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Speaker 1: We settle in for the brand new week, made it

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Speaker 1: back successfully from San Francisco, where they had a very unmemorable,

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Speaker 1: very unmemorable Super Bowl. Nonetheless, our lead is, and this

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Speaker 1: will be a super Bowl heavy show. Play the Hits,

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Speaker 1: ma Man, play the Hits ran into our old Boston

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Speaker 1: there in San Francisco. He said, my man, you got

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Speaker 1: play the hits. Mall Man, all right, We'll play the hits.

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Speaker 1: So our lead this hour in pretty much every hour

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Speaker 1: from the Bay Area, forty six miles south of the

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Speaker 1: heart of San Francisco, where the fentanyl is flowing and

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Speaker 1: Santa Clair a little cleaner. There to be exact a

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Speaker 1: location there, the forty nine Ers Stadium. They do not

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Speaker 1: pay us to name the stadium. It's if they want

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Speaker 1: to buy a commercial, they can contact the fine sales

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Speaker 1: department at iHeart. But the stadium named after a Denhim

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Speaker 1: jeans company, as the legend goes, Denim jeans were invented

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Speaker 1: in northern California during the gold Rush back in the day.

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Speaker 1: But there it was all the hype, all to build

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Speaker 1: up Super Bowl sixty. We spent a year of our

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Speaker 1: lives getting ready for this, planning it. Oh, my team's

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Speaker 1: gonna be in ah blah blah. So it ended up

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Speaker 1: the Patriots and the Seahawks. That was the matchup. You

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Speaker 1: had Mike Turco and Chris Collinsworth. They had the call

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Speaker 1: on and me, see, now, I don't know if you're

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Speaker 1: watching or not, perhaps not, What the hell else did

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Speaker 1: you have to do? And if you didn't watch, what

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Speaker 1: And you know, this was a Super Bowl a little

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Speaker 1: different than most other Super Bowls when the lead on

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Speaker 1: the game is the defense with Devin Witherspoon, Derek Hall

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Speaker 1: not the guy that's the president of the Diamondbacks, and

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Speaker 1: and that defense getting all the love as the Seahawks

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Speaker 1: end up winning a dud of a Super Bowl over

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Speaker 1: the Patriots twenty nine to thirteen, and they win the

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Speaker 1: second Super Bowl trophy in that team's history. That is

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Speaker 1: a good jumping off point. Let us discuss did the

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Speaker 1: In Super Bowl sixty. So my thoughts on this, I've

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Speaker 1: combine all all of these things together and we are

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Speaker 1: gonna make some spaghetti and meatballs which will be more

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Speaker 1: lose it? The arrow on the Malor scoreboard is pointing

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Speaker 1: towards the New England offense and particularly Drake May and

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Speaker 1: it's blinking red like a hazard light. Woo, that's what

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Speaker 1: that check. So the Mallard mantra if you've been with

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Speaker 1: that most games are lost, they're not one. Sway is,

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Speaker 1: most games are lost, they're not one. And on this

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Speaker 1: night in Santa Claric, Drake May he was there. He

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Speaker 1: commandeered the vomit comet. He commandeered the vomit comet. And

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Speaker 1: it was puke in the air everywhere. Three quarters of

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Speaker 1: the biggest stage, the biggest moment. The lights were too bright.

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Speaker 1: This guy choked. He choked. He looked seasick, dizzy and

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Speaker 1: unsure which galaxy he was in. Drake May, Holy canoley right,

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Speaker 1: slow down, like this was not forced by the Seahawks defense.

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Speaker 1: Sales defense was good. This is not a mythological defense.

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Speaker 1: They accepted gifts and nicely rapped gifts at that and

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Speaker 1: Two touchdowns courtesy of Drake May. Gifts to the Seattle Seahawks.

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Speaker 1: There were guys open. I'm telling you there were guys

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Speaker 1: But that's window dressing. You've wrecked the car, the cars

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Speaker 1: There's some trash out there. Until a piece of metal,

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Speaker 1: as Rob Manford would call it the baseball commissioner, So

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Speaker 1: What the heck? What do you have to do? All right, now,

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Speaker 1: here's Drake May. We'll play one of these years. Cut one,

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Speaker 1: Cut one from Drake May on being un able to

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Speaker 1: sustain the offensive rhythm of the day. Take a list,

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Speaker 3: Make better decisions, and I gotta make better throws when

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Speaker 1: But wait, there's more page two here. Keeping the beat

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Speaker 1: talking about this as a learning opportunity. Take a list.

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Speaker 3: And I think that's the biggest thing about my life

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Speaker 1: You bounce back.

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Speaker 3: And I think, you know, all those guys in the

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Speaker 3: Have mentioned to get back here and not have this

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well you want to go to don't just not

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Speaker 1: May's performance as a quote learning experience. Is what he said,

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Speaker 1: is that how you see it? Is that how you

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Speaker 1: the broadcast, Chris collins Worth it was like, wow, you

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Speaker 1: know it was a learning, learning experience. So my reaction

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Speaker 1: to that, this is not summer school, It is not right.

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Speaker 1: This was Super Bowl sixty. It's finals week, it's the

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Speaker 1: final exam, and Drake May showed up without a pencil. Well,

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Speaker 1: you got to have a pencil, but it's twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: you say when your kid spills a juice on the carpet.

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Speaker 1: You say, wow, I was a learning experience. Don't do

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Speaker 1: it again. Okay, not when your quarterback turns the biggest

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Speaker 1: stage into a slipping slide, which is what Drake May

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Speaker 1: did in this game. May wasn't just bad. He wasn't

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Speaker 1: just bad. He was a white walking caution sign. May Day,

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Speaker 1: may Day, may Day. I'm telling you balls were behind

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Speaker 1: receivers that were catchable. They were open. It wasn't shut

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Speaker 1: down Seattle defense. Lack of awareness in terms of like

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Speaker 1: You gotta know you gotta get rid of the ball,

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Speaker 1: and you shouldn't be getting sacked as often as Drake

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Speaker 1: May get sacked. That's a bad sign for the future

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Speaker 1: of Drake May holding the ball like he you know,

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Speaker 1: get owed him money or something like that, and he

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Speaker 1: sucked at a time you cannot suck. The lights were

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Speaker 1: not a great, not a sexy matchup. Nobody gets all

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Speaker 1: horny to watch Seattle in New England. These teams lacking

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Speaker 1: it would goes boring. But Drake May became a brand

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Speaker 1: ambassador in this game for dude wipes because there was

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Speaker 1: a lot of popo on the field. There stinky, messy

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Speaker 1: situation really from soup to nuts. And let's stop the

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Speaker 1: pop Warner excuses. Like the Patriots, we knew going in

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Speaker 1: they played a cream puff schedule and even with that,

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Speaker 1: this was still a winnable game. They just decided to

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Speaker 1: give it to Seattle. Right, You played the cream puff

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Speaker 1: schedule all year, and here's another opportunity against Sam Darnald,

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Speaker 1: who didn't even play well. You played worse than Sam Darnald,

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Speaker 1: for God's sakes. That's embarrassing. That should be a felony

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Speaker 1: for Drake May. Sam Darnald didn't suck as much as

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Speaker 1: you did. Now, Drake May got a bunch of stats

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Speaker 1: in the fourth court, the game was already over, but

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Speaker 1: Collinsworth wants to call it growth, and I call it

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Speaker 1: stepping into a ditch. Wearing concrete cleats is what I

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Speaker 1: call it. There, it was not a lesson. It was again,

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Speaker 1: it was a warning situation here, As the great philosopher

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Speaker 1: Eminem taught me years ago, you only get one shot,

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Speaker 1: and there's no guarantee at all that the Patriots will

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Speaker 1: be back with Drake May. And Drake May could be

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Speaker 1: selling insurance within five years. You never know. Opportunities are

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Speaker 1: short lived. Drake May blew his he blew it. He

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Speaker 1: was terrible. And I don't want to hear any excuses.

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Speaker 1: That guy sucked. Okay, Drake May was an embarrassment to

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Speaker 1: the quarterback position. That guy he couldn't handle the moment,

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Speaker 1: just like he sucked in these other games. And all

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Speaker 1: my guys in Boston were like, well it's okay, you

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Speaker 1: you'll before Oh yeah, okay, Well he wasn't fine. Okay,

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Speaker 1: he wasn't fine, you losers, all right? Last word here

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Speaker 1: to the coaching ranks. So the question here is what

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Speaker 1: the resume of Seattle Seahawks coach McDonald? What does this

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Speaker 1: win do you are now for the rest of your career,

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Speaker 1: a champion on your Wikipedia page, or it'll say super

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Speaker 1: Bowl Champion coach on your Pro Football Reference page, it'll

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Speaker 1: say super Bowl Championship coach. So what does this do well?

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Speaker 1: It does that. It's a puffy sticker for Mike McDonald.

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Speaker 1: It's a puffy sticker. That's it. You move along. Everyone's

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Speaker 1: acting like this turns him into the reincarnation of Vince

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Speaker 1: coaches sons. It's high stakes musical chairs and the music

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Speaker 1: never seems to stop for the right last names and

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Speaker 1: did the music It just it just kind of rolls around,

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Speaker 1: and they put these guys in there, and he's like, well,

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Speaker 1: this guy he had, but so and so he's related

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Speaker 1: to this guy, and he's next in line. And that's

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Speaker 1: just how they do it in the NFL. Right now,

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Speaker 1: final point to the halftime show. The halftime show, I

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Speaker 1: put it on mute. I went and got some snacks,

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Speaker 1: That's what I did. And there was a lot of

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Speaker 1: people very upset with the halftime show. I didn't really

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Speaker 1: pay much attention to it at all, but I guess

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Speaker 1: Bad Bunny was. I'm more of a fan of Bugs Bunny,

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Speaker 1: but Bad Bunny was out there doing his thing whatever,

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Speaker 1: and people very upset. He had trashed America in the

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Speaker 1: weeks and months leading up to the Super Bowl, and

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Speaker 1: it turns out that that did pay. There was a

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Speaker 1: price to pay for that, and it's not a small price.

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Speaker 1: Over six million. One report indicated over six million people

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Speaker 1: were watching an alternative halftime show, and it was actually

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Speaker 1: more than that. It was actually probably millions more than

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Speaker 1: that by the time they get the final numbers. So

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Speaker 1: a bunch of people that boycotted Bad Bunnies halftime show

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Speaker 1: to watch the Kid Rock All America halftime show. I

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Speaker 1: didn't even know what channel that was on either. They

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Speaker 1: watched that instead. So the question what did you make

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Speaker 1: of what appears to be a rather large audience who

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Speaker 1: decided to stick it to Bad Bunny and leave the

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Speaker 1: NFL halftime production and watch alternative programming at halftime of

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl sixty. So let me start by pointing out

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Speaker 1: this was not your Aunt Sadie flipping channels by accident.

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Speaker 1: When you get to that number of people, they didn't

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Speaker 1: just wander off the reservation, right, They went somewhere specific,

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Speaker 1: and in this case, I guess it was the Kid

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Speaker 1: Rock All American halftime thing. And that is coordinated chaos

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Speaker 1: is what that is. I mean, you know how hard

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Speaker 1: I cannot stress how hard it is to get a

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Speaker 1: couple of million of people to do anything at the

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Speaker 1: same time. It is so difficult, and to try to

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Speaker 1: get them to leave the biggest TV event on Earth,

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Speaker 1: at least in America, middle of the game. And you know,

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Speaker 1: some people said, well I have to drop in the bucket,

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Speaker 1: and there were still many more people watching Bad Bunny,

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Speaker 1: And yeah, that is true, that is true. I'm sure

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Speaker 1: when the numbers come out, they'll say the NFL will

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Speaker 1: pump their chest out and say one hundred and ten

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Speaker 1: million people whatever watching Bad Bunny. But that's to me,

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Speaker 1: that's not the point. To me, that's not the point.

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Speaker 1: If you took the population in the city of Chicago,

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Speaker 1: San Francisco, and Houston, combined population of those three cities,

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Speaker 1: and every man, woman and child watching television in those

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Speaker 1: cities said, you know what, we don't want to watch

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Speaker 1: the halftime show in the NFL. We want to watch

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Speaker 1: something else. That's what this is. If you get to

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Speaker 1: six over six million people, you're combining the population in

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Speaker 1: the city of Chicago, San Francisco, and Houston who all

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Speaker 1: tuned out the Bad Bunny performance to watch this other one.

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Speaker 1: So that is defiance. And that's a bunch of people

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Speaker 1: planting the flag like, yeah, you don't get us anymore,

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Speaker 1: and anyone who's in broadcasting the real ones anyway, know

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Speaker 1: that that is not you know, six million is not

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Speaker 1: just random background noise. It's not. And the way this

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Speaker 1: works a lot of the time, it's much easier to

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Speaker 1: keep a customer than to get a new customer. Right,

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Speaker 1: It's like, I'm trying to get you to listen, and

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Speaker 1: it's easier for me to keep you listening rather than

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Speaker 1: get some other jackwagon who's not listening to come over

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Speaker 1: and be part of the show. It's easier if I

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Speaker 1: just have you continue on. And that's with any one

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Speaker 1: of these platforms. It's the same concept. So in that

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Speaker 1: TV business where they really they've been bleeding trying to

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Speaker 1: get people to watch a lot of this stuff. That

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Speaker 1: is a warning shot. And you can argue taste and

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Speaker 1: politics and all that stuff and get into it, but

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Speaker 1: you can't. Are you the math on this? Like, Hey,

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Speaker 1: they're the same in the on the YouTube stream there

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Speaker 1: was over six million people that peaked at six point

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Speaker 1: one on one of the streams. There was another stream

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Speaker 1: that had an estimated million people. And we'll see how

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Speaker 1: many of these numbers are legit or not. I'm not

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Speaker 1: the one keeping track of it. I'm just telling you

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Speaker 1: what I've heard. That is a statement. That is a statement.

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Speaker 1: And my statement is I hate all halftime shows. That's

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Speaker 1: my statement. I don't know whether it's bad Bunny or

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Speaker 1: kid Rock. I don't need that. If I want music,

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Speaker 1: I'll go listen to music. And I want football, I'll

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Speaker 1: watch football. And by the way, might I add when

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Speaker 1: I'm watching the Super Bowl halftime, a really long break,

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Speaker 1: much longer than every other NFL game, and a chance

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Speaker 1: for us to enjoy some nice snacks. And so I

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Speaker 1: go with the snacks. That's my move. I stand with

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Speaker 1: the snacks. Snacky mcsnack.

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

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

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Speaker 1: All right, here we go, Here we go again? How

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Speaker 1: about that? To the third degree? This is one big event.

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Speaker 1: Gets grilled.

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Speaker 5: Krupa loop And it was reported this weekend that the

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Speaker 5: Atlanta Falcons plan to release Kirk Cousins and some people

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Speaker 5: are saying that a reunion with the Vikings makes a

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Speaker 5: lot of sense.

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Speaker 1: Could you see that happening? Well, it makes sense in

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Speaker 1: the standpoint. They don't have a quarterback. JJ McCarthy sucks.

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Speaker 1: He got the GM fired because he's so bad that

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Speaker 1: they went. And again, if you're gonna rip Minnesota for

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Speaker 1: letting Donald go, the move the problem was not letting

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Speaker 1: Donald go. The problem was trusting JJ McCarthy. They got

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Speaker 1: to get somebody and the other. There are not a

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Speaker 1: lot of great options out there, so and Cousins is

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Speaker 1: not a great option, but it is. It does make

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Speaker 1: sense because they cannot go into the year with JJ McCarthy.

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Speaker 1: The guy blows next.

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Speaker 5: So after the Bill Belichick snub, the Pro Football Hall

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Speaker 5: of Fame is contemplating adjustments to its voting process, like

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Speaker 5: reverting to in person voting and discussion so that there's,

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Speaker 5: you know, a more talk about what they do. Do

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Speaker 5: you think this will fix these issues?

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Speaker 1: Ben No, What they need to do is not have

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Speaker 1: guys like Tony Dunhee vote. Dungee he wouldn't even he

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Speaker 1: didn't have the balls to talk you about who he

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Speaker 1: voted for because he obviously didn't vote for Bill Belichick.

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Speaker 1: I heard some of these guys like Randy Moss like,

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Speaker 1: we shouldn't we should only have players and coaches vote. No,

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Speaker 1: don't even have those guys vote. Have no one they

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Speaker 1: didn't nobody knows anything. They're all stupid. Next.

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Speaker 5: All right, so last week during this segment, you said

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Speaker 5: that you could see Lebron going back to Cleveland if

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Speaker 5: you lose the Lakers. Now, Kendrick Perkins says that Donovan

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Speaker 5: Mitchell and James Harden are starting to recruit Lebron. What

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Speaker 5: do you think the ceiling is for that team? The Cavaliers, Yes,

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Speaker 5: if that were to happen.

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Speaker 1: Oh, they're not gonna as long as Harden's there. Forget

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Speaker 1: about it. They're not winning anything. Listen, we know James Harden.

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Speaker 1: I've seen it.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to hear about James Harden. The guy

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Speaker 1: blows in the play. I don't want to hear about it.

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Speaker 1: Coop stop, how do we do? He passed this decision.

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Speaker 1: That's what we put it on the ball. I won

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Speaker 1: the game. I won the game, Popeye, I won the game.

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Speaker 1: Who here were you talking to?

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Speaker 5: Sons?

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Speaker 1: Here some incident advice? Hold that thought.

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Speaker 5: No one's paid attention to me for ten whole seconds

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Speaker 5: and if you don't like.

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Speaker 1: It, you and away we go. It's the insta advice line,

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Speaker 1: unscreen radio, the safety net us all and who needs

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Speaker 1: our advice, who needs the wisdom the knowledge of the

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Speaker 1: maul or militia. Could be a prominent coach, a media member,

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Speaker 1: an athlete. Well, I think it's appropriate that we go

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Speaker 1: with Drake May. One of the worst performances you'll ever

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Speaker 1: see in a sewer bowl. The guy was in over

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Speaker 1: his head. He frowned for the new Inman Patriots. It's

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Speaker 1: being called generation only, bad playoff performer. Drake May, who

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Speaker 1: some of these geniuses told me was a head of

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Speaker 1: schedule and then went out and had one of the

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Speaker 1: worst postseason runs, if not the worst, in NFL history,

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Speaker 1: considering they got all the way to the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: So he's in the same conversation with legends like Carrie Collins,

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Speaker 1: for example, who was terrible, Peyton Manning that twenty fifteen

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Speaker 1: season was horrific, Rex Grossman. These are the contemporaries for

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Speaker 1: Drake May. So your advice to Drake May on how

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Speaker 1: to recover from this performance as the quarterback in Nashville

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Speaker 1: would say, He asked, that's what Drake May was. He asked,

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Speaker 1: eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox the number if

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Speaker 1: you want to be part eight seven seven nine nine

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Speaker 1: sixty six three sixty nine. It is the instant of

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Speaker 1: ice and I. We'll start with you on line one.

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Speaker 1: Hello A line one, you're on the air, advice to

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Speaker 1: Drake May. Line one.

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Speaker 3: I wonder where all those callers are saying May should

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Speaker 3: have been MVP this year.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. They disappeared a supermarketsy. Line two, you're

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Speaker 1: on the air. Hello, line two, your advice to Drake May.

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Speaker 1: Line two.

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Speaker 3: Hey, man on a long rigid dollars?

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Speaker 1: Okay, thank you? Yes. Line three, that's every buddy from

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Speaker 1: the Bay area Tony line three, you're on the airline three.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. In morning time he had Drake May. He was

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Speaker 2: listening to you go control the three some just roll

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Speaker 2: the weed up and wait time.

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Speaker 1: Get me some Oh okay, morning time, Rick and Maryland line.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to line for your next up line for us,

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Speaker 1: the instant advice line for Drake May had one of

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Speaker 1: the worst playoff performances you can possibly have this year. Hello,

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Speaker 1: you're on the air. Caller the Super.

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Speaker 2: Bowl NBC should have gone to the rest for giving

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Speaker 2: me a new Seahawks two points against the Rams.

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Speaker 3: Work.

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Speaker 1: That's right, history, great job for a dog. Good call.

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Speaker 1: Do you get a golden ticket? You get a golden

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Speaker 1: take it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Yeah for you? I guess. Line six, you're on the

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Speaker 1: air line sex. Hello, thank you for that. Line six.

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Speaker 1: We're giving advice to Drake May eight seven, seven ninety

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Speaker 1: nine on Fox. You see end up winning the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: Drake May horrifically bad throughout the game. They got some

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Speaker 1: garbage time stats in the fourth quarter. Caller, let's go

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Speaker 1: to line two. Your next line too, Hello, Hey.

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Speaker 2: Who would win in a night fight between OJ and

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Speaker 2: Mark Sanchez?

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Speaker 1: All right, I don't know and I don't care a

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Speaker 1: Line three, you're on the Airline three. Hello you another

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Speaker 1: box parent? Watch Line four's next? Hello, line four, you're

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Speaker 1: on the air advice to Drake May. Line four cool

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Speaker 1: jacket crafting.

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Speaker 2: It isna paid the Repivoll fake May is nex on

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Speaker 2: two point.

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Speaker 1: Zero by al right, believe the most sacks in NFL

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Speaker 1: playoff history for a single season, Drake May. Very impressive

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Speaker 1: there in this postseason. Way to go, Drake. Line one,

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Speaker 1: you're on the airline one. Hello, Line one is not there.

643
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:54,400
Speaker 1: We'll go to line three. Line three. You're on the air.

644
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:57,480
Speaker 1: Advice to Drake May Line three. Yeah yeah, you want

645
00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:02,839
Speaker 1: number ten in the morning time. One more coop. One

646
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 1: more advice to Drake May on how to recover from

647
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:09,120
Speaker 1: a horrific postseason. Picked the call coop line number one.

648
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:13,399
Speaker 1: You're on the airline one, go yo ol. Drake May

649
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:16,239
Speaker 1: need to wipe his well with a dude. Yeah, dude,

650
00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:19,480
Speaker 1: he needs a great tie in there. Dude wipes Yes,