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Speaker 1: God bless football Mikey a.

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Speaker 2: God blessed football studots.

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Speaker 3: We are very excited today because an old friend makes

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Speaker 3: a return. Austin Eckler going to join us at about

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Speaker 3: five to ten minutes here.

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Speaker 1: I am looking forward to speaking with him.

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Speaker 3: He is going to be on the broadcast doing pregame

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Speaker 3: Christmas Day for Netflix, and I'm excited He's going to

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Speaker 3: be great at that. There is no doubt that Austin

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Speaker 3: Eckler will be the most prepared person on that broadcast.

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Speaker 1: I promise you.

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Speaker 2: It bothers me that he's one of those people where

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Speaker 2: I feel like there's nothing you could say that he

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Speaker 2: wouldn't be great at right, There's no well, he wouldn't

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Speaker 2: be good at this, No, he would. He'd be good

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Speaker 2: at that too.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yep, good husband, yep, good at the guitar, good

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Speaker 3: football player, yeah, good human being, good entrepreneur.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I kicked up a guitar ex you know what.

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Speaker 2: Usually I do too, but not Austin. He's looked at

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Speaker 2: a guitar and was like, you know what, I think

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Speaker 2: I want to play that and I'm gonna be a

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Speaker 2: thousand yard rusher and lead the league in touchdowns and

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Speaker 2: start a business that's gonna take off.

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Speaker 3: Like, yes, I want to talk to him about Yeah,

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Speaker 3: he's so good of articulating certain moments on the field

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Speaker 3: and what he was thinking. So I am interested to

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Speaker 3: see and hear what he was thinking when he tore

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Speaker 3: the Achilles against the Packers earlier this season, what the

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Speaker 3: wife's reaction to that was mel because he's married now

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Speaker 3: and they have such a great relationship.

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Speaker 1: So it's gonna be interesting.

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Speaker 3: Before we get to Austin though, Mikey we talked about

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Speaker 3: this a little bit on Steve Gootson Company, but Tua

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Speaker 3: is being benched in favor of Quinnyewers. Mike McDaniel not

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Speaker 3: happy with the quarterback play. We were laughing before that.

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Speaker 3: Yesterday was the first day we realized that Mike McDaniels

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Speaker 3: has testicles because he actually said something negative about Tua,

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Speaker 3: so too is bench. I like it, but I think

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Speaker 3: it leaves fans confused. The obvious reason to do this

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Speaker 3: is because you have Quinn Ewers and you want to

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Speaker 3: see if there's something there right, So you get him

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Speaker 3: some game experience, You get him into games, see if

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Speaker 3: there's a quarterback there, because you don't know what's going

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Speaker 3: to happen moving forward. So it makes sense from that

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Speaker 3: standpoint where it gets confusing to me, mikeya is the

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Speaker 3: reason Mike McDaniel is there is because he is the

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Speaker 3: guy who was supposedly, in Steven Ross's mind, the guy

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Speaker 3: that makes Tua the best quarterback that he could be.

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Speaker 3: And we saw proof of that a couple of years ago,

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Speaker 3: and then two we got the big contract. So it's

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Speaker 3: interesting to have a coach who the owner thinks, hey,

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Speaker 3: that's the guy that can get the most out of

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Speaker 3: my quarterback, and now the coach and they're tied together,

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Speaker 3: and the coach is saying, yeah, but that quarterback's been lousy.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna benjhimin favor of Quinn Viewers, Well, if he's

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Speaker 3: lousy in large part, that's because of you. It's your

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Speaker 3: job to make him great.

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Speaker 2: You know who's the failure? Is it too or is

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Speaker 2: it McDaniel. Is Tua just not the guy that McDaniel

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Speaker 2: thought he was, or is McDaniel just not good enough

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Speaker 2: to make toa be as good as we think he

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Speaker 2: should be.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. It's it's it's such a great question.

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Speaker 3: Listen that one season and it was one season Tua

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Speaker 3: was great, Like you saw some of the things that

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Speaker 3: made people so excited about Tua when he was coming

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Speaker 3: out of Alabama, and Mike McDaniel was a large part

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Speaker 3: of that reason. Because of the offensive system, three steps,

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Speaker 3: hit a guy in stride, wattle to rekill. It looked

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Speaker 3: beautiful at times. It really did. They put up seventy

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Speaker 3: points in a game, but it hasn't been the same since.

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Speaker 3: And so that's a great question. Is that on Tuba?

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Speaker 3: Is that on McDaniel. And here's how I'll answer it.

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Speaker 3: McDaniel was getting the credit with to was playing well,

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Speaker 3: and he should probably get the blame with TWA was

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Speaker 3: not playing well.

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Speaker 2: Right, I agree. I'm I'm really curious at this point

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Speaker 2: paid but who has absolutely no uh no want in

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Speaker 2: I can't imagine anybody wanting to take that contract. So

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Speaker 2: if your job isn't with the Dolphins, who's it with

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Speaker 2: what's his future.

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Speaker 1: Yes, a backup is I would think fifty.

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Speaker 2: Five million dollar backup for a team that drafted you.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 3: So the reason they're stuck with Tua for next season

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Speaker 3: and the reason McDaniel maybe back as the head.

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Speaker 1: Coach is that fifty five point five million dollar contract

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Speaker 3: They can't get out of it. Okay, they are stuck

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Speaker 3: with it. Therefore, is going to be there next year

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Speaker 3: and he's going to be the starting quarterback.

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Speaker 1: I mean he is.

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Speaker 3: Unless Quinnywards. That's an amazing three games year. He is

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Speaker 3: going to be the starting quarterback. But to me, it's

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Speaker 3: just interesting. Mike McDaniel sat across the table from me

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Speaker 3: and Dan and said Tua was the most accurate passer

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Speaker 3: because of Tua. And now here we are just a

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Speaker 3: couple of years later where he's in a situation where

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Speaker 3: two is not playing well and he's benching him for

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Speaker 3: quinn Ewers. I mean, it is, it is. I got

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Speaker 3: it's a great question. It's on McDaniel, dude, like it.

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Speaker 2: Has to be so. I mean, so what you're telling

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Speaker 2: me is because of bad financial investments, and by the way,

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Speaker 2: you fired the guy that made those financial investments.

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Speaker 1: You were go give him the money. Run it back.

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Speaker 2: You're gonna run it back. You're gonna bring.

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Speaker 1: Back I'm telling you right now, they're gonna run.

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Speaker 3: There is no reason to bring back Mike McDaniel in less.

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Speaker 1: And less two is your starting quarterback? That's it.

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Speaker 2: Well, good luck convincing another coach that this is your

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Speaker 3: Right But to answer GQUA two was never Once this

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Speaker 3: contract is over, two is never gonna get another contract

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Speaker 3: like the one he just got. And I imagine that

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Speaker 3: Tua after next season probably won't start again, like he'll

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Speaker 3: be a backup quarterback for the remains And so it's

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Speaker 3: gonna be interesting to see what happens with Mike Daniel.

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Speaker 3: I think the question is does Stephen Ross view Mike

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Speaker 3: McDaniel in a way that's different than how we're portraying

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Speaker 3: it meeting.

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Speaker 1: Maybe Steven Ross thinks.

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Speaker 3: He's a great head coach regardless of two him wants

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Speaker 3: to keep him around.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you're gonna bring in a GM now and you're

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Speaker 2: gonna give him a lot of rules and then tell

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Speaker 2: him this is your team, but this is your quarterback,

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Speaker 2: or this is your coach, or this is your quarterback

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Speaker 3: Could it be could it be a situation where perhaps

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Speaker 3: quinn Ewlers might be the guy that saves Mike McDaniel's.

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Speaker 2: Job's that's a lot to do in three games with

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Speaker 2: with when teams are kind of already know who they are.

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Speaker 2: It's a lot to do in three games.

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Speaker 1: This whole thing is so confusing.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I just don't know why this move doesn't

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Speaker 2: make sense to me than other than my feelings are

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Speaker 2: hurt with how bad he played the last few games

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Speaker 2: or however long you want to look back. There's no

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Speaker 2: reason to Benjamin at this point. To me, there's no like,

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Speaker 2: what could you possibly learn from three games with quinn

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Speaker 3: Oh you could learn a lot in three games, you could.

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Speaker 3: I mean, Mike, he's there every day in practice. So

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Speaker 3: if Mike McDaniel is seeing quinn Ewers and telling Steven

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Speaker 3: Rows say, there might be something here.

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Speaker 1: We need to check it out.

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Speaker 3: We need to give him some real game time, then

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Speaker 3: that's a reason to play it, you know it is.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you can't just keep throwing out Tua because

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Speaker 3: you're the two a guy.

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Speaker 1: You can't do that.

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Speaker 2: You know, the paycheck he's collecting says you can.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 3: But but but what McDaniels might be saying is, Hey,

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Speaker 3: I'm not just a Tua guy.

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Speaker 1: Okay. I can develop quarterbacks, not just that quarterback. I

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Speaker 1: could develop any quarterback, even quinn fucking Ewers.

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Speaker 2: You're oh for one, Mike.

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Speaker 3: To me, the real interesting part is you bench Tua

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Speaker 3: and you're essentially telling the owner, Stephen Ross, you failed

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Speaker 3: at your job, and the job was to make to

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Speaker 3: a great quarterback and you couldn't do it.

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Speaker 1: You only did it for a season.

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Speaker 3: So now Mike McDaniel's only move here, I gather is

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Speaker 3: I failed on the tour experiment except for that one year.

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Speaker 3: So now I need to show Stephen Ross that I

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Speaker 3: can make quinn Ewers a great quarterback. It's it's a

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Speaker 3: total bell out. It's a hail Mary. Mike McDaniel is

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Speaker 3: quins hal Mary. Yes, Mike McDaniel is fading back and

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Speaker 3: he is throwing quinn Ewers sixty yards into the end

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Speaker 3: zone and pray that's what he's doing.

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Speaker 1: That's it is? Does it should say Mary?

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Speaker 1: Mike, Ea, you are smiling, my friend. I know, I

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Speaker 1: see it. I see I know, and I'm smiling too.

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Speaker 3: When Austin Eckler somehow was smiling even though he's been

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Speaker 3: to Helen back this season, but he's with us right now,

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Speaker 3: or old buddy Austin Heckler with us here on God

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Speaker 3: Bless football.

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Speaker 1: How you feeling, man.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been it's been a minute. It's been a minute. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: Like just generally do You're like, dang, I wish I

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Speaker 1: Anyway, Can you take us back?

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Speaker 3: You're so great at this and I don't think the

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So it was just a routine play for me.

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Speaker 5: At that point it was like how bad is it?

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Speaker 5: So that was that moment.

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Speaker 4: She was disappointed, just because she never wants to see

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Speaker 3: She emotional though, because I can't imagine the emotions involved

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Speaker 5: Now you're going this way, whether you like it or not.

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Speaker 1: Are you finished playing? You're not finished playing?

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Speaker 1: How has the wife?

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Speaker 5: I mean she she enjoys having her husband around.

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Speaker 4: But she definitely likes football season as well because it's

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Speaker 4: you know, Just it's an awesome experience that the NFL,

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Speaker 4: you know, puts on every single year. So sad about that.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if you guys heard that, but I

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Speaker 3: Yes, So congratulations to both of you, man, thank you.

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Speaker 1: I love it. Are you gonna find out the sex

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Speaker 3: No, those are the rules you have to abide by

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Speaker 5: I can't know, and then she you know, I know,

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Speaker 2: So if you found out, could you keep it a secret?

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Speaker 4: Ooh ooh no, I probably I would probably tell her

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Speaker 3: Know, right, Oh my god, that's so exciting though, man, congratulations,

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Speaker 3: I mean life is going to change for the better.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it really is.

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Speaker 4: Yes, now we're looking forward to it. We were definitely ready.

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Speaker 1: That's so awesome. Are you rooting for a boy or

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Speaker 5: I really don't care. I see the benefits of us

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Speaker 4: Like I know mel Mel being a dancer, being around

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Speaker 5: But I respect to either.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 5: I can feel that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I have two sons, and if I had a

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Speaker 4: Hey, I think what we have. You know, it's the

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Speaker 3: Yes, you're keeping yourself busy though. You're gonna do the

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Speaker 1: Yes? Is it Christmas Day?

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Speaker 5: Is that Christmas Day?

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Speaker 4: Open your presence and then turn on the game and

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Speaker 1: Wow, yeah, so you have I think it's it's Commander's Cowboys.

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Speaker 4: Right, it is divisional game, so it'll be a fun,

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Speaker 4: keep me active in this space because it's led to opportunity,

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Speaker 5: So I appreciate that You're.

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Speaker 3: Gonna be a prep monster, right, Like, there's no question, Mikey,

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Speaker 4: Yes, that's probably the unique take, right, Like, Hey, this

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Speaker 4: shorten them up because we've got small windows. But that's

441
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Speaker 4: what the people want. They want to hear stories. They

442
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Speaker 4: want to hear the insights that they can't get from

443
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Speaker 4: a normal analysis or you know, someone outside.

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Speaker 3: They want you to take them there Austin because you

445
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Speaker 3: had That's what they want, you know, and you do

446
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Speaker 3: it so well. That's why I asked you that question,

447
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Speaker 3: Like what you're thinking in that moment, Like you articulate

448
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Speaker 3: your thoughts so well, then you're gonna be great at this.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm excited to share stories about DQ his philosophy

450
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Speaker 4: because I even know it's it's it's been a tough season,

451
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Speaker 4: but I think DQ's coaching style we appreciate as a

452
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Speaker 4: player because he keeps you into it, keeps you fighting

453
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Speaker 4: for every single blade of grass, regardless of the outcome,

454
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Speaker 4: because it's about principle, it's about brotherhood and then you know,

455
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Speaker 4: the results play out for themselves from there. So obviously

456
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Speaker 4: we want to win, but we can't always control the

457
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Speaker 4: results because of whatever circumstances. So yeah, I can't wait

458
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Speaker 4: to get up on there and and share some chess knowledge.

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Speaker 3: As Quinn or any of your teammates come to you

460
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Speaker 3: and say, Austin, listen, here's the line. Don't go past

461
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Speaker 3: it like there are certain I think.

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Speaker 4: Part of the reason that I'm here is because I'm

463
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Speaker 4: trusted and I got the gig because I'm trusted to

464
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Speaker 4: not throw anyone under the bus, which I mean, there's

465
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Speaker 4: not really anything to do. I guess, you know, I

466
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Speaker 4: guess you could say the Wins and Lost column hasn't

467
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Speaker 4: been what we wanted.

468
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Speaker 5: It to be.

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Speaker 4: But that's for you know, several reasons that we would

470
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Speaker 4: need to hold another podcast to get into. But now

471
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Speaker 4: I'm here to uplift, uplift the boys, uplift the spirits.

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Speaker 5: It's on Christmas Day. We want great stories and fun times.

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Speaker 3: Have you had to talk to Jayden Dett You're a

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Speaker 3: leader in that locker room. Have you had to talk

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Speaker 3: to Jade and Daniels at all? Because this season has

476
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Speaker 3: not gone the way I'm certain he expected it to go.

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Speaker 5: I mean, none of us.

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Speaker 4: Right, here's the thing. I think, it's, you know, a

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Speaker 4: something to look forward to. However, expectations and what looks

482
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483
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Speaker 4: not reality.

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Speaker 5: Paper does not play football. So we have to make

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Speaker 4: You have to make the expectations come alive as a team,

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Speaker 3: Have you been watching football since football has been taken

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Speaker 1: Have you found yourself watching more football than ever?

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Speaker 5: Oh? Yeah, Oh yeah, I've been having a lot of fun.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if you guys have seen this, but

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542
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543
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Speaker 4: I've been just just laying it into that those people.

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Speaker 5: I'm like, there's no way it's rigged, So go ahead.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, but but but the Raiders kicking that field

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Speaker 2: goal to cover.

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Speaker 7: Look, man, I think here there's there's strategy and then

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Speaker 7: there's you know, people that are hoping their strategy for

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Speaker 7: their bets as opposed to strategy for there the team

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Speaker 7: to win.

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Speaker 4: And so those kind of get crossed over sometimes. And

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Speaker 4: why would they kick that? I lost my bet and

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Speaker 4: so now it's rigged, you know, it's it's always a

554
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Speaker 4: deflection of the pain. Right, where can I push the

555
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Speaker 4: you know, the faults. It's not mine, it's rigged fault.

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Speaker 3: It's not mine for putting in a stupid bet. It's

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Speaker 3: the kicker's fault, the coach's fault.

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Speaker 1: Correct.

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Speaker 5: Correct.

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Speaker 4: Someone called up Pete Carroll and said Pete, we got

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Speaker 4: to get this over, you know, and said five year old.

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Speaker 5: Pize's like, all right, I got you kick the field goal?

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Speaker 1: You know. Wait, so you've been debunking a rig theories.

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Speaker 1: Is that's what you're doing.

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Speaker 5: It's impossible, right, It's impossible.

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Speaker 3: I know, because once they think the fix is in,

567
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Speaker 3: the fixes in, there's nothing you could say we're doing.

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Speaker 5: There's no reasoning with these people. Zero zero.

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Speaker 4: If you prove something that is is hey, this is

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Speaker 4: logical Nope, you didn't look at it from the same goal,

571
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Speaker 4: and it's always something else or oh, you're getting paid

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Speaker 4: by them, it's the new one.

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Speaker 5: You know, you're a Draft Kings poster boy or whatever

574
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Speaker 5: it is. You know, like, that's so, that's what they're

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Speaker 5: giving me.

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Speaker 3: You're in the bag right right exactly, so you can't

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Speaker 3: and anybody who knows Austin Heckler knows that would never

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Speaker 3: be the case.

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Speaker 2: They don't care as well.

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Speaker 5: So I dabbled in that a little bit.

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Speaker 4: So I've been watching a lot more football and just

582
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Speaker 4: having fun with with the some degenerate sports betters out

583
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Speaker 4: there that are going crazy.

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Speaker 3: Stay in that lane. That's a fun lane. It's a

585
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Speaker 3: good lane. It's different. You're doing stuff different, definitely different.

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Speaker 3: What is uh, what is stuck out for you? In

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Speaker 3: terms of is there a team that has surprised you

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Speaker 3: the most of this year?

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Speaker 5: The NFL a team that surprised me the most.

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Speaker 4: The Bears have really surprised me the most of how

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Speaker 4: they've turned their season around by just adding right a

592
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Speaker 4: different atmosphere from the coaching standpoint. I think that's been

593
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Speaker 4: really cool to see because I know there was a

594
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Speaker 4: lot of scrutiny against Kleb.

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Speaker 5: If he is he the guy, can he do it?

596
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Speaker 4: And I think he's definitely proved himself, and so I

597
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:24,640
Speaker 4: love to see guys doing that. I think the Colts

598
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Speaker 4: have been another one that I love watching, like they've

599
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Speaker 4: been the kind of this team that's continued to come up.

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Speaker 5: They had Daniel Jones.

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Speaker 4: He's like, oh, Daniel Jones, who was this guy who

602
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Speaker 4: kind of like kind of sputtered out with you know,

603
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Speaker 4: the Giants. Is it gonna be okay? And so then

604
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Speaker 4: he goes to a new one and now they had

605
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Speaker 4: obviously towards Achilles. He's in my boat now, but had

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Speaker 4: a great season. So I thought that was cool to

607
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Speaker 4: see Daniel Jones come on the come up. So I

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Speaker 4: love to see players overcoming the odds and pushing back

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Speaker 4: against expectations that maybe weren't in their favor.

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Speaker 5: So those two that have stood out to me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well let's get the other side of it. Now

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Speaker 2: you're watching football on TV like the rest of us.

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Speaker 2: Have the announcers been. Are you sitting there and listening

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Speaker 2: to some announcing be like, oh come on man, it's

615
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Speaker 2: actually I think gotten much better.

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Speaker 4: I think the quality of announcing has gotten much better

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Speaker 4: because I think there's more players that are involved, so

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Speaker 4: people that know, Like I'm listening to JJ Watt and

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Speaker 4: I'm like, this guy knows football.

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Speaker 1: He's really good. I hate he's really good at being

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Speaker 1: an analyst.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he has some funny, witty things in there too,

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Speaker 4: So like I'm like, that's it. And so I think

624
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Speaker 4: the quality of the commentation has gotten much better as

625
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Speaker 4: we've gotten more football players in those shoes. And so

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Speaker 4: I know I've been sought after for maybe some of

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Speaker 4: those opportunities. In the future, maybe I'll jump into that,

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Speaker 4: maybe I'll stay in the booth or stay you know,

629
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Speaker 4: in the fantasy world. But I think as you get

630
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Speaker 4: more knowledgeable players in there, yet the quality has gone

631
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Speaker 4: up because I know even like not too long ago,

632
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Speaker 4: five six years ago, where it was like I watched

633
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Speaker 4: it on mute, you know, watching it on mute. So sure, yes,

634
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Speaker 4: definitely definitely improving.

635
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Speaker 3: Who's the running back that has impressed? Like eight Chan

636
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Speaker 3: in Miami has been just like a breakout season, unbelievable.

637
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Speaker 3: Is there someone that stood out for you, Austin, Well.

638
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Speaker 4: I think there's a couple I wanted to give a

639
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Speaker 4: shout out to rookie in our locker room though too

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Speaker 4: with Washington, because Bill, I think has been consistent pretty

641
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Speaker 4: much all year when he's got his opportunities. They still

642
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Speaker 4: have that the trio over there, they like a committee,

643
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Speaker 4: So I think Bill Crosby Merritt has been good.

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Speaker 5: I really like what Christian's doing this year.

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Speaker 4: Like yea, even though he's been one of the top

646
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Speaker 4: guys before, Like, it's still impressive to see him getting

647
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Speaker 4: fifty percent of his team's share.

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Speaker 1: Of the Bay.

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Speaker 4: It's a yes, mind blown because I'm like, how does

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Speaker 4: this man walk after the damn game?

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Speaker 1: Right? Well, most of the times he doesn't, but somehow

652
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Speaker 1: he's been able to do it.

653
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Speaker 4: For got a card him to the next game, so

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Speaker 4: they're definitely getting their money's worth out of him. I

655
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Speaker 4: think John Robinson is another one who's just impressed me

656
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Speaker 4: as far as his running ability.

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Speaker 5: Just a big body, like he is just so.

658
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 4: Big if you've ever seen him in person, and for

659
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:57,160
Speaker 4: him to be as dynamic as he is is really impressive.

660
00:29:57,200 --> 00:30:00,160
Speaker 4: I like that Jonathan Taylor is, you know, kenning back

661
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:02,840
Speaker 4: into his his rhythm. You know, after that contract that

662
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 4: he signed, you know that he had a year that

663
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:06,720
Speaker 4: was kind of and now boom right back proven that

664
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:09,239
Speaker 4: hey he still got it in him. So those are

665
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:13,200
Speaker 4: some guys that I've I've really liked to see absolutely

666
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 4: this year.

667
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:15,000
Speaker 1: Have you been watching college at all?

668
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:17,440
Speaker 5: Or we're never gotten to the college scene.

669
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 1: Man.

670
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 5: So here's the thing. I went to a small Division

671
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:21,280
Speaker 5: two right.

672
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 4: I watched like my college team in the RMAC in

673
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:27,480
Speaker 4: Division two playoffs, like right, not getting national news or

674
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:29,480
Speaker 4: anything like that, you know, but that's my lane, That's

675
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:31,640
Speaker 4: where I'm used to. Those are my people, So I

676
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:33,920
Speaker 4: gravitate more towards that, towards that scene.

677
00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 3: I'm wondering here, what you're doing with you love the

678
00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:39,080
Speaker 3: fantasy stuff, you really do. I know you're doing it

679
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 3: for the charity and stuff, but what is tell people

680
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:42,040
Speaker 3: about Fantasy Royale?

681
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:42,680
Speaker 1: What's going on there?

682
00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:44,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, so we're starting a free competition.

683
00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:47,080
Speaker 4: Think of it like you know then the Men's NC

684
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:51,240
Speaker 4: double A you know brackets Basically, we're doing that for

685
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:54,320
Speaker 4: the NFL. And so it's a free it's a free version,

686
00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:57,080
Speaker 4: free version. There's ten thousand dollars for a grand prize,

687
00:30:57,360 --> 00:30:59,680
Speaker 4: and there's ten other brands that you can play for.

688
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 5: So since like we have golfing. We have like luxury luggage.

689
00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 4: We have like a year supply of snacks, food, you know,

690
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:10,400
Speaker 4: different types, like ten different prizes that you can play for,

691
00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:12,680
Speaker 4: and then if you enter into those, you also get

692
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:13,640
Speaker 4: entered into the grand price.

693
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:15,120
Speaker 5: So you go out, you fill out your bracket. Who

694
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 5: thinks gonna win the playoffs?

695
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,800
Speaker 4: There's some tie breakers in there, and then basically we

696
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:22,480
Speaker 4: just have a great time, uh, you know, just enjoying

697
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:24,600
Speaker 4: the playoffs in a free way. So it's my way

698
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 4: to kind of bring the community together and do a

699
00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:27,600
Speaker 4: cool event.

700
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:29,280
Speaker 2: Awesome, Micker.

701
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 1: He had a great question. I'm sorry, Mikey.

702
00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 3: Mikey had a great question earlier when we were talking

703
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:35,640
Speaker 3: about Christmas and you doing the games on Christmas Day

704
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:37,320
Speaker 3: and I blew right past it, and I told Mikey,

705
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:38,720
Speaker 3: let's figure out a way to get back to this,

706
00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:40,120
Speaker 3: and there is no way to get back to it,

707
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:41,760
Speaker 3: and so I'm just gonna throw it to Mikey, let

708
00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:42,560
Speaker 3: him ask the question.

709
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 1: Then I should have asked a couple of minutes ago,

710
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 1: go ahead.

711
00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:48,440
Speaker 2: So we got back to it the most awkward way possible.

712
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:48,960
Speaker 1: Got it. Yes.

713
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:51,520
Speaker 3: But then, okay, listen, this is a broadcasting lesson for Austin.

714
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 1: You don't have to do it like it. It doesn't

715
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 1: always need.

716
00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:55,640
Speaker 3: To be polished. Okay, You're allowed to be open and

717
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:58,520
Speaker 3: with the audience it's hard to do so just communication.

718
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:01,120
Speaker 3: I forgot to ask the but here goes Mike, what.

719
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:01,640
Speaker 5: It's your show?

720
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:02,000
Speaker 2: You do it?

721
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:02,320
Speaker 5: You want?

722
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:06,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. You don't prepare what it's my show? Yes?

723
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:09,680
Speaker 2: All right, Auestin, So you're calling the game on Christmas?

724
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 2: Gotta know best gift you ever gave or.

725
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:16,720
Speaker 1: Received on Christmas? Got it?

726
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 4: The best gift I've ever gave or received. I feel

727
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:24,680
Speaker 4: like there's different stages of gift giving. Sure, I don't

728
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:26,280
Speaker 4: want to go too deep into it, we'll stay. But

729
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 4: I think there's like as a kid, like it's very different,

730
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,160
Speaker 4: you know, Christmas Day and that that type of jitter

731
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 4: as then in like an adult, the best gift I've

732
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:36,360
Speaker 4: ever given?

733
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 1: Wow, Wow, we're not including babies, right, Like that's.

734
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:45,200
Speaker 5: No, no, that's not the gift of life?

735
00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:45,960
Speaker 2: Is Christmas?

736
00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 1: Christmas? Chris, Christmas? Listen. I was just asking making.

737
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:55,480
Speaker 4: Sure Christmas gift the best one I've ever Oh my goodness,

738
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:58,640
Speaker 4: you would ask me this, I'm the worst comes to this.

739
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:00,360
Speaker 1: Okay, so forget about about that given.

740
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 5: How about one I've ever received one that I've received?

741
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 1: Did you get that guitar for Christmas?

742
00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 4: Was that?

743
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 1: A uh?

744
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 5: I did not get any of these guitars for Christmas.

745
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:10,640
Speaker 1: Wow, it's got multiple guitars there.

746
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:12,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's been hurt.

747
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:16,000
Speaker 1: He got he can play all the Dead songs.

748
00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:17,680
Speaker 4: Let me let me slip the script a little bit

749
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 4: about you guys. Tell me what pick one of us,

750
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:22,160
Speaker 4: pick one of them?

751
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:23,440
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Stu.

752
00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 3: What the greatest gift I've ever received? I mean, so

753
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:29,720
Speaker 3: are you given either? The greatest gift I ever received

754
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:31,520
Speaker 3: was after the first time we talked to you, you sent

755
00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:32,520
Speaker 3: me an autograph.

756
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:33,960
Speaker 1: Picture of yourself and it was unbelievable.

757
00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:42,240
Speaker 5: I don't take the either way out. That's crazy, that's crazy.

758
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 1: Uh uh.

759
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:46,920
Speaker 3: The best gift I ever received was, and I'm being

760
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:49,880
Speaker 3: serious here, was tickets to uh to a Dead in

761
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:52,280
Speaker 3: Company concert, you know, a weekend with my friends and

762
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:54,360
Speaker 3: tickets to a Dead and Company. That was a great

763
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:57,280
Speaker 3: gift that was given to me by my wife and kids.

764
00:33:57,320 --> 00:33:59,200
Speaker 3: So of course with my money.

765
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 5: So no, that's really good.

766
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:05,520
Speaker 4: Now I'm really bad at that question. That's my wife

767
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:09,400
Speaker 4: definitely holds the weight when it comes to that that category.

768
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:11,319
Speaker 5: So I'm gonna go next.

769
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so we're all skipping this question.

770
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:20,520
Speaker 3: No question, that's wild.

771
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:22,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh my god.

772
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:25,920
Speaker 3: Is the calling of games something that you would be

773
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:28,439
Speaker 3: interested in doing, because I think you'd be great at it, man,

774
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:31,959
Speaker 3: Like you mentioned JJ Watt and I talked about, uh,

775
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:35,040
Speaker 3: your ability to communicate what it's like to play and

776
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:36,279
Speaker 3: be in certain situations.

777
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:37,839
Speaker 1: Is that something you've thought of doing.

778
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:41,799
Speaker 4: I have thought of it, yes, But the reason I

779
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:43,839
Speaker 4: take a deep breath and kind of yeah, odds is

780
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:48,240
Speaker 4: because I know the preparation and what that that means

781
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:53,160
Speaker 4: for for my life going forward. That is one dedication

782
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:56,640
Speaker 4: to studying, to you know, making sure you're still immersed

783
00:34:57,080 --> 00:34:59,920
Speaker 4: in the atmosphere of football, not only for the game

784
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:01,000
Speaker 4: you have coming up, but.

785
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:02,600
Speaker 5: For past games, for the future games.

786
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:05,440
Speaker 4: Because all of these little tidbits that you can compile

787
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:09,239
Speaker 4: together help you be a better broadcaster, and so you

788
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:11,319
Speaker 4: might not always use the information that you have, but

789
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:13,200
Speaker 4: you need to have it so that at the right time,

790
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:15,280
Speaker 4: at the right moment, you can use the applicable story

791
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 4: that makes that moment even better. There's an art to

792
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:19,920
Speaker 4: it and as you guys know me, if I go in,

793
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:22,239
Speaker 4: I'm all the way in, So I have to be

794
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:24,320
Speaker 4: careful of is that the pathway that I want to

795
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:26,720
Speaker 4: go with my life going forward is down the media

796
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:28,880
Speaker 4: and be in a full time kind of media role

797
00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:31,320
Speaker 4: because that's going to open more media doors in the future.

798
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:32,520
Speaker 1: Do I want that?

799
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:34,839
Speaker 5: Because you guys know me, I'm mister entrepreneur as well.

800
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:38,720
Speaker 4: Yes, also deserves full time and it's a whole different

801
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:39,719
Speaker 4: type of opportunity.

802
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:41,760
Speaker 5: So I still go back and forth.

803
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:43,920
Speaker 4: And that's why I was so appreciative of the Netflix

804
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:47,239
Speaker 4: opportunity because it was a one time, one time go

805
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:50,239
Speaker 4: get your feet wet, go all out for Christmas Day,

806
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:51,720
Speaker 4: and then you know, we'll.

807
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 5: See you next year. Maybe you know kind of thing

808
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 5: if you like, yeah, exactly exactly.

809
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 3: But listen, you're right, there's a large commitment and you're

810
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 3: committing your weekends it you.

811
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:02,839
Speaker 5: Know, travel, Yes, I got a kid on the way.

812
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 4: Now.

813
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 5: You talked to the wife about it, right the thing.

814
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 3: Now she's gonna watch you around in Austin, I promise you,

815
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:12,920
Speaker 3: so you're gonna want to get out.

816
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:17,799
Speaker 4: So I'm contemplating what if I'm done playing after this year?

817
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:20,080
Speaker 4: What is my next all day in opportunity, and so

818
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:22,640
Speaker 4: I have some doors that are open, and so I'm

819
00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:23,520
Speaker 4: just fortunate for that.

820
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:27,080
Speaker 3: As of now, listen, there's one more opportunity that we're

821
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:29,600
Speaker 3: going to present to you and Raheem Moster. It's going

822
00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:32,240
Speaker 3: to join us Radio Row, his hometown in San Francisco.

823
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:35,360
Speaker 3: He's going to co host the show with us, I believe,

824
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:37,799
Speaker 3: the entire week, and we would like to offer the

825
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:40,759
Speaker 3: same thing to you. So it would be me, you

826
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:45,000
Speaker 3: and Raheem up on the stage Radio Row, San Francisco

827
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:47,640
Speaker 3: super Bowl Week. I don't know if you're going or not,

828
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:49,080
Speaker 3: but man, that would be fun.

829
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:49,920
Speaker 5: I will be.

830
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 4: I'll be I'll be jumping around promoting Fantasy Royale, so

831
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:53,160
Speaker 4: I'll be there.

832
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:55,840
Speaker 5: I'll be on Radio Row. I don't know if I

833
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:56,880
Speaker 5: can host the whole segment.

834
00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 4: I don't know if what the time commitment is on that,

835
00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:00,600
Speaker 4: but we can definitely talk some details and see if

836
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:02,320
Speaker 4: we can put something together for sure.

837
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:04,719
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll take an hour? Is that fair? Like just

838
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:06,239
Speaker 1: one hour of one day if we get.

839
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:10,239
Speaker 5: Yeah, hour seems seems reasonable. Okay, all right, let's yeah,

840
00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 5: let's talk off fine about it?

841
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 1: Uh? Perfect? I will get with your staff. I know

842
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:17,360
Speaker 1: who I have to talk to, absolutely a.

843
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:19,359
Speaker 5: Lot of people to help us put ourselves together.

844
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:19,600
Speaker 2: You know.

845
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:22,680
Speaker 3: Yes, Raheem was asking he wants Austin Eckler there with

846
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:24,239
Speaker 3: him for at least one show, that's all he said.

847
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:27,799
Speaker 5: He as yeah, me, Raheem go way back. So we'll

848
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:28,799
Speaker 5: love to be on there with him.

849
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:30,719
Speaker 1: All right, man, we appreciate it.

850
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:30,960
Speaker 3: Uh.

851
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:32,640
Speaker 1: I'm so happy that you're doing well.

852
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:34,719
Speaker 3: How much more like, in terms of rehab, how much

853
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:36,880
Speaker 3: more time before you're one hundred percent?

854
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 1: Right?

855
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:39,560
Speaker 5: One hundred that's yeah.

856
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:42,440
Speaker 4: A great question because there's a lot more that has

857
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:44,160
Speaker 4: to go. It's like step by step.

858
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:46,720
Speaker 3: If this is the toughest, this is the toughest rehab,

859
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:47,799
Speaker 3: right compared to anything else.

860
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 5: It's just really long.

861
00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:51,960
Speaker 4: And then the achilles is not very favorable when it

862
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:54,560
Speaker 4: comes to like flexibility after you've repaired and stuff like that.

863
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 3: So so don't rush back. I'm gonna tell you a story.

864
00:37:56,680 --> 00:37:59,319
Speaker 3: My father tore his achilles. He rehabbed it. He was

865
00:37:59,320 --> 00:37:59,720
Speaker 3: a big.

866
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:01,480
Speaker 1: Tenderness squash racketball player.

867
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:05,080
Speaker 3: The doctor cleared him to go back out resume activities,

868
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:06,960
Speaker 3: and the first day he did it, he was playing

869
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 3: squash and.

870
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:12,760
Speaker 1: He tore it again. Wow, yes, wow, yep the other one.

871
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:13,719
Speaker 5: So try not to do that.

872
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:16,879
Speaker 4: Yes, so I would say at least four or five

873
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:19,799
Speaker 4: months before it's like, ye, ready to go.

874
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:22,480
Speaker 3: All right, man, we appreciate the time. It's good to

875
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:24,359
Speaker 3: see your face. Happy holidays to you and Mel.

876
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:28,960
Speaker 1: Congratulations, congratulations to you. We're so happy for you. Mikey

877
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:34,440
Speaker 1: A will send a gift. Okay, I won't count on it.

878
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:36,560
Speaker 5: I will count it, but hey, no no pressure, no pressure.

879
00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:38,719
Speaker 3: It's gonna be the best. Listen, whatever gift we give

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Speaker 3: you is going to be the best. When when someone

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Speaker 3: asks you that question again, you will have.

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Speaker 5: There is awesome.

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 5: I appreciate you guys.

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Speaker 1: All right, good luck, enjoy it on Christmas Day. You're

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Speaker 1: gonna be great at it. You know that we're looking

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Speaker 1: forward to watching it.

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Speaker 5: Thank you. It always a pleasure to take care