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Welcome inside the Treehouse Football Podcast, episode number ten. We have reached double
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digits football podcast. They haven't stopped us yet, much like the Cobbos defense.
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Maybe maybe I should rephrase that to make more sense. They haven't stopped
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us yet, much like the Eagles push push. But here we are Treehouse
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Football Podcast number ten. Let's just let's just jump right into the misery.
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Yeah, And the misery is, of course, that I didn't I didn't
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have the opportunity to have an anxiety freak out about being one person inside the
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throngs of Rangers fans in Arlington. What was it? I think Arlington Fire
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Department estimated five hundred to seven hundred thousand people along that for aid route in
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that area. My god, Oh, some of the pictures I don't like.
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There was one picture of a building and it had to have been a
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i'm gonna guess like a six story parking garage, and it was full of
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people, like every floor. And just see what happens when you meet parking
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free. That's what I'm saying. I have reached the age and where I
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live now currently that if I see a sign that says free parking, I
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am fully erect I'm I'm I'm glad you said that because I'm on. Yeah.
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That's my first question when somebody invites me anywhere. My first question is
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not who's coming, not you know, do I need to bring anything?
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My first question what's parking look like? And I will do this by My
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buddy likes to watch the Cowboys game over at Sidecar Social, and that place
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is a disaster when it comes to parking because there's an there's a movie theater,
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and then there's all the shops, and there's all the bars and all
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that stuff. I will give it two laps, I tell I tell him
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every time. I was like, i will go twice. This is my
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my effort. I'll driver on that park and then I'm going home. And
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he doesn't believe. Every single time, he doesn't believe me. He's like,
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there's parking space. I'm like, I'm on my second lap. Unless
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you're standing in that parking space. I don't believe. I've made him do
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that before. I'm like, go stand in it and then I'll come.
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But I will go across the street to the Boozy Bird, the Chicken Wing
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place, because it's a it's there's a dollar tree, it's plenty of park
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What if what if the place has valet? Will you val a? Absolutely
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not? Are you out of your mind? Is that is that level of
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frugal hereditary in the in your family? I'll spend you know me, I
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spend money. I'm not but are you You won't? You're just picky about
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it. You mean to you gonna charge me to park my own car?
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What if it's free for free valet, complimentary valet that Lava canteina does that,
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and I will do that, and I will tip very well. I'm
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like, you know what, here's what you what I would pay in l
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A to valet the car. I'll give you that cash for for doing it
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for free. But if there's no parking, I'm going home. It's funny
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because and I asked that because valet is one of those funny things some people
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just on principle hate being. If they feel like they're forced to valet,
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they won't do it. Yeah, correct, Yes, I mean like I'm
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I'm yeah, I mean this is it's it's the valet is a young thing.
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It's for young kids now because they're lazy. I don't mind the walk
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like i've I've I've debated coming to your bar, but I know where it's
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at, and I'm like, I, no, I don't know how the
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parking situation is. Oh, you know how the parking situation is in Uptown.
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It's terrible. I'm not and that's why I don't go. I've debated.
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I'm like, you know what, I should stop by the Standard Port
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and say what's up to train? And I'm like, uh, park and
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if you ever do, I now I now know a secret place, so
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I can tell you where the park. Oh both, ray, you could
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make some serious money off that secret place. Yeah, because like the last
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time Tara and I came to see you at Standard Poor for brunch, there's
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that parking lot behind the building, and and I think it costs like twenty
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twenty five dollars to park there. Twenty five dollars to park there and out
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of it. Well, it's not so. The lot was purchased by a
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tow company. Okay, of course, of course it was. So do
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they give you nuggets of gold when you get out of your car for twenty
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five dollars? Do they give you a nugget of gold? And maybe maybe
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when you don't pay it and they tow your car and then they charge you
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three hundred to get it out. That is it's it's the ultimate. I
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mean you have to tip your hat to them because it's brilliant business wise.
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Oh it is. Again, it's it's sort of akin to a musician owning
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all the publishing rights to their music. I would like you want to own
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everything about your business from the top down. Like if if you start any
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sort of a I don't know any any sort of a food business, Let's
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say it's not enough to just make the food and distribute it. You should
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also then own the trucks that deliver it. So basically own every single segment
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of the supply chain or whatever, all through the business. And I also
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feel like part like there was so many occupations in the world that were underserved
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when we were all in school on career day, like there was no one
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there. There was not car wash operator owner there, which makes tons of
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money. There wasn't parking lot owner, and those are huge, huge money
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makers that I would have been really interested in knowing about. That's you know,
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I'm in a schooler. That just means you didn't go to school with
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any Persians. So that's what ippened. That's all it was, and nobody,
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nobody like you. You're not gonna ask like a second grader, like,
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hey, so what do you want to do when you grow up?
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It's like, I want to own a parking garage, Like nobody wants that.
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Nobody's dream is to do that. Well, that's why it's all about.
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It's all about the messaging. So what you do is if you're the
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parking garage owner, parking lot or a TOE operating company, what you do
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is you show up with your logo stuff, right because you got to promote
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a company. But as far as the pitch goes, you show your vacation
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photos. You hands by my microphone boom. This was me in Tahiti for
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a month and a half, all because I charged twenty five dollars and own
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the lot behind Standard Poor and I also own the TOE operating company. So
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you show the kids what's possible by owning the parking lot in the TOE company,
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and then they'll be on board. So you paid you. I paid
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twenty five dollars to park. No, raj I did not pay twenty five
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dollars to park. I paid twenty five dollars to know exactly where my car
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was in uptown, after I'd had two crafts of mimosas and a spicy bloody
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money well spent. It was at that point plus Tray gave us some gave
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us some carb heavy cinnamon rolls. Oh okay, So there was no way
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I was going to be able to walk a mile after that to fight.
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Okay. I was almost disappointed in you, but that works out. Speaking
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of disappointment, Yes, Cowboys Eagles Game of Inches horror officiating. Dak doesn't
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know between the inbounds pylon the often in the end at another county pylon.
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He doesn't know how big or small his feet are, our tight ends,
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don't know at what depth to run an out route. The officials don't seem
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to understand Dak when he says seventy one is an eligible receiver. The officials
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don't like to call holding penalties until three and a half quarters in, but
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they are fine to give the Cowboys fifty three yards forward but then also take
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them back thirty forty yards. It was kind of a dumb game if you're
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a Cowboys fan. Yeah, that was. I was texting my brother,
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texting Neil throughout the whole thing, and he he brought up the same point
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you just did. He goes, are they going to call a holding penalty
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at any point in this game? And I was like, I don't know
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how they don't see this, and it's blatant, and I've always wondered this,
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like I don't think refs should have that kind of power. I think
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they should, right, I think they should. There should be some other
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like it should go to the booth like it should. If you're gonna review
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plays, I think you should review. I think there should be somebody in
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the booth that sees every play. And so you would prefer the the on
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field officials or official whatever basically just be the clockman in all penalties and things
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are booth stuff. Yes, that would be ideal because there I mean,
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this was just I mean there was I counted six before the third quarter,
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six holding penalties that weren't called. But again, I mean it was bad.
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It was just it was just dumb throughout the whole thing. Just watching
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the rafts and watch and again going back to just the Cowboys in general,
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just watching them kind of acquiesced to what was just what was happening, going,
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Okay, if it's gonna be dumb, we're gonna play dumb uh And
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that's what they did. And that's why I posted the next day, never
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go Full Cowboy. That made me laugh out loud. That was that was
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so great, Never Go Full Cowboy. What I don't understand is, like
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I specifically, there was one play, you know, cowboys try to do
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a quarterback sneak. I'm like, are they afraid of Dak's ass? Why
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can't they push it? Why can't they? You know, it's like you
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watched, well, his his asses. Apparently his ass is apparently more fragile
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than Jalen Hurts's. And I will say this, and this is my setting
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for watching the game was almost terrible because we're now living on Saint John.
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They were only like two bars showing the game with the sound, and we
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were at one of them, and so was about thirty Eagles fans. Oh,
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to their credit, there was one pair of Eagles fans that we sat
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next to the entire game, and I swear to god, I'm not making
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any of this up. They were nice. The rest of them were not.
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They were all terrible stereotypical Eagles fans. But the couple we were next
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to, they were actually nice. Now that being said it was a dumb
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dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb dumb game. Yeah it was. Yeah,
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it was just I didn't I haven't seen a game officiated like that before.
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Like, at least I know there's a bias, right, I get
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it. There's a whole town bias and whatever. It's their hometown refs,
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whatever you want to say, but the hometown refs their NFL refs. Yeah,
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I know, But still there is a bias when it's a home game.
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I get it, right, they're a little more favorable, a little
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more favorable. I understand that. But when it's just blatant, like what
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do you do? Like if if like again, like I was sitting next
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to I was sitting across from a lady who showed up just so hammered.
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She was for that day. She was my spirit animal, like she showed
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up just like I just like when you when you walk into a bar and
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as a bartender, when when the first thing they order is a water,
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I'm like, yeah, they're they're already, They're already there, buddy,
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they got their part. Was she a Chiefs fan that had started at like,
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you know, nine o'clock in the morning. No, I had a
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couple of those that no. This this was i mean full blue and white.
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And she walked in and the first thing I thought, I'm like,
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I'm just waiting on my way and the first thing I see her and I
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was like, Oh, somebody's emmated already. And then she said I was
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like a water. I was like, okay, that's what happens when when
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your pregame takes on too much of an in game mentality. Yeah, and
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uh, and she was called she was like the hold. I was like,
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she can see it. If she can see holding metal, He's like,
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she's the reason that Crown Royal has those commercials where the official comes in,
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blows the whistle and says, water time out. It's because of that
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lady. Yeah, she was. She she water timed out for for the
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first Uh. I think the first, first and second quarter. Maybe maybe
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were able to watch a bunch of the games. I think you probably had
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to work. I was working, so I got to see parts of it.
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I definitely saw some of the There was one play that where Dak was
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running around and and uh, I'm sorry when hearts was running around and like
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You're like, I'm going, holy crap, that that not a hole that's
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a tackle, and but there there were that goes both ways. And I
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do understand that. It's easy when you know you're watching it on TV and
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angles and everything else. But you're on the field, it's moving incredibly fast.
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But the rest did see seem rather incompetent, but I'm not not knowing
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where the sideline is is also pretty incompetent, exactly. So that's so that's
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where as a player, if you're having to work against the adversity that is
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NFL officiating, then you need to make sure you're doing everything you can to
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not well shoot yourself in the foot. Uh. Basically it's like, help
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you help yourself? Yeah, in the face of poor officiating or things that
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are beyond your control. One thing DA could control was his right foot,
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but apparently he didn't bother to do that. I don't know if he needs
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glasses. I don't know if he is color blind and can't see white versus
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green in and out of bounds. But I I during that play, I'm
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like, how, how, how, how how do you mess that up
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that madly? And then the look of disappointment when he saw the replay.
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Yeah, the look of disappointment on his face. Buddy when they when they
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called touchdown, he should have been like, shager one right off the field
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quick before they he was like, yeah, that was it. It's like,
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dude, you don't know where your feet are in bounds. That's troubling
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me as a forty million dollars a year quarterback. Yeah, that's again,
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it was like a dumb game. When I saw I saw it, I
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was like, I mean, I'm sitting there's one guy and don't be this
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guy. He's like a bit je hundred dollars. Uh that it's not a
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touchdown. I'm like, I saw what you saw already saw it? What
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do you what are you talking about? Like? Uh? The look when
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he's like he looks up at the he's like, oh what, I'm like,
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how did you you're there? Yeah? You should be able to see
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down to your own foot. You shouldn't have to look up at a jumbo
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trying to know where your own foot was. Yeah, and then uh,
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you know, and and again I again I don't understand. Like the knee,
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like the our tight end, the knee was down on the goal line,
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but the ball didn't cross the plane. I didn't, So I'm glad
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you brought this up, and then real quick before we touch on the tight
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end touchdown non touchdown for the Cowboys. I want to bring up that I
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forgot to mention with Trey when Trey brought up Dak's fragile butt, which is
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right before they right before they ran that quarterback sneak. I turned to Terra
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and I even turned to the nice egules fans next to me, is like,
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I don't know why they're doing this. He sucks at quarterback sneaks.
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I've never I don't know if I've ever seen him do a quarterback snink.
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He's like, yeah, that was really good. I don't to me,
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that's not something that should be in Dak's repertoire or he needs to practice it
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more because he doesn't seem very good at it. He does lumbers, he
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does lumber a bit. He's one of those quarterback sneaks. He's kind of
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leans, kind of falls, but that's not going to work. But going
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back to the knee thing with a touchdown non touchdown, someone brought this up,
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and I think it's very very accurate. That is, if that play
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happened on the sideline, that's a catch, right because he has to maintain
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possession. He had one knee in bounds, and he has to maintain possession
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throughout the entirety of the catch, which goes into out of bounds territory right
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right on the goal line. Though he is called down exactly where the ball
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is when his knee hits, which in this case was one inch short of
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a touchdown. Yes, but let's say that one inch was erased and he
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catches the ball with the ball breaking the plane of the end zone when his
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knee is down at first blush, it's a touchdown. But then if his
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as he continues to the ground, if he then bobbles or coughs up the
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ball, it's an incomplete pass. Right. So this is one of those
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times where if you play the game long enough in the NFL, clearly has
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where you've got to look at that plane and be like, you know,
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we kind of need to address that because we just found a little land of
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limbo here that that caused a major issue in a major conference game in the
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season. Yes. Uh, and that was my I'm glad again, I'm
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glad you're saying the same thing. Uh. That was my thought is if
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this was if we move him up and he's going out of bounds. That's
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he's catch a catch. But right there he's it's it's an inch away,
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Like, I don't understand how that that's why it has to go. And
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again it went back to the booths to review. But per the rule as
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it is on in the book, it was a correct call ultimately that it
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was not a touchdown, even though it went against us as Cowboys fans.
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And yeah, I don't I'm gonna be a contrarian here and say, sorry,
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what contrarian. I'm gonna replay back. I'm gonna replay that for you.
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I want you to hear the first Yeah, the first time. I'm
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like, yeah, you are. It's it's it's it's his favorite word.
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If anybody missed out on the bleep last week, that's his favorite. Order
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backs and receivers, they know that the ball has to cross the plane.
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That is the ultimate when it comes to the end zone. That has always
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been the ball has to cross the plane period the end. It's always been
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that way. Now you want to get into the semantics of you know,
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yeah, if it's out of bounds, if he has two feet in yeah,
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But also, Dan, I did one point you said of if he
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has control crosses the plane. Once it crosses the plane, if it then
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hits the ground and the ball comes loose, technically no, it's actually would
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still be a touchdown because the ground can't cause a fumble and as long as
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he had control as it was crossing the plane. But see that therein lies
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the gray area. Because what you're saying is correct, and this is one
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of those situations where I think two things are correct at the same time,
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even though they're kind of opposed. Take the same play like you were just
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describing, happening at the front edge of the end zone versus the back edge
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of the end zone, right, So he catches the ball two feet inbounds
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in the back of the end zone and then falls and as he falls that
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ball pops out. He's not getting the touchdown because he didn't complete the process
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of the catch. So that's why I'm saying is there needs to be Even
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though this type of play happens very rarely, it happened in this game,
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so they need to take a look at it. There shouldn't be a double
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standard based on where you are on the field. It's like it's either a
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catch or it's not right, and you need to you need to just tweak
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the rule just a little bit to where it makes sense. Yeah, at
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the end of the day, the NFL could just go double middle fingers and
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say till you're tied, end to run a half yard deeper rounte like you
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should have in the first one. Yeah, I mean, ultimately, I
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think, you know, I don't think and I and I said it before,
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I was like, I'm giving them. I had a good feeling I
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had that they were playing well, and I think they had some momentum going
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in when I watched the first like the first was it was three and out
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very quickly, and I didn't I didn't see any sense of urgency or or
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like that confidence that they walk in with that you can kind of you can
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kind of tell walking into a game like Okay, they're walking in with a
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different kind of swag. And I didn't see that, and I was worried
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immediately. I was like, when it was just that really quick that first
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series, when it was three and out, like within I think it was
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two minutes, it was three and out, and I'm like wow, and
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they just walked and they just kind of walked off to the side. I
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was more like almost like a well, a shucks, Yep, that's exactly
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what. And that's the That's the thing that always bugged me about Tony Romo
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was the aw shucks mentality, like, oh, well, dude again,
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we'll see you in the second and let me put my slip ones on.
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Uh, and I'm like, where's the like Aikman had that killer Like you
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would see Akman go over to his players and yell and scream like we get
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into this game and been Aikman in the first series, he'd been to the
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sideline and he would have been upset. Yeah, and then I haven't seen
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that from any quarterback that we've had since him Tom Brady. Yeah, but
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we we didn't have Tom Brady. Just focusing on on Drew Henson's lack of
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motivation. Quincy Carter went a big ass tour. Hey, here's but let
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me let me just say that was a weird That was a weird thing to
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say. Let me just say this about Quincy Carter. Uh, he's a
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great tipper or he was. You're going to say that back when he back,
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when we defend Quincy Carter till the day he dies, because he because
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he helped keep Raj's nightclub and deep him alive for years. Oh my god.
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Yes. And the day before a game, I'm like, I've told
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you guys this before I'd watched, like the third interception, I'm like,
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he's hummed over, Like I know, I know what time he got in
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his car. Yeah, there's no people talk about having receipts on things.
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Roger literally had them. I did. And uh. My favorite part of
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this story is he was interviewed years later and they called me. It was
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an Abilene I think it was where he was living. There was the newspaper,
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there was interviewing him. They're like, hey, he frequently did your
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bar quite often. How was he as a person. I was like,
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he was delightful, Like he was wonderful, he was sweet, and he
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tipped one hundred percent. So if the bill is a great customer, yes,
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if the bill was three thousand dollars, he tipped three thousand dollars,
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that's how That's how it was. And when they went back to him to
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confirm this, he had no recollection of ever being in my club. I
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was like, that was honestly, that's a a pr professional told him to
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say that Yeah. I was like, that's the or or So did vodka,
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So that was a company. Was was great. Yeah, but I
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mean I don't see that, Like, we haven't had that quarterback. We
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haven't had like your Tom Brady. You haven't had your guy that goes over
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and goes, hey, man, what what are we doing? Like we're
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getting paid a lot of money, Let's step this up. And nobody seems
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to do that. And Dak is again you see that kind of Romo esque
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Oh darn well, we'll get him next time. And there's there's not that.
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There's not that killer instinct. I haven't seen it. I don't.
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I don't think he has it. Maybe I'm wrong, and maybe it's like
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I know who could I know who could instill that in him? Who's that
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someone that we know very very close to us who labels himself as a contrarian,
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which is what the Cowboys need and their starting quarterback. They need a
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little bit of a little bit of contrarian that would really get them over the
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You need a big, big, big old contrarian. That's what they needed.
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Yeah, this is while the punters over there going like I got a
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ten, where we lament the Cowboys lost to the Eagles twenty eight to twenty
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three, and part of what's always going to be frustrating as a Cowboys fan
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despite losing and disappointment in general, are Eagles fans and how truly awful they
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can be. And what is frightening about it is they know it, and
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honestly, they they don't just embrace it, they hump it. They don't
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only own it, but they parade it, and they love it. They
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cherish it. They call it George. And I'm going to give you a
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brief story here which embodies Eagles fandom, but one of the least egregious ways.
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Okay, because Philly fans in general, whether it's you know, Philadelphia
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in general, like if it's Phillies seventy six ers, although they don't have
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as much to be you know, you know, loud about lately flyers,
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and obviously the Eagles as a fan base, every other fan base agrees that
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they're pretty much terrible and then they go and prove you correct. So here's
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a small example of that in real life that happened before the Eagles Cowboys game
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on Sunday. Okay, you ready. So we are newly relocated, my
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wife and I to Saint John and Saint John on the West End, which
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is cruise base. It's very small to where the cruise ships come in.
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There's lots of bars and restaurants, lots of activity. It's where the nightlife
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is. It's also where there's the bars and go watch the games. So
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Tara is running a quick errand before the game before meeting me back at the
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bar to watch the game, and while she runs across the park, she
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is then verbally accosted by Eagles fans because all she is doing is walking across
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the park wearing a Cowboys star T shirt and the throng of Eagles fans are
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walking the opposite direction. And what do they start doing? They start booing
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her simply because of her T shirt. And she didn't even realize why.
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At first. She's like, why are these people making weird noises? And
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then she sees them looking at her and like boo, And I guess they
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could see the look on her face like why are you booing? Is something
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wrong with you? You're having a stroke And they're like, oh, galboys,
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and then they're pulling on their ego shoots boo you. And then they
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asked her where the beach bar was because they couldn't find it. Hilarious,
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I'm gonna say that again. H they're on an island. Yeah, the
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island is eight miles across, and they had to act the beach bar is
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located. Yes, okay, well and then boo the person giving them directions.
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So that's what they did. They bowed her and then like, hey,
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do you know where beach bar is? And then she's like, yeah,
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I'll tell you because Tara, Tara is wonderful at maintaining the high ground.
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She's like she gave them directions to where the beach bar was. Ironically
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enough, it was on the beach and I would have I would have been
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like, way, they bowed her again, yes, so then I would
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have been like, hey, it's on Saint Martin. That's why you don't
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have to take the ferry. Uh. And that's where the beach bar is.
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That's where everybody's going to watch the game. I would have given them
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the Yeah. I mean it's the same thing. It's the Philly the guy.
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We're losing that I think there was thirty four seconds left, look a
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bit of one hundred dollars, Like what stop? Like we lost? I
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get it? Do you want me to say it? I understand it.
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A one hundred dollars Cowboys loose. Yeah, I'm I'm not an idiot.
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My dear friend, uh and wonderful comedian Don Marrero who's from Philadelphia, has
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been on stage and said this. He gets to do this really cool thing
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that some comics get to do. They go to the training camps and then
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they perform for the team. It's a really great gig. It's really good
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money. And he said this on stage. He said, I've I've performed
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many times for my hometown, the Philadelphia Eagles, and I've performed for the
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Dallas Cowboys. And he gets booed all the time, and he goes,
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the nicest fans in the world are Dallas Cowboys fans, and the worst fans
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in the world are Philadelphia Eagles. And he's from Philly. Like do they
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cheer it? Yeah? Yeah, They're like, yeah we are. I'm
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like, yes, you threw you threw snowballs at Santa like like like,
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I mean they had the year that Jimmy Johnson was running off the field and
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they were throwing snowballs. They found batteries inside the snowballs, like I mean,
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what are you doing? Like still vet? Yeah, yeah, hell
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if people don't remember bounty Gate, oh yeah, yeah, there was actually
29:19
a really good recap. I'm not sure if it was Fox that put it
29:22
out or if I just saw it online or maybe a little bit of both.
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That sort of set the stage for that rivalry, and they showed some
29:30
older clips of Eagles cowboys and stuff. But if we're being honest, it
29:34
really picked up steam with the Buddy Ryan era as a head coach of the
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Eagles. That's that's when it took on a really violent thing, and that's
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where we got bounty Gate, like Trey saying, yeah, I mean I
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remember, I mean, the quintessential moment of Eagles fans and there are many,
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but in my mind, it always has been when Michael Irvan is laying
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there on the field, you know, almost paralyzed, and they're or maybe
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dead, yeah you know, and they're booing. I mean, they're just
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no they were cheering. Oh that's what I'm sorry. Yes, you're right,
30:07
yeah, but you know, yeah they were happy that. Yeah he
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was hurt. I mean, and you can go back just that. Phillies,
30:15
Arizona Diamondbacks. You know, Baseball series, when the Diamondbacks won at
30:18
Philly. You know when the Rangers won, they were gracious, they clapped
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everything else. Philly fans, of course, they stay around just to boo.
30:26
Yeah. Well, I mean it's Philadelphia. I mean, I don't
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know if have you ever been, No, and and everything we've said is
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why because look, I mean, let me pose a let me pose a
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hypothetical for you in Raj, I'm not sure how much you can relate to
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this, because I'm sure you've been in New York many times as a comedian,
30:45
and you're a Yankees fan. So you, Raj, can go to
30:48
Yankee Stadium and wear your team stuff because you're a Yankees fan. If Trey
30:52
and I were to go to Yankee Stadium wearing Ranger stuff, I wouldn't necessarily
30:56
feel unsafe. I'm probably gonna get some things yelled at me, but it's
30:59
not like I'm walking in there wearing a Red Sox jersey. So my question
31:03
to you is this, if you had to, would you rather walk into
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Yankee Stadium wearing a Red Sox jersey or vice versa, walk into Finnway wearing
31:11
a Yankees jersey? Or would you be forced to walk into Lincoln Financial where
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the Eagles play, wearing a Cowboys jersey? Oh? I take I take
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the Yankees at Fenway. Yeah, I would absolutely. I would rather be
31:33
on one side of the Yankees Red Sox thing. Then I would rather be
31:37
the Cowboys fan wearing a Cowboys jersey where the Eagles play. I went to
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the There was a series of years ago when it was the Yankees came to
31:45
town. I think there was like two games. I think there was two
31:48
games in New York and then two games in UH at the Old Ballpark,
31:52
and I was I had my Yankees hat on. And the only thing that
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when I sat down amongst all all of my friends who are all Rangers fans,
32:00
and me with the Yankees hat. The only thing is every time the
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Rangers did anything of anywhere, like if they you know, just a base
32:09
hit or an at whatever it was, somebody would scream like he's got to
32:14
buy the beers. Like that's the only thing. And then I remember I
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went, I bought a round of beers and I sat down. And this
32:22
is back when Cecil Fielder was still playing for the kay until ages ago.
32:25
So he comes up to bat and I just put my hand up because I
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knew it just the way he walked in and it was just a walk off
32:32
home run. And I just turned around and go, who's buying the beers?
32:36
And somebody actually bought me a beer? And uh, that's actually a
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sweet story. Yeah, that was That was the most accosting of that.
32:43
I got worrying a yet. That is my idea of fandom. It's yeah,
32:46
it's a little bit of competitiveness, but realizing you're not a player and
32:51
you're not going to actually get to hold the trophy. Typically you're not getting
32:54
a game check, you didn't contribute significantly to the wind. Yeah, but
32:58
you can have a little light gesting, you know, between fans. Ultimately
33:02
it's classy. Yeah, it was not. It was fun. It was
33:05
it was It was any time the Yankees would come up with like are you
33:08
ready? Was gonna struck him out? I'm like, and they would yell
33:10
that at me, like that was it. It wasn't like anything violent or
33:14
anything stuff that was typically in good natured fun as opposed to outright you know,
33:21
bullying and or assault. Yeah, exactly, So I mean like and
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again, like again, like you're saying like I love that. Like when
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I'm sitting at a sitting at a bar or whatever watching a game, Like,
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what the hell does he think he's doing? I'm like, he's being
33:32
an athlete. I don't know what what are you doing? We're eating the
33:38
athlete, Like we're eating wings and drinking booze. What do you what part
33:43
of this game? Or you contributed to eating wings, drinking booze and demanding
33:46
excellence? That needs that needs to be our tree house football shirts, wings,
33:59
drinking booze, demanding influence the Cowboys right infringement star, Yeah, what's
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it like? What's it like you Trey being a being a highly esteemed contrarian
34:13
when you encounter Eagles fans. I try to just avoid Eagles fans at all.
34:19
That should tell you everything you need to know. That's the Treehouse muscle
34:22
right there, And I go listen, there are the two girls and they
34:27
were regulars at my old place, and love them just sweetheart. Twenty something
34:31
huge Cowboys fans. They go every year they take a trip to follow an
34:37
Await game. They've been to Kansas City. Now, okay, they literally
34:43
just just big fans, gotcha. Like they're going to be at the every
34:47
game, you know, watching it in They're just huge fans. And so
34:52
a couple of years ago that I'm like, where you're going to go this
34:54
year? You know, Philly I go. They're like, what I go?
35:00
You don't understand. It's different, like they they they you, it
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doesn't matter that you're too you know, you know, sweet girls, you're
35:07
gonna be shocked at the way what happens. They're like, no, it's
35:12
that's just rumor. It's that they came back shell shocked. They're like,
35:15
I would almost think that that might have been worse for them, because I
35:17
feel Phillies fans and sharks are similar in that they can both smell blood in
35:22
the water. And I think sending two naive young women to watch a Eagles
35:27
game wearing Cowboys stuff, I feel like that's that's just like the Eagles fans
35:30
kind of like it's gonna be easy. Oh yeah, absolutely, just like
35:36
throwing just a baby in the middle of the Lions and the Eagles fans going,
35:45
yet you did baby. So now all that being said, the Eagles
35:52
did win, so they do get you know, bragging rights for the next
35:54
five weeks because that's the next time the Cowboys match up against the Eagles.
35:58
This week, though, Cowboys go up against the Giants at home. The
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Giants that not only lost against the new head coach Raiders, but also they
36:12
find themselves with two whole wins and they got to go to Arlington and and
36:15
play the Cowboys that are itching for a conference win after the Eagles lost,
36:20
and they have their quarterback has gone with an achilles tear, right, Daniel
36:23
Jones is so I imagine that. Imagine that Achilles tear was one of those
36:29
that when the head trainer turned around, he grabbed the shears and finished the
36:31
job. You don't think he's gonna be like Aaron Rodgers and go I'll be
36:37
back in a couple of weeks. I think he's gonna say, like,
36:39
you know, I just got a huge contract, I'll be back in a
36:42
couple of years. And it's isn't that the same? They both playing the
36:47
metal lends right, isn't the same field? Isn't it? The turf is
36:51
the question I think Aaron Rodgers brought it up is that turf is dangerous and
36:57
turf Monster is real, and it keeps getting New York football. Yeah,
37:00
I mean got Aaron Rodgers and now it's got Daniel Jones, and I just
37:02
think when you have that much money invested in those players, you change the
37:07
turf. Like, I don't know what the deals unless they're the only thing
37:13
is they're actually scared of finding Jimmy Hoffa. I don't know what it would
37:15
be. We're not feeling that off, but yeah, I mean this is
37:21
I mean, they couldn't get an easier win. They don't have their their
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quarterback, they don't have their Their team is terrible. Trey, what's the
37:30
line going into Cowboys and Giants? I don't know why you have to look
37:36
these up? We know you you you bet. I think it's because he
37:38
wants to look like he has to look them up, even though we all
37:42
know he knows them, not only off the top of his head, but
37:44
deep in his heart he knows. He just doesn't want to appear to be
37:46
a degenerate. We know, like when we're doing this show, like people
37:52
aren't dropping off money, like like like wepaking of that Trey. Where's my
37:58
money? So I actually took the Eagles minus three, so obviously they won.
38:02
I need my bag of money. Even though I'm a Cowboys fan,
38:06
I'm when it comes to financial decisions, I will bet against my team against
38:09
Yes, you were here for it. Yeah I didn't know. You actually
38:13
put money on it. I said it on the show. It makes it
38:15
real. Trade, Where's my money? The line is sixteen Cowboys minus sixteen
38:21
and a half and the over under is thirty eight and a half. So
38:24
basically what Vegas is saying is it's going to be a blowout. Yeah,
38:28
it should be a Cowboys blowout and doubtful that the Giants can score. It's
38:37
a question, it really is. It really is amazing that people even bother
38:40
to do sports shows like this, because once Vegas puts numbers out like that,
38:45
you're like, well, that says everything that needs to be said right
38:46
there. Yeah, and since they run everything, that's how see and to
38:52
prove my point, Vegas said, this is what it was. You bet
38:57
against the team and you won. Yeah. I won. So I'm gonna
39:01
do it again this week. So I'm gonna continue my streak of betting against
39:05
the Cowboys and trying to win money, because why should the Joneses be the
39:08
only Cowboys fans making money off this thing. So that's the bandwagon I'm going
39:14
to jump on, and that is betting against the Cowboys until they prove me
39:16
wrong, because I will be eating chicken wings, drinking beer, and demanding
39:22
excellence. So I will take the under. Oh, I'll take the under
39:28
because I think that thirty eight and a half they're begging you to take the
39:30
over, so I think it'll be under. It'll still be probably Cowboys,
39:34
you know, twenty eight to three or something, but that's the under,
39:38
so it'll still be a blow up. It'll go under, and that the
39:45
points line is real tempting to take the over. So I'm gonna take the
39:49
under. I'm gonna say the Cowboys win convincingly but kind of stink at the
39:52
same time, because that's what the Cowboys do. So I'll take the under
39:54
and I'll take the Giants on the points. But again, you said the
39:59
last time that you you were taking the points, but you're not saying how
40:02
much money you're putting on. You're asking for a bag of money, but
40:06
you never established how much you were actually betting. I guess I never really
40:09
truly told you my strategy, Raj, And that is to verbally say the
40:15
bet, but then physically want a bag of money, having laid out any
40:22
actual cash while it afforded me any windfalls of cash. At least, I'm
40:30
not in the red see. And this is why you got to do a
40:31
twenty three and meters because I'm positive you're part Indian, because that's that's just
40:37
how we. I did do an ancestry DNA. And I'm sorry, sorry,
40:40
Raj, it's any standard white guy stuff. Okay, you got no
40:45
like no South Asian because you met like what well, you know what you
40:52
know, when I'm around you long enough, it just kind of runs off.
40:57
You're just like, I'm not putting any money up, want the profit.
41:00
That's right, I do. That's that's the most Indian as it gets.
41:05
That's they call it. They call it the American way. I don't
41:07
know why, because like most things American, we stole it. Yeah,
41:15
this land is now ours, Drey, Where's where's where's your pretend money going
41:22
or real money going? This week? Ah? God, I hate that
41:28
beat. I I I say, bet on how you bet the opposite of
41:36
what you think Vegas wants you to do. What I would hope is to
41:39
sit on it. If the line goes to seventeen, I'd take the points
41:42
and uh more than anything else thinking that. And it happens in the NFL
41:49
all the time of the trash time touchdown of like, you know, the
41:52
Cowboys can be up, you know, twenty eight to three or whatever,
41:57
and then next thing you know, they come back and you know, the
42:00
Giants score ten points that are useless. But I think Cowboys feel like giving
42:04
Deuce Vaughan a rushing touchdown. Roger, what about you? Are you?
42:10
Are you? Are you? I'm with you, man. I would take
42:15
the under because I think they're I think they're they're gonna be delightfully terrible.
42:22
I think I think they're gonna be one of those it's gonna be a great
42:24
game. But then at some point you're gonna go why, Like just like
42:29
every game, you just go why, why did you do that? I
42:32
feel like we're on a streak of creating shirts. We have hotter than bear
42:37
spray. Yes, we now have our first Cowboys shirt, which is eating
42:40
wings, drinking beer, demanding excellence. That is a third shirt also Cowboys
42:46
related. It can say the Dallas Cowboys have the blue star and underneath it.
42:52
Why why why it has to be like one of those things that you
43:01
can push them at talks like you can push the star and it's just your
43:05
voice going fine bye. Now I want my bags of money. All right.
43:19
I need to get on the phone with Hayden from Spoke custom We need
43:21
a shirt that talks yeah on this record. The shirt that can say press
43:28
my star. I'll put your picture on there and just go press it.
43:36
Money and marketing. Hell ya, thanks for hanging out. What's in the
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