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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Mahler
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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 1: We begin this hour from the state of Texas. Well,
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  Speaker 1: technically it's back in Vegas, but they were the Vegas
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  Speaker 1: football team was in Houston and they were playing a
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  Speaker 1: exhibition game, not a real game, not real game, an
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  Speaker 1: exhibition game.
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  Speaker 3: And that was the second look little peak.
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  Speaker 1: A boo at Fernando Mendoza, Fernando Windos to the number
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  Speaker 1: I'm in the overall pick in the twenty twenty six
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  Speaker 1: NFL Draft, who played the entire first half of the
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  Speaker 1: Raiders practice game against the Texans. Although even though it
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  Speaker 1: was described as a practice game, it was broadcast by
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  Speaker 1: the Fox refugees. Joe Buck and Miami Dolphin's consultant Troy
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  Speaker 1: Aikman had the call Ache Bean seemed genuinely annoyed that
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  Speaker 1: he still had to call the game in the fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 1: even though it was actually somewhat close. And there you go,
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  Speaker 1: they were calling it for that small, little fledgling cable
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  Speaker 1: channel out of the woods there in Bristol, Connecticut.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't know if you saw it or not.
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  Speaker 3: Perhaps not.
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  Speaker 1: I watched so you would not have to. At least
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  Speaker 1: I had it on in the background. I did pay
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  Speaker 1: pretty close attention because I was told by many experts
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  Speaker 1: who wear silver and black that my take about Fernando
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  Speaker 1: Mendoza was completely wrong, and that's why I'm doing overnight.
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  Speaker 3: So I watched Fernando Mendoza and I laughed.
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  Speaker 1: And I laughed, and I laughed, and I the guy sucks.
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  Speaker 1: Mendoza struggled to be kind. In his second exhibition game,
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  Speaker 1: he threw a delicious interception that was returned for a
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  Speaker 1: touchdown by a Houston defender and Las Vegas, who was
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  Speaker 1: getting smacked around pretty good. They rallied back against the
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  Speaker 1: fifth string of the Texans, and they celebrated like they
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  Speaker 1: had won the Super Bowl, something a Raider team has
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  Speaker 1: not done since the eighties, So you'd imagine they would
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  Speaker 1: celebrate that like it was the super Bowl, because this
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  Speaker 1: is the only time of the other Raiders have a
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  Speaker 1: chance to win some games. So that is a good
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  Speaker 1: jumping off point. Let us discuss the question.
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  Speaker 3: Give me the word.
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  Speaker 1: Give me the word for Fernando Mendoza's performance in week
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  Speaker 1: two of the exhibition season for the Raiders. So I've
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  Speaker 1: got team Shop, Nintendo, and Cucumber Martini and we will
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  Speaker 1: combine all of these things together and we're gonna make
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  Speaker 1: some fruity two d ice cream is what we're going
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  Speaker 1: to do. So again, to give me the work, give
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  Speaker 1: me the word for vandam Mendoza's performance with the Raiders. Here,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a going to go. My word is cockpit. That
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  Speaker 1: is my word, cod But why would you use the
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  Speaker 1: word cockpit.
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  Speaker 3: You're stupid.
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  Speaker 1: That MIxS my because I was watching this and for
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  Speaker 1: name it, Fernando Mendoza stepped into the cockpit.
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  Speaker 3: He was in the captain's chair. On the vomit comment, yep,
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  Speaker 3: the vomit comment. You very rarely see the vomit comet
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  Speaker 3: in an exhibition game. We saw the vomit comment. We did.
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  Speaker 1: Holy Canolly, somebody grab one of those airsickness bags. Raider
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  Speaker 1: fans are puking here, there and everywhere. Whoa mister number
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  Speaker 1: one overall pick the franchise is y'all told me. Now, listen,
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  Speaker 1: I got a stack of emails. If you want to
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  Speaker 1: look at my inbox. Y'all told me that Mendoza is
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  Speaker 1: a post the league, Las Vegas out of the dungeon
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  Speaker 1: they've been in for a generation, and certainly we thought
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  Speaker 1: that was unlikely. Nothing changed our opinion based on this
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  Speaker 1: exhibition game. I will tell you know, I can see
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be Benny bright Side. I'm not gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a douche Canoe. Don't you don't be a bad guy.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be a nice guy.
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  Speaker 4: Listen.
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  Speaker 1: I want to compromise with my friends. I got one
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  Speaker 1: of my best friends, a big Raider fan. A couple
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  Speaker 1: of my buddies big Raider fans, right, and so they
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  Speaker 1: were texting me and it was like the movie Major League.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: We suck it, you know, we suck all the same
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  Speaker 1: old Raiders and all that at halftime.
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  Speaker 3: But here's the deal.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be Benny bright Side because I do believe that
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  Speaker 1: Fernanda Mendoz will have a net positive on the business
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  Speaker 1: for the Raiders. He will definitely increase the sales at
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  Speaker 1: the Raider Team shop. Now, I'm not talking about people
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  Speaker 1: buying his jersey. I'm not gonna go down that road
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  Speaker 1: because I don't think too many people will buy his
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  Speaker 1: jersey because he sucks. But he will increase sales at
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  Speaker 1: the Raider Team shop because fans will be lined up
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  Speaker 1: outside the team shop because they want to buy that
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  Speaker 1: silver and black dramamine.
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  Speaker 3: My god.
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  Speaker 1: Now, naturally, the jocksniffers, the media fanboys, they activated the EEG.
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  Speaker 3: You know it's serious when you have.
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  Speaker 1: To activate the EEG in an exhibition game. What you're
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  Speaker 1: not familiar with the EEG?
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  Speaker 3: What's wrong? Would you really? What do you think the
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  Speaker 3: EG is?
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  Speaker 1: You know you don't? Okay, I'll tell you. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to tell you every time I use it, but
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  Speaker 1: I mean we've used in the past. The EEG is
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  Speaker 1: the emergency excuse generator, and what are those excuses? Let's
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  Speaker 1: see here, growing pains. Yeah, I guess he's a teenager.
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  Speaker 1: He's still growing. Give him time. I love that. That's
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  Speaker 1: a classic. That's a throwback. Give him time, Give him time. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it's only preseason. He's a green banana. I thought he
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  Speaker 1: was a human being.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. Now our rebuttal is one word.
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  Speaker 1: Our rebuttal to the people using the emergency excuse generator
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  Speaker 1: is jabberwockie.
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  Speaker 3: That is our rebuttal.
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  Speaker 1: Now, as I point out, this is not a once
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  Speaker 1: a year talk show. This is a daily talk show.
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  Speaker 1: It's on every night overnight. It's really eight days a week.
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  Speaker 1: I do a podcast that called The Fifth Hour on
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  Speaker 1: the weekends, which has become.
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  Speaker 3: Just a labor let us.
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  Speaker 1: In our table read, I spent about ten minutes talking
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  Speaker 1: to Lorrain on how much I love doing that podcast
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  Speaker 1: every weekend, and how it's really the.
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  Speaker 3: Light of my right it's my north star. I just
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  Speaker 3: love it so much.
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  Speaker 1: I look forward to every every Friday, Saturday and sund
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  Speaker 1: I cannot wait to go in the pod studio and
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  Speaker 1: record Fresh Pod. I just freaking love the podcast. And
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  Speaker 1: so the point is, we have a program to do
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  Speaker 1: right now, so we don't wait until all this is
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  Speaker 1: said and done.
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  Speaker 3: We do it right now in real time.
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  Speaker 1: I look at this, I don't see when I saw
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  Speaker 1: Mendoza play, I didn't see, Hey, it's only preseason. What
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  Speaker 1: I saw was a movie trailer, right like Upcoming attractions.
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  Speaker 1: Mendoza struggled think about how bad this is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's why it's an exhibition game.
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  Speaker 5: That is true.
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  Speaker 1: However, he struggled to make plays against backups who will
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  Speaker 1: be listening to the Ben Maler Show, part of the
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  Speaker 1: Malard Militia soon, because many of those players that were
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  Speaker 1: on the field for the Texans and the Raiders for
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  Speaker 1: that matter, will be working the overnight shift at an
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  Speaker 1: Amazon fulfillment center near you, so they'll have their headphones on.
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  Speaker 1: And we love the boys at Amazon that listen in
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  Speaker 1: ups and the postal service that listen all night. You
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  Speaker 1: guys keep us going. We thank you for that. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm not besmirching you at all. I'm just telling you
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  Speaker 1: that's who's going to be. That's what they'll be doing
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  Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks. Mendoza faced also slow churned
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  Speaker 1: French vanilla ice cream pass coverage. The Texans pass coverage
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  Speaker 1: was soft, creamy and practically begging.
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  Speaker 3: To be scooped up.
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  Speaker 1: So in two exhibition games, now two exhibition games, Fernando
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  Speaker 1: Mendoza has a passer rating below seventy five and a
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  Speaker 1: yards per attempt at less than six, and it is
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  Speaker 1: completing less than sixty percent of his passes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that seems like it's going pretty well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's you understand, this was not a
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  Speaker 1: third round pick or a fourth round pick.
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  Speaker 3: If it was that, you'd understand.
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  Speaker 1: You say, okay, it was a gigantic overdraft by the Raiders.
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  Speaker 1: It was Listen, I ripped the Rams selection of Ty Simpson.
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  Speaker 1: He went out there against the Vanilla defense and carved
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  Speaker 1: up Kansas City like it was a Thanksgiving butterball turkey.
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  Speaker 3: All right, So I mean, what are you doing.
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  Speaker 1: If you cannot go out there and use your Samurai
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  Speaker 1: sword against future package handlers? What the hell's going to
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  Speaker 1: happen when the real predators of the NFL show up?
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  Speaker 1: So at this point I agree with my buddy, same
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  Speaker 1: old Raiders. They drafted a pilot struggling to fly, and
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  Speaker 1: they somehow wonder why the plane violently shakes all out
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  Speaker 1: and crashes into the absolute abyss.
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  Speaker 3: Wonder why, wonder why? All right?
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  Speaker 1: Now, there's always possible the Raiders could take Fernando Mendoz
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  Speaker 1: out to Area fifty one and give him some kind
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  Speaker 1: of alien parts and then he'll come back and be good. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the other side of things Houston, which looked like they
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  Speaker 1: were gonna win the game until the very end, and
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  Speaker 1: they lost in the final seconds. Who cares about that
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  Speaker 1: unless you better aren't You're a loser if you better
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  Speaker 1: hunt shout out.
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  Speaker 3: Arnie Spaniard and his dog. So the Houston side of things,
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  Speaker 3: c J.
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  Speaker 1: Stroud, they've played terribly on you again, exhibition and all that.
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  Speaker 3: The story here is not about the game per se.
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  Speaker 1: It's about him discussing a long term contract extension with
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  Speaker 1: the Texans. However, we are hearing from boots on the
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  Speaker 1: ground that these sides are not not close, not close
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  Speaker 1: to an agreement. Okay, so Stroud remains under contract through
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven. Are you're very concerned about that? But
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  Speaker 1: his future really beyond this year? You don't bring him back,
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  Speaker 1: lame dug. So this is pretty much that's it for
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  Speaker 1: Stroud if he doesn't play well this year. And this
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  Speaker 1: is one of the storylines. You look at the Texans
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  Speaker 1: and there's not too much compelling talk radio. This is
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  Speaker 1: one of the things that is compelling talk radio, as
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  Speaker 1: Houston's one of those middling teams that's good enough to
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  Speaker 1: get into the playoffs, mainly because of the division they
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  Speaker 1: play in and then they're exposed like a vampire to
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  Speaker 1: sunlight when they get into the postseason. The Texans are
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  Speaker 1: essentially approaching a high stakes quarterback crossroads is what they're
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  Speaker 1: approaching rapidly.
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  Speaker 3: And the question with this what does Houston's hesitation clear
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  Speaker 3: hesitation to meet what CJ. Strodd wants financially?
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  Speaker 1: What does that tell you about how they really view CJ.
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  Speaker 3: Stroud.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so there's a big sign and it's hanging
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  Speaker 1: above his locker. I don't think he sees it.
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  Speaker 3: CJ. Stratt.
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  Speaker 1: It says buyer beware. Buyer beware is what it says.
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  Speaker 1: Now Houston would commit contractual malpractice by handing some kind
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  Speaker 1: of record breaking deal to the one hit wonder. It's
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  Speaker 1: like if you have one hit song and you go
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  Speaker 1: several years without a hit song, does the record label
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  Speaker 1: give you more money? And say, okay, we got something
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  Speaker 1: no no, after one great rookie season and Stroud was
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  Speaker 1: really good as a rookie, we've got not one but
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  Speaker 1: two years of regression to the mean. And then you say, well,
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  Speaker 1: is that really regression or is this just who he
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  Speaker 1: really is? And that was a fake out opening by
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  Speaker 1: c J. Stroud and the Texans with a middling passing offense.
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  Speaker 1: The passing yards for Strouded down efficiency has plummeted.
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  Speaker 3: All the nerd stats. The deep ball is not there.
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  Speaker 1: He has not earned the McDonald's Monopoly Sweepstakes Grand Prize.
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  Speaker 1: He just hasn't earned it. And I know in professional
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  Speaker 1: sports people that don't earn it all the time. The
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  Speaker 1: little fella, the Garden Gnome, Alligator Arms Murray got paid.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't earn the money. CJ. Stroud is eventually going
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  Speaker 3: to get paid. He hasn't earned the money.
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  Speaker 1: There's a quarterback with the Chargers who blows he got paid.
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  Speaker 1: And we're talking about, of course, Justin Herbert, who so
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  Speaker 1: far is only elite at making out at practice, not
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  Speaker 1: actually playing in games, in playoff games. So it's a
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  Speaker 1: hot mess. And so I always go by the mantra.
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  Speaker 1: And I know I'm old school, right cause I just
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  Speaker 1: have had to do this my career. You've had to scrap,
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  Speaker 1: and I've had to scrap for what I've gotten. I
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  Speaker 1: just like the fact that you have to sing for
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  Speaker 1: your supper, right So what's wrong with making CJ. Stroud
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  Speaker 1: sing and tap dance for his supper? I have to
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  Speaker 1: do it. I'm assuming you have to do it, and
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  Speaker 1: it'd be different if this guy had proven himself. He
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  Speaker 1: hasn't proven himself. So if I'm the Texas, here's what
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  Speaker 1: I do. I hand CJ. Stroud a old school Nintendo
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  Speaker 1: with the old school Nintendo gun, and I tell him
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna play some duck Hunt. We're gonna play old
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  Speaker 1: school retro dunk Hut, and CJ, well, I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to do that, and we have we have better video games,
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  Speaker 1: such a Boomer. I don't want to play those games.
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  Speaker 1: Well I don't care, CJ. This is what we're doing.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna play duck Hunt. Well, I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: do it. I want to play the new game. Well
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  Speaker 1: just shut up, CJ. You just got to do it, Okay, final,
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  Speaker 1: I'll do it. And so you give him the Nintendo gun,
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  Speaker 1: hand to them, and you're gonna play duck Hunt and
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  Speaker 1: you're not gonna eat unless you hunt. And you got
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  Speaker 1: to catch something, right, you gotta catch something.
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  Speaker 3: I remember reading some stories about like the back in.
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  Speaker 1: The early days of humanity, and you know people think,
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  Speaker 1: well they had there were no walmarts. The people had
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  Speaker 1: to go out and hunt and catch their food and say, well,
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  Speaker 1: it must have been animals everywhere.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: The story is if you went out hunting for your food,
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  Speaker 1: eight out of ten times, you'd get nothing. So he
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  Speaker 1: only had success about twenty percent of the time. And
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  Speaker 1: so you better have had a lot of success to
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  Speaker 1: the twenty percent, because you're a two hundred hitter.
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  Speaker 3: You got to earn your smorgasbord. That what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: So, as a distant relative of Nostradamus and friend of Nostradinas,
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  Speaker 1: there is a better chance that we are heading towards
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  Speaker 1: armageddon meeting the final days of c. J. Stroud in Houston,
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  Speaker 1: which I know our friend mister Irrigation would be very
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  Speaker 1: happy about. He has complained for years about c J.
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  Speaker 3: Stroud.
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  Speaker 1: There's a better chance of that happening than him going
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  Speaker 1: out there and laying the world on fire for the
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  Speaker 1: entire season. Now, is it possible that CJ. Stroud will
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  Speaker 1: have a good game or a couple of good games? Sure,
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  Speaker 1: most likely he will. It's the consistency, and mark my words,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm never wrong about this stuff. If the Texans
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  Speaker 1: stumble out of the gates and Stroud keeps serving yesterday's
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  Speaker 1: leftovers right at the beginning of the year, and they
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  Speaker 1: have a somewhat difficult schedule on a tablet. Don't be
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  Speaker 1: shocked when Davis Mills attempts to turn into Mighty Mouse.
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  Speaker 1: I'm here to save the day and he's in there
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  Speaker 1: off the bench, all right. Last word to the principal's office.
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  Speaker 1: We go to the principal's office.
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  Speaker 2: We go.
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  Speaker 1: The NFL has done it. The NFL has said.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: No to the Saints and the Cowboys. You see this,
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  Speaker 1: the NFL fining America's team and the team from the
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  Speaker 1: Bayou five hundred thousand dollars a piece following a amazingly entertaining,
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  Speaker 1: brawl filled joint practice a few days ago. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: NFL requested video of the practice and then issued the penalties.
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  Speaker 1: Keep in mind this was not to individual players. This
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  Speaker 1: was not to individual players.
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  Speaker 3: This was to the teams.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about in a previous episode. The Nanny who's
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  Speaker 1: the governor of the Nanny State, Mike Florio, wants the
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  Speaker 1: NFL to adjudicate individual player punishment. The NFL didn't do
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  Speaker 1: that here. It is interesting to note it's a team
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  Speaker 1: punishment for Dallas and New Orleans and the penalty setting,
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  Speaker 1: the emphasis on sportsmanship, team responsibility to prevent dangerous behavior,
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  Speaker 1: and a bunch of other illegalies.
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  Speaker 3: Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Jerry Jones called the five hundred thousand dollars punishment
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  Speaker 1: quote pretty stiff. That's what Jerry said. And he said
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  Speaker 1: Dallas plans to appeal. He did acknowledge the NFL wanted
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  Speaker 1: to send a message in a rather strong message. All right,
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  Speaker 1: question on this one. Why did the NFL decide to
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  Speaker 1: pick the pockets of the Cowboys and Saints for a practice,
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  Speaker 1: not a game, not a game, not a game, a practice,
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  Speaker 1: as Ana Iverson said back in the day. And the
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  Speaker 1: answer is rather simple because the only reason, the only
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  Speaker 1: reason this became a finable offense is because it escaped
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  Speaker 1: the bubble.
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  Speaker 3: It escaped the football bubble. It got out.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of like that virus got out of the
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  Speaker 1: lab there in Wutan. Yeah, this got out. This got
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  Speaker 1: out and it spread around and it humiliated the NFL oligarchs.
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  Speaker 1: They don't want to be sipping their cucumber martinis in
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  Speaker 1: the Hamptons and have someone taught you know Tapman on
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  Speaker 1: show there at this cocktail part, they're drinking their cucumber
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  Speaker 1: martinis with the other rich people, and it's hey, it's
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  Speaker 1: a NBC Nightly news here asking why did one of
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  Speaker 1: the Saints players drop a German soup plex on a
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  Speaker 1: cowboy player at practice?
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  Speaker 3: Can we get a comment?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, now on this side of the microphone, it was
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: movie popcorn worthy helmets flying in the air, everywhere, punch
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: is thrown, WrestleMania style takedowns, just enhanced.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: Sun baked roughhousing. That's football. And yet the league.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Dropped a five hundred thousand dollars fine on each of
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: these teams, and we mentioned Jerry Jones called the penalty
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: pretty stiff, which is.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: Pretty cute, right, pretty cute.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Jerry's worth twenty billion dollars, which means, if if I did
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: the math in my head here, so if you find
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones, who's worth twenty billion dollars, five hundred thousand,
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: so that fine is literally when he's on his golf
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: stream flying over Little Rock and he drops a deuce
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: in the toilet on his golf stream, he's made that
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: money back. He's literally made that money back. Now, make
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: no mistake. The NFL did not punish violence. They didn't
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: punish the individual players. They punished the bad optics. That's
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: why this became a thing. Once the circus elephant escaped
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: the tent and is running down the street and made
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: the news crossed over, someone had to pay the et
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Now what not extraterrestrial the embarrassment tax.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: There is a tax on embarrassment. Rich people do not
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: like to be embarrassed.
• 18:50
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• 18:53
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• 18:55
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• 19:05
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• 19:07
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• 19:11
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• 19:14
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• 19:17
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• 19:21
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• 19:24
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• 19:28
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• 19:30
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• 19:45
  Speaker 1: In the Valley of the Sun. I am fascinated by
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: this story. I don't really care much about the Diamondbacks. However,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: this story does get my attention. It's a mystery. I
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: love a good mystery. So we have more on the
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: vanishing ballplayer. He has now been found. He has been found.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: If you did not hear, and perhaps not second Baseman
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: could tell Marte the guy that just went a wall
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: went off.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: The reservation in Boston.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: The Diamondbacks traveling party made its way to Boston. He
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: didn't show up to the ballpark on Monday or Tuesday,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: and just they couldn't find him in who he was. Well,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Marte is moving from the restricted list, that's the naughty list.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: You don't get paid for that, to the ten day
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: what used to be called back in the old days
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: disabled this now they changed it because that was so offensive,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: so offensive, so they say injured list now, which I
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: guess is not offensive until there's a group that advocates
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: for injured people. Then they'll change that to something else.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Three days after, three days after he failed to show
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: up to work for the Arizona baseball team there in Boston.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Now they're claiming quote inflammation close quote in Marte's left knee.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: The general manager who appears to be drowning this guy,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: and Mike Hazen claimed that Marte will return to the
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: team once he's healthy. Now that's a good one, and
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: it's also a good jumping off point. Let us discuss
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: the question is this what are the odds that could
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: tell Marte returns to the Diamondbacks lineup in twenty twenty six.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: The spin out of Arizona right off of Cactus is
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: this guy is going to be out for ten days,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: got a little inflammation, and he'll be good to go
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: after that. So I've got Cubert ice cube therapy and
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: fruit stripe bubblegum, and we'll combine all of these things
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: together and we are going to enjoy some OUI gooey goodness.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Is what we're going to do, Some OUI gooey goodness.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: We always start with number wa all right, stop malarodds, mallarodds.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: That could tell Marte will actually get back in the
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: starting lineup for the Diamondbacks and be a key player
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six. The malarads on this are less
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: than two percent chance, our buddy in Alabama, less than
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: two percent could tell Marte returning to Arizona's lineup that
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: you'd forget about it. Right the GM here, Mike Cason
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: sounded like he was auditioning for Pinocchio two. Right, they
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: need to make another Pinocchio. If only Pinocchio had been
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: a Marvel character, there would have been seventeen Pinocchios, or
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: a toy story a character would have been seventeen of those.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: But yeah, for some reason, Pinocchio.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it. Now here's the deal. You look around
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: and Mike Casen.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: It's like he's moonlighting at a kid's birthday party and
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: he's putting on one of those foam red nose things
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: and turning the te truth into a balloon animal, twisting
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: that little two balloon.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: Into a puppy dog. And this wasn't.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Damage control by Arizona. It was interpretive dance, is what
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: it was. Now we are supposed to believe, of course,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: those of you that are gullible. We're supposed to believe
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: that Arizona simply forgot that this was a problem, and
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: they've moved on and all the big hullabaloo that took
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: place this week. They're just gonna forgive Marte. He went
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: off the grid. There's what from what I read, there's
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: no fine, there's no penalty. We're all good now. Marte
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: is not a five tool player. He is what's known
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: as a Cubert player, hopping off the board the moments
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: you know, things get a little tough there, the character
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: jumps off the ward. And of course Cubert known for quitting.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: He's a que as in quitter. Now, Hayzen, he cannot
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: guarantee that the player will return to tell Marte to
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: the year on a baseball team in twenty twenty six,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: because who knows?
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: It depends on a butterfly flapping its wings in Zimbabwe,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: causing Marte to decide he wanted to visit Belarus, of
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: all places.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: Why would you want to go to Belarus? I don't know.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Because a butterfly flapped its wings in Zimbabwe? Well that
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: makes sense?
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: Why not?
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: And I love the Let's put him on the injured list.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: It's a convenient escape patch. This is what the Dodgers
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: do all the time too. I know it's the Diamondbacks.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: The Dodgers do this. Edwin Diaz, Yeah, oh you know
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: he's hurt. You just pitched last night.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: He was fine. Yeah, he's hurt. Why is he hurt?
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Well, we don't really know why he's hurt. So I
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: have now realized, and I believe I'm.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: Right on this.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: The go to excuse now in baseball, if you want
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: to shut a player down because they're not doing the job,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: is inflammation.
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: Inflammation now is a very real thing.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: However, it's used as a get out of jail free
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: card in baseball. Edwin Diaz inflammation. Now, you've got Catel
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Marte inflammation. And as I understand it, and I'm not
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: a doctor, I can't play one on the radio. Inflammation
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: is part of being an athlete. When you train and
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: you're in competitive sports and you're using your body in
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: that way, it is very common. Is it expected, It's
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: expected to have. Inflammation is also a great alibi. I
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: remember when I covered the NBA, and in those days,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: they always went with the lower back injury if a
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: player had been out the night before chasing women around
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: and drinking and not able to play. They would say
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: he had a lower back injury, because there's really no
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: test for a lower back injury. At least at that
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: time there wasn't, I doubt there is now either. And
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: so this is like a safe house for Marte. It's
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: a mob trial blueprint. If you will, you hide the player,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: you shut him up. Gives the team plausible deniability. They
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: can avoid having to answer questions and said, well, he's
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: heard he's got inflammation.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Okay, he's got inflammation.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: That's great, and just pretend, pretend that's the real issue here,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: not the underlying condition. Now page two, speaking of the
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: underlying condition. Prior to the Diamondbacks doing some gas lighting
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: there with the inflammation declaration, Cotel Marte was on social media.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: He liked an Instagram post. Now, what did the Instagram
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: post say? Was it some OnlyFans model? No, he liked
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: an Instagram post saying that he Marte no longer wanted
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: to play for the Arizona Diamondbacks.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: What wholl Yeah?
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Now, keep in mind, at the time he posted that
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: like his manager got all emotional all for Klempt, making
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: it seem like this was something that wasn't. Several teammates
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: supposedly reached out to Martes, and he decided he couldn't
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: respond to them. However, on social media he was going
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: to go. So the question katel Marte liking a social
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: media post saying that he wants out of the Diamondbacks
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: uniform hours before Arizona cooked up the inflammation.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: Excuse, how does all this sound to you?
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: All?
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: So katel Marte has turned himself into a Petrie dish.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: What are you talking about?
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Well, he's a peachrie dish filled with bacteria, and all
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: of Arizona, all twelve Diamondback fans, are staring through the
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: microscope wondering what the hell happened?
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: What the hell happened here?
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Instead of being an adult calling his agent and demanding
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: a trade behind closed doors, Marte aid, he needs the
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: ice cube therapy. What is the ice cube therapy? Checked
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: yourself before you wreck yourself. This is Major League Baseball's
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: version of falling.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: Down, falling down, falling down, not London Bridge's falling down,
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: just falling down. It's an old movie. It's an old movie.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: So on a sweltering day in Boston, katel Marte felt stuck.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: His career was in a traffic jam, abandoned. Despite his
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: massive paychecks by his teammates, he decided to abandon them.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: He skipped his MRI, he wandered off the reservation into
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: the wild blue yonder, and yet he still found time
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: for Instagram his love liking a post about wanting out,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: which is right out of the NBA NFL passive aggressive playbook.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: And meanwhile, spare me the Arizona shocked pikachuw routine. I
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: just I don't care about They knew, right, they knew
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Marte was a problem child.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: A couple of years ago.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: They being the Diamondbacks and Arizona had a chance. They
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: could have traded him. They wouldn't have gotten a ton
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: of return. They said, we're gonna double down on the player,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: so Arizona, while it's ultimately on Catel Marte. If you
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: were to rank the culpability, the Diamondbacks helped build the monster.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: They're not the monster. They helped build the monster. They
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: fed the monster, they paid the monster. They tucked the
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: monster into bed, and now they're horrified because the monster
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: woke up hungry and started eating everything in sight, all
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: the bats and the balls and all of it.
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: Final point, so.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: The scandal of scandals, the Ola Dark scandal in Major
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: League Baseball, dateline, Dodger Stadium, Dodger the lemma the Boys
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: in Blue did not play on the Thursday, however, the
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: owner took another loss. Another loss. Yeah, it's generally not
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: a good thing when you end up in the Financial
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Times and it's a negative story. It's very hard to
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: have that in the Financial Times. So this goes back
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: to the Shenanigans that are accused the.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: One point two billion dollar loan.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: I was reading this in the Financial Times. A one
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: point two billion dollar loan to a Gougenheim that's the
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: parent company that owns the Dodgers. A Guggenheim Investments affiliated
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: vehicle plunged to seventy eight cents on the dollar, that
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: is down eighteen cents from ninety six cents at the
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: end of last week. And they say that is a sign.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: I saw the sign of concern from investors. People are
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: not happy with the multi conglomerate operation there, so multi
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: nation conglaborate. So the selloff accelerating after this is the
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: interesting part of the story. So the Guggenheim Investment executives
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: held a hastily arranged creditor call, trying to calm the waters,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: trying to calm the waters, and from what I read,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: they clearly failed failed to calm the lenders about the
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: turmoil surrounding the Dodgers' ownership, which is led by Mark
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Walter and the broader business empire. Now we're focused on
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers because this is plausibly a sports show. However,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of other businesses that are involved in this.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: So think of it, you know, I guess I'll ask
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: questions way so more problems obviously for Mark Walter. Can
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: you give me the explanation on what's going on here
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: with this latest ripple? Can you give me the Kindergart
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: version of the explanation. I will attempt to do that
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: right now. So think of this kind of like Mark
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Walter went in for a routine physical, routine checkup and
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: the doctor says, well, you know, your blood pressure is
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: kind of high.
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: Well that's not good. Yeah, you're cholesterol. We checked it.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: It's doing jumping jacks, really jumping jacks, that's all. I've
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: never heard of that. Yeah, and there's something weird. We
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: don't know what it is.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: We've never seen it before in this X ray that
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: we took, so we're kind of concerned about that. Listen,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: nobody's calling the undertaker right now. But you're not getting
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: a lollipop and going home either if you're Mark Walter
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: at this particular point, Guggenheim collapse, the loan price collapsing
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: is the financial blood pressure cuff, and it's the it's
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: the warning sign that this is a full on boone doggle.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: We are looking at a full on boone doggle like
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: the lenders are biting fingernails, worried that Walter's problems could
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: spread across the entire Gougenheim empire. And if you can't
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: pay the taxes off, oh my god, and eventually all
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: roads will lead.
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: To Chavez Ravine. And he's cracking. He really is.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: I mean he's cracking, not noise, he's cracking. He's taking
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: the piggy bank and cracking that, trying to raise cash,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: selling out pretty much everything that he's built up other
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: than the Dodgers, selling all these assets like a crazy man,
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: while the Feds are bird dogging him and poking around
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: at the Blue Kingdom and all that. And there he
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: is in my head the cartoon bubble. There you've got
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Mark Walter, the Dodger owner, trying to plug the hoover
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: dam with fruit stripe bubblegum.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: And listen, there are five.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Juicy flavors of that long retired bubblegum fruit stripe.
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: I love that fruit stripe, bubblegum back in the day. Wonderful.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: They're all wonderful.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: However, for about eleven seconds they last to kind of
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: plug up the Hoover dam.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: There, they're not exactly holding back lake mead. That's not happening.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: So does this mean the Dodgers are definitely going to
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: end up being sold. No, but it's kind of like
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: the kindergarten thing. Like the rules apply of kindergarten. If
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: you have one broken.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: Crayon, that's not really a problem. One broken crayon is
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: not a problem.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: When the whole box of crayon is snapping, you gotta
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: check somebody's sitting on the box.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: Who's sitting on the box. We must get to the
• 34:27
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• 34:27
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• 34:30
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• 34:34
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• 34:39
  Speaker 3: is one big gets Graill.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: When I started, a lot of the old writers were
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: buddies with Pete Rosel. He used to be the rams
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: PR guy. They said he was just like a good dude,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Pete Roseil.
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: Anyway, all right, here we go. What do we got?
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: Poop a loop? Mallard of the third degree.
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: Eagles right tackle Lane Johnson said on Wednesday that he
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: thinks the team's new offense is going to give us
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: the Saquon from two years ben. Saquon Barkley was still
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: pretty good last year. But do you think we'll see
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: a return to all pro levels under offensive corner Sean Mannion.
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: So I'm pretty sure that Lane Johnson is employed by
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles. I think that is still the case there.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: This is going to be his final year. He is
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: an offensive lineman. So methinks the witness is a little
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: biased here.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: I hope Barkley bounces back.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: That is the only plausible path for the Philadelphia.
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: Eagles to return to glory.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Is Barkley to do what he did a couple of
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: years ago. Jalen Hurts is just a middling quarterback. He's
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: not gonna lead them. Their defense is Okay, it's not
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: the greatest defense in the world, so the only real
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: path is Barkley bounces back.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: Do I see it happening? Is there a chance?
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: Yes?
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: Do I see it happening?
• 35:44
  Speaker 6: No?
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: Next, Rob Plinks had an interview that he's excited about
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: the team's new ownership and he thinks the change is
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: a good thing. How much of a least do you
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: think Polinka will have his GM.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: I would have fired him a couple of years ago.
• 35:56
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• 35:58
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  Speaker 3: out to weed Man. Hity, weed Man, make me laugh,
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: weed Man, make me laugh?
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  Speaker 1: We manh When do I have to you can't zoom?
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  Speaker 3: Brie?
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  Speaker 2: What when DoD I have to.
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  Speaker 3: Get zoom by uh? We come.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: We Man's freaking out because I told him that I
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: was going to get him on the podcast, but he
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: has to have zoom and so now he's freaking out.
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: Now he's losing his mind.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Here we go, we mal, there's actual jokes by Tuk
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: to Lisa, she'll hook you up, all right, Here we go,
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: all right. Why shouldn't Doc Mike and Mouthwash Mike drink together?
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: Why they might get their yellow drinks mixed up? That's
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: in Austin, Oh time, Mike Burden.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: What's the difference between a well dressed man on a
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: bicycle and a poorly dressed man on a tricycle? What
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: attire the big big dogs? Big Dogs is going to
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: be so upset? He says, if I can get Lorando laugh,
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: I know it was funny. I guess it wasn't funny.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: You weren't funny. Why is Mike the Leprechaun so bad
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: at gambling? Why he ran out of his lucky charms?
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: That's George and Uvalde, Texas. What type of house does
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Mike the Leprechaun live in? What time?
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: The lepri condo? From George and Uvalde, Texas? And now
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: do the weed man? Radio rows?
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Did you hear that weed man hit me, got a
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: job and was fired the first day?
• 37:59
  Speaker 6: No?
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they asked.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: Him to file the papers and he rolled them instead.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: It's tragic. It's a Lisa set that one in. Why
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: was weed Man Hippie kicked off the football team?
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: Why he kept trying to smoke the hash marks? What
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: are you doing, weed Man? That's Rosie.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: Rosie's a retired retired teacher and a big fan of
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: our show.
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: So thank you Rosie for that.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Why did the weed Man stare at the orange juice
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: cart and for two hours? Why it's at concentrate right there?
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: He so he daddy right new stairs? Sam from Parts Unknown?
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: What what did weed Man say when he heard Blair
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: in Maine eight crap on his bike? Oh? Why he said?
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: That sounds delicious. That's Lucky Tony. It's big men's leg
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: jokes a week. Did you hear that weed Man invent
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: a party game like Duck Duck goose?
• 39:04
  Speaker 6: Wow?
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: Your version, according to Brendan from Boston is puff puff
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: pass is your version there, so it's a it's.
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: A spin off.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Why why doesn't weed Man Hippie have a toilet? Why?
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: Well, because he doesn't have a pot to piss in.
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: That's why. Come on, that's a there, that's Lisa. We
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: sent that weight in?
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: Why was the weed Man fired from the calendar factory?
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: Why you kept taking days off?
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: Dude? That's Reggie from Detroit Podcast. Reggie emails my podcast
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: pretty much every week. But Ben, what's the worst job
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: weed Man Hippie could have?
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: What?
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: Working at a cannabis dispensary? My god, that's a john
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: setting that in? Why why does weed Man have a
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: blank sheet of paper? Why?
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: Apparently that's your resume?
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: That's uh, that's from econ Roseville, Minnesota.
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: Did you did you hear Coop invited weed Man to
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: visit Denver?
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: He claimed it's the that's why they called it the
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: Mile High City. That's Mike the Leprecha on their last one.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: How did weed Man Hippie proposed to Lisa? Oh well,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you later because we're out of time.
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: We've been out of time for the punch line. Out
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: of time? How dare us?
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
• 40:30
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• 40:34
  Speaker 5: Hooray for Hollywood folks.
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: Scoop on Entertainment starts right now, and here is my man,
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: just Cooper on that It's all yours thank you, Marcel.
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: All right, Ben, have you have you seen The Odyssey yet?
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: I have not, I've well a lot of people have.
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: It has now become the highest grossing R rated movie
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: of all time, surpassing Deadpool and Wolverine with one point
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: three billion dollars at the box office.
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: Charge you seven hundred dollars per ticular.
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: You know, it's like it's like twenty six or twenty
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: seven or something if you go to Imax.
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: But worth it though. It was pretty awesome.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: Some other entertainment news. We have some rumors about the
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: next James Bond.
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: Uh double O seven.
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: Yes, I am almost positive. I think I would bet
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: my life that you don't know who this is, Ben Scott,
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: do you know have you heard of Jacob Elordi?
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: No, he's not my lord?
• 41:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, nod in things? Yeah, Lorraine this weekend? What?
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: No?
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: What do you you're not even listening? Yeah? What Elordi?
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: Is that his name?
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: Jacob E lordy Yes E l O R d I
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: or something like that.
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: All right, let me see what this guy is. I
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: have never seen that person in my life.
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: He was nominated for an Academy Ward. He played the
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: Franken Sciens Monster in the most recent adaptation of that.
• 42:07
  Speaker 5: He's also on Oh he's Australian.
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: He's Yeah, I know, the Jazzie muffed it. The Aussie muffed.
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: It, which would be a little weird because James Bond
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: supposed to be English, right, So but yeah, it.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: Looks like a classic leading man and he does though
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: it would it would fit.
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and he's and he's he's a pretty good actor
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: as well. So yeah, that's the latest in the realm
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: of entertainment news. We're gonna go over to the theaters
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: for what is premiering this weekend, and the one movie
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: that I want to point out is called Mutiny.
• 42:37
  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: This is the latest action flick from Jason Statham. In Mutiny,
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: after witnessing his billionaire boss's murder and being framed for
• 42:46
  Speaker 4: the crime, Cole Reid played by Statham, boards a cargo
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: ship on a one man crusade to revenge his boss's death,
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: only to discover an international conspiracy.
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: Love it.
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: It's you know, got the reviews that you would expect
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: from you know, high octane action movie.
• 43:02
  Speaker 5: Middling, middling reviews.
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: Going over to television not much this weekend, but there
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: are a couple things that I want to point out
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: we have season three of the show Conan O'Brien Must Go.
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: As you know, I am a huge Conan O'Brien fan.
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: I think he's the greatest of all time.
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: Greatest of all time, the goat.
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean when it comes to like late night
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: and which is you know, also a bold claim, but
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: you know that's is my kind of humor. This in
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: this show, he travels to different countries to meet his
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: fans in person and then kind of like experience the culture.
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: I watched the first two seasons. It's very funny. I
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: would check it out. That's on HBO Max streaming right now.
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: And then, last but not least, I figured I might
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: as well bring this up because you know, theoretically we
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: are a sports show. The latest installment of the Untold
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: series on Netflix, This one is going to be untold.
• 44:01
  Speaker 5: The testimony of Vince Young.
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: Well, that's one of the great where he just spent
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: all his money on cheesecake factory.
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: I was just about to say, I don't know what
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: he's testifying about. I guess, I mean, that's one.
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: Of the all time downfalls. How did you lose your money?
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: Did you did you buy cars? Spend money on chicks. No,
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: I bought cheesecake factory.
• 44:21
  Speaker 5: That's why I just I just looked at the synopsis,
• 44:25
  Speaker 5: and I mean, you're kind of right.
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: It's it's you know, it's talking about how his career
• 44:28
  Speaker 4: was reeled by injuries, conflict, and sudden loss.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: Sex, drugs, rock and roll. It's sex, drugs and cheesecakes.
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: Anyway, that is, That is goop scoop and entertaining a right,
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: especially since the movie the music's done, so I guess
• 44:45
  Speaker 4: I'm not allowed to talk about