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Brian Urlacher | Pro Football Hall of Fame Linebacker | 07-06-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 2: Here he is making his taput. You want sitting friends
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  Speaker 2: in the morning. We're honored to have them. Hall of
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  Speaker 2: Fame linebacker Brian Urlacker fifty four, Good morning, buddy. What's up?
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  Speaker 3: Good Warriers of Akongrass. I'm the Hall of Fame there.
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  Speaker 3: That's pretty solimar, the radio Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that is pretty cool. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, you look at the names in there,
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  Speaker 2: like Barbara Walters and water Crank Heighten, all these greats.
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  Speaker 2: It's old, which doesn't belong and why but somehow I
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  Speaker 2: made it. So that's all coming up in October. So
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  Speaker 2: you're interesting guy, you're you're a former NFL player. Now
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  Speaker 2: you're outspoken about your support for Trump, but you're retired
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twelve. He became president in twenty sixteen. So
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  Speaker 2: the real question, ir Locker, is would you be as
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  Speaker 2: supportive as you've been if you were still playing in
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  Speaker 2: the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: That's a good question. I can't say, because when I played,
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  Speaker 3: politics didn't matter, you know, it didn't matter who you
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  Speaker 3: voted for. It didn't matter what you liked on Instagram,
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  Speaker 3: who you were.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I think a lot of guys went to some presidential
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  Speaker 3: things when I played, and it didn't matter at us.
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  Speaker 3: But it definitely matters now. I say I was strong
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  Speaker 3: swiming it. I would still be the same way because
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  Speaker 3: of the things I believe in, you know, other things
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  Speaker 3: that were happening a couple year ago, the kneeling for
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  Speaker 3: the flag and stuff like that. I would have had
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  Speaker 3: a really hard time sitting that's up with me when
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  Speaker 3: I played that. No, wait, that would have It would
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  Speaker 3: have been tough.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I would help you. I want to hope, Brian,
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  Speaker 2: you would have run across the field and punch Kaptick
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  Speaker 2: right across his face.
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  Speaker 3: I swear to God, hey, if my teammates were if
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  Speaker 3: any of my teammates would have know, it would have
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  Speaker 3: been tough. And I think coach Smith would have had
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  Speaker 3: to handle it a certain way because we would have
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  Speaker 3: a lot of guys on my team wilt the same
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  Speaker 3: way as well.
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  Speaker 2: I think, Well, good Lovey Smith. Of course, you know,
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  Speaker 2: people forget that Super Bowl. I was there. I did
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  Speaker 2: sports talk in Miami for a long time, eleven years,
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  Speaker 2: so I was there that rainy night when you guys
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  Speaker 2: lost to the Colts. That was the first time ever
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  Speaker 2: two black head coaches one head to head, Tony Dungeye
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  Speaker 2: and Lovey Smith. But the best part of that game, Brian,
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  Speaker 2: as great as you are and Peyton Manning won the
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  Speaker 2: first Super Bowl. The halftime show, Prince in the Rain?
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  Speaker 2: How great was that?
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  Speaker 3: Your purple Rain in the rain? Yeah, well, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we don't get to see it, but we could hear
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  Speaker 3: it from my locker. In the locker, the halftime is
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  Speaker 3: still damn long, forty five man, so you're just sitting
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  Speaker 3: there trying to figure out what to do. But we
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  Speaker 3: can actually hear him a little bit. I heard it
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  Speaker 3: was a really great show. I never saw it, but
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  Speaker 3: I heard it was great.
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  Speaker 2: There was an amazing show. He was He wasn't even
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  Speaker 2: bothered by the rain. He really wasn't. So you're a
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  Speaker 2: you're an ardent Trump supporter. You admitted that you're not
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  Speaker 2: sure if you're playing in the NFL that you'd be
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  Speaker 2: able to as outwardly as you do. Now I wonder this.
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  Speaker 2: You came to the league in two thousand. Okay, two
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  Speaker 2: thousand and one, we experienced the worst day in the
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  Speaker 2: history of our country. We're coming up on twenty five years.
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  Speaker 2: I've got this rotten jahattest radical Islam Mayer, who I
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  Speaker 2: want to punch across the face. Who's going to be
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  Speaker 2: sitting on that sacred soil? Coming up on nine to eleven,
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  Speaker 2: which should make every decent American nauseus. You had a
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  Speaker 2: guy named Pat Tillman. He left the Arizona Cardinals. You
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  Speaker 2: want to fight. He died a hero really in Afghanistan.
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  Speaker 2: You're in your second year in the NFL. Nine to
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  Speaker 2: eleven happens? What was minor lack of thinking?
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  Speaker 3: I was in a training room at the facila. I
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  Speaker 3: remember I was working out that day. We were off
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  Speaker 3: and I was in the facility working out. And then
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  Speaker 3: I went in the training room. I was watching TV.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, what is yours? Well, I couldn't believe
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  Speaker 3: what I was seeing on TV. And I remember in
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  Speaker 3: the trainsers like you should go home, go home, be
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  Speaker 3: with your family. I left the facility and I just
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  Speaker 3: remember that week. It was really weird because we had
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  Speaker 3: some family in different places make they could no one
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  Speaker 3: was flying, so they had to drive back to where
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  Speaker 3: they were. It was just a really weird situation, you know,
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  Speaker 3: obviously unprecedented. I remember the NFL voted we get that.
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  Speaker 3: We took that week off and then we played the
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  Speaker 3: next week. In the patriotism that took place around the NFL,
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  Speaker 3: around the country, but not just I remember baseball was
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  Speaker 3: going as well, Like I remember the the Yankees game,
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  Speaker 3: or maybe it was the Mets game they played each other,
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  Speaker 3: and just all of the officiotism that took place the week,
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  Speaker 3: a couple of weeks following, and obviously still now was incredible.
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  Speaker 2: It was amazing. The Mets played the Braves and Mike
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  Speaker 2: Piazza hit that big home run, and yeah, and then
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  Speaker 2: you had the Yankees played the Diamondbacks in the World
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  Speaker 2: Series that year, and everybody hates the Yankees, right, they
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  Speaker 2: hate Dallas, the Cowboys, they hate Duke, they hate the Yankees.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like the whole country was rooting for the Yankees,
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  Speaker 2: rooting right, but they lost to the Arizona Diamondbacks. Mariota
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  Speaker 2: Rovero actually made a bad play, which never ever ever happened.
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  Speaker 2: What did you go up?
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  Speaker 3: Ryan? I grew up in New Mexico, so we didn't
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  Speaker 3: really my baseball team most of the Cubs and the Braves
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  Speaker 3: because of WGN and CBS.
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  Speaker 2: Right, they're on TV, That's what I watched. So you
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  Speaker 2: stayed on and went to college right there in New Mexico.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't have any offers. I had. That's the only
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  Speaker 3: offer I got come out of high school. I could
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  Speaker 3: have walked on at Texas Deck. We couldn't afford that,
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  Speaker 3: So I accepted the full right offer to the University
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  Speaker 3: of New Mexico happily.
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  Speaker 2: And look, they're not a uh not exactly a powerhouse
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  Speaker 2: football program. And for folks that don't know this about you,
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  Speaker 2: you were a defensive back who made it to the
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  Speaker 2: Hall of Fame as a linebacker in the NFL. That's
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  Speaker 2: pretty amazing.
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  Speaker 3: I played it was a rovert, you know, once my
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  Speaker 3: first two years, we had dances grand Shone, who was great.
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  Speaker 3: And then I had Rocky Long come in my last
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  Speaker 3: two years, and he changed the whole defense to suit me,
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  Speaker 3: to just let me run around and not get blocked
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  Speaker 3: and make tackle. So I played by eleven yards deep
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  Speaker 3: in the middle of the field or under the football.
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  Speaker 3: It was a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 2: There's a Fox News reporter. She's become a very good
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  Speaker 2: friend of mine. She's coming on tomorrow. Her name is
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  Speaker 2: Donna Rattuno. You know who she is. She's on Fox
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  Speaker 2: News all the time. She lives in Chicago.
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  Speaker 3: I always watched Fox News. I always watched FU.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she's on all the time. She does all the
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  Speaker 2: legal stuff. She was on today talking about the Charlie
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  Speaker 2: Kirk Tyler Robinson jury today. Okay, the trial. She lives
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  Speaker 2: in Chicago. She lives and dies with the Bears, so
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  Speaker 2: she comes in during the football season. She goes Bear crazy. Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 2: so she was worried. She was royed last year the
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  Speaker 2: Bears were gonna move.
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  Speaker 3: There's still my move. There's still I mean, they could
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  Speaker 3: go to Hammond. I don't understand how the damn state
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  Speaker 3: legislature or state reps are Prickster or any of those guys.
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  Speaker 3: How let it get as far where they have a
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  Speaker 3: chance to go to Hammon and not play somewhere in
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  Speaker 3: Illinois doesn't make any sense to me.
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  Speaker 2: Horrible. Do you live in Chicago. You're back in New Mexico.
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  Speaker 3: Oh no, No, we live in Arizona. Yeah, we moved
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  Speaker 3: out of there. I don't agree with lot things that
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  Speaker 3: go on in Illinois, so we moved out here in
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  Speaker 3: Arizona where it's really warm and safer.
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  Speaker 2: How long you've been there, it's unless you go down
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  Speaker 2: by whether the cartel's are or God forbid, where Nancy
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  Speaker 2: Gudfree was. They seldom have found that. Paul Lady, you
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  Speaker 2: don't live anywhere in Tucson, do you, No.
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  Speaker 3: We move out hour. But we uh, it's pretty safe now.
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  Speaker 3: In the last couple of years. For some reason, it's
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  Speaker 3: gotten safer everywhere. I don't understand it. It's weird.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you have some Republicans there. I know Carrie Lake lost.
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  Speaker 2: You know Carry Lake is right, Yes, she's great, she's great.
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  Speaker 2: You lost the Ruben Guy ego, but you know, oh
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  Speaker 2: you know it's running for office there, former NFL kicker
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  Speaker 2: j Peely.
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  Speaker 3: They feel Yeah, Jason Buddy Man, I remember the same
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  Speaker 3: golf course.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you are okay? He also golms with Trump once
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  Speaker 2: in a while, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Jay's good dude. He I think you'll win that spot.
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  Speaker 3: I hope he does, and he's got He ended up
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  Speaker 3: switching districts or something like that because there was somebody
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  Speaker 3: else running the sheriff. I don't know the name. There's
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  Speaker 3: a guy that's a big shriffact here that's running to
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  Speaker 3: first body one Yeah, which places? Yeah, we get two
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  Speaker 3: good Republicans in there, hopefully.
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  Speaker 2: How about that? Would you ever run for office? Bryan?
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  Speaker 3: Nope? I got enough problems. I appreciate it, but I uh,
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  Speaker 3: I got too many skeletons in my closet and too
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  Speaker 3: much stuff. They'll find out, So I'm good.
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  Speaker 2: You don't really have skeletons in your closet. Now, correct
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  Speaker 2: me if I'm wrong. I could be wrong.
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  Speaker 3: Knows about it?
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  Speaker 2: I know. Did I not hear you and Jenny McCarthy
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  Speaker 2: on The Stern Show many many times? Was am I crazy?
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  Speaker 3: I don't think we were on together. I uh, maybe
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  Speaker 3: he would.
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  Speaker 2: No, you talked about it. You talked about it with him?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. I don't think I was ever
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  Speaker 3: hostern but oh you know what, back in the day,
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  Speaker 3: you're right, before he went super left right, he was
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  Speaker 3: super left right. Yeah, I went on there with him
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  Speaker 3: because I probably wouldn't go on now.
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  Speaker 2: You never go on now, right.
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  Speaker 3: Does he still have a show? Does he still do
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  Speaker 3: a show? I'm serious, I don't. I don't. I don't. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I don't listen, so I don't.
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  Speaker 2: Know he's on serious exam. I don't listen anymore either.
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  Speaker 2: He used to love him. Now I've worked with Imus.
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  Speaker 2: I worked with Imus, so they were kind of odd enemies,
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  Speaker 2: but he has turned into one of the biggest assholes
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  Speaker 2: in the history of radio. How it'sterned.
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  Speaker 3: Ever, that's what I hear from my Instagram feed. What
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  Speaker 3: that I get that that I liked one of your
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  Speaker 3: reels or your posts. So you're saying things that I
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  Speaker 3: agreed with, So I liked it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate it. I do appreciate that. So you
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  Speaker 2: at the point, like me buy Nolaca where just about
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  Speaker 2: every Democrat really pisses you off.
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  Speaker 3: No, not not. I mean, I don't agree with what
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  Speaker 3: they do, but we can be uh so the other
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  Speaker 3: side if we do some if you like Trump, or
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  Speaker 3: you say something publicly about Trump to hate you, like,
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  Speaker 3: it's just completely you're you're a dummy, you don't know
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  Speaker 3: what you're doing, You're stupid, you're racist. But if we
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  Speaker 3: don't agree with them, we're just like, Okay, well I
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  Speaker 3: don't gree with you, might still be friends with you.
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  Speaker 3: It's just it's it's two different thinkings and two different
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  Speaker 3: frames frames of mind when it comes to how we
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  Speaker 3: think about things and how they view things. It's just
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  Speaker 3: totally different.
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  Speaker 2: So you don't get like really angry, because look, you're
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  Speaker 2: you're a pretty violent guy. Let's be honest.
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  Speaker 3: All I feel that was yeah on the football field.
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  Speaker 2: On the football field, right, But if somebody says something
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  Speaker 2: really nasty about Trump, you don't get angry. Does that
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  Speaker 2: it go?
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  Speaker 3: Right? Yeah? I just there's no thing you can do
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  Speaker 3: about it, and people are gonna say they want to, Uh,
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  Speaker 3: you just gotta I guess, just deal with it and
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  Speaker 3: move on. It's not that big of a deal to
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  Speaker 3: me because everyone says, like you rarely hear people say
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  Speaker 3: good things about Trump anyway, even the obviously the media
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  Speaker 3: covers them horribly. U Fox doesn't give him pretty good coverage.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes but it's just who cares. It doesn't matter. I
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  Speaker 3: just know I love what he's doing to talk care about.
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  Speaker 2: Does Brian Urlacker get all dialed up tonight for the
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  Speaker 2: big soccer game against Belgium.
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you what. I've never watched a soccer game
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  Speaker 3: in my entire life until last Tuesday. And I'm that
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  Speaker 3: when we beat up on the team, we just beat
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  Speaker 3: on who beating in the thirty two.
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  Speaker 2: When we beat him, it was out last win. We
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  Speaker 2: we won by a bunch of goals. Yes, I forgot
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  Speaker 2: who it is too. I'm also not the biggest soccer.
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  Speaker 3: Companies we got. We got red cardy no idea, no
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  Speaker 3: idea what that meant. And the guy had to leave
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  Speaker 3: the game and he's spent it for the next game
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  Speaker 3: and then gave me he got the Trump card, so
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't he doesn't have to worry about it. Now
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  Speaker 3: he can play. But I will be watching the game tonight.
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  Speaker 3: I've never watched. It's like I don't watch. I grew
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  Speaker 3: up in the nextical, so we don't watch hockey. We
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  Speaker 3: don't have hockey. But when the USA is playing, my
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  Speaker 3: ass is on my couch.
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  Speaker 2: Watch because you're you're a great patriot, but I like,
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  Speaker 2: it's a great patriot. So growing up in New Mexico,
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  Speaker 2: what the hell did you watch besides like Friday night football?
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  Speaker 2: What do you have?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm a Cowboys fan. Sorry, I grew up. You
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  Speaker 3: know a lot of people talk about I know, Bears
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  Speaker 3: fans that talk about sitting around the couch on Sundays
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  Speaker 3: watching football with their dad, watching the Bears. That's what
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  Speaker 3: I did with the Cowboys. In the next we watched
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  Speaker 3: the cow Boys every Sunday, Like I said, the Braves,
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  Speaker 3: the Braves and the Cubs in the in the summertime.
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  Speaker 3: What we had.
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  Speaker 2: Do you remember the well, you remember this guy, the governor,
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  Speaker 2: was it Bill Richardson, who was in New Mexico?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, great, Yeah, he's good.
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  Speaker 2: You like, he was a good friend of ours. He
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  Speaker 2: was actually a good friend of all. I think he died,
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  Speaker 2: but he was on our show quite a bit.
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  Speaker 3: He was great. I mean, for compared to what they
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  Speaker 3: have now, he was tremendous. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you get back down to your parents, you're well
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  Speaker 2: of them still live there.
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  Speaker 3: My parents are all gone. My brother and sister live
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  Speaker 3: in the Chicago area and worked there in Arizona. So
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  Speaker 3: I got no reason to go back. But I mean,
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  Speaker 3: we saw our friends there, so we revisited. But not right?
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  Speaker 3: Who a lot? Right?
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  Speaker 2: And you were doing football stuff on Fox Sports one,
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  Speaker 2: I think too. Right now, you've done what.
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  Speaker 3: All my My first year after I retired, I thought
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  Speaker 3: it'd be fun and I enjoyed. I enjoyed who I
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  Speaker 3: worked with. I like, you know, I worked with Randy Moss,
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  Speaker 3: Jay Blazer, Joel Klatt, Rende, Barbara. It was fun. I
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  Speaker 3: just man, I just I retired and went right into
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  Speaker 3: traveling every weekend. And that's not why I retired. I
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  Speaker 3: wanted to enjoy my kids more. So.
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  Speaker 2: You don't miss the NFL thirty seconds s.
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  Speaker 3: Love watching the games. I love watching football, but I'm misplaying.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Jax and daughter is going to be great? Is
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  Speaker 2: at hey? Brian?
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  Speaker 3: What a stud? Yeah? I love that Kid's a bad app.
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  Speaker 3: I love his swagger. Yeah, I love I just there's
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  Speaker 3: so many good things I like about him. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he's just said there there, finally got it. Hopefully got
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  Speaker 3: a good one there for a while.
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  Speaker 2: You come to New York in the fall. You know
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  Speaker 2: you're going to a Giant game together under Giants by
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  Speaker 2: the Bears this year? Are they starting to play the
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  Speaker 2: Cowboys twice? So well, we'll be in touch. Your first
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  Speaker 2: appearance here this morning was a Grand Slam home run
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  Speaker 2: by Not Like. Are you a terrific? I knew you'd
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  Speaker 2: be you well great, Thank you for doing it. Doing
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  Speaker 2: it again very soon?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, buddy ike care say see, but.
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  Speaker 2: God bless you. Number fifty four Hall of Fame linebacker
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  Speaker 2: Brian Erlach.
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