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Hour 4 - Home Sweet Home · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: I mean, I like, we're counting down, but we're fifty
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  Speaker 1: nine minutes away from truly starting our New Year's Eve celebration.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ultimate the Big Ben Malor Show here
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  Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio. My name is Chris Blank, sitting
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  Speaker 1: in Happy New Year's Eve. Everybody, Now, I did have
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  Speaker 1: to laugh. Well, first of all, Lorrain is here, Coop
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  Speaker 1: is here. They're carrying the show for me tonight. MIKEE
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  Speaker 1: Leprechaun tried to bring it down, but I fought through Lorrain,
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  Speaker 1: a big fan of Michael Eprecaun. I did have to
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  Speaker 1: laugh because I was getting things going. I feel real
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  Speaker 1: excited about it, and I got this tweet from let
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  Speaker 1: me see who. I want to make sure I give
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  Speaker 1: proper credit because the oh it was not a burner?
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  Speaker 1: Knot well done? Who writes let's get some list radio?
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  Speaker 1: Give us the list now? Not a burner. I am
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  Speaker 1: aware how Big Ben Malor pushes back against list to radio,
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  Speaker 1: as do I and I think in the span of
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  Speaker 1: the three hours that we've already done, there has.
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  Speaker 2: Been zero lists.
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  Speaker 1: But coming up in our final segment, I will give
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  Speaker 1: in because I have a list of the top sports
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  Speaker 1: moments in twenty twenty five that maybe nobody's talking about.
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  Speaker 1: It's real easy to do a top sports moment of
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, and it's like the Dodger is a
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  Speaker 1: winning the World Series. Yeah, I mean, of course that's
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  Speaker 1: a top sports moment. It's a championship, and it's a
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  Speaker 1: team going back to back. The Eagles winning the Super Bowl, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, no dud, the Florida Gators won the title.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just these are moments that everybody realizes
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  Speaker 1: are quote unquote memorable moments in twenty twenty five. But
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  Speaker 1: I have others and may have slid under the radar.
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  Speaker 2: Not a burner. I understand.
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  Speaker 1: I understand the pushback by the Mallard militia according to
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  Speaker 1: Chicky on NBA and according to you on list radio,
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  Speaker 1: but unfortunately I have to feed into it just a bit.
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  Speaker 2: Coming up later on this.
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  Speaker 1: Hour, I owe you a second preview, a second preview
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  Speaker 1: because I did not get my ole Miss Georgia take
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  Speaker 1: in and I got a little Kirby Smart and Pete
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  Speaker 1: Golding to share, which, by the way, Pete Golding is
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  Speaker 1: quickly becoming one of my favorite college football coaches. If
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  Speaker 1: you're not familiar with him, dude can't give a take
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  Speaker 1: without cussing. Love the guy. And we got to talk
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  Speaker 1: about Alabama and Indiana. And I talked to Ryan Fowler
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  Speaker 1: last night sitting in for Jason and Mike. Share a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of that with you before we get out.
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  Speaker 1: But in the meantime, if you're just getting up, you're
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  Speaker 1: just getting added. Here's a couple of things that you missed.
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  Speaker 1: You heard the saga in the update. What a wild
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  Speaker 1: finish to the TCU USC game. In the out first first,
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  Speaker 1: TCU decided to kick a field goal rather than try
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  Speaker 1: to win it in regulations.
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  Speaker 2: Full the tip Calkila will stap it.
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  Speaker 3: Back kick from Livermot is up and it is cold.
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  Speaker 2: Over time we cope it's Senantorio ten Seals leads the
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  Speaker 2: Frogs back.
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  Speaker 1: Now some we're questioning whether or not in set Alamobile,
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  Speaker 1: you decide and again we can fight over bowl games
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  Speaker 1: all we want. Bowl games are meaningless. You bet unless
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  Speaker 1: you win it. If you lose it, it's like nobody cares.
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  Speaker 1: It's meaningless. Why are we even watching you? Sound like
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  Speaker 1: Matt Lioner. Is what happens whenever your team loses a
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  Speaker 1: bowl game, because as soon as they lose. It's nobody
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  Speaker 1: cares about this, but if you won it be hey,
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  Speaker 1: this is a springboard. This is something we can build
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  Speaker 1: off of right now. But I do think that it
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  Speaker 1: is absolutely positively fair to have questioned TCU's decision in
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  Speaker 1: that moment to go ahead and kick the field goal,
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  Speaker 1: to try to force overtime rather than go for it
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  Speaker 1: and potentially win the football game. I mean, you're looking
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  Speaker 1: at let me see where they have the ball at
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  Speaker 1: Was it a ten yard line? You have about the
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  Speaker 1: ten yard line?
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  Speaker 2: Why not?
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  Speaker 1: But TCU played for overtime, and by god, it worked
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  Speaker 1: because on third and twenty this happened.
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  Speaker 2: Seals pumps. It left pain rix one tackle and two
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  Speaker 2: and dives forward Hillers.
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  Speaker 4: Trade got the left touch five to the pad to
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  Speaker 4: the five is a yet, fads, let's see second's touchdown?
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  Speaker 3: Can seals hood deal here tonight?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, the horn Frogs have filed the bedrick against USC.
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  Speaker 6: One four times.
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  Speaker 2: Impressive. Impressive.
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  Speaker 1: TCU beats USC thirty to twenty seven in overtime. But
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  Speaker 1: the good news is USC, you guys are close, and
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  Speaker 1: that's what's most important. You guys are close. And now apparently,
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  Speaker 1: according to Lincoln Rally post game, you have kicked that
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  Speaker 1: door open. And after this Alamo Bule lost to you
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  Speaker 1: to TCU, a middle of the road big twelve team.
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  Speaker 1: You're ready to go win the title next year.
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  Speaker 2: Good luck.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the bull struggles continue for the sec but it
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  Speaker 1: didn't happen without some excitement between Tennessee and Illinois.
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  Speaker 3: Kick off his hammer downfield, but the wind's gonna hold
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  Speaker 3: it up. Dotson fumbles it. He picks it up at
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  Speaker 3: the fifteen, looks for Roun.
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  Speaker 1: Bounces it outside, dots it in the twenty to the
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  Speaker 1: way five, no way to the forty, to the fifty,
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  Speaker 1: to the honing to the thirty, to the twenty, to the.
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  Speaker 4: Ten to the five to the inside.
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  Speaker 7: Joe tam dot Sig touchdown, big.
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  Speaker 1: Urach tie the game at twenty actually took the lead
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight to twenty seven. But once again the excitement
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  Speaker 1: of the play by play call of a field.
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  Speaker 5: Three seconds laugh alto in the middle of the field
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  Speaker 5: from nineteen for the Winds snap back kick in the air.
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  Speaker 2: The kick is.
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  Speaker 1: We do It's God, I'm sorry, I just I had
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  Speaker 1: to laugh. Over the Illinois play by play, our analyst
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  Speaker 1: guy saying it's what we do.
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  Speaker 2: Illinois football. I mean, you know, when you're the fighting line.
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  Speaker 1: I all right, Thankfully, Bert Bellama is starting to do
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  Speaker 1: some things nice. So you've won bowl games in back
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  Speaker 1: to back years, but you're sitting there saying that's what
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  Speaker 1: we do when you hadn't won back to back bowl
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  Speaker 1: game since twenty ten to twenty eleven.
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  Speaker 2: Stop it, that's what we do. No, it's not.
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  Speaker 1: One of the quick college football note before we get
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  Speaker 1: to the NFL into your tweets, Lincoln Riley is making
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  Speaker 1: a few enemies because of the Notre Dame scheduling. I
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  Speaker 1: guess kerfuffle would be the word. Here's what Lincoln said
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  Speaker 1: leading up to the bowl game tonight about the fact
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  Speaker 1: that Notre Dame and USC will not be playing each other.
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty simple.
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  Speaker 8: You know, we've both worked for months to try to
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  Speaker 8: find a solution. Notre Dame was very vocal about the
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  Speaker 8: fact that they would play us anytime, anywhere, and obviously
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  Speaker 8: them not having a conference affiliation gives them an ability
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  Speaker 8: to be.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty flexible with their scheduling.
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  Speaker 8: We went back Jim cohin Road went back to Notre
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  Speaker 8: Dame roughly a couple of weeks ago with the scenario
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  Speaker 8: and a proposal that would extend the series for the
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  Speaker 8: next two years, and we took Notre Dame at their
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  Speaker 8: word that they would play US anytime, anywhere. That proposal
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  Speaker 8: was rejected. Not only was it rejected, five minutes after
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  Speaker 8: we got the call, it was announced that they had
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  Speaker 8: scheduled in another opponent, which I'll give them credit, that
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  Speaker 8: might be the fastest scheduling act in college football history.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, I don't blame USC for not wanting
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  Speaker 1: to play Notre Dame because there is no benefit in
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  Speaker 1: playing a truly tough schedule. Oh unless you win those
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  Speaker 1: games Texas. And what is USC not doing. They're not
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  Speaker 1: winning the big game. They're losing their big matchups if
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  Speaker 1: it's Oregon, if it's Notre Dame. I mean, they're just
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  Speaker 1: they're not getting it done under Lincoln Riley. So with
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  Speaker 1: that in mind, I don't blame it all for not
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  Speaker 1: wanting to play. But oh are we have one benefit
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  Speaker 1: here at Fox Sports Radio because we can bring you
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  Speaker 1: both sides of the argument. Now you can have the
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  Speaker 1: people from USC that are carrying the water, and they've
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  Speaker 1: got their PR team that's out there telling you all
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  Speaker 1: these things that USC didn't have done for them by
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  Speaker 1: Notre Dame. Here was Brady Quinn Q on Two Pros
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  Speaker 1: and a Cup of Joe yesterday talking about this scenario
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  Speaker 1: and why why that Notre Dame is getting blamed for
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  Speaker 1: everything that say grenade, that was a shade rocket.
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  Speaker 2: I take that tank, go ahead. What are you talking about?
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  Speaker 2: What's he talking about? I've said this publicly.
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  Speaker 7: It's rich coming from the guy who basically questioned playing
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  Speaker 7: the game in general back in twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: And it's rich coming from him because he couldn't beat
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  Speaker 2: Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 7: Really, if you look at his record, I mean, I
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  Speaker 7: don't know, Jonas like, is his record any better as
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  Speaker 7: a head coach at USC than Clay Helton's?
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  Speaker 1: Was not?
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  Speaker 2: Really, hasn't won a conference championship.
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  Speaker 7: Didn't win in the Pack, hasn't won one in the
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  Speaker 7: Big Ten, never run a Rose Bowl, hasn't made the playoff.
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  Speaker 7: He has a worst winning percentage as the head coach
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  Speaker 7: of SC than Clay Helton.
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  Speaker 2: So it's it's funny to me.
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  Speaker 7: It's entertaining to me that you hear SC fans defend
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  Speaker 7: Lincoln Riley when in reality, he's been a worse version
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  Speaker 7: of the guy you ran out of your program, and
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  Speaker 7: so you're defending these comments that he makes. And so
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  Speaker 7: here's what's interesting about it is this is a pr
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  Speaker 7: campaign by Southern cow And if you go through the
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  Speaker 7: timeline of how this all started, why this robbery no
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  Speaker 7: longer exists, it really started with Lincoln Riley and his
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  Speaker 7: inability to want to compete. Back when he was at Oklahoma,
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  Speaker 7: had the chance to go to LSU that didn't work out,
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  Speaker 7: didn't want to go with Oklahoma to the SEC because
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  Speaker 7: he wouldn't He knew they couldn't compete and he wouldn't compete.
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  Speaker 7: So he goes to the PAC twelve for easier, greener pastures,
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  Speaker 7: and he hasn't been able to win anything.
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  Speaker 1: So I will first off say I love Brady Quinn,
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  Speaker 1: but as of right now, nobody's really crying any tears
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  Speaker 1: for Notre Dame because y'all have been crying for like
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  Speaker 1: literally the last month about not making the playoffs number one,
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  Speaker 1: but number two in this case, I couldn't care less
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  Speaker 1: about either side. I just think it's pretty rich, great adjective,
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  Speaker 1: pretty rich that Lincoln Riley is coming out and trying
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  Speaker 1: to be the well they say it any common anywhere,
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  Speaker 1: and it's like, well, when you go to me and
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  Speaker 1: say we want to play week zero in Mexico reportedly,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's like, Okay, well that's not going to work.
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  Speaker 1: And then you try to lean on the where they're
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  Speaker 1: not in a conference. Everyone feels that, right. So it's
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  Speaker 1: a big case of kind of who gives a you
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  Speaker 1: know what I think in a lot of instances. But
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  Speaker 1: it's part of what's wrong with college football. Now. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I've talked a lot of college football tonight, and for
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  Speaker 1: the most part that is a big turn off to
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  Speaker 1: some I see a shady sean. You don't have to
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  Speaker 1: send to me the tweet. It's college football. It's a
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  Speaker 1: great sport. It's the second highest rated sport, period. Embrace it.
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  Speaker 1: But the bottom line, more than anything else, is this,
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  Speaker 1: This is part of what's wrong with college football. We
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  Speaker 1: are losing the fat of our great rivalries. We're losing
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  Speaker 1: games like Oklahoma Nebraska. Hell, I throw West Virginia pit
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  Speaker 1: in there. I think that's a great rivalry, USC Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 1: These are games it should be played, period. And when
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  Speaker 1: one of the first things you say after a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years on the job is I don't know why
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  Speaker 1: we play this game, and then you want to try
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  Speaker 1: to pretend like you didn't play a role. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: well they said anytime anywhere, Rich. I hope they get
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  Speaker 1: it figured out. It's a great uniform battle and it's
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  Speaker 1: fun to watch, but the bottom line, more than anything else,
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  Speaker 1: it ain't happening. It ain't happening in twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll keep our fingerscrossed and they can figure it
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  Speaker 1: out sooner rather than later. Now, before we put a
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  Speaker 1: rap on the opening segment of our number four here
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  Speaker 1: on the Ben Mallord Show on Fox Sports Radio, got
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  Speaker 1: a couple tweets I want to hit, including this from
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  Speaker 1: Josh and Lorena. This is kind of geared towards you,
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  Speaker 1: so I want to get your take on this. Does
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  Speaker 1: Mike the lepre Kahn write get his rocks off? Every
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  Speaker 1: time he mentions Lorraine's name, not even in the convo,
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  Speaker 1: and still says it it's scary and creepy. Hashtag protect
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  Speaker 1: the Queen, hashtag creepy.
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  Speaker 4: I'm glad people agree with me. Who was this lovely person?
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  Speaker 1: This is at Purple in Gold two four eight, Josh.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm not hallucinating because sometimes I'm like, maybe I
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  Speaker 4: am overreacting.
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  Speaker 1: No, it was always so I did the I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if I have to reset this. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if there's I'm sure there's people waking up on the
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  Speaker 1: East Coast that had heard this. I used to do
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: the Friday Show. I did the Friday Show during the summer.
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  Speaker 1: Bernie went back to one show and before A. Kfig
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  Speaker 1: and Adam took over. F and A.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to be in tomorrow night. They're great.
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  Speaker 1: I kind of filled that void for a bit and
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  Speaker 1: I loved it. I love doing it. I love this
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  Speaker 1: time slot. I think it's the most passionate fans, and
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  Speaker 1: I think we can get into pretty much whatever we
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  Speaker 1: want whenever you people don't get.
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  Speaker 2: Mad that it's not here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, shenanigans, there's the term shenanigans. We can get away
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  Speaker 1: with a little bit more because not a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people are up and around right now, and if you are,
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  Speaker 1: you're pretty locked in. So whenever Mike the Leprechaun would
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  Speaker 1: start calling on Friday Night, I liked him. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there'd be there'd be times whenever you need a little
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: bit of humor, and he tried he would come and
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  Speaker 1: try out his bits. We were like star search for
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  Speaker 1: the Ben Malord Show in a lot of ways. But
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  Speaker 1: he would always mention you always, and I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Like, that seems odd. That seems odd. So I'm glad that.
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  Speaker 4: Wait, it's not just on this show.
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  Speaker 1: No, well, I haven't done the Friday show in a
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  Speaker 1: while now. I don't know if he still calls k
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  Speaker 1: Fig and Adam. We'll find out tomorrow night. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's not just here, It's not just here. Lefty has
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  Speaker 1: a question for Coop. Lefty pho Shizzle Rights. What a
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  Speaker 1: great name. Coop just said he would probably be getting
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  Speaker 1: seats one at because seats eleven and twelve are closer
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  Speaker 1: to center field. Is he going to a football game
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  Speaker 1: midfield midfield, center field to twenty to twenty one, whatever
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  Speaker 1: it takes. I know what you meant. I was following
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  Speaker 1: along with it. But you said, we dug a little
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  Speaker 1: deeper into ticket gate twenty twenty five, twenty twenty six now,
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  Speaker 1: and it's maybe not where the seats are. You think
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  Speaker 1: there's actually twelve seats in the row and it might
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  Speaker 1: be a little bit higher or what have we discovered?
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  Speaker 9: No?
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  Speaker 2: I think seat one I found like a three sixty
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  Speaker 2: view thing. I thought, huh.
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  Speaker 10: I think seat one is literally on top of the aisle,
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  Speaker 10: like nothing is in front. There's no other person in
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  Speaker 10: front of you, no seat, it's just stairs, you know
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  Speaker 10: what I mean.
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  Speaker 11: Interesting.
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  Speaker 2: It could be wrong, but that's what it looks like. Ingrass, seagrass.
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  Speaker 1: Baby, that's what you want, unless you're standing next to
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  Speaker 1: a gate at New Year's Eve and you're not allowed
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  Speaker 1: to go pee because someone's gonna take your place. Craig,
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  Speaker 1: tickets for events Jesus too expensive. As much as you
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  Speaker 1: want to tend, it's a lot, especially for a playoff
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  Speaker 1: game or two. Coop, consider yourself luckier than most. And
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  Speaker 1: as far as the college football playoffs go, writes, Craig,
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  Speaker 1: should have been six to eight teams period. With that format,
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  Speaker 1: all teams play, no buys, higher ranked teams have home field,
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  Speaker 1: and all games, including the championship, would be done by
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  Speaker 1: New Year's Well, Craig, I'm afraid I've got some bad
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  Speaker 1: news because we're not what's it called. Whenever you take away,
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  Speaker 1: they're not minimizing, they're not shrinking the number of teams
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs. It's growing. But I think there is
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  Speaker 1: one thing that we all can agree upon, and that's this.
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  Speaker 1: The college football playoff atmosphere for home games is infinitely better,
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  Speaker 1: infinitely better than anything that's gonna happen in a bowl game.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, talking about ticket prices, and I saw this
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  Speaker 1: today in preparing for the program. The get in the
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  Speaker 1: door price for the Cotton Bowl tonight. Let's just say
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  Speaker 1: you're in Dallas and you want to go to the
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  Speaker 1: Cotton Bowl. The get in the door price is thirty
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  Speaker 1: two dollars, thirty two bucks. Now, if this game was
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  Speaker 1: on campus, you think anyone's getting in for thirty two bucks.
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  Speaker 1: You can actually sit in the lower bowl between the
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  Speaker 1: forties for four hundred and fifteen bucks, but you can
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  Speaker 1: get in the door for thirty two dollars. The bottom line,
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  Speaker 1: more than anything else, is these games need to be
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  Speaker 1: played on campuses. If you want to do the final
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  Speaker 1: four in a playoff set, in a bowl game setting, fine,
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  Speaker 1: But these whole atmospheres are awesome. And Cody won more.
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  Speaker 1: Since we're on college, he writes, you're talking about the
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma State kid. It made me think of all the
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  Speaker 1: players in the schools posting resigning post our resigning post
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  Speaker 1: like when it's National signing day for incoming high schoolers.
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  Speaker 1: So I get excited because our best safety the last
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  Speaker 1: two years decided to return. WTF. Oh, I'll add one
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  Speaker 1: more to it. And I know we got a break,
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  Speaker 1: I'll add one more to it. You know what's equally
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  Speaker 1: enraging is whenever someone sends out there I'm leaving, thank
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  Speaker 1: you for everything post whenever they have no eligibility left
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  Speaker 1: you have no other options. Bro, welcome to the workforce
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  Speaker 1: the show. Whoopee Pie Blair, a little on us, see
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  Speaker 1: what's going on? Whoopye Pie Blair? How are you?
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  Speaker 11: I'm doing great?
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  Speaker 9: Help?
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  Speaker 2: Are you doing good?
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  Speaker 3: Man?
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  Speaker 2: Are you you sound down, Are you okay?
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  Speaker 11: No, I'm just a little bummed right now for the
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  Speaker 11: Patriots right now?
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  Speaker 1: Oh uh well, I mean with this fun dig stuff
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  Speaker 1: for more, I mean the fact that they lost to
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  Speaker 1: the Raiders and don't control their own destiny.
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  Speaker 11: No, this the phone digs thing like, how do you
• 21:34
  Speaker 11: manage to do what he did? You know, you got
• 21:36
  Speaker 11: to know better to do what you do to he's
• 21:40
  Speaker 11: to get to get that kind of charge on you
• 21:43
  Speaker 11: for you got no better not to do that kind
• 21:47
  Speaker 11: of case, you know.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: And then to try to get her to sign an
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: NDA was the thing that's most hilarious. I mean again,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: accusations so far, no charges, But I understand your frustration.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Right now, what's that?
• 21:57
  Speaker 11: You know?
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: It's all claim still so yes, that's true. Are we
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: just going to give her all that?
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  Speaker 2: Now?
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: We're gonna take our time. Maybe Stefans is a really
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  Speaker 4: great guy.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Maybe he is patience my friend, So what's on your
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: mind tonight?
• 22:09
  Speaker 11: Come out. He'll come out of jail. But he needs
• 22:13
  Speaker 11: all the chargers he's gonna get and be the dummy
• 22:16
  Speaker 11: he's gonna be. But he's a great player now for
• 22:19
  Speaker 11: the NFL. But he's gonna come out of all the charges.
• 22:23
  Speaker 11: He's gonna get out of jail and stuff and then
• 22:25
  Speaker 11: play again, probably, I hope in the playoffs. But I
• 22:29
  Speaker 11: don't know. I don't know about that guy. He needs
• 22:32
  Speaker 11: to his mind needs to be set into the playoffs
• 22:35
  Speaker 11: of the NFL, not being like a dummy he did
• 22:38
  Speaker 11: all the stupid things he just did, and mindset and
• 22:43
  Speaker 11: playing the NFL, like being playing with the football, playing
• 22:48
  Speaker 11: in the NFL and not doing stupid things like he did.
• 22:51
  Speaker 11: You don't hit a woman. You don't do any of
• 22:53
  Speaker 11: that bull crap.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, let me let me clean us up
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: just a little bit blair for you. And I appreciate
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: your phone call. I know you.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: I wanted to get to some usc But these are
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: all accusations. Right now, we have one side of the story,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: and as it stands right now, the Patriots have said
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: that there, boy, this sounds gonna someone that's just tuning in.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: It's like, are you a defending Stefan Digs? No, No, no,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying we live in a society where we
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: usually just ride away say well, there's a felony charge
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: of strangulation and a misdemeanor charge for an alleged assult. Guilty.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Guilty guilty, throw them under the jail. We don't know.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: There was a motion hearing that took place yesterday and
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: the arraignment is set for January twenty thirty, which, by
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: the way, is the Friday before the AFC Championship Game.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: So I just I didn't mean to cut you off.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Will be bye, Blair. I just think that there's a
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: long way to go. The Stefan Digg's side is denying
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: the allegation. Quote they're unsubstantiated, uncorroborated, and were never investigated
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: because they did not occur. The timing and motivation, rights
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: David Meyer, the attorney for Stefan Diggs, the timing and
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: motivation for making this allegation is crystal clear. They are
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: the direct result of an employee employer financial dispute that
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: was not resolved to the employer's employee satisfaction. STEFAR looks
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: forward to establishing the truth in a court of law.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: So the team had a statement that said, and I
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: quote we support STAFUND. We will continue to gather information
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: and will cooperate fully with the appropriate authorities and the
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: NFL is necessary out of respect for all parties involved,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: and given that this is an ongoing legal matter, we
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: will have no further comment at this time. The NFL
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: is added their aware of the matter and has been
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: in contact with the Patriots. So don't learning. Did I
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: do a good job of cleaning it up?
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Whenever? It will be by Cot just one.
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: There should be no legal issues now, thank you none.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Scott Shapiro, Bud, I'm looking out for us, all right,
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  Speaker 2: All right? What do you say we make this the
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  Speaker 2: last call of the night? Coop you good with that? Loreni,
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: You're good with that? Sorry? All right?
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: How fitting is it that it is Marcel that gets
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: the last word tonight on this show and the last
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  Speaker 1: word on the Ben Malors Show, at least for the
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Central and Eastern time zones in twenty twenty five?
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: What's going on? Marcel? Welcome to the show.
• 25:25
  Speaker 9: All good morning, Chris, you're filling in for mister Ben Mahler,
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  Speaker 9: Loreena and Coopy Loop. Happy New Year's Eve so both
• 25:33
  Speaker 9: of the three of you, is a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 9: thank you, and Happy New Year's Eve to all of you.
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  Speaker 9: Can't wait for twenty twenty six. I love to have
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  Speaker 9: the Caller of the Year still four times and looking
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  Speaker 9: forward for five and the Benny Awards mom next year.
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  Speaker 9: And I'm so excited. You're so excited.
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  Speaker 2: About it, Chris, I'm excited about it.
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  Speaker 9: Oh yes, I hope you all vote for me in
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  Speaker 9: this next year's Beny Awards, picking down Mike the idiot
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  Speaker 9: con Mike in New Hampshire, we'll be Pie Blair and
• 26:08
  Speaker 9: of course, last, without least all the transgender long we
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  Speaker 9: don't say transgender on radio because Boston blind. As a
• 26:18
  Speaker 9: matter of fact, those are four New England villains of mine.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Marsa, you're calling them all out tonight, All right,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: well go ahead, don't let me stop you.
• 26:29
  Speaker 9: Oh yes, the last picks. We saw the food picks
• 26:34
  Speaker 9: and now the TV picks. This is the last Teavy
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  Speaker 9: picks of twenty twenty five. I know, I know, I know,
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  Speaker 9: I know, I know. My friends, we'll do some more
• 26:43
  Speaker 9: picks for you in twenty twenty six from yours truly.
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  Speaker 9: So it's a new dawn and it's a new day.
• 26:50
  Speaker 9: So Mala militia, let's get into it. And we've got
• 26:55
  Speaker 9: the phone calls are playing along with me. So let's
• 26:58
  Speaker 9: see what line'es one through three going to be taking place,
• 27:01
  Speaker 9: and Coopy Loop is going to be standing by. If not, Chris,
• 27:05
  Speaker 9: Willina and Coopie Loop will play along with me.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: I tried to shut the calls down, Marcel, I was
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: giving you the last words. So I think we're playing
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  Speaker 1: along here.
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  Speaker 2: Okay? Is that fine?
• 27:18
  Speaker 9: Oh? Absolutely?
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: Okay?
• 27:20
  Speaker 9: The phone calls pass and straight to the personalities of
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  Speaker 9: overnight radio. Chris, you're a filly in for ban Let's go.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Okay. I don't know the rules of the game.
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: You guess what he watched on.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: TV last night. Oh, this is not eating anymore? Okay,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Food Picks was the other day. Oh okay, so this
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: is what you watched. What you watched on TV the
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: USC TCU Bowl game.
• 27:48
  Speaker 9: Oh this is not the mixed matches all industry, but
• 27:52
  Speaker 9: thank you for that, Chris. Do you say, speaking of USC,
• 27:56
  Speaker 9: you love USC, aren't you me?
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: I mean no, I don't. I think they're soft all.
• 28:06
  Speaker 9: Oh wow, what a shame for the Trojans instead, how
• 28:09
  Speaker 9: lost it is? But not a mixed match. It is
• 28:12
  Speaker 9: a La reno. This is the last TV Picks of
• 28:14
  Speaker 9: the year, so go right ahead.
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: Oh it's so hard since it's since it's the last
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: one of the year, we're gonna go with you watched
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: the final three episodes of Stranger Things.
• 28:28
  Speaker 9: Oh good, guess Stranger Jings on Netflix Stranger Things, Stranger Things.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I don't think he was just like the eighties.
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: They do look like the eighties. Yes, oh, well done.
• 28:41
  Speaker 9: Well'll believe it or not, my friend, not a mixed match.
• 28:43
  Speaker 9: It is Fiskey correct and Coopley looked the last TV
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  Speaker 9: pits of twenty twenty five. Go right ahead, buddy, I
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  Speaker 9: think you.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Were watching Hit and Run, which is episode four of
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: season six of Better.
• 28:57
  Speaker 9: Call Saul Ooh ooh, Better Call Us on HBO Max.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: It's on Netflix.
• 29:03
  Speaker 9: All the same on Netflix with you and Lorena. Yes,
• 29:08
  Speaker 9: oh wow, what a ball, what a shame? And this
• 29:12
  Speaker 9: is not a mixed match.
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: Okay, given to your general Sorry big answer.
• 29:19
  Speaker 9: Here my last TV picks of twenty twenty five. It's
• 29:23
  Speaker 9: the NBA on NBC. What that?
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: Wow wow.
• 29:32
  Speaker 9: And a lot of surprise. I hope you all having
• 29:35
  Speaker 9: a great new year. For more my calls in twenty
• 29:39
  Speaker 9: twenty six, be back on Friday to start the new one.
• 29:43
  Speaker 9: I promise you that. And Coop your Coop's coop on entertainment,
• 29:47
  Speaker 9: the announce the one from yours truly coming from you
• 29:50
  Speaker 9: see you?
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Then thank you Marcel. We'll talk to you then.
• 29:55
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Up on Friday, there's a well are you guys off?
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Are you guys getting a couple of days off? Off?
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: I'll be for you vote. I will have tonight like
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: you know, gotcha New Year's Day?
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: I will not I will be here, but.
• 30:09
  Speaker 8: I will be.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: I will be back for Friday and coop scoop on entertainment.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: Do you know I got?
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: I gotta say I every single time I don't get
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: to fill in for Ben as much as I will,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: it never takes any time off. But when I get
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: to I forget the unabashed brilliance of Marcell's phone calls,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: because there is only a handful of people on the
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: planet who could turn either a what they ate or
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: what they watched on TV into a full radio segment.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: But here's Marcel. I apologize for getting confused. I've only
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: done the food segment and what he ate? All right,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: That's all I've ever done with Marcel, So the TV
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: kind of threw me off a little bit.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: Coop, that's on me.
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: Okay, look at the spread in your wings.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Fill in. You know, I'm learning a little bit. I
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: do appreciate too.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: How we say all right, we'll take the last phone call,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: and he's trying to get more phone calls, and what
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: are you doing, Marcel, I'm giving you the last word
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• 31:03
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• 31:42
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• 31:45
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• 31:50
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• 31:53
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• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Boy's been on fire tonight, he writes.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Prediction, we will look back at twenty twenty five when
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: everyone thought the Lakers were ascending and the Clippers were
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: a dumpster fire, only to find out the opposite ended
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  Speaker 1: up being true. Boy, that would take quite a rally
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  Speaker 2: The Lakers look awful.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: They look terrible, and again I know that huh changed,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: I know what do what happened? But they went from
• 32:33
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• 32:36
  Speaker 1: talked about with maybe competing with OKC. We'll see what
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: the Jokic Nicole Yokich injury. It looks like Spurs look
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: really good this year. But now now all of a sudden,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: you're looking at a team that I don't know, can't
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: seem to get out of its own way. They've lost
• 32:50
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• 32:52
  Speaker 1: it's a long season, so I'm not going to freak
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: out too terribly much.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: But we'll see.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: They got back to back games coming up on Friday
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: and against Memphis. Memphis, I mean that should get you
• 33:04
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  Speaker 1: we'll see. We'll see if maybe the Lakers can't get
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• 33:15
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• 33:19
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• 33:37
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• 33:41
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  Speaker 1: Sitting here looking at all this audio I had queued up.
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  Speaker 1: and six win teams after this iteration of twelve, by
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  Speaker 1: twenty thirty, it'll probably be thirty two teams. So dumb,
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  Speaker 1: So three and four lost teams are going to be
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  Speaker 1: in And Lefty, who's been on fire tonight, Lefty rights.
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  Speaker 1: The news on Stefan dis is all messed up. I've
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  Speaker 1: read from news websites that he's been charged with a felony. Well,
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  Speaker 1: if that was true, wouldn't he be in jail. He's
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  Speaker 1: not in jail. The lawyer for the chef obviously has
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  Speaker 1: a media savvy lawyer. Has anyone heard from Gloria Alredy.
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  Speaker 1: Here's just kind of become my go to take whenever
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  Speaker 1: it comes to every legal issue. Let the process play out.
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  Speaker 1: We don't have to be knee jerky in first like
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  Speaker 1: life lesson. No one wants to hear that. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: by god, I want to know now is he playing?
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  Speaker 1: Is he gonna play? Is gonna be okay for the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: But let the Stefon big situation play out. He doesn't
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  Speaker 1: even even have a hearing until what the Friday before
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  Speaker 1: the AFC Championship game, So the Patriots season could be
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  Speaker 1: done by that point, or it becomes a major story
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  Speaker 1: by the time we get to that moment in the season.
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  Speaker 1: Patriots have said they're standing behind him. NFL has no
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  Speaker 1: comment now. Twenty twenty five was a wild year. Twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five was a wild year. Dodgers went back to back,
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  Speaker 1: Eagles won the Super Bowl. You had a college football
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  Speaker 1: national champion in Ohio State who might be able to
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  Speaker 1: repeat this year. It's a fun year. NBA title from
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  Speaker 1: my Oklahoma City thunder who looked like they're gonna win
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  Speaker 1: it again and no one's gonna stop him.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe ever.
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  Speaker 1: But I think what continues to be the wildest stories
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  Speaker 1: in sports come to us from the gambling world. Let's
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  Speaker 1: go back a little bit, give you a little perspective.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty twenty three, we had NFL players suspended, You had
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  Speaker 1: an iwhen Iowa state controversy. You had the Shohei Otani
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  Speaker 1: controversy with his interpreter. Yeah, John Tay Porter, who was
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  Speaker 1: permanently banned from the NBA after withdrawing early from games
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: to get out from under a gambling debt so he
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  Speaker 1: can hit us under. There's FBI involvement in games that
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  Speaker 1: grew and grew and grew. But in twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: that trend has not slowed down. And I tipped my
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  Speaker 1: cap to those areas that have really done a good
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  Speaker 1: job of making sure that you're getting things right. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we're not having people try to fudge the system. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if we've had a more wild story than
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: following the Terry Rosier, Chauncey Billups, Damon Jones arrests, conspiracy
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  Speaker 1: to commit wire fraud and money laundring that came win
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  Speaker 1: Rosier scary Terry was already under investigation by the NBA
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  Speaker 1: in February. We weren't done there. You had the Cleveland
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  Speaker 1: Guardians pitcher pittures Emanuel Class and Luis Ortiz, who were
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  Speaker 1: placed on leave by Major League Baseball over the summer
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  Speaker 1: because they threw specific pitches in certain games to profit
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  Speaker 1: from illegal wagers on whether or not there would be
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  Speaker 1: first pitch strikes.
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  Speaker 2: We also had an in It's I.
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  Speaker 1: Guess you could say an instance in February where umpire
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  Speaker 1: Pat Hoberg was fired for sharing legal sports gambling accounts
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  Speaker 1: with a friend who bet on baseball games, and he
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  Speaker 1: intentionally deleted emails and messages that were perting it to
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  Speaker 1: the league's investigation. Oh and let's not forget the FBI
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: also busted an illegal sports betting ring that was allegedly
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  Speaker 1: operated by a member of the what is it the
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Lucisi crime family New Jersey, in which two of the
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  Speaker 1: fourteen arrested were former NCAA wrestlers who were charged with
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: racketeering in the first degree. Oh, that's not it. In September,
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  Speaker 1: we had three D one basketball players that were banned
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  Speaker 1: from the NCAA for betting on their own games. You
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  Speaker 1: want to find the juiciest stories of twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to look in the in the NBA column,
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  Speaker 1: or in the college football column, or in the baseball column.
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  Speaker 1: You look right in the gambling world, where we continue
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  Speaker 1: to try to get an edge. And kudos to those
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  Speaker 1: who are holding everyone accountable. All right, Lorena, have a
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  Speaker 1: great New Year's Eve celebration. Coop always appreciated. Thanks to
• 40:18
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