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Speaker 1: I love a good who done it, been a big fan,
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Speaker 1: been a big fan of those who'd done it for
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Speaker 1: some time. We got one of those who'd done it
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Speaker 1: stories and it's not that big a deal yet. We're
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Speaker 1: still early on. We're still early on in this story.
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Speaker 1: So it is an NFL story of sorts called the
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Speaker 1: crash test Dummies, if you will, so our lead this
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Speaker 1: hour from San Francisco, and we learned over the weekend
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Speaker 1: that head coach Kyle Shanahan was in fact a crash
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Speaker 1: test dummy of sorts, was injured in a car accident
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Speaker 1: that actually happened back on the fourteenth of the month,
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Speaker 1: so it was a little while ago in northern California,
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Speaker 1: and he's not there as the Niners get going here
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Speaker 1: the new NFL season training camp, which is not very exciting,
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Speaker 1: not really, and he's limited not coaching the team. I
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Speaker 1: guess he did show up on Sunday for a little bit,
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Speaker 1: so if you didn't see this, perhaps not. They were
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Speaker 1: probably out busy doing things. That's what most people end
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Speaker 1: up doing on the weekends. I assume maybe you've heard
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Speaker 1: something about it, as I've heard Kyle Shanahan. They say
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Speaker 1: he suffered a concussion, broken schnaz several broken ribs, snap crackle, pop,
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Speaker 1: and injuries to his hands in this accident. Doesn't seem
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Speaker 1: like a minor deal. That doesn't seem like in my
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Speaker 1: deal to me? What do I know?
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Speaker 3: Now?
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Speaker 1: The forty nine ers claimed that Shanahan was briefly hospitalized
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Speaker 1: and they said about non life threatening injuries, just a
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Speaker 1: couple of cracked ribs, broken nose, can cussion, all that stuff.
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Speaker 1: And then a bunch of the first responders were there,
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Speaker 1: came out, helped him out, assisted the scene of the accident. Now,
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Speaker 1: the assistant head coach christ Forrester will oversee he's the
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Speaker 1: interim not really interim coach thing guy during practice here.
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Speaker 1: The rest of the coaching staff also we'll partner up here,
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Speaker 1: and that's the plan. As Shanahan is not gonna be back,
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Speaker 1: so he'll be back at some point. From what it
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Speaker 1: sounds like, he's going to be back in a couple
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Speaker 1: of weeks. He'll be back with coaching the team. There's
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Speaker 1: a lot of unanswered questions though, and this is one
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Speaker 1: of those stories that fascinates me, and I don't know
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Speaker 1: if you have any interest in them. Not to me,
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Speaker 1: this is a rather bizarre story, and I get the
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Speaker 1: sense there's more than that we're not getting. So that
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Speaker 1: is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the
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Speaker 1: question are we getting the entire deal on what happened
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Speaker 1: with forty nine Ers coach Kyle Shannan and his car accident.
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Speaker 1: I've got banana boat, Nick Ribb, and milk bones, and
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Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together and we
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Speaker 1: are going to have some apple pie and some vanilla
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Speaker 1: ice cream. They go very well together, very well together. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: all right, So a to answer the question, are we
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Speaker 1: getting the whole story? Of course we're not getting the
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Speaker 1: whole story. There's no chance for getting the whole story.
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Speaker 1: I give this side eye. Come on now, eleven days
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Speaker 1: of radio silence eleven days of squad douche on this
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Speaker 1: particular story, the head coach of one of the flagship
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Speaker 1: NFL franchise. This ain't Jacksonville. Okay, it's not the forty
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Speaker 1: nine ers, the greatest team of the nineteen eighties with
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Speaker 1: fans who are old dudes now who remember the nineteen eighties,
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Speaker 1: and they have had decent teams, so they can't get
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Speaker 1: past the rams. Now, let's remember that. Let's remember that. Anyway.
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Speaker 1: It's a pretty big franchise in the NFL. They're head coach,
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Speaker 1: one of the few head coaches. You know who they are.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of nameless coaches in the NFL. He
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Speaker 1: gets dinged up in what seems like a pretty big accident,
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Speaker 1: and it sends lights and sirens to the hospital, goes
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Speaker 1: to the emergency room, and everybody just decides, let's just
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Speaker 1: hold all fun letting people know about that. We'll just
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Speaker 1: wait on that one. Yeah, let's let's put that on
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Speaker 1: the back burner. Why not. Sure, Absolutely, We'll wait nearly
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Speaker 1: two weeks and then we'll let it out and enter
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Speaker 1: now into the chat. Those of you that have ever
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Speaker 1: worked in the media, or if you know how the
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Speaker 1: media operates or politics, the Saturday Friday afternoon evening Saturday
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Speaker 1: news dump. That is a tradition, unlike any other, Unlike
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Speaker 1: any other. It's a universal sign. When you do something,
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Speaker 1: you announce something strategically, you wait to announce something on
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Speaker 1: either Friday afternoon or evening or Saturday. It's a universal
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Speaker 1: sign to the heavens, please don't pay any attention to this.
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Speaker 1: Move along, Move along, now, move along. That's it. They
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Speaker 1: waited until everyone was rubbing the banana boat, suntan lotionan
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Speaker 1: on at the beach, mowing their lawn, or arguing over
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Speaker 1: wieners on the grill at the family cookout, so that
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Speaker 1: by Monday, which would be just you know, here we
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Speaker 1: are ancient history. Will move on. There'll be something else
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Speaker 1: out there. Nothing to see here, nothing to see it,
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Speaker 1: move on, nothing really, nothing to see here. Come on,
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Speaker 1: this is a news cycle. Unless it's not. It's a
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Speaker 1: controlled burn, burn, baby burn. That's what this is here.
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Speaker 1: And look, maybe this is some of it is perfectly innocent,
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Speaker 1: and there's a perfectly innocent explanation for this. I can't
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Speaker 1: really think of what that would be to wait eleven days.
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Speaker 1: You would think if it's innocent, you'd denounce it right away.
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Speaker 1: There must be something. Was Brandon ayuc in the other
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Speaker 1: car that hit Shannan? I don't know the timing alone,
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Speaker 1: having been around these type of stories over the years,
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Speaker 1: the timing alone does raise eyebrows. And if it doesn't,
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Speaker 1: then that's your problem. That's not my problem here. And
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Speaker 1: an NFL where controlling the narrative, it's always about controlling
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Speaker 1: the narrative is a competitive sport. It is is skepticism
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Speaker 1: comes with the territory, and it's the timing. If it
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Speaker 1: looks engineer, this is a general rule of thumb from
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Speaker 1: following NFL headlines over the years and commenting on them,
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Speaker 1: opining on them behind the bully pulpit. If the timing
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Speaker 1: looks engineered, probably was Probably was an engineer. Probably wasn't
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Speaker 1: engineering all right, Now to the eyewitness part. There's a
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Speaker 1: lot of layers to this cake. It's like that Maryland cake,
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Speaker 1: the Estate cake of Maryland. The Great Sports with Coleman
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Speaker 1: popped up on my fifth Hour podcast over the weekend
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Speaker 1: of the Mailbag and he loves to send me food
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Speaker 1: pictures and the cake in Maryland's just amazing. Just to add,
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Speaker 1: it's like an eighteen layered chocolate cake thing, and it
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Speaker 1: just looks great. There's a lot of layers to this cake.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of layers of this cake. There are
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Speaker 1: the eyewitness part of It's fascinating to me, and I
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Speaker 1: just don't get that part if you take a step
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Speaker 1: back and look down from thirty thousand feet in the sky.
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Speaker 1: All right, the forty nine ers released the news on
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Speaker 1: Kyle Shannan's car accident. So the question is why why
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Speaker 1: did nobody, no man or woman, leaked the Kyle Shanahan
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Speaker 1: car accident story and they just sat on it, and
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Speaker 1: they waited till the Niners got around to letting people
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Speaker 1: know on a Saturday news dump. In the smartphone era,
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Speaker 1: in the social media era that we live in, where
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Speaker 1: people livestream having a cup of coffee at Starbucks and
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Speaker 1: they think other people want to see that. That's the
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Speaker 1: world we're in, and people leak HOA drama, the drama
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Speaker 1: O rama at the HOA on their Facebook pages, right,
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Speaker 1: and we're supposed to believe a story that involved a
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Speaker 1: name NFL head coach. It's the family business for the Shanahans,
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Speaker 1: and everyone just just allowed it to sit there in
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Speaker 1: the vault for eleven days. That's it. And this is
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Speaker 1: the part of the story that fries my brain. It does.
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Speaker 1: You've got so many people that had access to Shanahan,
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Speaker 1: from the first responders to the police, the paramedics and
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Speaker 1: ambulance crew, the tow truck drivers that I assumed came
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Speaker 1: out at some point. I don't know if they were
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Speaker 1: there while the accident was still active. The bystanders, people
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Speaker 1: wandering around, people in other cars that were stopped because
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Speaker 1: of the traffic caused by the accident. You had all
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Speaker 1: these various layers of people, from insiders who were there
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Speaker 1: to work to people that weren't. And then you think
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Speaker 1: about the loose lips and how everyone talks. Hey, how'd
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Speaker 1: work go today? Honey? Oh? I was I cleaned up
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Speaker 1: a car accident with Kyle Shanahan, the Cody nine Ers coach. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he got really effed up. Oh really? Is that right? Okay? Well,
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna call TMZ and make a quick ten
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Speaker 1: thousand dollars. I'm not going to contact a Daily Mail
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Speaker 1: in London and see how much they'll pay, or the
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Speaker 1: New York Post. No, I'm just gonna sit here and
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Speaker 1: pretend it didn't happen. That makes sense. Why not come on,
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Speaker 1: make a quick buck. Everyone needs money. You know, Loose
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Speaker 1: lips are everywhere, everywhere, loose lips on these stories. And
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Speaker 1: yet the Internet, which you know, leaks like it's a
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Speaker 1: it's a submar with a screen door on it. And
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, everyone stayed completely silent on the
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Speaker 1: Kyle Shannan story. How would that be? Why was it
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Speaker 1: in the middle of the night. Even it was in
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Speaker 1: the middle of the night, there's less people. And I
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Speaker 1: believe it happened in the afternoon or early evening afrom
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Speaker 1: what I read on the interweb and all that. But still,
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Speaker 1: did Kyle Shanahan use some voodoo boogaloo? Did he lock
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Speaker 1: the photos and the video and all that and the
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Speaker 1: same vault with the mic rib recipe. And in order
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Speaker 1: to get the video and the photos of Kyle Shannon's
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Speaker 1: car accident, you need the mic rib recipe and you
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Speaker 1: can't get it now. I'm not sitting here saying that
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Speaker 1: there's like little Green men confiscated every iPhone. The men
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Speaker 1: in black came down and they erased every video clip
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Speaker 1: and all that stuff. But the math ain't mathing, is
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Speaker 1: that a fair point or not. I feel like that
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Speaker 1: it's a fair point. Then is it possible the TMS
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Speaker 1: he's say, well, we're kind of in bed with the
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Speaker 1: NFL now, so we don't want to help. You know,
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Speaker 1: it's important surf for of the NFL, so we're not
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Speaker 1: gonna let it out. Why would it be an important
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Speaker 1: story not to let out? Who cares if Shanahan did
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Speaker 1: nothing wrong and it was just an accident and he
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Speaker 1: was the aggrieved party in the accident. Okay? Did everyone
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Speaker 1: just magically decide at the same time that they're going
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Speaker 1: to be discreet or is this timeline just messed up?
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Speaker 1: Certainly seems for Gazy on this end. All right, Now,
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Speaker 1: last word to the media part of this curve fluffel.
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Speaker 1: The media part of this curve fluffel. So we know
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Speaker 1: that supposedly nobody contacted with photos. There are other ways
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Speaker 1: these things get out, right. I assume a bunch of
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Speaker 1: people with the forty nine ers knew about it and
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Speaker 1: they kept it under wraps there and people around the NFL.
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Speaker 1: They loved to gossip, so people in the NFL were
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Speaker 1: aware of this. The question here is how how are
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Speaker 1: the forty nine the beat reporters for the forty nine ers,
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Speaker 1: and in the same token, the national NFL.
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Speaker 3: Insiders, the information people of the NFL. How are they
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Speaker 3: looking about now? On the Kyle Shanahan car accident story,
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Speaker 3: It's like, well, it's.
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Speaker 1: Weird no one leaked it. Did somebody maybe leak it?
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Speaker 1: And then they just sat on it? Is that a possibility?
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Speaker 1: Things that make you go hmmmm, Things that make you
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Speaker 1: go hmmmm. Now, this is why there's questions about trust
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Speaker 1: with certain people that are, you know, now the modern
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Speaker 1: day insider crowd, and it's hand picked and everyone's helping
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Speaker 1: everyone out here. If your livelihood, though, if your livelihood
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Speaker 1: depends on a text back from let's say, GM John
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Speaker 1: Lynch or a couple extra minutes with Shanahan at the
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Speaker 1: end of practice, and you're the beat reporter for the
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Speaker 1: forty nine ers, are you really going to be like
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Speaker 1: a Navy seal storming the forty nine or building there
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Speaker 1: demanding answers? Are you really gonna go down that road?
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Speaker 1: Probably not? Probably not.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 1: Generally speaking, generally speaking, the beat reporters are not breaking
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Speaker 1: stories much these days. It generally doesn't happen. They're just
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Speaker 1: waiting for a group text. That's how this stuff gets
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Speaker 1: done here, the NFL media twiddling their thumbs as they
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Speaker 1: look for the green light on the signal of permission. Here,
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Speaker 1: like elementary school kids, just wait, can I go to
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Speaker 1: the bathroom? Okay? I gotta wait for the teacher to
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Speaker 1: let me go down the hall to go to the
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Speaker 1: to the urnal. I gotta wait for that. Okay, the
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Speaker 1: teacher says, it's okay, Okay, now we'll do it. That
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Speaker 1: sounds good, right. Everyone's a watchdog. Everyone is a watchdog
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Speaker 1: until the team hands out meaty flavored milk bones, and
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Speaker 1: then they're good. Then they are good, good, good, good good.
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Speaker 1: You don't want to be that guy. And I've learned this.
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Speaker 1: You don't want to be that guy who gets frozen
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Speaker 1: out because you actually asked questions or you got the
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Speaker 1: story out before everyone else. And so everyone who's doing this,
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Speaker 1: for the most part, they just sit there and play
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Speaker 1: twiddly winks until the organization drops the script and suddenly
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Speaker 1: every beat reporter, every insider they send out roughly the
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Speaker 1: same exact thing within minutes of each other. The coordination
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Speaker 1: on this is next level. It's not really reporting, it's Broadway.
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Speaker 1: It's a Broadway production of waiting for the press release.
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Speaker 1: Just sitting around waiting for the press release. It's Tony
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Speaker 1: Award worthy, is what it is. It just is. And
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Speaker 1: many fanboys, many fanboys, they think they're getting their watch dogs.
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Speaker 1: You're not. And I know you're so far gone you
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Speaker 1: don't even care. You're like, Oh, I believe these beat
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Speaker 1: reporters are really doing their job and they're not really
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Speaker 1: hall monitors. They're not hall monitors at all. Prior to
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Speaker 1: they prioritizing the access. That's the most important thing. Hang out,
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Speaker 1: From the Romo Domo the Romo Domo if you will.
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Speaker 1: If you've not heard the latest on this, some new
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Speaker 1: developments from the Dui. They call it something Else. There
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Speaker 1: in Wisconsin they call it the OWI because they got
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Speaker 1: to be different, uh, Tony Romo? Yes, newly released do
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Speaker 1: you see this? No, you haven't seen it? You ever
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Speaker 1: heard about it? If you're blind, you can't see it.
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Speaker 1: You haven't heard about it. Okay, So calm down, Stephen
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Speaker 1: mean Paul's it was a joke. So newly released body
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Speaker 1: cam footage from the cop shows Tony Romo's full interaction
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Speaker 1: with the long arm of the law, the Milwaukee County
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Speaker 1: deputy during that OWI situation. Most people call dui what
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Speaker 1: they called that, so it wasn't much clearer. Look, this
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Speaker 1: is a roadside stop, a nice beautiful chamber of commerce,
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Speaker 1: Wisconsin day Romo in the video, I'll try to describe
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Speaker 1: it to you because you can't see it, and we'll
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Speaker 1: just tell you what happened. So in the video clip,
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Speaker 1: which was led out from the copcam, you see Romo
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Speaker 1: repeatedly denied that he was drinking. Denied he was drinking.
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Speaker 1: He told the officer he had consumed zero alcoholic drinks
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Speaker 1: and question why he believed you know, why, why do
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Speaker 1: you think I'm intoxicated? What's going on now? During the stop,
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Speaker 1: Romo told the female officer he was driving from a
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Speaker 1: golf course on his way to visit his grandparents who's
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Speaker 1: from Wisconsin. So he then very early on he asked
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Speaker 1: if he could talk to his lawyer. In the middle
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Speaker 1: part of the interaction, can I speak to my lawyer?
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Speaker 1: I would like to speak to my lawyer, the officer
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Speaker 1: said he observed or she observed the red glassy eyes
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Speaker 1: O glassy eyes red like the demon, and detected the
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Speaker 1: odor of alcohol, that thick aroma of whiskey or gin
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Speaker 1: or bourbon or vodka right there, and that led to
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Speaker 1: a standard eye, standard eyes field sobriety test on the
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Speaker 1: side there. Now the video shows you conclude see here
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Speaker 1: Romo struggling with portions of said sobriety test. At one
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Speaker 1: point Tony Romo said there were too many instructions and
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Speaker 1: later asking if he had passed said test, which it
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Speaker 1: turns out, spoiler alert, spoiler alert, he didn't pass all right.
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Speaker 1: So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
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Speaker 1: discuss there's a big time broadcaster to one of the
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Speaker 1: highest paid guys out there, if not the highest, eighteen
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Speaker 1: million dollars a year for Tony Romo. We're at CBS
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Speaker 1: getting your money's worth over there. So the question what
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Speaker 1: is your takeaway from the newly released cop bodycam footage
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Speaker 1: of Tony Romo's arrest for intoxication wall pushing a vehicle
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Speaker 1: along the highway. So I've got bathtub, tennis, ball, and
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Speaker 1: waffle house, and we will combine all of these things
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Speaker 1: together and we're gonna have some brats and some frozen
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Speaker 1: custard a nice Wisconsin, and we'll have some cheese curts too.
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Speaker 1: We'll have some cheese curts as well. So a to
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Speaker 1: begin this dietribe about the Tony Romo candid camera cop video.
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Speaker 1: Everyone seems to be hyperventilating over Romo's video, claiming, well,
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Speaker 1: it proves he was falling down drunk. Now I have
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Speaker 1: an unpopular opinion about this. I do. And tell me
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Speaker 1: if I'm if you've seen it or you heard the audio,
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Speaker 1: if you're blind and you've seen this year, because honestly,
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Speaker 1: he seems often far loopier when he's calling the big
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Speaker 1: late TV game on a Sunday afternoon, a CBS NFL
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Speaker 1: broadcast where you sometimes need a Rosetta stone to translate
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Speaker 1: Romo into English in real time. So it's like people say,
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Speaker 1: oh my god, he's drug. I see he's drug. I've
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Speaker 1: seen it right there. He's drug I see it, and
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Speaker 1: I'm like, well, I don't, I don't know. It seems
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Speaker 1: like he seemed a little off. You've watched him on television,
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Speaker 1: you know that's kind of how he operates there. Uh,
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Speaker 1: and so that's it now. Critics are also saying that
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Speaker 1: Romo was having problems hearing what was going on. He
20:48
Speaker 1: kept saying what what uh because he was enjoying bottomless
20:53
Speaker 1: mimosos at the golf course. I don't know to that though,
20:58
Speaker 1: Like this somehow tells you that he was completely sauced
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Speaker 1: because he couldn't hear what the officer was saying. It
21:03
Speaker 1: was on the side of the road. There were a
21:04
Speaker 1: lot of cars going by. I have spent my entire
21:09
Speaker 1: adult life doing talk radio. I have worn headphones for
21:14
Speaker 1: hours a day, many hours a day, for years and
21:18
Speaker 1: years and years and years and years. My hearing is
21:20
Speaker 1: absolutely shot. I go out do these mallet meet and greets.
21:23
Speaker 1: I got to lean in because I can barely hear
21:26
Speaker 1: because there's a lot of ambient noise. Right, there's a
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Speaker 1: lot of ambient noise here. And do you think I'm
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Speaker 1: schnockered all the time?
21:32
Speaker 6: No?
21:32
Speaker 1: I wish I was I'm not. I just can't hear.
21:35
Speaker 1: That's it. So now I was watching this and the
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Speaker 1: Romo cop video thing, and I was expecting the cutaway
21:45
Speaker 1: shot to the car, to the passenger seat and to
21:49
Speaker 1: see Jim Nance riding shotgun next to Tony Romo to
21:53
Speaker 1: pop in there and say, all right, let's bring in
21:55
Speaker 1: gene Sterotor. Now our CBS DUI rules analyst and gene
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Speaker 1: Ian walk us through this Romo sobriety test. Okay, thanks Jim,
22:04
Speaker 1: and then get into that way. Didn't didn't see jeans
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Speaker 1: Sterotor there. I was looking for him. He didn't. Didn't
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Speaker 1: pop up for a review there. So then came this
22:15
Speaker 1: really strangely wholesome plot twist where we we mentioned the
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Speaker 1: eighteen million dollars a year CBS broadcaster telling the cops
22:24
Speaker 1: that he was headed to his grandparents' home unscripted. He
22:30
Speaker 1: just went off to see the Babushka, you know. In
22:32
Speaker 1: my head and this is just in my head here,
22:34
Speaker 1: it's my opinion. Romo was heading over there. I wanted
22:37
Speaker 1: to hang out with the Babushka and have some bathtub moonshine,
22:41
Speaker 1: you know, just hang out there together with the grandparents
22:44
Speaker 1: and say hey, what don't we it's you. It's a weekend.
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Speaker 1: I didn't do well in the golf tournament. Let's just
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Speaker 1: have some bathtub moonshine, who says no, yeah, no, okay,
22:54
Speaker 1: And Grandma, can I get another play to paro giese.
22:57
Speaker 1: Thank your grandma, Thank your Grahama, thank you? All right,
23:01
Speaker 1: very good. There you go. Turns out the call on
23:04
Speaker 1: the field stands at this point, and that rights itself
23:09
Speaker 1: for parody. I don't know if Saturday Night Live is
23:11
Speaker 1: still on has been canceled. I don't know those type
23:14
Speaker 1: of shows, if there's any left. This just rights itself,
23:18
Speaker 1: rights itself. Meanwhile, we stay with Romo. We go now
23:21
Speaker 1: to the television fallout developing hot dot dot dot so sibs.
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Speaker 1: CBS Sports is reportedly standing by their man, even though
23:32
Speaker 1: he's having trouble standing because he's schnockered. So supposedly they
23:37
Speaker 1: are supporting their NFL lead analyst Tony Romo, despite what
23:44
Speaker 1: we just talked about here the Wisconsin driving while impaired,
23:50
Speaker 1: Operating while intoxicated arrest, and they are not planning to
23:54
Speaker 1: remove Romo from the number one broadcast team. According to
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Speaker 1: the report, CBS executives claim this is an isolated lapse
24:08
Speaker 1: in judgment, not something that Warren's firing or a long
24:12
Speaker 1: term de emotion, which is a body blow. Body blow
24:16
Speaker 1: to the people that hate Tony Romo. This is like,
24:19
Speaker 1: oh no, he's not going to lose his job over this.
24:21
Speaker 1: That sucks. They're all bummed out right, I should lose
24:24
Speaker 1: his job. Well, not going to happen, at least if
24:28
Speaker 1: you believe the early statements, of course, I believe. Also,
24:32
Speaker 1: didn't the Athletic initially support Diana Rustini while she was
24:36
Speaker 1: out stooping around? I believe they did. Anyway, CBS reportedly
24:40
Speaker 1: remains committed to Romo. They are locked in on some
24:44
Speaker 1: Tony Romo action there, and they believe his value. His
24:49
Speaker 1: value is the lead CBS analyst outweighs the current hullabaloo
24:56
Speaker 1: that is going on, the online cyber backlash, and of
25:01
Speaker 1: course they recognize if Romo gets in trouble again, is
25:06
Speaker 1: a little too much uh too many Long Island iced
25:10
Speaker 1: teas or something like that, that's it could change the
25:12
Speaker 1: math on that. So the question this is clearly what
25:16
Speaker 1: let's call it what it is. Should Tony Romo be
25:18
Speaker 1: worried by getting a vote of confidence, the dreaded vote
25:23
Speaker 1: of confidence by CBS that he is still their man
25:27
Speaker 1: for the NFL coverage after he gets popped for this vice.
25:30
Speaker 1: So I'm shaking my head no on this. This is
25:32
Speaker 1: the rare exception to the rule, generally speaking, when you
25:36
Speaker 1: get a vote of confidence, you call your realtor. If
25:41
Speaker 1: you're gonna move, you get you get your your U
25:44
Speaker 1: haul people lined up there, you hire some help to
25:47
Speaker 1: move your stuff and all that stuff. Romo, it would appear,
25:51
Speaker 1: is the pied piper of NFL broadcasting and a maestro
25:57
Speaker 1: at the CBS corporate tail parties with advertisers. Man can
26:04
Speaker 1: he put on the charm charismatic at the happy hour
26:08
Speaker 1: in the Hamptons, really really good, that really really really
26:13
Speaker 1: good and just smiles, talks about his golf game and
26:18
Speaker 1: charms his way into what appears to be a lot
26:21
Speaker 1: of wiggle room. Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, a lot of wiggle
26:24
Speaker 1: room here. Now, sure people love ripping Romo's broadcast style.
26:29
Speaker 1: And if you've listened to show a long time, when
26:31
Speaker 1: he played for the Cowboys many years ago, Tony Romo
26:34
Speaker 1: on this show, we had the callers that pointed out
26:37
Speaker 1: I was a Romo sexual. They said my admiration for
26:42
Speaker 1: Tony Romo as a player on the field, and that
26:46
Speaker 1: became a bit on the show for a number of
26:49
Speaker 1: years there. And I do enjoy him as a broadcaster.
26:52
Speaker 1: I don't really watch that much of Romo. I usually
26:56
Speaker 1: have the sound down because everyone annoys me, and I'm
27:00
Speaker 1: normally working on something else to get ready for the
27:02
Speaker 1: show on Sunday in the late TV windows, so I'm
27:04
Speaker 1: not really locked in on Romo. I've listened a little
27:08
Speaker 1: bit here and there over the years. Obviously, originally we
27:11
Speaker 1: listened a lot to Tony, and I think he's fine.
27:16
Speaker 1: Is he the greatest broadcaster ever? Hell no, He's not
27:19
Speaker 1: the greatest broadcast ever. I just the issue I believe
27:23
Speaker 1: a lot of people have with Romo is he just
27:26
Speaker 1: hasn't evolved. It's kind of like in baseball, you call
27:30
Speaker 1: up the hot shot pitcher who throws one hundred and
27:33
Speaker 1: four miles per hour and you're like, oh my god,
27:37
Speaker 1: we have the ace of aces. We have a guy
27:40
Speaker 1: that throws one hundred and four miles an hour, sweet
27:42
Speaker 1: baby Jesus, And then you realize he's got no secondary pitch,
27:46
Speaker 1: no breaking pitch, no curveball. It's just one pitch. That's it.
27:50
Speaker 1: That's all the guy's got. And you're running the exact
27:53
Speaker 1: same playbook. If you're you're watching Tony Romo, the recipe
27:56
Speaker 1: is the same. In the booth, it's like Romo's a
28:01
Speaker 1: golden retriever. Think of him like a golden retriever. He's
28:05
Speaker 1: sitting there wagging his tail and the CB has broadcast
28:08
Speaker 1: booth waiting for Jim nance to throw a tennis ball
28:11
Speaker 1: to him so we can go play fetch. And here
28:13
Speaker 1: we go, Jim, and there's the tennis ball. Okay, go
28:16
Speaker 1: a get Okay, here we go, Jimp. I got it.
28:18
Speaker 1: I got it, Jim. Yeah. Like that. It's playground style
28:23
Speaker 1: game analysis, very enthusiastic, very enthusiastic with the x's and o's,
28:28
Speaker 1: the ramblin, the ramblin ramblin ramblin ramblin, the constant. Oh,
28:33
Speaker 1: I don't know, Jim, I don't know. If they got
28:35
Speaker 1: the first down, Jim. You know, it's like, okay, thank you, Tony.
28:41
Speaker 1: Appreciate that. And of course, every time a quarterback does
28:45
Speaker 1: something good, all broadcasters, whether it's Chris collins Worth, Tony Romo,
28:50
Speaker 1: or Troy Aikman or Tom Brady for that matter, are
28:54
Speaker 1: all required, all required to go hawk toua when they
28:59
Speaker 1: see that. I had to get to get the knee
29:01
Speaker 1: pads out there and just go for it and just
29:04
Speaker 1: praise the quarter just celebrate whoever the quarterback is right there.
29:08
Speaker 1: And so despite possibly driving sauced, we'll see if there's
29:13
Speaker 1: a get out of jail free card for Tony Romo.
29:17
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's got some good lawyers to help him
29:19
Speaker 1: out on that. It seems you believe CBS they like him,
29:23
Speaker 1: He's he's okay. A to the NFL is gonna be
29:26
Speaker 1: here like real quick. Like we got the Hall of
29:28
Speaker 1: Fame game coming up real fast within the first week
29:33
Speaker 1: there of the month of August.
29:35
Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mallor
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29:50
Speaker 1: All right too, It does not waste time. We are
29:52
Speaker 1: going to play the game. We have Manuel in Gardnina
29:55
Speaker 1: show legend would like to play. Hello, Manuel, welcome, all right,
30:01
Speaker 1: We're in it. Lorena picked one or two one or
30:04
Speaker 1: two number two. All right, you have picked Richie in
30:08
Speaker 1: the Bay Area. Hello, Richie, welcome, what's having it? What's
30:12
Speaker 1: going on? Richie? Who would you like to partner with?
30:14
Speaker 1: I'm taking? I'm taking, So let's take coot, Say good charge.
30:21
Speaker 1: I didn't want to play with you anyway.
30:23
Speaker 2: I don't want to be.
30:25
Speaker 1: All right, here we go, let's do it. Manuel and Guardina,
30:27
Speaker 1: a legendary figure in sports talk radio calling war. We
30:32
Speaker 1: have one of the categories. Coop.
30:33
Speaker 6: Please this is the Maya Rudolph Editions. She turned fifty
30:36
Speaker 6: four years old on Monday. The categories are big hero, six, disenchanted,
30:43
Speaker 6: big mouth, and loot. Manuel, which category would you like?
30:49
Speaker 6: Big mouth?
30:50
Speaker 1: All right? And Richie, how about you lot? Loot? All right?
30:56
Speaker 1: All right, you picked lout? Very good on that. All right, gentlemen,
30:59
Speaker 1: here we go. Let's get the party started. You pick
31:02
Speaker 1: the big mouth man. Well, these athletes aren't afraid to
31:05
Speaker 1: voice their opinion on or off the court. Are you ready?
31:08
Speaker 2: Man?
31:08
Speaker 1: Well, all right, here we go. Forty five seconds of
31:11
Speaker 1: the clock. We're on our way. Go the greatest boxer
31:14
Speaker 1: of all time. Many people think thing like it? Yes,
31:18
Speaker 1: quarterback for the Chargers. He came back played with the
31:21
Speaker 1: Colts last year at the end of the years. Yes,
31:26
Speaker 1: wide receiver, most known for Pittsburgh. He went to your
31:29
Speaker 1: Raiders and was a nut job with the Raiders had frozen. Yes,
31:34
Speaker 1: the mouth of the Seattle Seahawks. He's on Thursday Night football.
31:38
Speaker 1: Defensive back for the glory days of the Seahawks when
31:41
Speaker 1: they won the Super Bowl. Richard, Yeah, keep going, all right.
31:47
Speaker 1: Both teams played hard, my man, NBA. Both teams played hard.
31:50
Speaker 1: Portland trail Blaze, Yes, nicknamed Cornbread for the Celtics of
31:54
Speaker 1: the eighties. Yes, that's right. Now, all right, we'll take that. Maxwell,
32:04
Speaker 1: it's two for get he did not get Richard, Okay, sorry,
32:08
Speaker 1: all right, forty that's what you got. You got the
32:10
Speaker 1: eighty and the hundred point. Maxwell was one hundred. Wallace
32:13
Speaker 1: was the eighty. All right, Richie, we have loot. Uh.
32:17
Speaker 6: These athletes recently signed a new contract.
32:21
Speaker 1: All right, rocking Ambia noise put Manuel on holder? I
32:25
Speaker 1: think that's Manuel hold on?
32:26
Speaker 6: All right, all right, Richie? Uh forty five seconds of o'clock.
32:29
Speaker 6: These athletes recently signed a new contract. Let's begin, all right.
32:32
Speaker 6: He's going to Philadelphia from the Lakers. That's the full name. Yes,
32:37
Speaker 6: all right, this guy was on the Atlanta Hawks, but
32:39
Speaker 6: now he's on the Washington Wizards point guard. All right, Uh,
32:47
Speaker 6: this guy is the top wide receiver for these Seattle Seahawks.
32:56
Speaker 1: Jack doesn't give us.
32:57
Speaker 6: Yes, Uh, this guy's nickname is Hillbilly Kobe White guy
33:01
Speaker 6: on the Lakers. Yes, this guy leaves the league and
33:06
Speaker 6: home runs right now he's on the Philadelphia Phillies. Bad clues. Alright, Uh,
33:13
Speaker 6: this guy, let's see he led the league in tackles
33:16
Speaker 6: last time.
33:16
Speaker 1: Alright, alright, he missed Trey Young one and Kyle Schwarber.
33:24
Speaker 6: You like to go to the bullpen? Genie and Medford's online? Alright, Richie?
33:28
Speaker 6: Would you like Disenchanted or Big Hero six? Where's Justin
33:33
Speaker 6: and Cincinnati?
33:34
Speaker 1: All right?
33:35
Speaker 6: These athletes all ware or war number six? Forty five
33:40
Speaker 6: seconds on the clock. Let's begin. He's the current quarterback
33:42
Speaker 6: for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Yes, this guy was the
33:47
Speaker 6: center for the Celtics. Won a bunch of championships. His
33:50
Speaker 6: numbers retired all across the NBA. He won like eleven championships.
33:59
Speaker 1: All right, Clu, suck what you're wrong.
34:03
Speaker 6: This guy was the quarterback for the Denver Broncos and
34:05
Speaker 6: the Miami Dolphins.
34:06
Speaker 1: He's like smoke cigarettes and the Bears.
34:14
Speaker 3: We lose.
34:16
Speaker 1: Well, that is accurate.
34:17
Speaker 6: Current running back for the Arizona Cardinals. He was on
34:21
Speaker 6: the Steelers as well.
34:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, how's this going, Coop? You enjoying this? Jay Cutler?
34:30
Speaker 1: Jay Cutler? Well, James Connor. I wonder about the guy
34:35
Speaker 1: that won all those championships. Did he hang up on himself?
34:38
Speaker 1: I think he did good. He did the property. He
34:40
Speaker 1: hung up on the game. Game Now, Richie'll never call
34:43
Speaker 1: the show again because you should have picked number one. Lorena. Well,
34:46
Speaker 1: let's run up the score, Manuel, no wasting time. You
34:49
Speaker 1: need to run up the score. We have disenchanted. These
34:52
Speaker 1: athletes all became disenchanted. Were their sports in you or league?
34:56
Speaker 1: Are you ready there? Manuel? Absolutely? I love running up.
35:00
Speaker 1: All right, we'll run it up right now. Here we
35:02
Speaker 1: go forty five seconds, run away go. Quarterback for the Colts.
35:06
Speaker 1: He quit a couple of weeks before the season. He's
35:08
Speaker 1: now working at Stanford. Yes, the greatest running back of
35:14
Speaker 1: all time who walked away from the Detroit Lions. Yes,
35:18
Speaker 1: weed smoking dolphin running back he won the Heisman. Yes,
35:23
Speaker 1: tennis player with long hair from Vegas. Yes, forward for
35:28
Speaker 1: the Lakers, wore the goggles. In the eighties. James Yes,
35:33
Speaker 1: third baseman for the Angels, won a championship with the Nationals.
35:37
Speaker 1: He stole money from the Angels. Three yes, that is correct.
35:41
Speaker 1: Basketball player with a very generic name who has a
35:44
Speaker 1: similar name to a late the Late Night TV Show
35:49
Speaker 1: parody on HBr Right now, I was gonna give to
35:52
Speaker 1: Yes it was Larry Sanders was the last one. I
35:55
Speaker 1: don't know how anyway, never got that exactly exactly all right.
36:00
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36:04
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