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Speaker 1: low hanging forbidden fruit. We go to Dallas. How about

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Speaker 1: them Cowboys? Now? The Cowboys eliminated from playoff consideration over

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Speaker 1: the weekend, the Philadelphia Eagles taking care of business there

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Speaker 1: against Washington. It was a struggle for a while. The Chargers, though,

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Speaker 1: went out and molly wopped the Cowboys on side. It

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Speaker 1: was a beatdown in Jerry's world, a standard fair these days,

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Speaker 1: which led to the man of the hour man of

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Speaker 1: a truth bomb. If you didn't see this, perhaps not

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Speaker 1: Jerry Jones, the most powerful man in the NFL, Not

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Speaker 1: Roger get Deell, not anyone else. Jerry Jones. It's Jerry's

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Speaker 1: world after all. And Jerry was asked if the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: underachieved this season, and well, he didn't. He didn't tap

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Speaker 1: dance around. He answered the question. Here's Jerry Jones. Let's

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Speaker 3: Yes, from what we expected, what we thought, absolutely we did.

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Speaker 3: We all underachieved, really and the fact we're not in

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Speaker 3: done some things out there that frankly, we can carry

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Speaker 3: forward to us with us. It's always the case that

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Speaker 3: there are some positive things. The question is can we

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Speaker 3: make some changes where we need to. That's be pretty

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Speaker 3: thorough and multiple. A lot of multiplication there with the

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Speaker 3: way we played this year. But still they're positive things

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Speaker 3: are always are, And that's one of the things about

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Speaker 3: going in on coaches meeting and looking at film. If

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Speaker 3: you don't look out, you'll see positive things when you

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Speaker 3: they should be more critical to the negatives, and I

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Speaker 3: think you have to do that. You play the game

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Speaker 3: being Bob the gang.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Jerry, there's a forklift backing up. You might want

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Speaker 1: to get out of the way, Jerry, don't get your

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Speaker 1: run over by the forklift. All right, that's a good

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Speaker 1: is Jerry Jones specifically calling out in that rant about

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys underachieving? He was asked a leading question. He

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Speaker 1: answered it. So he used the we we are all underachieving.

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Speaker 1: So my observation on this, I've got the Juilliard School,

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Speaker 1: Using Google Translate, they have a new each he can

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Speaker 1: I am I'm pretty confident here, pretty confident that Jerry. Well,

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Speaker 1: he said, hey, we all underachieved. This was not a

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Speaker 1: and he's like, Okay, we're gonna we're gonna be better now.

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Speaker 1: Jerry's the only one that thought they would be better.

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Speaker 1: So they went out there and they have this. They

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Speaker 1: now Dak Prescott, one of the all time great stat compilers. Right,

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Speaker 1: you look at the numbers. He leads the Cowboy franchise

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Speaker 1: all time in this category and that category. Oh my god,

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Speaker 1: Now Vegas, we mentioned this in a previous episode of

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Speaker 1: those are winnable games. Win those, and the Cowboys will

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Speaker 1: He took classes I'm convinced in his spare time at

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Speaker 1: the Juilliard School. Performance outrage is what this is. It's

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Speaker 1: that is Jerry's world. And let's be honest, you, once

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Speaker 1: the season ends, that's when the Cowboys dominate. They will

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Speaker 1: dominate the headlines. The Cowboys are gonna make news. That's

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Speaker 1: Now one of the other people staying with Dallas page

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Speaker 1: Jerry said, will not be difficult. That's what he said,

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Speaker 1: will not be difficult. I might not count it as difficult,

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Speaker 1: Jones said, regarding the future of Matt Eberflus, the former

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Speaker 1: quote Jerry Jones, it's certainly something that we have to do,

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Speaker 1: and that is to look at the entire year and

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Speaker 1: look at what our options are and how to correct it.

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Speaker 1: So we're not here at the same time next year,

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Speaker 1: which of course they will be. All right. Question, So

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Speaker 1: Jerry Jones says that the Cowboys decision on defensive coordinator

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Speaker 1: Matt Eberflu's future might not be difficult. So how does

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Speaker 1: So that is Jerry speak for the guillotine is being sharpened.

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Speaker 1: the news conference. All right, because remember last week, Jerry

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Speaker 1: hats while the building's on fire and the result. Cover

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Speaker 1: your eyes. The Chargers with Eberflus I in the sky

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Speaker 1: from the press box. The Chargers carved Dallas off for

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Speaker 1: Justin Herbert played darts with the secondary and nearly eighty

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Speaker 1: pair tries. It was a bullseye, repeatedly, bullseye, bullseye, bullseye.

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Speaker 1: the magic gate ball. We said, all almighty, all powerful,

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Speaker 1: for the future of Matt Eberflus And we shook it,

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Speaker 1: We rattled, We rolled beside that magic eight ball, and

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Speaker 1: the magic eight ball said, outlook not so good. That's

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Speaker 1: what the magic gate ball said. This defense has been

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Speaker 1: a revolving door all season, a bunch of matadors ole

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Speaker 1: lay o, lay ole. Yeah, it's just great. So it's

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Speaker 1: The booth clearly did not help. So the Cowboys have

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Speaker 1: two games left. May I recommend that the Cowboys have

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 1: Jerry already decided this will not be difficult, So what's

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Speaker 1: the big deal. It's not gonna be difficult all right? Now,

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Speaker 1: final point to social media we go or this has

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Speaker 1: for for the Chargers there, they decide to have some fun,

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Speaker 1: so of course this becomes a thing. Oh my god,

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Speaker 1: I can't believe they did that. So first the Chargers

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Speaker 1: on their online platforms jokingly referenced the Cowboys we demn

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Speaker 1: boys slogan. Of course, Cowboys are very good at slogans.

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Speaker 1: Winning football games they're not good at, but they lead

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Speaker 1: the league in slogans. They're really good at that. We

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Speaker 1: demn Boys. So the Chargers had some fun with that.

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Speaker 1: with a meme depicting a Cowboys wearing Babushka insisting quote,

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Speaker 1: that was the trifect. Of course this ruffled. I don't

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Speaker 1: calling the bull it's class list and act like you've

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Speaker 1: been there before. What's wrong with you? Do not kick

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Speaker 1: the team while they're down, the Cowboys. So the question

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Speaker 1: Where they off base by poking fun at the Dallas Cowboy.

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Speaker 1: Now, I fully admit this is low hanging fruit, and

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Speaker 1: Being Bob mcgaan, Hey, Jerry, is a forklift backing up.

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Speaker 1: door all season. Bunch of matadors o le lay o,

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Speaker 1: l ole. It's just great. So it's revolving door. You

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Speaker 1: spin it and it spinds all night. The booth clearly

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Speaker 1: did not help. So the Cowboys have two games left.

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Speaker 1: May I recommend that the Cowboys have a drone over

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Speaker 1: the stadium, the ebrew Flus drone, and you can use

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Speaker 1: the drone and see where everyone's lined up on offense

428
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Speaker 1: for the opposition. If that doesn't work, you can go

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty style and bring back the goodyear blimp and

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Speaker 1: get in the blimp and then look down from the

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Speaker 1: blimp and call the defensive plays from the blimp. If

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Speaker 1: that does not work, I think you get a small

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Speaker 1: weather balloon if that's more cost efficient for Jerry's world.

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Speaker 1: Just keep experimenting, Just keep experimenting. Something's gonna work now.

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Speaker 1: Jerry already decided this will not be difficult. It So,

436
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Speaker 1: what's the big deal. It's not gonna be difficult, all right? Now,

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Speaker 1: final point to social media we go or this has

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Speaker 1: become a thing. The admins celebrating the win, the social

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Speaker 1: media team, the admins. That's the word I'm looking for

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Speaker 1: for the Chargers there, they decided to have some fun.

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Speaker 1: So of course this becomes a thing. Oh my god,

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Speaker 1: I can't believe they did that. So first the Chargers

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Speaker 1: on their online platforms jokingly referenced the Cowboys we demn

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Speaker 1: Boys slogan. Of course, cowboys are very good at slogans.

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Speaker 1: Winning football games they're not good at, but they lead

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Speaker 1: the league in slogans. They're really good at that. We

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Speaker 1: demn Boys. So the Chargers had some fun with that. Then,

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Speaker 1: in the holiday spirit, they edited a clip from the

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Speaker 1: four film The Polar Express, a classic piece of cinema,

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Speaker 1: where the conductor punches an l on a ticket for

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys, And they finished up the troll buffet with

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Speaker 1: a meme depicting a cowboys wearing Babushka insisting quote, this

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Speaker 1: is our year, and then the Babushka's granddaughter leading her

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Speaker 1: to bed, mocking, mocking, Dallas fans perennial optimism, So that

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Speaker 1: was the trifect. Of course, this ruffled. I don't think

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Speaker 1: this really offended anyone, but the perception is it offended

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Speaker 1: some people. So we'll just play along with it, calling

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Speaker 1: the Bolts class lists and act like you've been there before.

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Speaker 1: What's wrong with you? Do not kick the team while

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Speaker 1: they're down the Cowboys? So the question did the Chargers

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Speaker 1: mess with the football gods by poking fun? Where they

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Speaker 1: off base by poking fun at the Dallas Cowboy. So

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Speaker 1: let's stop pretending that this is somehow sacrilege. Can we

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Speaker 1: all do that? Thank you? Yeah? Yeah, please? You know

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Speaker 1: what that is. That's just what you're supposed to do.

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Speaker 1: The Charger didn't anger the football gods. They poke the Internet.

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Speaker 1: It's the internet, dummy, it's fake. It's the matrix. It's

468
00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:54,680
Speaker 1: all that, and the Internet poked back, and that's what's

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Speaker 1: supposed to happen. The yin and the yang. There's a

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Speaker 1: big difference there. This wasn't blasphemy. It was called commerce.

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Speaker 1: It's called commerce. Social media is not a tabernacle. It's

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Speaker 1: not the church. It's not a temple. It's a carnival.

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Speaker 1: Barker with a Bluetooth headset. It's some low level intern.

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Speaker 1: If you knew who actually runs the social media departments

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Speaker 1: ever your favorite NFL team, you'd be a guest. You'd say, god, zooks,

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Speaker 1: who is that punk? I've sat by some of these people.

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Speaker 1: I go to the games occasionally, and I've sat behind

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Speaker 1: the people that take here of the social media and

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Speaker 1: you know, good for them, that's a good job. But

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Speaker 1: most of them are right out of college. It's like

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Speaker 1: their first gig because the old boomers they don't know

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Speaker 1: about social media. So like this, get these young punks.

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Speaker 1: We'll get them a job. We'll pay them, you know,

484
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Speaker 1: sixty thousand dollars a year. We'll let them run the

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Speaker 1: Twitter account for the team. But that's what that is, right,

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Speaker 1: You're just yelling for attention in social media. You're juggling

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Speaker 1: flaming hot takes. And the Chargers' account rolled through. They

488
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Speaker 1: really leaned into it, rolled through it like they were

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Speaker 1: eating at Farmer cheeseburger fries and a supersized order of

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Speaker 1: engagement farming increase everywhere, mission accomplished. The algorithm is a

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Speaker 1: slot machine chut ching, cha ching, chut ching. It's the

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Speaker 1: new one armed bandit it only pays. It only pays

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Speaker 1: when you pull the outrage level lever. You gotta pull

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Speaker 1: the lever and the boom just like and the bod Army.

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Speaker 1: The bod Army salivates, They salivate the rage clicks angry

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Speaker 1: cowboy fans who are not involved in understanding how deep

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Speaker 1: the rabbit hole goes. And it's not classless. It's called

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Speaker 1: capitalism using emojis. What it is, capitalism with emojis and

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Speaker 1: memes and all that. So if you can sell a

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Speaker 1: dummy and a dummy buys it, that's it. And so

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Speaker 1: the cowboy fans who are clutching pearls about this is

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Speaker 1: not right and all that, please come on. This is

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Speaker 1: our year. That has been a recycled moniker. It's been

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Speaker 1: around longer than a lumine of cans. And to remember,

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00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:12,080
Speaker 1: the Cowboys last won the Super Bowl before there was

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Speaker 1: an admin working for the Dallas Cowboys or the Chargers.

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Speaker 1: That job did not exist in the mid nineties because

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Speaker 1: there was no social media. People were in America online,

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Speaker 1: dial up internet and that's it. That was the World

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Speaker 1: Wide Web at that particular point. And so here we

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Speaker 1: are the meme just held up a mirror. No curses

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Speaker 1: were summoned, no gods were offended, just the Internet doing

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Speaker 1: what it does best, rewarding noise and punishing silence. No jinks,

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Speaker 1: no jinks at all.

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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.

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Speaker 1: It's mallard, how about that? To the third degree? This

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Speaker 1: is one big vent gets grilled, I mean right, coopoloo.

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Speaker 6: And over the weekend, the Miami Hurricanes celebrated their first

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Speaker 6: college football playoff berth with a defensive effort in a

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Speaker 6: ten to three road win at number seven Texas A

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Speaker 6: and M. And a lot of people think that this

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Speaker 6: shows that they are legitimate title contender.

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Speaker 1: Do you agree? No, I don't. I mean, that was

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Speaker 1: a nice win. It was an ugly game and all that.

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Speaker 1: I'm not there on Miami yet. You gotta you gotta

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Speaker 1: have more on offense. And I don't think they do what.

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Speaker 1: You gotta see my bracket, Coop, I gotta fill out management.

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Speaker 1: Scott contacted me. I have to fill out a bracket,

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Speaker 1: so you'll I don't want to give my bracket away, Coop,

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Speaker 1: as you do, but I'm not. I'm not on board

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Speaker 1: with the Hurricanes winning the whole thing. Next.

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Speaker 6: So a lot of people say that Caleb williams heroics

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Speaker 6: against the Packers on Saturday should silence the doubters. Ben,

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Speaker 6: you have you have been one of those doubters. Have

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Speaker 6: you been silenced?

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Speaker 1: Well? I was silence Coop. I did not do shows.

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Speaker 1: We did the podcast, but we didn't talk about that game.

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00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 1: So I was technically silenced over the weekend. On Caleb Williams.

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Speaker 1: That was nice, but he's you gotta play like that

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Speaker 1: the whole game. He has these stretches where he's great

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Speaker 1: and the rest of the game he stinks it's problematic.

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Speaker 1: But I'm the bad guy because I'm pointing that out. Okay,

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Speaker 1: And yeah, do I take some cheap shots at the

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Speaker 1: nail Paulish, Yes, I do. Next.

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Speaker 6: Late last week, Lebron James was asked about the play

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Speaker 6: of Keyante George of the Utah Jazz, and Lebron said,

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Speaker 6: I'm the wrong guy to ask about that. I watch

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Speaker 6: YouTube golf these days. A lot of Lakers fans are

550
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Speaker 6: concerned that his motivation is waiting Ben.

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Speaker 1: Should they be concerned about that? I thought Lebron looked

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Speaker 1: great on Saturday Coop my favorite Laker game all year

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00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:43,840
Speaker 1: against the Clippers. What a wonderful game, and we had

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Speaker 1: it on the background. I was not watching it, but

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Speaker 1: the Clippers were leading the whole game. But yeah, Lebron,

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't be worried about that. I'd be worried about

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Speaker 1: some other Lebron. So how do we go? How do

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Speaker 1: we get pass?

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Speaker 2: That is?

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Speaker 3: They went?

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Speaker 1: Put it on the board.

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

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565
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Speaker 2: listen live. Hey you sports figure, guy or girl?

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Speaker 1: Who here were you talking to?

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Speaker 2: Son?

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Speaker 1: If you're some interesting advice.

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Speaker 6: Hold that though no one's paid attention to me for

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Speaker 6: ten whole seconds.

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Speaker 1: And if you don't like it, you and away we go.

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Speaker 1: It's the unscreened phone call portion of the show. We

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Speaker 1: like to call it the insta advice line. We take,

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Speaker 1: we take, We take from so many people in sports.

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Speaker 1: We talk about the coaches, the players, the prominent media figures. Well,

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Speaker 1: this is once a week where we give back. We

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Speaker 1: give advice from the American people, the Canadian people, anyone

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Speaker 1: listening I don't care wherever you are. You're you're fellow man,

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Speaker 1: and help us out here give advice. Who needs our advice? Now, well,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about more in depth next hour. But

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Speaker 1: it's such a great story, DK Metcalf. That's a wide

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Speaker 1: receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers. During the Steelers win in Detroit,

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Speaker 1: went up to a guy wearing a blue wig, a

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Speaker 1: Lions fan wearing a blue wig, and attempted to punch

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Speaker 1: him during the game. So what is your advice? Advice

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Speaker 1: to DK Metcalf of the Pittsburgh Steelers who attempted to

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Speaker 1: throw a punch. He did not land the punch, and

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Speaker 1: he's he's gonna have some explaining to do, will likely

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Speaker 1: be suspended by the NFL at some point the next

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Speaker 1: couple of days. All right, advice to DK Metcalf of

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Speaker 1: the Steelers. Let's go to you eight seven seven ninety

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Speaker 1: nine on Fox by the way, line number one. You're

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Speaker 1: on the airline one. Hello. They always say, don't punch down.

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Speaker 1: He was punching out. That's your point, supermarcut Steve. He

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Speaker 1: did punch off the stands above the feet. Let's go

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Speaker 1: to line two. Your next line two we're giving advice

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Speaker 1: to DK Metcalf of the Pittsburg Steelers.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry Ben's cousin, but women's soccer blows. I'd rather

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Speaker 2: look at Robbie. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I got yelled at by one of my older cousins

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Speaker 1: because I whip she. I ran into her and I

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Speaker 1: ripped women's soccer three years ago, and she still remembered

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Speaker 1: that monologue and she yelled at me. Let's go to

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Speaker 1: line three. You're on the airline three. Hello, line three,

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Speaker 1: Good morning ten.

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Speaker 2: I told him that uha used to be a playboy

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Speaker 2: bunny centerphold.

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Speaker 6: He didn't believe me.

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Speaker 1: I told him, I don't understand why why would DK

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Speaker 1: Metcalf not believe Rick and Maryland? Line uh we Line four?

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Speaker 1: I believe Line four is ringing. Hello, Line four, you're

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Speaker 1: on the airline four. Hey, that's lucky Tony. Line five.

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Speaker 1: Your next advice to DK Metcalf with the Steelers who

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Speaker 1: attempted to punch a Lions fan. All right, your phone sucks,

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Speaker 1: line sick year. Hello, Line six, go all right, that's

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Speaker 1: no good eight seven, seven ninety nine. On Fox, we're

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Speaker 1: giving advice to DK Metcalf of the Steels who attempted

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Speaker 1: to punch a Lions fan during the game. Hello, line one,

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Speaker 1: you're on the ear. Hello, line one, call.

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Speaker 6: The line, Josh tebe Meatball's ball.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I have no idea what that meant. Let's go

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Speaker 1: to line too, your next line too. Advice to DK

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Speaker 1: Metcalf of the Steelers attempted to punch a Lions fan

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Speaker 1: during the game.

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Speaker 2: You had to learn how to.

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Speaker 1: Go to box, the score and line how to box

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Speaker 1: like a man? Sit where we was? Okay, all right,

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Speaker 1: all right, there's our buddy Frank from Iowa. Sounds like

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Speaker 1: a ligne. Is it bad? I recognize everyone's with a

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Speaker 1: line five? Hello, line five, line fell and I lost

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Speaker 1: all my money last Now you're a liar, sir, you're

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Speaker 1: won the Sunday night game. We did that a line

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Speaker 1: I will do one one more if it's good, I'll

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Speaker 1: take credit. I'll blame the coop. Final call Coople on

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Speaker 1: the incident vice line line one, line one you're on

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Speaker 1: the airline. One go Apostam's rule, A possum's rule. There

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