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  Speaker 1: of stuff has to happen for us not to go there.
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  Speaker 1: But I assume you've heard and been partaking in the
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  Speaker 1: feeding frenzy that has been taking place the last twenty
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  Speaker 1: hours or so, not that long, I tell you that
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  Speaker 1: would be the Feds. The Feds have arrested an active
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  Speaker 1: NBA head coach and an active NBA player. That seems
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  Speaker 1: like a big deal. That seems like a bit. Don't
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  Speaker 1: that You are obviously innocent until proven guilty. Chauncey Billups,
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  Speaker 1: mister big shot Piston's legend who's been coaching toiling on
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  Speaker 1: the Oregon Trail with the Portland Trailblazers going back to
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  Speaker 1: their roots as the Jail Blazers.
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  Speaker 3: And Terry Rozier, who.
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  Speaker 1: At one point was a valuable member the Boston Celtics.
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  Speaker 1: He's been bouncing around the NBA, currently with the Miami Heat,
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  Speaker 1: although I'm I'm guessing he's never going to play for
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  Speaker 1: them again. But anyway, so you had Rosier, you had Billups.
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  Speaker 1: They were among thirty people who had a really bad day.
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  Speaker 1: Thirty people had really you think you had a bad Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: They had a worse Thursday. And two separate, they claim related,
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  Speaker 1: but separate, federal gambling investigations that involved the NBA and
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  Speaker 1: the Mob, the NBA and the Mob. Hello. Now again
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  Speaker 1: this is the version of the FBI. They don't bat
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  Speaker 1: a thousand, but they bat about nine hundred. So card
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  Speaker 1: of the FBI.
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  Speaker 3: These schemes. Boy, this is good reading, man, This is
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  Speaker 3: good reading. Is what this is.
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  Speaker 1: So one of them focused on insider sports betting, another
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  Speaker 1: that rigged poker games.
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  Speaker 3: Coast stuck coast did and bordered the border.
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  Speaker 1: And this went on for years, involving they claimed tens
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  Speaker 1: of millions of dollars. Now, remember the problem the Feds
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  Speaker 1: have with gambling illegally is they don't get a cut
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  Speaker 1: of the money, right, they don't get the Yeah, they're
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  Speaker 1: not paying taxes on that. Of course, from what I
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  Speaker 1: read as I understand the story, there's also some very
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  Speaker 1: wealthy people that got their pants pulled down in this
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  Speaker 1: and they're not happy about it.
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  Speaker 3: So those things together create.
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  Speaker 1: The situation we have now where there's tens of millions
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  Speaker 1: of dollars of illicit gains. Wire fraud. That's why they
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  Speaker 1: couldn't remember that. I remember in a book years ago
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  Speaker 1: about how they took down the mob. Right, wire fraud,
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  Speaker 1: that was the thing right before that they couldn't take
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  Speaker 1: down the mob, wirefraud, money laundering, extortion, all the big
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  Speaker 1: hits there, and of course gambling. So that's a good
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  Speaker 1: jumping off point. It's a massive, massive story. So let
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  Speaker 1: us discuss the question, what was your initial reaction to
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  Speaker 1: Trailblazer's coach Chauncey Bilts and heat guard Terry Rosier both
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  Speaker 1: being arrested by the NBA.
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  Speaker 3: All right, so that's the question.
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  Speaker 1: So I've got Einstein Brothers, Apollo Theater, and Farmers Market.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna mix all of these things together and we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna make a three team parlay.
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  Speaker 3: Is what we're gonna make, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So a my first thought here is absolutely bonkers. Where
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  Speaker 1: the capitol b bonkers? Is what I'm thinking. That was
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  Speaker 1: my initial thought here. This story actually started bubbling up
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  Speaker 1: before I went to bed. I've got some crazy sleep
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  Speaker 1: schedu going on, so people were blowing up my phone
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, and by the time I woke up,
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  Speaker 1: there was an FBI news conference in Brooklyn that it
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  Speaker 1: took took place taking place, and so it was it
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  Speaker 1: was like all hell Brooklews and uh oh my, uh
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  Speaker 1: wow uh And I's like, no, this is this kid?
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  Speaker 3: Is this really? Is that really? What happened? Okay, okay, wow,
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  Speaker 3: I want to know more about it? Uh so?
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  Speaker 1: Uh what a way to tip off the NBA season.
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  Speaker 1: How about that Adam Silver.
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  Speaker 3: That's you like? That is as that taste? Yeah? Good? Okay?
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  Speaker 3: Uh so?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what happens when you assume we assume
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  Speaker 1: the storylines that we would be yapping about here to
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  Speaker 1: begin the NBA season were wemby joelmb looking like he
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  Speaker 1: should have a wheelchair and load management. But no, no,
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about the FBI kicking in doors and taking
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  Speaker 1: away NBA guys in handcuffs after games after games. Wawi
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  Speaker 1: Becauzawie would apply here.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned my phone blew up and when I woke up,
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  Speaker 1: and I had an idea that it was about this. Now,
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  Speaker 1: normally this only happens when somebody gets fired, I get fired,
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  Speaker 1: or someone dies. So the story I was looking into
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  Speaker 1: the details here, and I assume you've heard some of it.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe not, Maybe you actually have a life and you
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  Speaker 1: don't obsessed with this kind of stuff. So I'm digging
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  Speaker 1: into it, right, I'm getting really deep into it, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, this is great.
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  Speaker 3: I'm in I'm all about.
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  Speaker 1: This action and This story is like going to Einstein
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  Speaker 1: Brothers the bagel shop and ordering the everything bagel.
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  Speaker 3: It's got something for everyone.
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  Speaker 1: It's got a hall of famer, a man that hit
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  Speaker 1: some massive baskets.
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  Speaker 3: If you're of the age to remember the Pistons.
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  Speaker 1: That no name, no Hall of Fame type team and
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  Speaker 1: no all time great player. The Pistons team that ended
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  Speaker 1: up winning the championship. Of course, he is a Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame level ballplayer, Chauncey Billops. But the team when
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  Speaker 1: they beat the Lakers, of course, that was more with
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  Speaker 1: the Laker injuries and whatnot in the NBA Finals.
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  Speaker 3: But you got that.
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  Speaker 1: You got Terry Rozier when he played for the Celtics,
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  Speaker 1: he had the nickname Scary Terry. If you like mob movies,
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  Speaker 1: he got the Italian Mafia. It spans eleven states. You
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  Speaker 1: got rigged poker games over here in places like the Hamptons.
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  Speaker 1: That's where all the aristocrats hang out, all the a
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  Speaker 1: holes in the Hamptons, Miami Vegas, where we're broadcasting from Manhattan.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is like watching a Scorsese flick, is
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  Speaker 1: what this is. It's Goodfellas NBA Edition, Goodfellas NBA Edition
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  Speaker 1: and my favorite mob movies, not The Godfather.
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  Speaker 3: It is Goodfellas.
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  Speaker 1: I love Goodfellow great, just absolutely great, and you could
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  Speaker 1: not script it better. You got Rosier, you know, based
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  Speaker 1: on what I read here telling the Mob that if
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  Speaker 1: you believe the FBI story, and again it's a version
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  Speaker 1: of the truth, not the whole truth, but Rosier telling
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  Speaker 1: the Mob, Hey, I'm gonna fake an injury so you
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  Speaker 1: guys can hit the under on the on the prop bets,
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  Speaker 1: which you know, I don't know what. I just do
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  Speaker 1: an overnight show, do I know? But that doesn't seem
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  Speaker 1: very subtle. It's like walking into the casino wearing a
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  Speaker 1: neon sign that says I'm fixing the game I'm playing
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  Speaker 1: over here.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: Hello, Yeah, this isn't some tiki tac violation. This is
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  Speaker 1: the doomsday scenario for the for the NBA. And it's
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  Speaker 1: it's funny because obviously I like gambling. I think adults
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  Speaker 1: should be able to gamble. This is obviously part of
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  Speaker 1: the deal. You're gonna have to deal with this kind
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  Speaker 1: of stuff from time to time. But you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: just this is what the commissioners for years and oh
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  Speaker 1: you cut out have gambling. This is the worst thing
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  Speaker 1: in the world and all this stuff. But then all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden they saw the checks that they got
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  Speaker 1: from gambling, and oh.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're fine. But this is the worst not the
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  Speaker 3: worst case.
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  Speaker 1: I guess the worst case scenario would be we like
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  Speaker 1: the Chicago black socks scandal from back back in the day.
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  Speaker 1: But nonetheless, uh, you know, it has been been like
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  Speaker 1: they've been pretending this can't happen.
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  Speaker 3: And all that stuff, and well it's it's happened.
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  Speaker 1: So now it's real and this is gonna make one
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  Speaker 1: hell of a great Netflix true crime doc and I'm
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  Speaker 1: in on it. I will watch every episode. I will
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  Speaker 1: binge watch it, binge watch it. I don't normally binge watch.
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  Speaker 1: I can't sit there for that long. I have to
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  Speaker 1: go do stuff, but I will binge watch. And this
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  Speaker 1: is still in progress right now. And you know, who
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  Speaker 1: knows what to believe if people are sending me messages this,
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  Speaker 1: you know, naming certain people they think are are gonna
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  Speaker 1: come chopping down next.
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  Speaker 3: And the theory is these guys were not alone.
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  Speaker 1: This was not a one off situation where normally these
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  Speaker 1: guys hang out with other friends who are from former
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  Speaker 1: employees they worked with or whatever. And former co workers
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  Speaker 1: are basketball players or current basketball players. So there's some
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  Speaker 1: people right now who know these gentlemen and know they
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  Speaker 1: might be on some kind of list or something like that,
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  Speaker 1: that are not sleeping. We'd like to welcome them to
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  Speaker 1: the mal or militia. And I don't know what they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna call the Netflix true crime doc. Maybe whack Jobs
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  Speaker 1: and point guards or something like that. But you can
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  Speaker 1: get the ominous piano music playing and all that, and
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  Speaker 1: imagine a world where the unders hit early and the
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  Speaker 1: FBI hits earlier. Yeah, something like that. I think that
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  Speaker 1: she could work. Yeah, I think that it would work.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens about you. You guys, strap
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  Speaker 1: in there, because this is this is not going away.
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  Speaker 1: This is a nuke in Adam Silver's lap. And the
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  Speaker 1: chatter again, the chatter who knows what's right not? You know,
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  Speaker 1: nobody knows anything, and people are people love to gossip
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  Speaker 1: and they love for some reason they have to tell
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  Speaker 1: me crap.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know why, what do I know?
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  Speaker 1: They're claiming there's some other big fish, including a very
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  Speaker 1: well known boxer who will be involved in this.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see if that happens.
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  Speaker 1: Or not, And I don't want to get sued, so
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  Speaker 1: I'm not naming anyone at all. I know nothing, I
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  Speaker 1: see nothing. I'm not naming anyone. You can figure it
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  Speaker 1: out on your own. I don't feel I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to get sued, So boom, there you go. Anyway, I
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  Speaker 1: turning the page, but not far as we bite in
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  Speaker 1: to the meal and there's a lot of meat on
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  Speaker 1: the bone. There's a lot of meat on the bone.
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  Speaker 1: So the headlines, which are just delicious, and this thing
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  Speaker 1: has been blowing up all day long into the night now.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the questions, I think it's a legitimate question,
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  Speaker 1: and it's kind of the obvious one. It's like, you
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  Speaker 1: see these headlines, Oh my god, oh man, oh mercy.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's a big effing And so if you
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  Speaker 1: get down to it, how much jail time are Terry
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  Speaker 1: Rosier and Chauncey Billups actually facing?
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  Speaker 3: How much are they actually facing?
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  Speaker 1: So if let's just take out the malor of machete
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  Speaker 1: and cut through the dog and pony show. So the
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  Speaker 1: FBI put on their own dog and pony show, right,
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  Speaker 1: that's what they put on.
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  Speaker 3: You know, that's a big deal, high profile arrests.
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  Speaker 1: Law enforcement loves it because it gets a lot of
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  Speaker 1: attention and people love to talk about it and makes
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  Speaker 1: them look good. And so the FBI loves when they
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  Speaker 1: can nail the big ragou and so this is good
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  Speaker 1: for them. But you hear these very big numbers being
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  Speaker 1: tossed around, you read different things, and you're like, well,
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  Speaker 1: social media facing up to ten years or up to
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  Speaker 1: twenty years in jail and that part of it. And
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  Speaker 1: maybe I'll be wrong on this. I might be wrong
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  Speaker 1: on this. However, it is my theory that those early
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  Speaker 1: reports are a trip to the Apollo Theater and there's
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  Speaker 1: a special showing at the Apollo Theater. It's called Kabuki Theater.
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  Speaker 1: Er go, it's all a mirage. Now my hot take
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  Speaker 1: you ready for Buckle up Benny's hot take, first hour
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  Speaker 1: hot take, when the dust settles. None of these cats,
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  Speaker 1: the in terms of Billups and Rosier, are going to
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  Speaker 1: do real hard time. Now, it's easy for me to say,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we've got guys that are incarcerated listening to
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  Speaker 1: the show, and I know our buddy in Pennsylvania who's
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  Speaker 1: he's getting out soon from Chicago and announced at some
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  Speaker 1: point here not that far away, but he's doing some
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  Speaker 1: serious time. You know, I would for me, serious time
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  Speaker 1: would be like you know, a day now, that would
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  Speaker 1: be that would be pretty bad. But what's gonna happen
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  Speaker 1: here is the lawyers are going to get a bag.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone else will be given the opportunity to sing like
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  Speaker 1: a canary, and before you know it, these guys are
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  Speaker 1: going to be having cocktails in Cancun. And remember up
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  Speaker 1: to up to is a classic weasel phrase. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: first domino to fall in this story was Johntay Porter
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  Speaker 1: of the Toronto Raptors formerly and he hasn't been sentenced yet.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to be sentenced in December, and so he's
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  Speaker 1: looking at here we are in late October.
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  Speaker 3: He's looking at up to four years.
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  Speaker 1: However, it is believed that he snitched, which likely led
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  Speaker 1: likely possibly led to it we have going on the
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  Speaker 1: last twenty four hours. He gave the right names up
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  Speaker 1: and so he'll likely get a sweetheart deal. As for
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  Speaker 1: Billups and Rosier, they're not exactly El Chapo, if you.
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  Speaker 3: Know what I'm saying on that. So they are celebrities.
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  Speaker 1: Billups a bigger name, but he is he's a former
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  Speaker 1: celebrit You don't have a star when you're coaching the
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  Speaker 1: Trailblazers and Rosiers and roster spam at this point, so
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  Speaker 1: their accessories. Though in a gambling ring, you gotta find
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  Speaker 1: a way if your billups, to blame the interpreter, right,
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  Speaker 1: it's always the joke here, Just find a way. Say
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  Speaker 1: I have an interpreter who he interprets the Italian mob
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  Speaker 1: for me. That's the silver bullet. Otani's playing in the
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  Speaker 1: World Series on Friday Night, and he was involved in
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  Speaker 1: one of these stories. Now, the worst case is these
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  Speaker 1: guys get you sent inced a couple years in jail
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  Speaker 1: or something like that. But realistically, you're gonna get a
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  Speaker 1: little jail time at club and then some probation. You're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have to pay a big fine and all that,
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  Speaker 1: and your reputation is trashed. And that's what's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: But when they just you know, they have to update
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  Speaker 1: their passport to find a new gig, and you can
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  Speaker 1: go coach in Vatican City. I think there's a team
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  Speaker 1: called the Vocaros in Vatican City or the Monaco mad
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  Speaker 1: Men or something like that.
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  Speaker 3: But the only people.
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  Speaker 1: Guaranteed to win here again to the lawyers, they always win,
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  Speaker 1: they always win, they do all right. Last word, So
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  Speaker 1: we go now thirty thousand feet in the sky, and
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  Speaker 1: we asked the question for the esteem panel, what is
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  Speaker 1: the fallout from this latest wrinkle in the NBA gambling underworld,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, So what is the fallout on this? Well,
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  Speaker 1: the streets have been talking, and there's and we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: talk about as if we go through the overnight. But
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  Speaker 1: we're hearing the you know, Congress is already there's people
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  Speaker 1: trying to get some free publicity like well, we're gonna,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna look at this, and so that to me,
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  Speaker 1: that is Congress is going to ride in on their
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  Speaker 1: white horse and save America from prop bets. There'll be
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  Speaker 1: special hearings on Capitol Hill, and this is rather obvious
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  Speaker 1: stuff here. Lawmakers are going to drag Adam Silver, Roger Goodell,
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  Speaker 1: rob Manfraud, and Gary Bettman, the four horsemen of the
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  Speaker 1: gambling apocalypse, to DC.
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  Speaker 3: And the chatter is.
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  Speaker 1: That Congress is going to propose out long or putting
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  Speaker 1: restrictions on prop bets and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Now you know who wins on that.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the ironic part if you play this out and
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  Speaker 1: looking at this logic, can you tell me if I'm
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  Speaker 1: wrong or not.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think I'm wrong on this, Okay, of course,
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  Speaker 3: I never almost never think i'm wrong.
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  Speaker 1: But let's assume go down the rabbit hole where Congress
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  Speaker 1: eventually bans prop bets. Okay, you with me on that?
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: So far, you're good? Okay, you shut your hand, yes,
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: all right, so you know who ends up winning? The
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: Italian mafia they win. Congress is not saving anyone from anything.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: They're just pushing it back to the to the alley
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: behind the sub shop. Seriously, if the US, if Congress
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: bans prop bets, okay, the mob throws a welcome home party.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Doctor Vinnie Boombots has got balloons and Canoli's waiting.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: Come on down and don't fool yourself.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: The props are have become the lifeblood of modern gambling.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: And you take that away, the action is not gonna stop.
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  Speaker 1: It's not It's just gonna go underground. That's just the
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: way it is. You go to the farmer's market, it's
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: forbidden fruit, the forbidden fruit effect, prohibited items gain mystique.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Have you read about prohibition and what that? Did you
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: know a million years ago in America, the Mob propapalooza, cash,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: no oversight, no paper trail. Of course everything's done on
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: phones now, so they'd have to have something online, but
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: it would be prohibition two point zero. You cannot outlaw demand,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: and so you're just gonna hand it. If they didn't
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: ban these things and outlaw them legally, you're just gonna
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: hand them back to the wise guys and make sure
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: you put a.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: Nice, big red bow, big red bow on top.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: So if this happens, Congress gets its, it gets you know,
• 19:12
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• 19:13
  Speaker 3: The league gets to say, hey, you know, we've.
• 19:15
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  Speaker 1: So I leave this hour from the NFL. We had
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• 22:22
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• 22:24
  Speaker 1: changed and we're doing the show from Vegas here on
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: the overnight from the Great Fremont Street Experience in a
• 22:30
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• 22:32
  Speaker 3: Just down outside.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: There's a bunch of drunk people that just smell disgusting
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: that are walking around. But anyway, we're hanging out here.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: I was gonna go to Sofi Stadium to see the game.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Carson Wentz was driving the Purple People Eater's caravan as
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: it rolled into the.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: Into the hood in Inglewood.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: For a little playdate with Justin Herbert and the Lightning Bolts,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: and he had Al Michael's there.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: Al loves that he lives over in Brentwood. It's so close.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: He just has to stay on the four for a
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: little bit, make his way down the four or five
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: boom right there in Englewood and.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: Kirk kurb Street, who hates it because he doesn't live
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: on the West Coast.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: He has a flyout for it. They had the call
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: on the Amazon, so I don't know if you watched
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: it or not. Chargers had their throwback uniforms. That is
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: a signed by the way, you're getting old. My first
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: couple of years in radio, I started in San Diego,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: and those were the uniforms.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: The Chargers war. Now their throwback.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, anyway, justin Herbert two hundred and twenty
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: seven yards passing in three touchdowns and the Chargers send
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: the Vikings to the electric Chair, where they blow out
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: with twenty seven point win.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: They won by twenty.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Seven points on Thursday night, ending a skid of three
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: losses in four games, and had knocked them out of
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: the AFC West catbird seat.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: They had all those early.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Wins over AFC West opponents, and now they fall on
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: hard times, but the Chargers get back into the win
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: call him here an unexpectedly easy win. The Chargers win
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: four days after being trampled by the Colts in that
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: same ballpark.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: They get destroyed.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: The better story is in the losing locker room, where
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: the Vikings have now lost consecutive games for the first
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: time this season, both coming in a five day span.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: They lost to Philly at home, a game where they
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: had plenty of opportunities, were able to matriculate the ball
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: down in the red zone and the offense fizzled in
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: the red zone. But certainly not the case here, as
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: it was just a debacle from beginning to end, from
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Alpha to Omega, the Minnesota offense managed just twelve first downs.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: That's it. Twelve, I'm told that's not good.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Three of eleven on third down and had the ball
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: for just twenty one minutes. Oh my god. So that's
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: what the heck happened to Kevin o'conddle's Minnesota vikings. So
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: my observations of this, I've got bootleg vhs, copy, ice cube,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: and shadows, and we were combine all of these things
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: together and we are going to make a very expensive
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: cup from a tiki bar. Very expensive, very very expensive. Okay,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: you should not purchase anyone number why? I said number Why?
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: So in the holiday spirit, we are a week away
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: from Halloween, Minnesota, I know what happened. They came out
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: to La they went to Spirit Halloween, and they showed
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: up in the wrong damn costume.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: That's what happened.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Instead of the purple people eater uniforms, they came out
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: dressed like Gang Green. They played like the Jets. You're
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: not the Jets. Stop playing like the Jet. That was lifeless.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: That was aloof that was zero juice. Now, as you know,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: we do Benny versus the Penny, and we do it,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: you know, every game, every Thursday night game, and then
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: we have all the other big games on the weekend.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: We handicap.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: And it's very frustrating when you expect an honest performance,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: when you assume that you're going to get effort, because
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: why why else would you bother watching this? And my
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: main criticism and people say, well, Carson Wentzon, We'll get
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: to Carson Wentz because he was terrible, and he said, well,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: I'll give him a pass. Brian flores his defense though,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: and to me, that's a bigger that is a bigger
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: thing for the Vikings. Yet the bread and butter of
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: that squad is the defense. Good defense, bread and butter.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: They were burnt toast is what they were. The Chargers
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: converted sixty nine on third down, almost seventy percent on
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: third down. They had four hundred nineteen yards of offense,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: held the ball for thirty nine freaking minutes.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: That's not defense. That's daycare, is what that.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: And you want arm tackles, check, you want miss tackles,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: check check. You want bad per suit angles check check check.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: They looked like they had all gotten together. In the
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: game film they watched a bootleg VHS copy of NFL
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: films Super Duper Football Follies is what they watched. Don't
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: forget also poor coverage, bad pass rush check check check
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: check check check check. Justin Herbert, who was running for
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: his life. I know the Chargers got some guys back,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: they didn't get everyone back. Herbert completed seventy two percent
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: of his passes. He averaged nine point one yards attempt
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: per attempt nine point one yards perttempt.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: Do you uns down incompetent?
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: How you just aren't even trying if you're on defense,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: if you allow that kind of efficiency. Kevin O'Connell, the coach,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: looked lost. Looked like a guy holding a map trying
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: to read it and it was upside down. He never
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: turned it the right side, I mean, my gott and
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: there were no adjustments. There was no fire, no fire
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: from the king. I did see a couple players get
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: upset because their teammates were not in the proper position,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: but the rest of the guys looked like they had
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: no clue. There was zero fight. They were like a soft,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: warm pretzel, which I love. A sophomore Pretzel. I don't
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: want my football team. I don't want my football team
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: to play like that, and you can't fake the energy. Well,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: now we are going to address the snuffle uffagus in
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: the room, and that would be Carson Wentz, who also sucked.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Wentz horrible numbers. Just the numbers aren't as bad as
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: he played, finished with one hundred and forty four yards,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: had a touchdown, an interception, got sacked five times. Now
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: the big headline. This was featured on the Amazon broadcast.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: They was talking point he played through a left shoulder
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: injury that, based on his body language and his moaning
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: on the field, he had aggravated it multiple times. Here's
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell. People criticizing O'Connell. You left Wentz in there.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: You could have taken them out earlier in the game.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: You left him in there. Explain yourself, coach.
• 28:59
  Speaker 6: We kept on, you know, checking in, maybe getting Max
• 29:02
  Speaker 6: ready to go. But he you know, you know, Tyler
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: was coming to me a lot tonight, but every time
• 29:08
  Speaker 6: he seemed to update me on that. You know, Carson
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: was uh, you know, he was sore going into it,
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: and he was able. He took obviously quite a few
• 29:17
  Speaker 6: hits and and but he was able to. You know,
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: I asked him multiple times, you know, where he was at,
• 29:24
  Speaker 6: and he he he said he was good and wanted
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: to keep going. I know, it did seem like he was,
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: you know, in pain there a couple of times, a
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: few times.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: So the body language was it looked like he was
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: literally on his deathbed. He appeared like they could bring
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: in a priest and a rabbi and give him his
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: last right.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: So the way Wentz was acting.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: On the field, here's Carson Wentz. You were hurt, you
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: were playing. You look like you were about to drop
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: dead on the field. Explain yourself. Carson Wentz was trying.
• 29:51
  Speaker 7: To do everything I can to help this team, you know. Okay,
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: I think confident, even with the pain, that I can help,
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: you know, I can contribute and make plays and spread
• 29:59
  Speaker 7: this ball around.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: And you know, I thought we did it okay.
• 30:02
  Speaker 7: At times, left plenty of things out there. The interception,
• 30:05
  Speaker 7: you know, I thought I thought maybe we had a
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: little chance to kind of put something together and go
• 30:10
  Speaker 7: down there, and I just kissed it, you know, And
• 30:12
  Speaker 7: I gotta be better there. But yeah, at the end
• 30:15
  Speaker 7: of the day, I feel like I'm physically able to
• 30:17
  Speaker 7: go whether.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: It hurts or not.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a guy that was what you just said
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: there completely wrong. All right, So the question does Carson
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Wentz get immunity?
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: Does he get immunity.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: From criticism because he played through a shoulder that was
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: barking like.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: A dog the injury.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: So on my scorecard, I wrote down two letters N
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: and oh no, no, he was cleared to play. Carson Wentz,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: you don't get a gold star near your name because
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: your shoulder was causing you issues and you played, and
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: you played. The reason these historic games and sports, the
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Flu game, which I guess was not even the Flu
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: game with Michael Jordan, the Kobe Bryant version of that,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: those are special games because they played well and they
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: were battling some kind of what now is called neurovirus.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Back then it was called the flu. Simpler times, simpler times.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: I just want to point that out. The neurovirus thing
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: very annoying. I grew up with the flu. I'm not
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: ready to call it the neurovirus. I just want to
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: point that out. Anyway, Carson Wentz's fair game, he is.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: He made the charger defense, which looked like wet tissue
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: paper a couple days ago against Danny Dimes, and the
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Colts look like the two thousand Ravens. Okay, and remember
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: it's hurt versus injured. If you're injured, you sit. If
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: you're hurt, you play and you produce. Went did neither.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: He stunked from head to toe, as John Tortorella so
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: famously said back and so to me, there's no excuse.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: And you know O'Connell also like, what are you doing,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Like open your eyes? You know Stevie Meatballs is blind
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: and he could see that this was a disaster, inca terror.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Was like, I'm screaming. I can see this and I
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: can't see anything, but I know this is bad. Playing
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: through pain does not make up for playing like a bum.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: It just doesn't. I'll be the I'll be the bad guy,
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: all right now, Page two.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: So on the Chargers side, the question must be asked,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: if you watched any of this game? The star of
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: the show, well, Justin Herbert had really sexy stats. The
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: question being asked by many. Have Jim Harbaugh's Chargers solve
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: their running back dilemma with the emergence of Kamani Vidal,
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: the running back who I had never heard of. I
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: know he had a good game a couple of weeks
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: ago into the Dolphins, but my god.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: So I'll answer this.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: The Chargers clearly think they've unearthed a hidden gem in
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: the human bowling ball of a back Commandy Vidal.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: This guy, it is a redemption story.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: The guy was a Troy Trojan, not a USC Trojan,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: a Troy Trojan six round pick. He was actually fired
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: by the Chargers. He was dumped. He was released at
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: the end of training camp. Back off the scrap heap.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Now suddenly he was running around. He looks like if
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: you're old enough to remember when Reice Jones Drew, who
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: had a good career played with Jacksonville mostly Maurice Jones.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: Drew look like that. He looked like you.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Maybe a little bigger or a smaller, but ways more
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: look good on a tablet. The stats one hundred and
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: seventeen yards average five point one yards per rush.
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: Hello. And for those of you that are blind that
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: don't know what's he look like.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: He's built like a keg of beer, Like if you
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: got a keg of medello. That's what it was. He's
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: five to eight fifteen five eight two fifteen. He was
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: running through the Vikings like they were traffic cones, like
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: he was at the combine and he was.
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: Just running through.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: However, I would not advise a ticker tape parade. Yet
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: you can stop that right now. The Vikings defense looked
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: like it was doing the limbo out there, as we said,
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: arm tackles to the right, bad angles to the left,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: total lolligagging everywhere. And I'm convinced your Babushka could have
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: averaged four yards to carry against the defensive effort from
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings in that game. And so I will
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: quote the great ambassador of the world ice Cube, who
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: said it best you better check yourself before you wreck yourself,
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: that this might be more about Minnesota's Mattato defense ho
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: eh o, than Vidal becoming the next great running back
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: of our time.
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: I'm pulling for.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: I always love the bug on the rug, the little
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: fat running back, those all these fun players to watch.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: They are remember Darren Sproll's long career in the NFL.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: Love watching him play right because he's so These guys
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: are so small, even though he's built physically like a
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: beer keg, they're so little. He's like five eight and
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Darren Sproles was five to six, you know, and he
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: appeared to know what he was doing as far as blocking. Again,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: he wasn't getting challenged her Vidal. But that's how you
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: get on the field in the NFL if you're a nope,
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: if you block, especially for a guy like Jim Harbaugh,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: and so he fits that esthetic. He's short, thick, he's
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: got a mean streak to him, which you kind of
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: have to be. If you're a six round pick out
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  Speaker 1: of Troy. You know, you weren't getting toddled at Ohio
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: State with nil money. If you're going to Troy, you know,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: maybe you get some money for the vending machine.
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  Speaker 3: Possibly. But I have seen this.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Movie before one big game, Remember I forget the guys,
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: and I was trying to think when I was I
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: was coming in here to the studio. There was a
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: guy for the Patriots, somebody I know. You might know
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: if you're listening. There was a one hit wonder for
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: the Patriots in the glory days of the Belichick run.
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  Speaker 1: The guy it was, if I remember correctly, cause I
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: did a monologue about it. I forgot, you know, so
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: long ago. But he had a monster game against I
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: want to say, the Colts in one of those big
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: matchups between Tom Brady and I think Peyton Manning was on.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: The Colts had a huge game, and then we never
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: heard from him again, and.
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: It was like, he's very odd. It was like, what happened?
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: Where'd that guy go? I don't know, I forget his name,
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: though I got the Google machine. I guess I could
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: look that up. But man alive it was. It was
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: absolutely crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, So one big game when we've seen this happen,
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: then three weeks later we're like, what happened to that guy? So, no,
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: it doesn't mean the Chargers have solved the Rubik's qbe
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: at the running back position. However, you certainly want to
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: see what this guy's got. You want to give him
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: some more opportunities, and you know, they might have found
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: a serviceable running back who certainly showed he can feast
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: on a soft defense. He played well against the Dolphins,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: as we said, and so now he does it against
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: the Vikings, and so we'll see what happens when he
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: plays a team that's actually engage and is trying to
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: tackle you and not use arm tackling. So I wouldn't
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: buy stock yet I would keep the confetti in the box.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: I would not open the box with the confetti. All right,
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: final point back to the Vikings we go where doctor
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: David Chowell, a former Chargers team doctor better known if
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: you're on social media as the pro Football Doc, and
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: he has tossed out a mouthwatering conspiracy theory about the
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: Minnesota football team manipulating the injured list.
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, how crazy is that? You see it? No, he
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: didn't say, Okay, I'll give you the details on this.
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  Speaker 1: So doctor Chow says that quarterback JJ McCarthy is hiding
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: behind a health situation and he didn't play in this game.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: Are talking about Carson Wentz went out there and was horrific.
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  Speaker 1: So this was the second week in a row that
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: the Vikings head coach Kevin O'Connell had McCarthy as the
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: emergency third quarterback, meaning that the doctors had cleared him
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: to play. So question thumbs up or thumbs down to
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: the Vikings embellishing quarterback JJ McCarthy's injury status to keep
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: him on the bench and claiming, well, we want him
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: only when he's one hundred percent. So I'm gonna go
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: thumbs up on that. You can say, well, that's not
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: really a conspiracy. It's just gamesmanship. Okay, Okay. What the
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: Vikings are doing with this is they're sending him to
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: the shadow realm. This is classic shadow band stuff. He's
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: almost ready, but not quite. And it's a beautiful scam.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: You got coach Kevin O'Connell looking around thinking, man, I
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: can squeeze some games out of wins, and I may
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: be able to win a couple of these things.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: There's no need to rush the red shirt rookie back
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: into the game to be eaten by the Bears and
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: these He beat the Bears, but the Lions the teams
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: in the division.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: So instead Minnesota, they said, we're going to keep listing
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: McCarthy as an emergency quarterback, even though the doctors have
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: already medically cleared him. So if you're healthy enough to
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: be an emergency quarterback, as I understand it, you're healthy
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: enough to, you know, actually play in the game. So
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: this is not a medical thing. This is an incompetence thing.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: And the coaches don't trust JJ McCarthy's anyone.
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: Disagree with that. I don't see anyone shaking their head.
• 39:24
  Speaker 6: No.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: And O'Connell, he's got plausible deniability.
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: He can say, Wow, we just want the ballplayer to
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: be one hundred percent. That's all we want.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: Well, no one's ever one hundred percent right, and not
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: certainly not week eight of an NFL season. And the
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: reality is, and it's the quiet part we're going to
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: say out loud. JJ McCarthy was overwhelmed. He wasn't ready
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: early in the season. Any anyone that knows anything about
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: football knows he was not prepared to play quarterback in
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: the NFL. They were upset and people watching him. I
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: guarantee if people behind the scenes are like, oh my god,
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: what do we do? So they're stashing him. It is
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: a timeless strategy in the NFL. Sleight of hand. Sleight
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  Speaker 1: of hand.
• 40:07
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• 40:18
  Speaker 2: This is one big event?
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: Gets grilled Kouperlo.
• 40:23
  Speaker 8: Dylan Gabriel has been serviceable at best since becoming QB
• 40:27
  Speaker 8: one in Cleveland. Many fans want the team to consider
• 40:30
  Speaker 8: Shador after the team's Week nine bye. If things go
• 40:32
  Speaker 8: poorly this Sunday against the Patriots. But is there any
• 40:35
  Speaker 8: chance of that happening.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, there's a chance because Dylan Gabriel is no good.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: But a lot of these stories that are out there
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: about Shadar Sanders, it's just clickbait because people have determined
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: in the media that he's popular because his dad was
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: a good player, and even though he's not that good
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: apparently because he's not playing for the Cleveland Browns. So
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: that's number one, and you're just trying to engage, you're
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: getting engagement farming. Yeah, at some point, Dylan Gabriel, if
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: he doesn't play better, is going to be replaced.
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: That is how this works. He's not very good right now.
• 41:03
  Speaker 8: Next, an NFL insider reported on Wednesday that the Cowboys
• 41:06
  Speaker 8: could make multiple moves at the trade deadline. Ben, do
• 41:09
  Speaker 8: you think Dallas is only a couple pieces on defense
• 41:11
  Speaker 8: away from being legit contenders?
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: Yes, if they can get Aiden Hutchinson, I can get
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: him into trade. And also, I don't know who all
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: you give me a great lineback? I mean, yeah, they
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: get two impact players? Sure, why not?
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: It's not good.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: That's much like we just talked about the quarterback Sreur Sanders.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: It's not going to It's just trying to get clicks,
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: is what you're doing. Jerry Jones. I don't believe he's
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: gonna pull the trigger on any major trades. I just
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: think this is all chatter and nonsense. But yeah, if
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys got two impact defensive players, their offense will.
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: Be able to score. I have two stud receivers.
• 41:45
  Speaker 8: Next, after Dave Dombrowski's comments about Bryce Harper earlier, if
• 41:49
  Speaker 8: the Yankees fans and analysts think the former MVP could
• 41:52
  Speaker 8: be dealt to the Bronx, Ben is that a pipe dream?
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: Well, the issue is he's got a no trade class
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: like a full note trade clause, Bryce Harper so and
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: he's got a Phillies tattoo, so good luck on that.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: He does want more money, so if the Phillies don't
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: want to redo his contract, then yeah, he's actually underpaid
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: by modern baseball standards.
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: How did we do, Cooper loop?
• 42:15
  Speaker 8: Then you pass this edition?
• 42:16
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• 42:42
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• 42:44
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• 42:48
  Speaker 3: Man Hippie from Miami. There, Hello, Billy, hey Man, I
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• 43:12
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• 43:19
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• 43:24
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• 43:26
  Speaker 1: Well, on Monday we will tell you why he goes
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: by the moniker weed Man on Monday.
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: We'll save that story from Monday. But here we go
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: or Monday and Tuesday.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: So which Lady Gaga song does Chauncey Billups hate?
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: Which one poker face. That's Eric in Kansas. There you go,
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: what would be gaga?
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what would be poetic justice if Chauncey Billips was
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: convicted on all charges? Wow? What if he was sentenced
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: to lethal injection? That's from a chip in Maine. Well,
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: these are actual jokes by actual Listen is why does
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: weed man ride around with his butt out the car window?
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: Why so people can see his good side? That's a
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: lucky tony right, very nice. Did you hear that weed
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: Man hippie attended a version of the no King protest
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: over last weekend?
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  Speaker 3: Wow? Really? Yeah? I guess you thought it was actually
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: no wor King protests?
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: You thought there was that even you know George in Uvalde, Texas.
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: Thank you George. Why is weed man thinking about getting married?
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: Why? Because he recently got engaged in criminal activity?
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: There you go, it's real in Minnesota. How many times
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: have you been arrested? Weed Man? How many times? I'm good,
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: I'm good, I know, but but yeah, you've been arresting.
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: What job is weed man applying for? What job?
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: Weed store and bassador? That's Eric in Kansas. Why is
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: weed man not familiar with.
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: Why?
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: Well, he always thought of lot lizards as roadkill and
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: free food.
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: That's Drew in Minnesota. Did you hear that weed Man?
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: Did you hear that weed Man?
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  Speaker 1: Hippies Chevy Malibu was in a glossy magazine?
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  Speaker 2: Wow?
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  Speaker 8: Really?
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: Yes, it was.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: Better homeless and gardens. That's Jeopardy. Ow, that's a legend. Jeopardy.
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  Speaker 1: Al was at the first mallor meet and greet we
• 45:25
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  Speaker 3: How is weed Man honored by the State of Florida. Wow?
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: They presented him with a Ward of the State. A
• 45:37
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  Speaker 3: There you go.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: Why is Hollowing James going to be or what is
• 45:44
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• 45:45
  Speaker 3: Hollering James?
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: What the incredible bulk? That's from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota.
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  Speaker 1: What is Marcel doing for Halloween? What standing outside Blair's
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: house making scary noises? That's Eric in Kansas Yes, very nice.
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: Here's another similar joke. God, what is holloween James Halloween costume?
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: What sleeping Darth Vader? That's Eric as well. Very nice.
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: There it's big Man's name. Jokes of the week.
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  Speaker 1: It was reported Mike the Leper contested positive for drugs
• 46:17
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  Speaker 1: Who is Jed who Fled's favorite nineties R and B
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, weed Man. That was funny, Genie Ghost of
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  Speaker 3: Genie was funny.