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Speaker 1: We are back at it here on early early Wednesday

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Speaker 1: for most still late Tuesday night in the West, and

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Speaker 1: we begin this hour from Dallas. Yes, we begin from Deuskin. Now,

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Speaker 1: the NBA players, with all those nights off for load management,

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Speaker 1: they needed more time off. Do you think the NBA

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Speaker 1: players were in there on their sabbatical they like, say,

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Speaker 1: I can't go to the beach today. I got to

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Speaker 1: rest up so I can go to the beach tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: Does it just is like that that disease is in

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Speaker 3: their mind.

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Speaker 1: They're like, Oh, you know what, I was out drinking

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Speaker 1: and I was in the sun for four hours yesterday,

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna I'm gonna kind of sit back a

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Speaker 1: little bit in the in the hammock thing and I

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Speaker 1: don't want to be out in sun too much, the

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Speaker 1: father to day. Well, anyway, that's not the story. The

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Speaker 1: story here is Mark Cuban, who owned an NBA team,

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Speaker 1: sold an NBA team, and has been leaking stories to

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Speaker 1: his buddies the useful idiots in the media that he

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Speaker 1: wants to buy an NBA team again, which is rather

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Speaker 1: interesting when you consider the former majority owner of the

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Speaker 1: Mavericks says that the fan experience, the experience you have

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Speaker 1: if you attend an NBA game, is the main reason

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Speaker 1: that the NBA should embrace should embrace teams trying to lose,

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Speaker 1: better known by it's colloquial term tanking.

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Speaker 3: Do you see this?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 3: Maybe not all right?

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Speaker 1: Well, Mark Cuban with a bunch of errors because he

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Speaker 1: did it on X and I guess he decided not

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Speaker 1: to spell check it. Maybe he fired the person that

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Speaker 1: was supposed to spell check him, and he said, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna clean this up because if I read all the typos,

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Speaker 1: it would really work. But Cuban said that the NBA

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Speaker 1: has been misguided this quote misguided in thinking that fans

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Speaker 1: want to see their teams compete every night with a

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Speaker 1: chance to win. It's never ever been that way. Cuban

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Speaker 1: went on to say, when I got into the NBA,

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Speaker 1: I thought Cuban said that they were in the basketball business.

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Speaker 3: We aren't. Cuban said, okay, we are in the.

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Speaker 3: God so good.

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Speaker 1: He went on to say, seemingly with a straight face,

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Speaker 1: they saw or went to. They can't remember the dungk

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Speaker 1: so the shots. What they remember is who they were

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Speaker 1: with their family, their friends, a date. Cuban said, that's

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Speaker 1: what makes the experienced special. Close quote so good. I

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Speaker 1: can't believe this is real, all right, So that is

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Speaker 1: a good jumping out point. Let us discuss the question

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Speaker 1: for the class. What is the big takeaway from Mark Cuban,

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Speaker 1: who owned an NBA team for years, saying that the

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Speaker 1: NBA should just indorse tanking. They should indorse tanking. Now

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Speaker 1: my thoughts on this, I've got Chuck E Cheese, Lone Ranger,

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Speaker 1: and Lazy Susan and we will combine all of these

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Speaker 1: to have a delicious dish of spaghetti and meatballs, is

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Speaker 1: what we're going to have. So a congratulations to Mark Cuban,

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Speaker 1: and I would like to congratulate mister Cuban.

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Speaker 3: There he wins the gold jacket.

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Speaker 1: This goes down as a first ballot haul of bad

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Speaker 1: take winner. Congratulations Mark, what a great business strategy. Let's

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Speaker 1: have some of our imagine, you know, pick any restaurant here,

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Speaker 1: just pick a random, random restaurant. We'll say, well, I'll

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Speaker 1: back Outback. I will pick Outback. We know our friend Louisiana,

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Speaker 3: So let's say Outback, and I know they haven't done.

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Speaker 1: why don't we have like, we'll have ten or fifteen

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Speaker 1: franchises that work for the company. We'll try to serve disgusting,

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Speaker 1: cockroach filled blooming onions. Okay, why not, Well they don't

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Speaker 1: do that. Why don't they do that because it's stupid.

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Speaker 1: It's dumb, dumb, du dumb, dumb dumb. So Cuban, if

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Speaker 1: I understand right, he thinks the paying customer is a

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Speaker 1: complete moron. And maybe you are. I mean, he could

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Speaker 1: Maybe he's absolutely right. Uh, And you don't know anything

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Speaker 1: That's what Cuban thinks. You're so stupid that you just

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Speaker 1: go out there. It's a show, all right. You know,

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Speaker 1: he's essentially saying that the NBA not a sport. Not

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Speaker 1: a sport. It's like an adults Chuck e cheese and

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Speaker 1: it gets to get some tokens. Go play the ski ball,

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Speaker 1: knock yourself out, right, said Chuck E Cheese for adults.

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Speaker 3: That's what the NBA is. At this point. You don't

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Speaker 3: remember the dunks, you don't remember the shots. You just

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Speaker 3: remember that you were there. Ah. The memories, Oh, the memories,

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Speaker 1: Now the Mallard diagnosis, the Mallard diagnosis that Cuban is

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Speaker 1: suffering from what I call matrix level brain rot. Matrix

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Speaker 1: level brain rot. Now, this happens when you spend way

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Speaker 1: too much time on social media in a climate controlled environment.

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Speaker 1: You don't get out in the real world. This is

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Speaker 1: what happens. And we do these Mallard meet and greets,

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Speaker 1: And I learn every time I do one of those things,

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Speaker 1: the people that I come across are nothing like whatever

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Speaker 1: that thing is on social media. It's much different world.

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Speaker 1: The real world is much different than that world. And

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Speaker 1: Cubans got this warped sense of reality. It would appear

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Speaker 1: if he thinks that's it. He's defending the man's defending

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Speaker 1: grade a low grade product by calling it an experience.

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Speaker 1: So why would any business attempt to put quality in

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Speaker 3: It's just an experience. It doesn't matter who cares because.

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Speaker 1: The other issue here, and this is why I think

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Speaker 1: Cuban's either a moron or he's doing some kind of

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Speaker 1: trick here. The downstream liability of what the NBA is

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Speaker 1: doing is insane to the membrane. Right, you serve up

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Speaker 1: lukewarm bowls of competitive apathy. The deadliest word in all

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Speaker 1: of sport is apathy. And you do that year after year,

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Speaker 1: and what happens is fans stop making memories, they stop

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Speaker 1: even knowing you exist. You become irrelevant. You're an afterthought,

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Speaker 1: is what you are. Right and consistent, It's been proven.

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Speaker 1: Consistency losing year after year. It isn't just a strategy.

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Speaker 1: If you will, it is anthrax for your business. It is,

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Speaker 1: and it can it. Just know that it drives away.

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Speaker 1: People don't watch bad teams on television. While you say, wow,

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Speaker 3: It just it.

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Speaker 1: It's a TV show people watch on television. That's how

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Speaker 1: they make their money. They're all actors in the TV show.

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Speaker 1: It's been that way and as long as they can

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Speaker 1: find people to pay them money. And they just got

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Speaker 1: a new TV contract, that's what's about. And you look

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Speaker 1: at the ratings of teams that have tanked and are

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Speaker 1: not trying to win and have terribleor no one's watching.

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Speaker 1: You think anone's watching a Washington Wizards game. Why would

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Speaker 1: you you should go to a looney bin. They're not

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Speaker 3: You'd be better off staring at the blank wall over

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Speaker 3: here to my left, you'd be better off.

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Speaker 1: So people don't don't watch losers and you are a

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Speaker 1: TV show, so you're driving away your audience. You know

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Speaker 1: how hard it is to get people back. I do

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Speaker 1: a radios sho. I know how hard it is when

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Speaker 3: In the world. It's not.

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Speaker 1: And if the outcome of these games does not matter,

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Speaker 1: If that doesn't matter, then the NBA is just what

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Speaker 1: is it? A light show with girls shaking their ass cheerleading?

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Speaker 1: I guess that's it. What if the cheerleaders are bad, Well,

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Speaker 1: it's an experience. Okay, thank you appreciate that. Now, keeping

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Speaker 1: Mahl Show, So we are hearing that the main reason

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Speaker 1: Commissioner Adam Silver recently has attempted to unring the bell,

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Speaker 1: cracking down on late game tanking by the Utah Jazz

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Speaker 3: That said, the NBA.

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Speaker 1: The the theory is the reason all of a sudden,

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Speaker 3: Well, this has been going on under his entire watch,

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Speaker 1: Before he was there. It's because of the g man gamblers.

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Speaker 3: That's why. So question.

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Speaker 1: What sticks out about the chatter that Adam Silver is

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Speaker 3: All right, So the cartoon image in my head on

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Speaker 1: And the images Commissioner Adam Silver suddenly riding in into

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Speaker 1: He's the lone Ranger and he's got his lasso and

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Speaker 1: he's gonna lasso tanking and he says, hi oh Silver.

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Speaker 1: And because he's Adam Silver, he says hi oh Silver,

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Speaker 1: just like the lone Ranger. Keeping it real, now, Adam

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Speaker 3: We know that is not the case, it's not about

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Speaker 1: That ship sailed many many years ago, and it actually

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Speaker 1: bottom of the Atlantic Division.

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Speaker 3: Is where that is.

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Speaker 1: But so Silver is looking to pacify his business partners,

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Speaker 1: foul here, like what are you.

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Speaker 3: Doing to us, dude? I mean, come on, now, that's

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Speaker 1: So the NBA is so deep and I like gambling,

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Speaker 1: but they're so deeply they're so deeply in bed with

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Speaker 1: the bookmakers the NBA that they're practically sharing the same pillow.

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Speaker 1: They're cuddling and canoodling and spooning with the gambling houses.

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Speaker 3: So Silver isn't worried.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: He's not worried about the fan. Of course, we know

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Speaker 1: Mark Cuban thinks you're all a bunch of idiots. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: you loved teams losing. So Silver isn't worried about the fans.

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Speaker 1: He's worried about the disgruntled whales. And there are some

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Speaker 1: Hour is from the world of Pro football and Seattle

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Speaker 1: days after, just days after a rollicking good time on

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Speaker 3: So number so a reminder life comes at you fast.

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Speaker 1: Just a few days ago that Kenneth Walker was seemingly

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Speaker 1: But in order for you to stay, we need a

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Speaker 1: And they're telling Kenneth Walker, even though you are the

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Speaker 3: Is what you are. You're a diaper, a disposable diaper.

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Speaker 1: And you were great and it's wonderful. But there's no

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Speaker 3: Is not gonna happen. You just run into piles. It's

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Speaker 1: Just to be clear, I wouldn't pay it running back

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Speaker 1: They're a classy operation and they keep their guys around

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Speaker 3: We don't really want you.

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Speaker 1: And so they're like, I mean, they're they're leaking it out.

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Speaker 1: We want JSN. That's what we want. And and it

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Speaker 1: and that's it. And they're really double dog daring. The

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Speaker 3: Go see if somebody else will give you all the time.

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Speaker 3: But I want the toys here now.

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Speaker 1: He wants to stay there. It's got a good thing

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Speaker 1: that will overpay a running back, whether that is Jerry

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Speaker 1: Jones and the Dallas Cowboys. The Steelers need an upgrade

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Speaker 1: at running back. They don't normally do things like that.

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Speaker 1: There's a bunch of teams that have suspects at running back.

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Speaker 1: So if you're Kenneth Walker, I know I want to

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Speaker 1: stay on him. Don't you have to go somewhere else?

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Speaker 1: They don't want to pay it. The Seahawks have said

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Speaker 1: we don't want to pay it, So don't you have

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Speaker 1: to leave?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 1: I would think unless there's some kind of backroom deal

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Speaker 1: we don't know about, they're daring you to leave. And

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Speaker 1: that whole dopamine hit from winning the Super Ball and

446
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Speaker 1: how great that was, and the high which is addictive

447
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Speaker 1: of being the MVP and just a few.

448
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Speaker 3: Days later say yeah, we're good. We're good.

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Speaker 1: So it's either tight in the seatbelt a little bit

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Speaker 1: and you can hang out with Sasquatch for a couple

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Speaker 1: more years, or go out in the wild blue yonder

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Speaker 1: and walk down the winn A Mucker Road and see

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Speaker 1: if you can find somebody to pay.

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Speaker 3: And that's that. Now.

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Speaker 1: Page two, we go to Houston, a developing story, and

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Speaker 1: I know mister irrigation loves this idea. So the Texans

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Speaker 1: are saying, hey, we're all on board, we like our quarterback.

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Speaker 3: Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. However, we are

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Speaker 3: hearing chatter, and I love my chatter.

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Speaker 1: We're hearing chatter that Texans quarterback c Jay Stroud can

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Speaker 1: be yours if the price is right.

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Speaker 3: What are you talking about? That's outrageous? Uh not really,

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Speaker 3: not really.

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Speaker 1: Now Todd McShay, who used to be somebody and now

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Speaker 1: he's like another pod cast guy. But Todd McShay claims

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Speaker 1: it is a possibility. It is a possibility. He used

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Speaker 1: to be the NFL draft guru and then they fight

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Speaker 1: with mel Kiper and then they got rid of him.

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Speaker 1: He had some issues and so he's gone. So mcshay's

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Speaker 1: tossing it out there that CJ. Stroud could be yours

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Speaker 1: if the price is right. So the question again, it's

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Speaker 1: just a report. Texans are saying, we love our guy.

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Speaker 1: So what is the temperature in the room. What is

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Speaker 1: the temperature in the room around quarterback CJ Stroud for

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Speaker 1: the Texans going forward? So I looked and what I

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Speaker 1: did is I looked at the temperature in the mashed potatoes,

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Speaker 1: just some garlic mashed potatoes. And I looked at the

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Speaker 1: temperature of the garlic mashed potatoes.

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Speaker 3: Lukewarm. That's the temperature in the room. Lukewarm. Garlic mashed potatoes.

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Speaker 3: That's it.

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Speaker 2: C J.

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Speaker 1: Stroud is at this point a false start career penalty.

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Speaker 3: He is guilty of a false start.

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Speaker 1: Looked like he had arrived and was the man, big

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Speaker 1: man on campus at the start. To use a horse

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Speaker 1: racing analogy for our friends at Churchill Downs who listen, well,

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Speaker 1: we have one guy at Churchill Downs that listen. It's

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Speaker 1: like a racehorse sprinting out of the gate. You look

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Speaker 1: like Secretariat and you're just running and you're leading everybody

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Speaker 1: and you're dominating it. And for a quarter mile c J.

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Speaker 1: Stroud was the BEA's knees, Oh my god.

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Speaker 3: And then he.

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Speaker 1: Decided to pull over to the side of the track.

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Speaker 1: And he wanted to take a nap, and so he

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Speaker 1: took a nap.

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Speaker 3: C J. Stroud right on the rail. And he's been

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Speaker 3: taking a nap for two years in a row in

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Speaker 3: the playoffs, and so.

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Speaker 1: You thought you had your forever quarterback. It was skulduggery,

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Speaker 1: is what it was. It was just sculduggery. In the

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Speaker 1: last couple of years, he's looked more like a guy

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Speaker 1: c J. Stroud who should be running a mega church

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Speaker 1: as a full time televangelist, to be better at that, right,

504
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:05,240
Speaker 1: better at that than being a franchise quarterback. He just

505
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:07,920
Speaker 1: looks like he should That's what he should be doing.

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Speaker 1: He should be at televangelist and not a quarterback. That's

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Speaker 1: the way he's played now. I got a lot of

508
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Speaker 1: crap for my friends in Houston when I mentioned this

509
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Speaker 1: prior to last season, and.

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Speaker 3: You don't know what you're talking about. That's why you're

511
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Speaker 3: doing the overnight show. Blah blah blah blah blah blah

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Speaker 3: blah blah blah blah and your face.

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Speaker 1: I didn't hear for one of those losers because I

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Speaker 1: was proven correct.

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Speaker 4: C J.

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Speaker 1: Stroud validated the Mallard monologue. And now two years.

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Speaker 3: In a row.

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Speaker 1: And so we have now reached a fork in the

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Speaker 1: road and they changed coordinators. Right, They've had a championship

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00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,280
Speaker 1: level defense in Houston, They've gone through a couple offensive

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Speaker 1: coordinators there. The common denominator is c J. Stroud and

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Speaker 1: Houston is inching closer. They're inching closer to the Tua

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Speaker 1: zone or the Kyler Murray trap.

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Speaker 3: Year three entering year four, So you're already done with

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Speaker 3: three years in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: You got to decide that fifth year option thing and

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Speaker 1: whether you want to keep him if you pick up

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Speaker 1: the option. Those are all decisions that have to be made, right,

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Speaker 1: and then you have to said, is he the guy

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Speaker 1: that we're going to sign to a big contract? And

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Speaker 1: this is the mistake. So many of these teams make

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Speaker 1: guys that haven't shown they're the guy. They get paid

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Speaker 1: because you think they're gonna be the guy, and then

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Speaker 1: you get stuck. You get stuck with a stiff So

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Speaker 1: the doomsday clock.

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Speaker 3: On the future of c. J. Stroud continues. Is he

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Speaker 3: worthy of a massive paid it? No?

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Speaker 1: No, If you're related, I guess, but I'm not related

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Speaker 1: to him. I don't know the guy. No, Like I said,

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00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 1: he plays quarterback, like you should be a televangelist and

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Speaker 1: at megachurch, and there's plenty of them in Houston, so

542
00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:49,960
Speaker 1: he can pick which one he wants to work at.

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00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 1: But that's fine, And so is he worth aristocrat money?

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Speaker 1: No bueno, No, cannot do it now. Privately, my theory

545
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Speaker 1: you on this' it's like politicians. It's like politicians. You've

546
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:08,040
Speaker 1: got the public versus private. Privately, the Texans are all ears.

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00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:11,760
Speaker 1: Send us a text, you use your burner phone.

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00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 3: We'll figure this out. We'll figure this out together. Publicly.

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Speaker 1: Oh, we love our quarterback. We stand by our guy,

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Speaker 1: We support our quarterback. Way to go, We believe in

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00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 1: you and all this stuff. So at some point you

552
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,640
Speaker 1: have to wake up and be the adult in the

553
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Speaker 1: room and realize that you're.

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Speaker 3: Not that guy.

555
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:33,880
Speaker 1: Pout, You're not that guy. And that's the problem, and

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Speaker 1: that until proven otherwise, CJ. Stroud is a flash in

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Speaker 1: the pan.

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Speaker 3: That's it.

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Speaker 1: And the other problem is, even if he comes back

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Speaker 1: and plays well next NFL season, you still can't trust

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Speaker 1: him because you said two terrible seasons, So is that

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Speaker 1: an aberration? You got to play consistently well, You're gonna

563
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:52,840
Speaker 1: have a couple of bad games in a row. Whatever

564
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:55,640
Speaker 1: you gotta, you can't have back to back stinkers. And

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Speaker 1: he's not a big game quarterback. Did you see he

566
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:01,520
Speaker 1: puked all over himself? He rode the vomit comet in

567
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:02,360
Speaker 1: the playoff games?

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00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 3: All right? Now, final point?

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Speaker 1: Seeing right in vomit commt We go to Minnesota and

570
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,680
Speaker 1: there's a convoy of vomit commets in Minnesota.

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Speaker 3: And now C J. Stroud's bad. But if you do

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00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:14,680
Speaker 3: a side.

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Speaker 1: By side call the challenge, he is an all pro

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Speaker 1: compared to JJ McCarthy.

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Speaker 3: God is McCarthy bad.

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Speaker 1: His inability to run the offense in Minnesota has come

577
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Speaker 1: to light a dramatic report claiming the Vikings mid season

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Speaker 1: dumped their playbook, much of their playbook.

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Speaker 3: Did you see this?

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Speaker 1: No? So the reporting is that McCarthy was so bad.

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Speaker 1: How bad was he? He was so bad that the

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Speaker 1: Vikings removed almost all of the over the middle passing

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Speaker 1: concepts during the season to dumb down the playbook. Because

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Speaker 1: even though McCarthy played all those games at Michigan and

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Speaker 1: all this, he's a dumb dumb so they had they

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Speaker 1: had water down the playbook. So the question can you

587
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Speaker 1: put into context what this report of the Vikings chopping

588
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Speaker 1: down the playbook, getting read of the over the middle

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Speaker 1: passing plays for JJ McCarthy means. So I will put

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Speaker 1: it in a context, Crank up the old boombox here

591
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 1: as the Great Alice Cooper screeched back in his day.

592
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:29,200
Speaker 1: No more, mister nice guy. That's the Vikings, No more,

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Speaker 1: mister nice guys. What they're saying, it's exactly what the

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Speaker 1: Viking report. That report sounds like to me. That's that's

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Speaker 1: what it sounds like to me. It's like, Hey, Kevin

596
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:42,520
Speaker 1: O'Connell and the Viking coaching staff, they took that playbook

597
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 1: and they walked into the room with the paper.

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Speaker 3: Shredder and they shredded it.

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Speaker 1: They did a bunch of delete, delete delete on the tablets,

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Speaker 1: the files they had to get rid of, and they said, hey, JJ, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: what we're gonna need the Fisher Price version for you.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna the Fisher Price playbook for JJ McCarthy. They

603
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,719
Speaker 1: put training wheels on a Harley Davidson. You don't draft

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Speaker 1: a quarterback in the first round. I don't need to

605
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 1: tell you this, and he sits out his first year

606
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:15,040
Speaker 1: is a red shirt and then you have to dumb

607
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:19,480
Speaker 1: down the playbook because he's incompetent, Like that's so embarrassing.

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Speaker 3: My god, bubble wrapped the quarterback. You got hurt anyway.

609
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Speaker 3: So as far as the leak, we always ask the

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00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:32,800
Speaker 3: question who leaked it? Why leak it? Now? Well, who

611
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:33,360
Speaker 3: leaked it?

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Speaker 1: You think JJ McCarthy's people leaked the fact that he's

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Speaker 1: a moron and doesn't know the plays.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna go know, So it's the vikings. Why would

615
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Speaker 3: you leak it? Not?

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Speaker 1: Well, you're leaking it now to let people know that

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Speaker 1: you're gonna bring in another quarterback and that the reason

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00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:51,520
Speaker 1: you're doing that is because your current quarterback is a

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Speaker 1: Dodo bird and that's why you have to do it.

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Speaker 1: So it was not accidental. I don't believe the leak

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Speaker 1: was accidental. It was the organization Minnesota quietly turning off

622
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 1: the star Trek deflector shields. They turn them off, and

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Speaker 1: that's it, and they're preparing to bring in somebody else.

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00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 1: And whoever they bring in is also gonna stink most likely,

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00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:19,480
Speaker 1: So you'll get that. But you don't simplify unless you

626
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,719
Speaker 1: have no other options, Like that's a total panic move, right,

627
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:24,839
Speaker 1: that's an I mean, everyone agree, that's a panic move

628
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:25,399
Speaker 1: by the Viking.

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Speaker 3: You don't dumb.

630
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:32,400
Speaker 1: Things down unless the test scores are coming back in crayon,

631
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Speaker 1: and you're like, what man thinking about? McCarthy had justin Jefferson,

632
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:43,680
Speaker 1: top five receiver in the NFL, who was neutered Jordan Addison,

633
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:48,680
Speaker 1: great player, right, good player? And the Vikings ranked twenty

634
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 1: ninth in passing offense, twenty ninth in passing offense. That

635
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:58,880
Speaker 1: is not development, That is demolition. That is a dereliction

636
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:01,080
Speaker 1: of duties, is what they And so the message is

637
00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 1: rather clear. The gloves are off, the kid gloves are off,

638
00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:09,120
Speaker 1: and the Vikings are in the quarterback market, whether that's

639
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:13,040
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins coming back or taking a flyer on two,

640
00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 1: a tongue of my lower or something like that the

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00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 1: Game of Musical Chairs.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller

643
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:23,120
Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

644
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:25,839
Speaker 3: It's Mallard. How about that?

645
00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:31,120
Speaker 2: To the third degree? This is one big THENT gets

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00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:31,799
Speaker 2: quilled all.

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00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:32,320
Speaker 3: Right, Google.

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00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 4: Mike Vrabel said this week that the Patriots have quotes

649
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:38,720
Speaker 4: built the foundation, but need to improve.

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00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:41,520
Speaker 3: Where do you think they need to improve the most.

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Speaker 1: They need better wide receivers. They need at least one

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Speaker 1: stud wide receiver, and really that's it, other than a

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Speaker 1: little bit better of an offensive line. And they set

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Speaker 1: the foundation they have to prove and validate this following

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Speaker 1: year against when they play a tougher schedule that they're

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Speaker 1: not fraud They're not gonna have as good a rec

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Speaker 1: next year, but they have to legitimize it. So I

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Speaker 1: would go out and get a you know, Aj Brown,

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Speaker 1: someone like that next.

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Speaker 4: It is being reported that Jason Tatum will potentially make

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Speaker 4: his return to the court for the Celtics on March first, Ben,

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Speaker 4: do you think Tatum's return has these Celtics poised for

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Speaker 4: a finals run?

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Speaker 1: Well, first of all, they're already in position. There is

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Speaker 1: no one I am. I'm a glutton for punchment. I

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Speaker 1: ripped the NBA all the time, but I have it

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Speaker 1: on the background and I don't see anyone in the

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Speaker 1: Eastern Conference that is invincible. So they're right in the

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Speaker 1: middle of it already. So yes, assuming Tatum's actually going

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Speaker 1: to be able to stay healthy and play and all that,

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Speaker 1: the Celtics have a shot to get to the NBA Finals.

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Speaker 1: There's no dominant team in the Eastern Conference, and he's

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Speaker 1: doing that for NBC next.

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Speaker 3: So Steven A.

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Speaker 4: Smith recently took a shot at Ben Simmons, who was

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Speaker 4: no longer in the NBA. They were asked why he

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Speaker 4: keeps taking shots to him. He said he will keep

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Speaker 4: catching strays as long as he is alive. He said,

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Speaker 4: there's no bigger thief in the history of the NBA

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Speaker 4: than that man, Ben. Do you agree with that, No

681
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Speaker 4: bigger thief?

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Speaker 3: Financially?

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Speaker 1: You would say Ben Simmons is at the very top

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Speaker 1: money wise. I mean, there's been a lot of guys

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Speaker 1: stealing money in the NBA. Made of them played for

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Speaker 1: the Clippers as Ben Simmons did. How about Stephen A

687
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Speaker 1: running for president?

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Speaker 2: Cook?

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Speaker 3: How about that? I vote for him, You vote for him.

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Speaker 3: I just want somebody I know to be president. I

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Speaker 3: know him. I'd be cool. No, he's not gonna win,

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Speaker 3: all right.

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

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Speaker 2: listen live.

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Speaker 3: It's up It Buzz with Little Rain and ten nine

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Speaker 3: Clean Up.

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Speaker 5: Hearts going to help you gear Rye, gear Rye and

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Speaker 5: nine gear Rye and nine.

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Speaker 3: Dear Rye.

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Speaker 6: That's right, you heard the man.

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Speaker 5: It is officially time for love here on the Ben

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Speaker 5: Mallor Show.

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Speaker 6: M I love love. And you know, Coop just asked

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Speaker 6: me a really good question.

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Speaker 3: Was it on the air?

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Speaker 5: No, no, no, but he was wondering, you know which

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Speaker 5: Winter Olympics sport do you think would be the best lovers? Okay,

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Speaker 5: I think obviously ice skaters because they're super flexible.

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Speaker 6: You can put them in any position you want, bend

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Speaker 6: them like a preza.

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Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know what sport.

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Speaker 1: I did see a photo somebody sent me of some

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Speaker 1: women in those kat suits.

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Speaker 3: They looked very very speed skaters. Who they are?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Oh my god, holy yeah?

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Speaker 3: Wow?

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Speaker 1: All right, yeah, okay, here we go, Lorena far out

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Speaker 1: Dave says, can you burn out the oh yeah, right

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Speaker 1: there button just like the first gear on a transmission.

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Speaker 3: I'm asking for a friend.

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Speaker 6: Do I have that button? Is that a button?

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Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know what he's far out, Dave,

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Speaker 3: I don't know what he's talking about.

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Speaker 1: Andy and Lionel Lakes, Minnesota, writes and he says I'm

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Speaker 1: glad Valentine's Day is behind this long story short. I

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Speaker 1: picked up some eatable boxer shorts for myself to spice

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Speaker 1: things up last Saturday. When my gal on Sunday woke

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Speaker 1: up with e coli and pink eye, she's not happy.

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Speaker 3: Oh I'm never shopping there again.

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Speaker 5: Oh, you got to get the right candy edible Endi's

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Speaker 5: if you're going to do that.

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Speaker 6: They have a bunch of different ones.

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Speaker 3: There a black market for edible No you Spencers.

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Speaker 5: But I also heard Amazon is really good for a

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Speaker 5: little like smut stuff like that. Yeah, but you can

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Speaker 5: do like you know, those candy necklaces that you bite,

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Speaker 5: bite little people. They make those in thongs and boxers.

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Speaker 5: So yeah, you can get to chewing baby.

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Speaker 1: Imagine making your money making that, all right? Bird Dog

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Speaker 1: writes in and says, do girls like it? Do girls

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Speaker 1: like it when it rains?

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Speaker 2: Awe?

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Speaker 3: Or does it frighten them?

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Speaker 5: I love it when it rains. I actually sleep with

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Speaker 5: my window open when it happens. I just went outside

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Speaker 5: here doing the break to see it, put my face up,

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Speaker 5: got some of the eyeball.

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Speaker 3: It was bad. I do love the I think the

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Speaker 3: answer is both.

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Speaker 4: My wife said, she loves the rain, but then when

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Speaker 4: I leave for work, she's texting me that it sounds scary.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, there's that. It's just like hailing last

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Speaker 3: last night. Get aggressive here, Yes it does.

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Speaker 1: JT, the wingman from outside Knoxville, Tennessee, rights in our

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Speaker 1: pal He says, went on a road trip to Florida

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Speaker 1: with your significant other in the overnight? Who gets to

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Speaker 1: choose the radio station? I'm asking for a friend.

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Speaker 6: Whoever's the driver?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true.

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Speaker 1: JT's a He's a legendary driver, so I would think

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Speaker 1: he would get to decide.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it always has to be the driver because the

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Speaker 5: driver has to stay like awake.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Shane and Moyne says, for the Lorena, which athletes and the

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Speaker 1: major sports? Does the Queen find the sexiest NBA, NHL, NFL,

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Speaker 1: or MLB.

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Speaker 5: Oh, it's got to it's gotta be.

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Speaker 3: All the above. I don't know.

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Speaker 6: That's got to be the NFL, NFL. Yeah, I love

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Speaker 6: a big man.

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Speaker 3: What about hockey, though, there's some big I worked.

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Speaker 5: With hockey players, used to work at the Honda Center,

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Speaker 5: and I never yeah, I never really catch it on those.

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Speaker 3: Ones, all right, Bobby and Florida, Keevi and Pop.

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Speaker 1: Bobby says, how do you fix a situation where your

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Speaker 1: woman said, don't do anything for Valentine's Day?

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Speaker 3: So you didn't, but she didn't really meet it. That's

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Speaker 3: the oldest in the woman's plightbook.

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Speaker 1: All this trek in the Woman's Plightbook is to say,

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Speaker 1: don't do anything.

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Speaker 3: No, you all you women do that, Larta, Bobby, you

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Speaker 3: all do it.

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Speaker 6: Shouldn't have done that. You know better, you know better.

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Speaker 6: But they play mind games.

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Speaker 3: Exactly hate that. Say what you want and want what

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Speaker 3: you say? That's what I say.

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Speaker 6: You have to read my mind.

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Speaker 3: No, I'm not No.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller

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Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Attention everyone,

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Speaker 2: and the password is password, you idiot, password the word

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Speaker 2: Game of the Stars. Here's Ben Meler.

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Speaker 1: Oh, yes, do it? Password the word Game of the Stars.

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Speaker 1: And we welcome in our contestants. We have Mark in

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Speaker 1: the north end.

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Speaker 3: Who's going to play?

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Speaker 1: Hello, Mark, welcome. You gotta get some WS. I know

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Speaker 1: you're working right now. You try you're beating the traffic, right,

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Speaker 1: you're beating the traffic? Yes, all right, Mark, you are

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Speaker 1: going to play a password. Hold on a second, and

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Speaker 1: Mike the Leprecaun is gonna play.

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Speaker 3: Hello that Mike the Leprecaun. Alright, so look at you Wednesday,

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Speaker 3: all right? Happy? Yes, I don't know if you say happy,

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Speaker 3: but you just did. All right? Mark, who do you

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Speaker 3: want to partner up with?

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Speaker 1: Here?

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Speaker 3: Mark?

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Speaker 2: You're the man, I'm.

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Speaker 3: The man, man, how coul you be a man? Scotty

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Speaker 3: forrel you man? You man, I'm a man? All right?

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Speaker 2: Very good?

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Speaker 3: All right, very good. You're gonna play. And Mike the Leprecaun.

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Speaker 3: You've got Florina and Coop Mike the Leprechaun.

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Speaker 5: Let me think about it for one second.

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Speaker 3: All right, all right, very good, Mark. We have a

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Speaker 3: list of words.

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Speaker 6: Can we call him the leper instead?

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Speaker 1: We one to ten? One to ten and number three?

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Speaker 1: Al right, word number three, let's go with Let's go

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Speaker 1: with the clue?

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Speaker 3: Is uh uh? Integrate? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: But they both gave the right end, you see that, Coop,

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Speaker 1: Mike idiot.

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Speaker 3: I'm all right, that's save points.

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Speaker 1: Go ahead there, Coop, Mike the leppertn picking number one

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Speaker 1: to ten, please not three.

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Speaker 3: It's your guy, Coop, that's your guy. Uh a novel book.

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Speaker 1: Yes, all right, there you were tied to ten, and

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Speaker 1: back to you Marky. Mark picked eight, number one to ten,

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Speaker 1: but not two.

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Speaker 3: Not three?

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Speaker 1: Number one?

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Speaker 3: All right, number one.

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Speaker 1: Let's go with uh Jubilee.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: I can't believe you got a good job.

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Speaker 3: Good job, Mark pick not picking number Mike.

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Speaker 5: Oh, what's up?

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Speaker 3: Four to ten? Yeah? Alright? Come on? Oh bees yeah, alright.

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Speaker 1: Well, the good news is everyone got him right. The

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Speaker 1: bad news is it's a damn tie. It's a tie.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to tie.

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Speaker 3: Who wants to tie?