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Speaker 1: start out in Motown. It was week fourteen of the

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Speaker 1: NFL season. Kicked off game ended not that long ago,

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Speaker 1: a couple hours ago. Game over there in Detroit, and

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Speaker 1: it was billed as a pivotal game. Oh Man Dak Prescott,

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys traveling circus, leaving Jerry's world and heading to

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Speaker 1: Michigan for a playdate with Jared Goff and the Lions

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Speaker 1: of the Great Indoors. They had Al Michaels and Herbie.

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Speaker 1: They had the call on the amazon An Island game.

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Speaker 1: Were you watching? You didn't watch? Okay, you missed it.

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Speaker 1: So Jamiir Gibbs, I hear, he's pretty good. He ran

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Speaker 1: for three touchdown. I had a thirteen yard run the

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Speaker 1: Lions against the Cowboys there late in the game, Dallas

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Speaker 1: needed their rework defense. I was told had arrived and

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Speaker 1: looked like they had. That was false. That's a lie.

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Speaker 1: Cowboys defense complete frauds needed to make a play there

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Speaker 1: late and it was like a three or four play drive.

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Speaker 1: The Lions went right down the field, shoved it down

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Speaker 1: and that was all she wrote. The Lions get a

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Speaker 1: two touchdown win over the same old sorry ass Dallas

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Speaker 1: Cowboys forty four to thirty. The win. The Lions defense, well,

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Speaker 1: he had some fun with Dak Prescott. Dak sacked five

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Speaker 1: let's see five sacks, a couple of interceptions, fumble recovery.

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Speaker 1: Pretty good, Pretty good. Yeah. Lions get to eight and

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Speaker 1: five on the season, which isn't a playoff team. However,

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Speaker 1: they avoid losing consecutive games, so the first time in

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Speaker 1: three years they are still on the outside. They're looking in.

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Speaker 1: They're behind the velvet ropes. They're not inside the velvet ropes,

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Speaker 1: and they did improve their odds. Dan Campbell was waxing

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Speaker 1: loquacious after Oh they didn't panic. He said, he played

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Speaker 1: the best game of the year. Blah blah blah blah blah.

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Speaker 1: Of course, the best game means, as we know on

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Speaker 1: because the legal definition of the term best is as

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Speaker 1: that at all. So Detroit's playoff probability is now fifty

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Speaker 1: four percent. Fifty four percent. The better story is in

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Speaker 1: the losing locker room, where the Dallas Cowboys head coach

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Speaker 1: Shoty Brian Schottenheimer is getting roasted for the decisions he

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Speaker 1: what happened. Cowboys played a bad game and everyone saw it.

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Speaker 1: Does Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer deserve the bows and arrows

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Speaker 1: So I've got my thoughts on this. I've got Hallmark,

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Speaker 1: I say fire away, fire the cannons, because Shoddy and

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Speaker 1: There's a balance here, There's always this balance, and Schottenheimer

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Speaker 1: windmill at the putt putt course, and you're like, well,

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Speaker 1: And that's the Cowboys. Now, even if they had gone

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Speaker 1: an offensive strategic problem. The Cowboys had a defensive implosion.

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Speaker 1: Needed to make a play, make a play, make a play,

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys looked bit draggled out of sorts. They played

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Speaker 1: This was for the Cowboys, it was a hallmark and

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Speaker 1: for Shotneimer it was a hallmark movie. Or go all

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Speaker 1: the hallmarks of a poorly coach team right there. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and that's that's it, hey and the Lions, to their credit,

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Speaker 1: they cashed in. They got fourteen points off Cowboy turnovers

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Speaker 1: and about a being by the boom just like that,

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Speaker 1: after being snuffed out by the Lions. Now are the

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Speaker 1: If you think they're gonna make the best Dallas's playoff

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Speaker 1: chances have plummeted to seven percent. But even if there

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Speaker 1: They literally had skid marks all over the field there,

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Speaker 1: all right, So forget about it. And the Lions did

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Speaker 1: not just beat the Cowboys. They dropkicked them into the

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Speaker 1: completely discombobulated on defense. And you can hear the ghost

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Speaker 1: turn out the lost the parties over, Stick a fork

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Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb was having a monster game and then he

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Speaker 1: of George Pickens. He failed to deliver when the team

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Speaker 1: You'll hear the question and the answer, as this was

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Speaker 1: Take a listen. No, I don't think so. I want

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Speaker 3: Minute CD went out, they just decided to play everything

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Speaker 1: But I don't think so. I like that we left

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Speaker 1: and rip him right, Dak, Yes.

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Speaker 3: When you're the type of player that he is, I'll

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Speaker 1: Okay, So we also learned prior to the game that

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Speaker 1: George Pickens has been disciplined multiple times by the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: since coming over from Pittsburgh in the trade, and that

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Speaker 1: he's missed the team buses, he's shown up late to meetings.

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Speaker 1: Kind of sounds like a New York Giants rookie the

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Speaker 1: George Pickens. So the question are you surprised that here

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Speaker 1: story of the football season. George Pickens, all you cowboy

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Speaker 1: fans were pointing like Nelson from The Simpsons at Mike Tomlin, going, aha,

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Speaker 1: you dubbies, you trained us Jerry Rice for a couple

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Speaker 1: of day, two or three picks you, Lizis. Well, now

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Speaker 1: well look looky looking now the skeletons are starting to

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Speaker 1: the numbers. So he got the numbers. Eighty four carries

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Speaker 1: through twelve games or Jaalen hurts. That is what's known

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Speaker 1: as in his world. And he's different than other quarterbacks

427
00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:40,240
Speaker 1: because the running game is a big part of the

428
00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:43,840
Speaker 1: arrangement on how he's been good. So eighty four carries

429
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Speaker 1: through twelve games, that is tiny house living. Tiny house

430
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Speaker 1: living is what that is. And this is a guy

431
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:55,600
Speaker 1: who used to run like someone litz took us on fire,

432
00:25:55,920 --> 00:26:00,680
Speaker 1: and now he's he's still running, but it's not the same.

433
00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:05,719
Speaker 1: It's just something a little haywire. It's not quite right,

434
00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:09,280
Speaker 1: like it's he's not fully putting himself in bubble wrap,

435
00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:11,960
Speaker 1: much like part of him is. You know what I'm

436
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:14,399
Speaker 1: saying you feel me on that. So he's gone from

437
00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:21,040
Speaker 1: dual threat to dual thought, constantly deciding whether that one

438
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:24,640
Speaker 1: hit is worth the headache and making what we call

439
00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:28,879
Speaker 1: business decisions. He's been to the rodeo a few times.

440
00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:32,760
Speaker 1: He's trying to make some business decisions as as the

441
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:37,720
Speaker 1: line goes, as the line goes, and so because he's

442
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:40,679
Speaker 1: hyper aware of the narratives. Though, here's the part of

443
00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:43,679
Speaker 1: it that's interesting, right, He's gone from the you know,

444
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:46,439
Speaker 1: the dual threat to the dual thought. But the hyper

445
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:52,199
Speaker 1: aware part is interesting because he's probably this weekend. The

446
00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:56,200
Speaker 1: Eagles are in LA don't play until Monday, and he's

447
00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:58,760
Speaker 1: gonna hear all about this, and he's already read about it,

448
00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:00,600
Speaker 1: and he's got a long flight and all that stuff.

449
00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:03,160
Speaker 1: And I wouldn't be shocked if he goes out there

450
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:05,800
Speaker 1: and he starts running around like a shopping cart with

451
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:12,240
Speaker 1: a busted wheel, just despite everyone the classic overreaction machine

452
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 1: or go NFL ego all right now, Page two to

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Speaker 1: the High Speed Sports Wire. A shake up after a

454
00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:24,840
Speaker 1: full Mallard myolog on a transaction that seemed like an

455
00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:29,080
Speaker 1: alley oop oop oop, well, the other shoe was dropped

456
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:33,560
Speaker 1: and we revisit this Darius Sleigh. Remember Darius Lay who

457
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:37,680
Speaker 1: was claimed off the dumpster from the Buffalo Bills. He

458
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:42,000
Speaker 1: was put on the pink slip papers by Pittsburgh. They said,

459
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:46,160
Speaker 1: we don't want you, you suck. And well now we've

460
00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:48,399
Speaker 1: learned that Darius Lay is I don't know if I

461
00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:51,879
Speaker 1: want to play. Eh, you know, maybe not. I don't know.

462
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 1: I don't know I want to play. He's unsure whether

463
00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:57,320
Speaker 1: he wants to continue playing. Do you see this? Yeah,

464
00:27:57,320 --> 00:27:59,920
Speaker 1: he's not going to be reporting to Buffalo. I'm sure

465
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Speaker 1: has nothing to do with not wanting to live in Buffalo. Now,

466
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:07,400
Speaker 1: Slay's agent, Drew Rosenhaus, the bull crap artist, he attempted

467
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:11,399
Speaker 1: to spend the story. Now, the question, did Darius Slay

468
00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:14,600
Speaker 1: do the Buffalo Bills dirty? Did he do him dirty

469
00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:18,520
Speaker 1: with this particular move? So the only acceptable answer on this,

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00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:24,919
Speaker 1: the only one is y es. So I'm nodding my head.

471
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:27,760
Speaker 1: I'm nodding my head yes on this one. This wasn't

472
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 1: a curveball. This was a spitball. It was doctored up,

473
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:36,680
Speaker 1: it was greased with pine tar and hurled right at

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo forehead. Now, the good thing about that is

475
00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:41,800
Speaker 1: the Buffalo is so big it doesn't really notice. It's

476
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:43,840
Speaker 1: so big, it doesn't really worry about that, and it

477
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,480
Speaker 1: will go to the garbage heap of history when you

478
00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:49,479
Speaker 1: think about this now, the argument can be made that

479
00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 1: the Bills should have checked in with Darius Lay and said, hey,

480
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:53,680
Speaker 1: how would you like to play in Buffalo? We're thinking

481
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 1: about adding you. But the player ultimately is more at

482
00:28:57,400 --> 00:29:00,959
Speaker 1: fault here. The adult thing, the professor thing to do

483
00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:05,720
Speaker 1: would have been, hey, guys, I know I'm thinking about

484
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 1: unplugging the jukebox here for a bit, maybe just don't

485
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 1: don't nobody claim me, And instead Darius Lay decide, you

486
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 1: know what, I'm gonna play peak Baboo with retirement Pikaboo,

487
00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:21,240
Speaker 1: I see you, and left the Bills holding an empty

488
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:24,120
Speaker 1: lunch pail. Now the ripple effect, to me, that's the

489
00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 1: most interesting part. The guy didn't want to play, you know,

490
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 1: he's quit, fine, whatever, But that part is brutal because

491
00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:33,000
Speaker 1: Buffalo had major issues in the secondary. Do I think

492
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 1: that Darius Lay would have solved the issues? No, I don't.

493
00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:37,800
Speaker 1: I made that perfectly clear in a previous episode of

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Speaker 1: the show. That's my opinion. It's one man's opinion, But

495
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:44,959
Speaker 1: Buffalo claimed Darius Lay. They thought he would be an

496
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:49,520
Speaker 1: upgrade value added even as we question the impact from

497
00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:53,520
Speaker 1: the bully pulpit, and then boom goes to dynamite. They

498
00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:56,520
Speaker 1: waived someone named JaMarcus Ingram. We don't know who that is,

499
00:29:57,120 --> 00:29:59,000
Speaker 1: but he was on the roster and he plays in

500
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:01,560
Speaker 1: the secondary. The tech since of course, then said okay,

501
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:03,880
Speaker 1: they're like, it will be like a seagull here. The

502
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:08,880
Speaker 1: Texans came in there and a seagull lunchtime, a picnic

503
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:11,680
Speaker 1: there at the beach, and they came in and gobbled

504
00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:15,040
Speaker 1: up the player. And so the Bills ended up trading

505
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:18,200
Speaker 1: a live body. They got rid of the live body,

506
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:25,080
Speaker 1: JaMarcus Ingram. They picked up a poltergeist, a ghost spooky

507
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:30,120
Speaker 1: that is malpracticed by circumstances. What that is now there

508
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:34,480
Speaker 1: have been some rumblings, there's some chatter that there's something

509
00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:39,360
Speaker 1: more nefarious going on. If you've heard the conspiracy that

510
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,800
Speaker 1: Darius Slay assumed that he would only be picked up

511
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Speaker 1: by the Philadelphia Eagles, who did make a waiver claim

512
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Speaker 1: on him. He wanted to go back to Philly. He

513
00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:52,040
Speaker 1: won a super Bowl in Philadelphia. The Eagle maniacs love

514
00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:55,360
Speaker 1: him and that the reason he doesn't want to go

515
00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:58,080
Speaker 1: to Buffalo Darius Lay is that they're trying to finagle

516
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Speaker 1: away to get the Philly with agent Drew Rosenhouse trying

517
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 1: to pull some strings as the puppet master behind the scenes.

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00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 1: We'll see if there's anything to that, but that's what's

519
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 1: bouncing around now. This is the NFL. I don't think

520
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:15,800
Speaker 1: it is a pajama party, and pretty much like any job,

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00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:18,080
Speaker 1: I don't think it's much different. Whatever you do. If

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00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:20,000
Speaker 1: you want to be good at your job and take

523
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 1: pride in your product, you have to be one hundred

524
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 1: percent committed. You have to show up on time, you

525
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:26,480
Speaker 1: have to put the work in all that stuff, and

526
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:29,960
Speaker 1: you have to want to be great at whatever that is.

527
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 1: Whether you're working in a factory or warehouse, you're cleaning toilets,

528
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:35,960
Speaker 1: making donuts, or a cop or a robber, whatever you

529
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 1: might be. You want to be at the very top

530
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Speaker 1: of your profession. And so you look at this, it's like, okay,

531
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Speaker 1: so when a guy starts pondering retirement and you're like,

532
00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 1: I might play, I might take a nap, I had

533
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:51,520
Speaker 1: a big lunch. You know, it's like you know, you

534
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:53,960
Speaker 1: start pondering retirement. That's code for my duffel bag is

535
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:57,480
Speaker 1: already packed. And see a suckers, you know, see a

536
00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:01,120
Speaker 1: suckers and Slay. He didn't just check out mentally, he's

537
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 1: he's physically checked out as well. That's why the Steelers

538
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 1: got rid of him. And he handed the Bills a

539
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:11,160
Speaker 1: malor approved screwjob, Darius Slay he did. This is a

540
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:16,640
Speaker 1: drive through special screwjob by Darius Lay. No player, no production,

541
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Speaker 1: no refund, All sales are final. It's oh v over,

542
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 1: stick a fork in it. That's it. It's all over,

543
00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:31,240
Speaker 1: all right, final point. We now go to Louisiana. That's

544
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:34,560
Speaker 1: right there. Reports that the New Orleans Saints head coach

545
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore's job would be safe. The Saints are a

546
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 1: bad football team. They were supposed to be a bad

547
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:44,040
Speaker 1: football team, and they've lived up the expectations this year

548
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:48,800
Speaker 1: in New Orleans. Now, things though, have changed, despite some

549
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:52,080
Speaker 1: reports saying nothing to see here Kellen Moore, He's not

550
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:55,360
Speaker 1: in any kind of danger. He's putting the blood, sweat

551
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:58,240
Speaker 1: and tears in and they're not going to make any

552
00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:01,240
Speaker 1: kind of a change, no change at all. Well, now,

553
00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the plot thickens. There's some buzz

554
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 1: out of a byo that Kellen Moore is not not

555
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 1: out of the woods. No, no, no, no, no, something's going

556
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:17,440
Speaker 1: on there, some something's going on. So the question what

557
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:20,320
Speaker 1: are the eyes and the ears tell you of what

558
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 1: appears to be now a conflict of interest? What are

559
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 1: the eyes and ears tell you about Kellen Moore and

560
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:34,960
Speaker 1: his status with the Saints? So the by you be boiling, boiling,

561
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 1: and Kellen Moore is standing there in the cartoon bubble

562
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 1: on the right side, not the left side, the right

563
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 1: side of my head, in the right side of my head.

564
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore is standing there like a chef who just

565
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:49,040
Speaker 1: realized that he had grabbed the expired shrimp, but he

566
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:53,160
Speaker 1: had already put the shrimp in and the food must

567
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:57,480
Speaker 1: be served, like nothing is safe, it can't be safe.

568
00:33:57,520 --> 00:34:01,200
Speaker 1: Like why would you say, he's saying if the Saints

569
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 1: fans have started to put the brown paper bags back

570
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:09,920
Speaker 1: on their heads, that's not a fashion situation. That is

571
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:12,239
Speaker 1: a cry for help. I'll give you an example. My guy,

572
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:15,880
Speaker 1: cashless clay. And we don't do shout out, so I

573
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 1: can't wish cashless clay a happy birthday. I could do

574
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:21,080
Speaker 1: a mention, but I've chose not to. I've chose not

575
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:23,239
Speaker 1: to do a mention. I can't do a shout out.

576
00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:25,600
Speaker 1: I won't do a mention. But this guy Cashless Clay

577
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:29,720
Speaker 1: is a big fan of the show, and his lady there, Carly,

578
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:33,360
Speaker 1: and the family dog Ginger. They all, from what I understand,

579
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 1: where brown bags. When they watch the Saints, they have

580
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:39,480
Speaker 1: the family all has matching brown bags. Isn't that romantic?

581
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:42,719
Speaker 1: Isn't that the family that brown bags? It is the

582
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:45,839
Speaker 1: family that loves it. And that's the NFL's version though,

583
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:52,200
Speaker 1: of I'm not mad, i am numb and I'm disappointed,

584
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 1: and that is the real The numbness is the real

585
00:34:56,160 --> 00:35:00,200
Speaker 1: swamp monster. That's the real swamp monster. Because, as I

586
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:04,400
Speaker 1: have pointed out for many many years here, the cheat

587
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 1: code in sports is not anger. People don't get up saying,

588
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:11,720
Speaker 1: oh I don't like they're saying mean things about my dream.

589
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:14,960
Speaker 1: They don't get upset about that the real profession. There's

590
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,879
Speaker 1: some amateur people that work in sports that are you know,

591
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:20,759
Speaker 1: they have thin skin, their weasels, they get upset. Most

592
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:26,040
Speaker 1: people don't. Anger means you're still engaged. It's the other

593
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 1: a word apathy. That's code three light sirens, paramedics sprinting

594
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:38,239
Speaker 1: in with life saving equipment because the fan base just flatlined,

595
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:42,440
Speaker 1: is what that is. And you know it's bad when

596
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:46,680
Speaker 1: Gail Benson, who's older than dirt, breaks out the she

597
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:49,440
Speaker 1: breaks out of the billionaire bunker she's living in somewhere

598
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:53,320
Speaker 1: in the Louisiana there to talk to the local newspaper,

599
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:55,960
Speaker 1: because why not, that's what old people do, They talk

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00:35:56,040 --> 00:36:01,880
Speaker 1: to newspapers. But billionaires generally don't grant inner unless something

601
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 1: smells just not right and you know, a toxic kind

602
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 1: of odor in the air, like that kind of thing.

603
00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:13,239
Speaker 1: So the mal report card of this is a big

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00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:16,400
Speaker 1: old a and again it's for apathy. It's the kiss

605
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:19,279
Speaker 1: of death. It is the kiss of death. And you

606
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:23,680
Speaker 1: can't sell season tickets to zombies. They've tried. They don't pay.

607
00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:28,279
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore was supposed to be the boy Wonder of

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00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:32,719
Speaker 1: offensive football. At one point, he was the coach and

609
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:37,360
Speaker 1: waiting for the Dallas Cowboys. Imagine that the Dallas Cowboys

610
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:39,560
Speaker 1: at one point were like, we got to hire this guy.

611
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:44,520
Speaker 1: We we think this guy is amazing. And then now

612
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:47,440
Speaker 1: you look at where we are, and it's like he left,

613
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:50,440
Speaker 1: he went to the Chargers, went to the Eagles, bounced

614
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:54,279
Speaker 1: around the whole thing, all right though, the whole thing,

615
00:36:55,120 --> 00:37:00,439
Speaker 1: and now you're like, okay, so you're serving up right now,

616
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:05,600
Speaker 1: you're serving up spoiled gumbo with maggots and a side

617
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 1: of cornbread with crunchy cockroaches. That's her offense twenty six

618
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:13,520
Speaker 1: in the NFL. That's not an offense. That is like

619
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 1: a crime scene with that yellow tape wrapped around it

620
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:20,359
Speaker 1: is what that is. And so the malar malfeasance meter

621
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:25,319
Speaker 1: is redlining. The mallor malfeasance meter is redlining on this one.

622
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:29,799
Speaker 1: If More doesn't fix this, he is going to be

623
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 1: gumbo canned right out of the Big Easy. So I

624
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 1: do believe that that is legit. There's something to that

625
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:37,760
Speaker 1: particular story.

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00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:40,200
Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller

627
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

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00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 1: It's mallar, how about that?

629
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Speaker 2: To the third degree, this is one Big Ben gets grilled.

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00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 1: Coobler.

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Speaker 5: Thravens signed tight end Mark Andrews to a three year

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Speaker 5: contract extension that makes him the sixth highest paid tight

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Speaker 5: end in the league, and this had a lot of

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Speaker 5: fans scratching their heads, as many think Andrews was on

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Speaker 5: the decline. Ben, was this a mistake by Baltimore?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it seems like something that didn't have to happen.

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Speaker 1: And after he blew the playoff game when he dropped

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Speaker 1: a two point conversion, he imploded. I thought, there's no

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Speaker 1: way he's going to come back. He must be so

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Speaker 1: tight with Harball and the executives in Baltimore that that's

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Speaker 1: part of the deal. They gave him the extra you know,

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Speaker 1: he only got a couple of years left. They give

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Speaker 1: him the big money. He's been a great player for them.

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Speaker 1: But it doesn't seem like it. It's not worthless, but

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Speaker 1: it doesn't seem like that's a smart move. Next.

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Speaker 5: Prior to Giannis and Tetakumpo getting injured in the Bucks

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Speaker 5: game on Wednesday, Doc Rivers denied reports that the team

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Speaker 5: has been talking with Giannis about a potential exit from

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Speaker 5: the franchise, saying Giannis has never asked to be traded. Ever,

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Speaker 5: I can't make that more clear. Do you believe him?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Well, the only problem with Doc and I was

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Speaker 1: around Doc a lot with the Clippers. Is the reason

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Speaker 1: I don't believe him is because his lips were moving.

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Speaker 1: That's why no used to come on stalk ever been honest? Ever,

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Speaker 1: I mean, why would he be honest? Now? You know,

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Speaker 1: I don't believe that at all. If Jannis is gonna

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Speaker 1: get traded eventually, it's just a matter of when trade deadlines.

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Speaker 1: February fifth, next.

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Speaker 5: Ben The Oklahoma City Thunder off to it and a

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Speaker 5: historic start, winning just twenty one of their first twenty

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Speaker 5: two games and winning their games by an average of

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Speaker 5: fifteen points. Domination has led some to believe that they

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Speaker 5: could challenge the Warriors record of seventy three wins.

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Speaker 1: Are they that good? They already have twenty one wins

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Speaker 1: in twenty two game yesterday. They're they're not that good,

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Speaker 1: They're not that popular. But the answer is yes, they

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Speaker 1: can challenge the record. How do we know you pass

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Speaker 1: this edition? All Right, that's a win. I got another win.

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Speaker 1: That's a win for me. Gotta win. That's a win. Oh.

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

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Speaker 2: dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to

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Speaker 2: listen live. Knock knock, who's there? Blame week? Blame week too.

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Speaker 2: It's Big Man's late joke of the week.

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Speaker 1: By the way we go, it's Big Ben's lame jokes

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Speaker 1: the week. Each and every week at about this time,

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Speaker 1: it's Big Ben's lame Jokes the week. And we welcome

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Speaker 1: in my sidekick two segments a week. What a big star.

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Speaker 1: This man is weed Man, hippie from Hollywood, Florida. Hello,

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Speaker 1: weed Man Man, Thank you so much with Monday nice.

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Speaker 1: I loved it. Mondays with the weed Man Mondays into

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Speaker 1: Tuesdays kind of technically early as we swing the balance

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Speaker 1: over there to early on the on the Tuesday. All right,

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Speaker 1: are you ready to laugh? Weed Man? Are you ready?

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Speaker 1: All right? I hope you're happy that so many people

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Speaker 1: from coast to coast and around the world love busting

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Speaker 1: your balls weed Man. They just love it. They love

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Speaker 1: goofing on you. I love it, all right. Yeah, And

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Speaker 1: that's the great thing. You can laugh at yourself. And

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Speaker 1: that's a great gift if you can laugh at yourself.

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Speaker 1: Here we go, because he has long hair. What did

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Speaker 1: weed Man say when someone asked if he was bisexual?

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Speaker 3: Ah?

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Speaker 1: What he said, Nope, I've never paid for it ever

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Speaker 1: never Surfer Todd the comedian. Why is weed Man's belief

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Speaker 1: that he can change the world? What is what is

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Speaker 1: weed Man's belief that he can change the world based

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Speaker 1: on what high hopes? That's a chip in Maine. These

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Speaker 1: are actual jokes by actual listeners. If it's an overnight success,

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Speaker 1: if you would like to send jokes in care of

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Speaker 1: Ben Mahlor show Ben Mallor Show at gmail dot com.

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Speaker 1: Why was weed Man walking around Miami with a limp

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Speaker 1: in a cane? Why he was promoting lame jokes? That's

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Speaker 1: Joe in Virginia Beach. You sent that one in? Well,

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Speaker 1: this is interesting. I don't think we've gotten any jokes

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Speaker 1: from this guy before The hut Hut specialist rights and

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Speaker 1: he says, why did weed Man hippie? Why did his

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Speaker 1: toy store in New York clothes? Why? Well, apparently weed

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Speaker 1: Man had no concept that he was supposed to order

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Speaker 1: new toys once they were sold. That's at you saw

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Speaker 1: that one. You sold that one cabbage patch doll in

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six, and you forgot to order more. Why

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Speaker 1: did we Man? Why did all right, we'll see what.

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Speaker 1: Why didn't weed Man? Why didn't weed man get any

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Speaker 1: turkey on Thanksgiving even though he only had two guests.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, why not? Well, apparently your guests were Bartolo

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Speaker 1: Cologne and Lizzo. That's from Brendan from busting lame jokes

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Speaker 1: over the years, we used to just bust Bartolo Colone's balls.

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Speaker 1: Then he retired, Then we moved to Lizzo. Now we've

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Speaker 1: moved to weed Man. How do you know when life

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Speaker 1: is tough? Oh, because you catch yourself being jealous of

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Speaker 1: weed Man having his own segment on the radio show.

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Speaker 1: That's a Noah in Austin. Then why why should weed

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Speaker 1: Man create an email? Why? Well, he'll never go hungry

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Speaker 1: with all the spam he's going to get. That's Noah

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Speaker 1: in Austin. Then they even have a folder a spamful er.

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Speaker 1: Why did weed Man leave New York City? Uh, there's

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Speaker 1: actually three reasons. Why how about that?

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Speaker 2: Why?

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Speaker 1: Well, the team sucked, the weather sucks, and there are

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Speaker 1: no hurricanes there either. That's Mike the Leprechaun. What what

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Speaker 1: kind of hippie is weed Man? What come he's a

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Speaker 1: dang dirty hippie. That's Drue in Minnesota. Why what is

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Speaker 1: the weed Man's favorite thing about the romantic novels. What

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Speaker 1: besides all the pipe he really likes the hair owin Heroin? Right,

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Speaker 1: but Drew and I screwed up Drew in Minnesota? You

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Speaker 1: got the joke? What else do we have this here?

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Speaker 1: What is and Coop hoping to find at the end

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Speaker 1: of the rainbow? What a gold of pot is that

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Speaker 1: they'd like to find there?

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Speaker 5: Now?

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Speaker 1: The most? It is interesting. The most popular girl's name

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five was Olivia. And what was the

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Speaker 1: most popular boy's name? What? Tyreek Hill Junior? That's uncle Uncle.

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Speaker 1: What's the saddest part of Scott's dating life? Unfortunately every

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Speaker 1: single date it's a blind date. That's a Bobby in Florida.

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Speaker 1: How cold is it in Minnesota?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Cold? It's so cold that hollering James claims that he's

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Speaker 1: an Eskimo. That's econ Roseville, Minnesota. What's Jed who Fled's

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Speaker 1: favorite place to spend Christmas? Yea, his favorite place Jed

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Speaker 1: who fled? The little town of meth Laham. That's Dan

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Speaker 1: in South Carolina. Baker weaed Man. Lame jokes of the

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Speaker 1: Week