannot believe what they're witnessing, Like what are we doing here?
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: They're really doing this now. Caitlin Clark the only person
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: worth watching in the entire w NBA. She did not
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: play in the game, apparently I was told I didn't
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: watched the game. But she was an honorary coach and
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: she also took part in the protests, so there is
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: that as well. So let us discuss the question. Question
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: is what is the most puzzling What is the most
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: puzzling thing about the WNBA All Star pay us activism
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: with the shirts at the All Star Game. So I've
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: got ubering, Donnie Brasco and Designer label and we will
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: combine all of these things together and we are going
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: to make some homemade chocolate chip cookie soft and chewy,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: gooey chewy goodness. So number said number one number. So
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: this is rich. I don't mean as in the players
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: are getting rich. It is just rich. And I would
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: argue that hutzba, which is a very enjoyable word to say,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: the word hutsba, that does not quite cover the basis
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: on this one. Using the word hutzba, this is delusion.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Delusion is what this is there? So where do we start?
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Why don't we start with this? How about we'll start
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: with this? So owe you? What is the question? What
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: exactly are you owed as a WNBA player? Last I checked?
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: And I don't think I'm wrong on this, But as
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: I understand the economics of the WNBA, the league exists
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: not because of overwhelming public demand, not because of amazing
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: ticket sales, not because of massive television ratings. No, no, no, no, no,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: none of those things, none of those things. It turns
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: out that the WNBA exists because the NBA works as
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: a wait for it, sugar daddy. That's right. The NBA
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: is the sugar daddy. They are the ones keeping those
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: checks coming in there and keeping the lights on and
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: all that stuff. So it is a league that has
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: been on life support for some time, subsidized by the
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: sugar Nady Adam Silver and Basketball atm Adams over and
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: the people that own the NBA. And it's a little
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: money here, little money there, and it's actually a lot
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: of money, and they don't get a lot of bang
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: for their buck. There's not a lot of bang for
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: the buck there. And if the WNBA was a standalone
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: business and they had to make it on their own,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: hear me, roar, they would have been so far gone.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Like the people that are complaining about this now, they
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: wouldn't even know the WMA existed because it would have
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: gone away before they were born. Okay, so it would
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: have been buried in a popper's grave there decades ago.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: But somehow, somehow, some way, the players, because of social media,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: they believe they're getting short changed. They're getting the old
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: screw job here, the WNBA players, and it's just wild
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: to me. It blows me away the sports economy, what's popular,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: what's not popular? Like they live in a parallel dimension.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Maybe I'm living in a parallel demension, but it just
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: seems crazy that this is a league being propped up
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: by the NBA and these women are out there complaining
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: that they need to get more money without the NBA
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: paying the bill, Without the sugar daddy NBA paying the bill,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: these teams, they wouldn't be flying charter, they wouldn't be
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: flying commercial, they wouldn't be flying at all. They'd be
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: nowhere to fly to, okay. These women would be ubering
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: to the why. To play pickup basketball is what they'd
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: be doing, okay, And they'd have the same amount of
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: people that care at the why as they do now.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: The average WNBA player, the average NBA player thinks and
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Again, it's just because of social media.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: They've convinced themselves that they are part of some kind
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: of cultural revolution. But in reality, it's Caitlin Clark and
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty six other people who are writing
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: her coattails. Okay, that's what's going on here, And so
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: she is the lottery ticket. Caitlin Clark is we've talked about.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: She's the show, she's the draw, she's the anomaly. And
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: even when she plays poorly she has in some recent games,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: apparently it doesn't matter because when the legend becomes the fact,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: you go with the legend and the man that shot
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Liberty balance the legend of Caitlin Clark, even if she
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: has terrible stat lines, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: And the rest of the WNBA, it is a collection
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: of flotsam and jetsam, is what it is. Okay, that's
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: what it is. It's swirling around in her wake. There's
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Caitlin Clark and all these other players are swirling around,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: and it's there's a scientifical term for this. It's mistaking
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: relevance by association. You think you're relevant by the people
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: you hang out with, but no, it's their relevance. You're
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: not relevant. You don't have any actual relevance at all.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: You don't. And so Caitlyn Clark, she's out there doing
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: her thing whatever, and really the other players are weighing
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: her down more than anything. Right, if the NBA, and
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: they ask you this, if the WNBA went away today.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Later day when the sun comes up, they announced the
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: NBAA said we're pulling the plug. X nay on the
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: money A We're out, no more checks, Sugar, Daddy's done.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Bye bye. If the WNBA went away, poof just vanished
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: in the thin air, just gone see you later. Would
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: you notice how many people would really care? I don't
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: not many. I know there'd be some woke journalists out
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: there that'd write think pieces on the internet, Oh my god,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: this is the worst stuck in the world. Of course,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: those people have the very long bios about how great
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: they are and all that stuff, and there'd be a
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: handful of lunatics out there complaining on I guess cable
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: news or whatever. But other than that, that's about it.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: So again, if you want fairness, if we strive for fairness,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: and you look at the economics here, the WNBA lost,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: according to multiple sources, forty million dollars last year. They
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: were going to lose fifty They made up ten millions.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: They lost forty million dollars last year. So let's do
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: some back of the napkin malar map. So roughly one
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty six players in the WNBA divide the
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: forty million loss by those one hundred and fifty six players.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: So each player would then have to cut a check
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: for over two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. That would
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: be fair. Do you think that's going to happen? I
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: don't think so. Yeah, I think we know the answer
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: to that. Now, Page two, let's transition to a sport
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: people actually do care about pro bouncy ball, the men's version.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: And after weeks of chatter, chitter, chatter, weeks and weeks
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: of chatter, the deal is now done. The deal is
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: now done. What is it? C P three? Going back
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: to the people's team, So question, what are your expectations
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: for Chris Paul and his return to the Clippers for
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: a last dance in La La Land. So I'm gonna
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: tackle it this way. There's a lot of unknowledgeable people
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: out there, like Rico and some others who seem to
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: think that Chris Paul's going to go in there and
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: be a thirty five to forty minute a night player.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: This one we call low information fan. It's a low
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: information fan. Am I excited about Chris Paul going to
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: the Clippers? No, not particularly, I'm not I know he's
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: gonna be a bit player. He's gonna be like kind
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: of a trophy, a mascot. He can hang out with
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Chuck the Condor, they can do bits at halftime. So
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: I look at it like Chris Paul's treating the Clippers like, Hey,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: I want to be in La. My family's in La now,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: my life is in La. So I'm gonna treat the
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Clippers like a nostalgia museum. And the Clippers are, okay,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: we'll take that. We're fine. If you give us fifteen
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: minutes a game or whatever. We're in cahoots. Now. My
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: expectation is Chris Paul's gonna play a little. He'll win
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: a couple of games from him, He'll get hurt and
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: that's it. But it's like, I have no real expectations
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: for Chris Paul doing anything. Why would I, Because when
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: the moment's the biggest, he comes up the smallest. That's
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: what Chris Paul's always done. And you ever hang on.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: I don't know how old you are, but if you
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: have that T shirt, that really comfortable t shirt, maybe
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: it's a pair of boxer shorts or whatever that you
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: had maybe back in college, and you hold on to
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: it because it's just wonderful and it brings back fond memories.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: It's got sentimental value, and you're like, well, this is
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: pretty cool. That's essentially what CP three is. He's an
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: old pair of boxer shorts with holes in them, and
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: the clippers kind of like it. If you want to
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: use a food analogy to the impact Chris Paul is
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: going to have, it's like going through the drive through
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: at McDonald's and you order the big mac combo meal
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: from McDonald's and you go through the bag. At the
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: very bottom of the bag, you've taken the items out
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: of the bag and you take a look and there's
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: an extra fry at the bottom of the bag. Now,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: you didn't ask for an extra fry. You said, I
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: don't need an extra fy. I mean, I got enough,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: But you look, it's right there, and it's kind of
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: an older fry, maybe got caught in something in the
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: machine and all that, and it's getting kind of soft
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: and soggy and all that, and it's not that good,
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: but it's still food. You know. It's like, okay, technically,
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: you know you didn't ask for it, you didn't expect it,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: but this gets to be a nonsense. This is what
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: I loath these retirement tours. You don't announce your retirement,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: you just retire. Now I'm retiring, Just step away. Do
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: what Tim Duncan did. Just put on some dad jeans
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: and that's it. Go away. But instead it's gonna be
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: one video tribute after another. Every city goes to Chris Paul.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Like I said, be hanging out with Chuck the Condor.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: He'll be hanging out at halftime of games. He'll be
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: kissing babies, taking photos with fans. They should have a
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: photo booth with Chris Paul. So there's that. And it's
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: like the Farewell Tour sponsored by AARP, which is a
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: sponsor of the Washington Nationals. By the way, I was
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: watching the Nationals game with the Reds last night and
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: they had on the field AARP, which I'm sure Baseball's
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: marketing people love because they try to trying to get
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: a younger crowd, so they have AARP as their sponsor. Anyway,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: it's kind of like a restaurant to use a different
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: approach to this Chris Paul to the Clippers, it's like
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: a restaurant trying to revive its business by bringing back
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: a popular waiter they got rid of thirty years ago.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: This bring that waiter back. Then people like that waiter.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: We'll bring the waiter back. But Chris Paul used to
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: be a big deal, and I love the Lob City.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: The Lob City days were fun. I don't hate the
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: Lob City days. I hate Doc Rivers, I hate Blake
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Griffin and those guys, But the Lob City is that
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: was the arrival. That was the birth of the Clippers.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: They were irrelevant, they didn't matter. Now they run La
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: La runs through the Clippers because of the Lob City days.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Ever since then, they're one of the top teams in
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: the NBA. The Lakers have been ambarrassment. No championships since
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant and the Clippers got to a Final Four.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: In that time, it's been wonderful. It's been wonderful. But
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: in terms of him being a leading actor, Chris Paul
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: with the Clippers, to quote Donnie Brasco, forgot about it.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: Remember that only forgot about it. Come on, if the
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: Clippers playoff fortunes are dependent on CP three stepping his
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: game up in a key Malmot in the spring. In
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: the summer of twenty twenty six, they're porked. They're done.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: That's it, see you later, all right, now, final point.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: We turned the page. After a brief sojourn with the Clippers,
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: the former number one overall pick NBA draft, the Aussie
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: muffed it Ben Simmons, making all Ben's look bad. So
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Ben Simmons is looking for a gig. We are told
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: now the Boston Celtics, the Phoenix Suns, the New York Knickerbockers,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: and the Sacramento Kings have all kicked the tires on
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: Ben Simmons. So how do you process a failed best
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: ketball player that has not one, not two, not three,
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: but four teams that he's drawing interest from around the NBA?
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: So your thoughts on on this? So Ben Simmons continues
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: to be tantalizing because people are stuck in a different era, right,
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: That's the problem in the league. They say this in
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: all sports, but in football and basketball you never give
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: up on talent. Every coach thinks they have the magic
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  Speaker 1: recipe to unlock the higher ability of a player. And
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  Speaker 1: so Ben Simmons is like the ultimate what if What
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  Speaker 1: if he stayed healthy, what if he found a love
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  Speaker 1: for basketball, What if he found a jump shot. What
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  Speaker 1: if you could convince him that anything outside the painted
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  Speaker 1: area is not lava and you can actually go out
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  Speaker 1: there and shoot the basketball. And it's the ultimate what if,
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  Speaker 1: Like if only he got his confidence? What about this?
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  Speaker 1: What about that? What about? What about? What about? What about?
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  Speaker 1: What about? What about? What about? What about?
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 1: It's? What about? Is them? So really the Celtics, the
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  Speaker 1: Knicks and these other teams that have been mentioned in
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  Speaker 1: the Gossip, what they are doing is they're going HGTV.
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  Speaker 1: They're doing the Beach Front bargain hunt. They're trying to
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  Speaker 1: find a bargain, Like, how can we do this Ben Simmons.
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  Speaker 1: It's like what Rob Parker does. Our friend Rob when
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: he goes shopping. Rob tries to find the designer label
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  Speaker 1: on a clearance rack, and that's Ben Simmons. Ben Simmons
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  Speaker 1: was a designer label. He was a prodigy, he was
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  Speaker 1: international man of mystery. He was all of that and
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  Speaker 1: a bag of chips and he's none of that anymore. However,
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  Speaker 1: at the time you can sell it. You said, well,
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  Speaker 1: this guy was the number one pick and all this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But he's on the discount rack right now and he
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  Speaker 1: fits the mold for these teams, the teams that are
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: all trying to throw darts blindfolded at the board, hoping
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  Speaker 1: to land a competent of the rotation player like Ben Simmons.
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  Speaker 1: And if only the light bulb goes off? What about?
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  Speaker 1: What about? What about? What about? What about? What about?
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  Speaker 1: What about? What about? What about? What about? What about
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  Speaker 1: all that? Yes? Now, if not, you're out? What the
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  Speaker 1: Here we go, It's mallard. How about that?
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  Speaker 2: To the third degree? This is one big Ben gets.
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  Speaker 1: Grilled gool rasheet.
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  Speaker 4: Rice has yet to be punished by the NFL, but
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: it's it's coming. Now that his court case is settled,
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: the NFL will move forward with their own disciplinary actions.
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: How long of a suspension do you think Rice will get?
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Ben? Well, you go by the comps on this, and
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: the NFL has gone softer recently. Roger Goodell player empowerment, player,
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: friendly guy. So even though it embarrassed the NFL, I'm
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: gonna say two to four games. I'm going two to
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: four games at the most for Rice on ice for
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: Kansas City. Next, with another gem.
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  Speaker 4: From Derek scuogl the Tiger snapped a six game losing
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: streak and became the first team to sixty wins. Now,
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: he said he won't be satisfied until Detroit wins a championship. Ben,
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: do you think they have a shot. Well, I think
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: the Lions have a chance.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: I think the things go right for the Lions in
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: the playoffs, they can win. I mean, the Pistons played
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: better last year the Tigers. No, they have a cheating
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: a holes manager.
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: Next, in an attempt to get Mookie Betts out of
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: a season long slum, Dave Roberts putting Mooky in the
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: leadoff and moved to Tanny to the two spot. Ben,
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: do you think this can help Mookie get back on track?
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: No, Mookie sucked all year. All right, It's one excuse
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: after another, and it's just not his year. They got
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: to figure it out. They're paying him for the next
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: like fifteen years. Mookie Betts, he's not going anywhere. He's
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: gonna be there. How did we do pass on the
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  Speaker 1: board a win?
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  Speaker 2: have what it takes to get to the top? Probably?
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  Speaker 6: Not?
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: All right, Right to the game we go. Let's welcome
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: in our contestants. We have Ronnie from Cannes, U City. Hello, Ronnie,
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Welcome then, ma, How you doing?
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  Speaker 6: Brother?
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  Speaker 1: What's going on?
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  Speaker 6: Man?
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  Speaker 1: Are you the guy that I met? Ronnie? Is that you?
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Are you the same guy?
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: Is that the I am the guy who makes bullets?
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: I am the guy I remember you, this guy I
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: know Ronnie, I know you guys? All right now, Ronnie,
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: it's good to talk to you again. Ron Who you
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: like to partner up with on the on the big show?
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: Here, Ronnie, let's go bober that choice.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: This guy? Obviously, we will crush you. Ronnie's a stud.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: He's tougher than you. He makes bullets all night. And
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: we have Mike in Boston, who's gonna play. Hello, Mike, Welcome. Hey,
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: I hear a lot of ambient noise. Do we want
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: a lot of ambient noise? Do we need a lot
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: of ambient noise make your game better? All right?
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: All right, Mike, you want to team up with Coop
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: as whom your work right now? Or you're just wandering
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: around the streets of Boston.
• 42:30
  Speaker 6: I'm driving to work.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: I got you, all right? What kind of work do
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: you do?
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  Speaker 4: Kyle?
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: Uh? Like your high end marble? Yeah? Nice? All right, Well,
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: let's play the game Coop quickly please?
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: All right, gentlemen, this is Malardsmount of Money, the Willem
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: Dafoe edition. He turns seventy years old today.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: The categories are the Boondocks, Saints, Spider Man, Finding Nemo,
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: and the Florida Project. Ronnie, you were on first? Which
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: category would you like?
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: The quart Project?
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  Speaker 4: All right? And Mike, how about you?
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: All right? All right, We'll put forty five seconds in
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  Speaker 1: the clock, and these athletes were all born in Florida.
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  Speaker 1: Pull that, Ronnie? You ready? Ronnie's all right? Here we
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: go forty five seconds, we run away go two time
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  Speaker 1: MVP for the Baltimore Ravens their quarterback. Yes, quarterback for
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: the Raiders right now. He came over from Seattle. Yes,
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: all time leading rusher in NFL history for the Cowboys Smith. Yes,
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: third baseman for the Padres. He played with the Orioles
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: for a long time. Yes, Chocolate Thunder nineteen seventies, eighties
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: NBA player known for his hammer dunks. No Phoenix Suns
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: player played with the Knicks, became Jewish. Black guy became
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: Jewish with the Knicks. Two thousands. All right, a third
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  Speaker 1: baseman for the Brewers play with the Dodgers. And this
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: last one.
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  Speaker 4: Gary Sheffield, Gary Sheffield and uh Amari Stottenmeyer and Darryl Dawkins.
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  Speaker 1: Chocolate Thunder darryld Dog. All right, let's what is that?
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  Speaker 4: A hundred points?
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: That's fine?
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: All right, Mike, we have we have finding nemo.
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: These athletes all went or go missing in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 4: Are you ready?
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  Speaker 2: Yep?
• 44:28
  Speaker 4: All right, forty five seconds, let's begin.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: He is the current star on the Yankees. Slugger Aaron Jdge.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: Yes uh.
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: This guy is the mailman from the Utah Jazz. All right.
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: This guy was the quarterback for the Chargers for a
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: long time.
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  Speaker 2: Philip.
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: Yes uh. This guy is a picture for the Dodgers.
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: He disappears in the playoffs. Yes uh. This guy was
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: the point guard for the Raptors a long time, alongside
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: DeMar de Rosen.
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  Speaker 1: Kyle.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, this guy was a point guard for the Knicks.
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  Speaker 4: He had like a discount shoe brand. He was famous
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: in China. Stefan Yes, Yes, this guy was a sight
• 45:15
  Speaker 4: young winner for the Padres.
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: The hundred point question and you should have led with
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: he was drafted by the Celtics. Stefan Marber.
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: Well he still got it.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, two points? All right, Well, Ronnie, we are back
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: up here. Ronnie. Which academy of Spider Man and was
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: the Boondocks Saints? Is that yep? Spider Man, spider Man,
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: spider Man?
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  Speaker 5: All right?
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: Well, these athletes became famous in high school. Put forty
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: five seconds on the clock. Here we go. Ronnie from Akron, Ohio.
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: He plays for the Yes running back for the forty
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  Speaker 1: nine ers. His dad played in the NFL. He's yes,
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: the big ticket for the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Celtics
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  Speaker 1: won a championship there. Yeah, was the number one pick
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  Speaker 1: for the Chicago Bulls. Big center you but no. No.
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  Speaker 1: A black guy in the two thousands, uh pitcher for
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: the Red Sox. His last name was a baseball publication
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: for trading cards. Won a World Series with the Marlins,
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: played with the Red Sox. All right, our quarterback for
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns from Kentucky. Out of Kentucky, was the
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: number one pick.
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  Speaker 4: In the Drowndlet's do at a time, we win.
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  Speaker 6: Good job, Mike, Ronnie, Come on, Ronnie, Ronnie.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: That was Eddie Curry, Josh Becker, Tim Couch. Ronnie. Get
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: back to making those bullets, Ronnie,