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Speaker 1: If you had a repeat champion on your bracket, earser

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Speaker 1: earon loser. We had our first number one seed d decommissioned, excommunicated,

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Speaker 1: ever you want to say it from the tournament, and

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Speaker 1: it was the nine seed versus the one seed. And

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Speaker 1: Alvaro fulgaris fooling the Gators, says the Iowa Hawk. Alvarro

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Speaker 1: fulgaris nailing a wide open three point shot with less

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Speaker 1: than five second. You see, This's that's how I shoot

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Speaker 1: the ball, moneyball, mallord. And he knocked that thing down

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Speaker 1: and number nine Iowa, here come the Hawkeyes. The Iowa

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Speaker 1: Hawkeys have eliminated the reigning national champions, The Florida Gators

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Speaker 1: are out the top seed in the Gators go home

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Speaker 1: by one point loss. And so there you go, the

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Speaker 1: Iowa Hawkeys with some guy named Ben. We need more

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Speaker 1: people named Ben in sports. Ben McCollum the head coach.

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Speaker 1: They reached the sweet sixteen for the first time since

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Speaker 1: twenty fifteen. In Florida. They do the walk of shame

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Speaker 1: as they do not even make it to the second

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Speaker 1: weekend of the NCAA tournament as they are out. That

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Speaker 1: is a good jumping off point. Better story is in

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Speaker 1: the losing locker room. We had all chalking mcchawk last year.

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Speaker 1: We will not have the same level of chalk this

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Speaker 1: year in the final four when we get to that

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Speaker 1: particular point. But the question, you have a team like

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Speaker 1: Florida loaded, stacked, a couple of NBA players in there,

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Speaker 1: all of that, and so the question who gets the blame?

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Speaker 1: Who gets the blame for Todd Golden's Florida Gators being

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Speaker 1: the first top seed knocked out of the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: six edition of March Madness. So my thoughts on this,

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Speaker 1: I've got Rodo Ruter, Juice Cleanse and Bond Villain and

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

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Speaker 1: are going to make some Fetichini. Alfredo is what we're

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Speaker 1: going to make. So my first thought on this is

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Speaker 1: you played the blame game. And I love playing the

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Speaker 1: blame game. Man, is that just perfect for what we

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Speaker 1: do here? To play the blame game? It's so good.

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Speaker 1: And this game I was watching, I happen to you.

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Speaker 1: Saw the little score bug thing at the top and

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Speaker 1: it said, well this game is the game I was

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Speaker 1: watching was not closed, so I said, I'll flip over

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Speaker 1: there and I turned it on. I was watching the game,

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Speaker 1: doing my thing there. And as far as the blame,

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Speaker 1: there's no need to tiptoe. If you look at the mirror,

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Speaker 1: it's the man in the mirror, and that would be

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Speaker 1: Todd Golden, the coach of the Florida Gators. Here, this

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Speaker 1: is not a well coached team down the stretch. Now,

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Speaker 1: they didn't execute the players. Ultimately, the ones on the court.

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Speaker 1: The coach, though, did not either get them ready or

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Speaker 1: allowed them to not be prepared. As the top seed,

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Speaker 1: they're playing pretty much a home game. I know it's

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Speaker 1: from Gainesville to Tampa. I get that, but you're playing

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Speaker 1: Iowahaw guys are a middle of the road big ten team?

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Speaker 1: Am I correct on that? Is that a correct analysis

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Speaker 1: that Iowa is a middle There you are. And oh,

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Speaker 1: by the way, Florida, if you're into the gambling market,

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Speaker 1: which we kind of are into that, the Florida Gators

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Speaker 1: were a ten and a half point favorite, so they

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Speaker 1: the spread, they lost the game outright. They gagged, sucked

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Speaker 1: And it wasn't bad luck, it was just it was

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Speaker 1: the hurricane, except they didn't have the batteries. Well, what

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Speaker 1: somebody didn't plan, right, I'm to blame the coach. They

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Speaker 1: in crunch time. And yeah, that didn't happen. That did

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Speaker 1: then that was that. So it was it was just

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Speaker 1: bad all the way around. The defense at the end

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Speaker 1: holy Canoley, that was that. So Florida four and a

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Speaker 1: So Florida had plenty of time to come down and

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Speaker 1: that stuff. And so the defense was a mistake. And

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Speaker 1: here's the pressure, right, and the old line. Pressure can

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Speaker 1: With the Florida Gators in this particular game, they needed

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Speaker 1: and there was water everywhere. There was no excuses. They

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Speaker 1: just sniffing it. You couldn't even get a shot. What

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Speaker 1: at least have a chance. It just they dribbled the

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Speaker 1: the Iowah Hawkeyes there, so they get to win. Now,

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Speaker 1: Todd Golden's Gators again, they were just incompetent at the end.

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Speaker 1: This shouldn't have been in that situation anyway, but they were.

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Speaker 1: And most of these games in the tournament are unless

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Speaker 1: out in their game. Meanwhile, how about the Jayhawks buzzer beater? Here,

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Speaker 1: the top player for the Kansas Jayhawks decided he didn't

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Speaker 1: NBA lottery. Why would he go out there and try

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Speaker 1: to stop someone? Please? So anyway, Bill Self, that could

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Speaker 1: be it? That's all she wrote for Bill Self? Or

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Speaker 1: is it? Bill Self? The Kansas longtime Kansas coach says

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Speaker 1: he has not decided whether or not he will continue

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Speaker 1: that's all the season ending St. John's winning on their

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Speaker 1: own buzzer beating layup. Dylan Darling, Now that's a good name,

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Speaker 1: to the olay defense by the Kansas Jayhawks, their top

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Speaker 1: some god awful NBA franchise, and that'll be that. So

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Speaker 1: next round. And as for the topic at hand, I'm

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Speaker 1: talking about Bill Selfier and his commentary. The sixty three

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Speaker 1: year old Bill Self, who won two national championships and

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Speaker 1: has built a consistently good team with the Jayhawks, although

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Speaker 1: this was obviously not one of the greats. They lose

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Speaker 1: on the buzzer beater there. Late, he's also had a

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Speaker 1: lot of minor health stuff, some of it has turned

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Speaker 1: into major health stuff. Bill self the last couple of

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Speaker 1: He say, well, he can coach several more years. You

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Speaker 1: don't have to step away at sixty three. But he's

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Speaker 1: the difference is he's had some issue. So the question

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Speaker 1: Kansas coach Bill Self says, he has not decided. He's

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Speaker 1: an undecided voter, undecided voter whether or not he will

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Speaker 1: continue his Hall of Fame coaching career. What is your

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Speaker 1: read on this one? What does your read on this one?

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Speaker 1: So on this one, we all know what this is.

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Speaker 1: I think we know what this is here. So this

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Speaker 1: is a very long goodbye. I like the Irish goodbye.

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Speaker 1: It just just feels like a long goodbye without actually

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Speaker 1: that Bill self. Bill Self is saying, I haven't decided,

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Speaker 1: I'm undecided. That is coach speak. I use the mallar

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Speaker 1: Rosetta stone. It is coach speak for I've already packed

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Speaker 1: It's a soft launch towards leaving Kansas and doing television

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Speaker 1: be weaponized in the NIL game course. Now it's all

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Speaker 1: away and retire. But he didn't say that. Well, he

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Speaker 1: He had a I think it was a couple of

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Speaker 1: years ago. He had some some stints put in that

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Speaker 1: Uh. And there you go, and just the NIL. So

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Speaker 1: all these old guard coaches having to deal with the

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Speaker 1: NIL world. It's it's kind of like when the automobile

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Speaker 1: That kind of thing. So, and the NIL is so ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: It's out, I'm all four players getting some money. This

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Speaker 1: Bill Self had done all these years to build up

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Speaker 1: the legend of Bill Self. It's an open air flea market.

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Speaker 1: Every six months, you're like, all right, I'm a free agent.

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Speaker 1: And he's made so much money, a crazy f you money,

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Speaker 1: Bill self. I tried to look it up exactly, and

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Speaker 1: I think I'm close. He's not eating Ramen noodles with

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Speaker 1: Marcel and Brooklyn, He's not. He's got oligart cash, eighty

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Speaker 1: million plus in career earnings just at Kansas, just to Kansas.

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Speaker 1: So you think he wants to continue this. He's got

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Speaker 1: over the years is when everyone's in agreement on something,

425
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Speaker 1: run the other way. When everyone thinks something's going to happen,

426
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Speaker 1: go the other direction because nobody knows anything. It's the

427
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:17,400
Speaker 1: chaos theory of the world. Everyone's just making stuff up

428
00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:21,240
Speaker 1: thinking they know. They don't know. So it certainly looks

429
00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:24,520
Speaker 1: fine because the salary cap goes up every year. You're like,

430
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Speaker 1: I'm the money. Stuff doesn't really doesn't really do much

431
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Speaker 1: for me. But if as long as he continues to

432
00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:34,120
Speaker 1: be a human cheat code, you're like, okay, that's fine. However,

433
00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:38,119
Speaker 1: in the multiverse, there is a dimension where Smith and

434
00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:42,359
Speaker 1: Jigba is just really good and not that really good

435
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:44,360
Speaker 1: is bad. No one would say really good is bad.

436
00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:48,520
Speaker 1: Really good is really good, so you go, okay, However,

437
00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:52,480
Speaker 1: is really good a forty million, forty two million dollar

438
00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:56,880
Speaker 1: neighborhood for a wide receiver or did Seattle just buy

439
00:24:57,080 --> 00:25:01,840
Speaker 1: beachfront property? And the the reality is they are sitting

440
00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:05,280
Speaker 1: in Nebraska? Is that the reality on that? And so

441
00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:08,320
Speaker 1: this always becomes press your luck. These contracts are press

442
00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:11,240
Speaker 1: your luck, big money, big money, big money, No emmy,

443
00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:15,040
Speaker 1: no emmy, stop like that. That's how it comes. Now.

444
00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:19,639
Speaker 1: The smart money says that a monster career year for

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Speaker 1: Smith and Jigba will lead to what we call a

446
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Speaker 1: regression to the mean that he's not that good, and

447
00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:29,080
Speaker 1: he's going to fall back a little bit, and extreme

448
00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:32,560
Speaker 1: outcomes are followed by more moderate ones. We all know that.

449
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Speaker 1: And he is young and all, he was all excited

450
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Speaker 1: about that, twenty four years old. That's oh, he's so young.

451
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:43,320
Speaker 1: Youth is lovely, it's so adorable. The youth, Oh my god. However,

452
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Speaker 1: I have learned that not everyone continues. You just assume

453
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Speaker 1: because someone's young and have success, they're going to continue

454
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Speaker 1: to have success. We all know the person that peaked

455
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Speaker 1: in high school, right, the star of the high school

456
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Speaker 1: football team that never did anything, of the hottest girl

457
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Speaker 1: in school who just became a loser. We all know

458
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Speaker 1: that person, right, live that life. We've seen that. So

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00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:05,199
Speaker 1: that happens in sports too. And it's no different than

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Speaker 1: a new car. You go down and the new car

461
00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:11,520
Speaker 1: is great, it's wonderful. You go down a Car Max

462
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Speaker 1: or whatever dealership, you get a car, and right until

463
00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:18,359
Speaker 1: you drive that car off the lot, it's great, and

464
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:22,400
Speaker 1: then the value drops down, down, down, down down. How

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00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:26,360
Speaker 1: low can you go faster than a defensive coordinator having

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Speaker 1: a meltdown, having a lack of patience because their defense

467
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:34,639
Speaker 1: sucks and all that. But generally speaking, receivers. If you

468
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Speaker 1: look at the up and down of the wide receiver position,

469
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Speaker 1: it's like an avocado. Now I'm not a big avocado guy.

470
00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:47,520
Speaker 1: The avocado, though, can be absolutely perfect. You take it

471
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Speaker 1: from the story, you put in your little plastic bag

472
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Speaker 1: and you take that home and it's perfect, and then

473
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Speaker 1: like you don't even pay attention to it, and then

474
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Speaker 1: a minute later it's this brown mush and it's just disgusting.

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Speaker 1: And so that does happen a bit at JSN has

476
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Speaker 1: a bigger bullseye the Seahawks as a team winning the

477
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl, but it's about the size of that bullseye

478
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 1: of Mount Rainier for Jackson, Smith and Jig. But every

479
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:17,639
Speaker 1: defensive back will from here to Miami. We'll be like, okay,

480
00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:22,200
Speaker 1: so now we can circle the name and our name

481
00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:26,560
Speaker 1: will be uplifted. It's like a launching pad. If we

482
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Speaker 1: shut down this guy because he got the cartoon contracts,

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00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:32,680
Speaker 1: so we're good on that. And if production does dip

484
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:37,560
Speaker 1: even a little bit, then this Smith and Jigbud deal

485
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:44,520
Speaker 1: turns into moldy bread, not slice bread, moldy bread. And

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Speaker 1: based on the twenty twenty five production, if you look

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Speaker 1: at that, just based on that year, if he had

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Speaker 1: the same exact year, which will be an amazing year.

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Speaker 1: No one has back to back career years, it doesn't happen.

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Speaker 1: If he does, Jackson do that, then he would be

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Speaker 1: getting three hundred and fifty three thousand dollars per catch.

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Speaker 1: He would be getting four point two million dollars per

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Speaker 1: touchdown based on some back of the Napkin Malor math.

494
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Speaker 1: So it seems like that's pretty good at that price.

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00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:16,480
Speaker 1: You would think that each reception would come with a

496
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:21,000
Speaker 1: complimentary like valet parking. You get free Valet parking, you

497
00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:26,200
Speaker 1: get a dessert cart with really nice designer cupcakes and

498
00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:30,720
Speaker 1: those thick cookies, the white chocolate macadamia nut cookies that

499
00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:33,200
Speaker 1: are so good. Yeah, you get all that. Now, last

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00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:37,040
Speaker 1: we'd here, so flipping the page. Flipping the page. Now

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Speaker 1: as we continue hearing the Ben Malor show. So now

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00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:44,080
Speaker 1: that Seattle forked over the cash and they made it rain.

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00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:47,800
Speaker 1: In fact, it's unfortunate because I'm told that Nostradinas and

504
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 1: Jay J. N Renton, they actually Seattle they needed some money,

505
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:53,640
Speaker 1: so they took some cash from those guys to pay

506
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Speaker 1: Smith and Jig. But it's unfortunate unless they didn't, so

507
00:28:57,280 --> 00:28:59,920
Speaker 1: Seattle forked over all this money. The question here is

508
00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:04,840
Speaker 1: what are the trickle down economics? Shout out Ronald Reagan,

509
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 1: what are the trickle down economics of this? Jackson Smith

510
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:13,080
Speaker 1: and Jigba contract with Seattle around the NFL. So it

511
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 1: is reverberating, reverberating around the NFL. The rest of the NFL,

512
00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:23,160
Speaker 1: cranking up the Gap band. That's old. That's an old band,

513
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 1: the gap band right on the boom box. They got

514
00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:29,160
Speaker 1: that going. That's old. Also, you dropped a bomb on me.

515
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,320
Speaker 1: That's the song you dropped a bomb on me. The

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00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:37,800
Speaker 1: Seahawks trickled down economics. Bomb come boom, come boom, just

517
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:40,000
Speaker 1: like that on the rest of the NFL. So if

518
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:44,520
Speaker 1: you check the consumer price index, the Seahawks have just

519
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:49,720
Speaker 1: raised the price of groceries around the NFL, just like that. Now,

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00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:53,720
Speaker 1: former President Joe Biden would say, it's the putin price

521
00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 1: hike on wide receivers. That's it. The JSN deal is

522
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:03,240
Speaker 1: pure so recap inflation, but it trickles down. I'm a

523
00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:05,040
Speaker 1: salary cap truther, so I don't really care about that.

524
00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:09,440
Speaker 1: But it trickles down, it inflates everything suddenly. The the

525
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:12,720
Speaker 1: issues here. I mean, I was getting text from from

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00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:15,680
Speaker 1: friends of mine that are around this world and they're like, well,

527
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:18,760
Speaker 1: you know, Jamar Chase is gonna be like, wait a minute. Uh,

528
00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:21,640
Speaker 1: you know I'm better than Smith and Jigba. I should

529
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:25,080
Speaker 1: be getting this money and my contract. I'm now number two,

530
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:28,720
Speaker 1: but I'm a bargain. And every other wide receiver from

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00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:32,600
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson to CD Lamb, all these guys would be like, hey,

532
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:35,720
Speaker 1: let's try to renegotiate, gets some more money. Who says no?

533
00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 1: And the one that's really smiling, Pooka Nakoua, who's measurably better.

534
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:44,480
Speaker 1: He'd much rather have Pooka Nakoua than Jackson, Smith and

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Speaker 1: Jigba on your team. Please not even close. And and

536
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Speaker 1: he's got Pooka Nakoupa's got a cheshire Cat smile on

537
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:55,200
Speaker 1: his on his face from ear to ear because he's

538
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:59,360
Speaker 1: sitting in the pole position and he's like, hey, I

539
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:02,000
Speaker 1: got next, I'm in put me in, coach, I'm ready

540
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:08,560
Speaker 1: to play. The wide receiver market is on fire, absolute fire,

541
00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 1: and it does prove the cap is crap. And I

542
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 1: get nasty emails every once in a while some guys

543
00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 1: who don't have the balls to call. I get it.

544
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:20,960
Speaker 1: You're afraid I understand, so you send me long manifesto emails.

545
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:23,520
Speaker 1: Do I read the whole email? Hell no, I maybe

546
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 1: read the first couple of sentences. That's it, and I

547
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,040
Speaker 1: get bored. But you're yell. I know what the tone is.

548
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:30,440
Speaker 1: You know you're not a math gut and you know

549
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:32,640
Speaker 1: you want to shuttle Bark College and you don't know.

550
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 1: Aboudy shut up. I know it's bogus. The salarycap is bogus.

551
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:42,880
Speaker 1: It just fools dumb people. That's it. That's all. And

552
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:45,680
Speaker 1: this is more evidence of that. The rich get richer good,

553
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 1: the mid tier guys get squeezed bad. The owners are

554
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,320
Speaker 1: still gonna cry poverty. It's a great excuse. I can't

555
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:55,080
Speaker 1: afford to sign that player. It's the salarycap. Yet other

556
00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:57,480
Speaker 1: teams just cook the books and move numbers around, sign

557
00:31:57,520 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 1: whoever they want, and then every once in a while

558
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 1: you have to take it in the shorts, and then

559
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:02,479
Speaker 1: that's it.

560
00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Malor

561
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:09,040
Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now

562
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:14,520
Speaker 2: Malor's Mountain of Money. Hello, do you have what it

563
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 2: takes to get to the top. Probably not.

564
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 1: All right, let's do this here. Welcome into our contestants

565
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 1: for Mallard's amount of money. We have Uncle Mo from Jersey. Hello,

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00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 1: Uncle Mo. Good morning, Ben. I hope we do a

567
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 1: little better than last week's defensive struggle, Ben. If I

568
00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:31,360
Speaker 1: have one second?

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00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh, you don't have one second?

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00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:34,240
Speaker 1: Yea? Oh?

571
00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:36,280
Speaker 3: Sorry, okay, sorry one all right?

572
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:40,480
Speaker 1: Who you're gonna partner up with me? Yeah, I'm gonna

573
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 1: part up with you? All right, very good? Hold on

574
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:46,080
Speaker 1: a second, and we have Richie in Minnesota. Hello, Richie,

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00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 1: I'm going man, going on. Man, you're driving around, You're

576
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:53,520
Speaker 1: gonna be able to focus on the game. Yeah, sure,

577
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:57,600
Speaker 1: dropping my fork with here, moth going down? Okay, Uncle moll,

578
00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:00,520
Speaker 1: you're going down. Richie in Minnesota's going to beat you. Moo.

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00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:02,920
Speaker 1: Categories here quickly plays. All right.

580
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:05,400
Speaker 5: This is the Alison Hannigan addition. She turns fifty two

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Speaker 5: years old today. Categories are American Pie, Buffy the Vampire Slayer,

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Speaker 5: How I Met Your Mother?

583
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:13,440
Speaker 3: And American Reunion? Uncle, Which category would you like?

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00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:15,440
Speaker 1: How I Met your Mother?

585
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 3: All right? And Ritchie, how about you?

586
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:22,320
Speaker 1: American Pie? All right? All right, but forty five seconds

587
00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:24,360
Speaker 1: on the clock. You picked how I met your mother

588
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:28,680
Speaker 1: and mo. These athletes have a lot of baby mamas,

589
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:37,200
Speaker 1: a lot of baby mamas. Are you ready? Yeah, all right, boxer,

590
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 1: this thing is butterfly, be the whole thing, your greatest boxer. Yes,

591
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Speaker 1: don't answer. Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver, as you might

592
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Speaker 1: have mentioned his name already. Yes, a star with the

593
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Speaker 1: Toronto with the Montreal expos His son played for the Angels. Yes,

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Speaker 1: the rain Man for the super song, power forward for

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Speaker 1: the son. No, power forward was team with defensive back

596
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Speaker 1: you have played with the Jets. Couldn't name all his

597
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:13,760
Speaker 1: kids famously, Yes, running back for the Buffalo Bills. Uh,

598
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:16,399
Speaker 1: played with the Titans as well. Known for a bunch

599
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:23,160
Speaker 1: of kids. Really two thousands Houston, All right, that Travis Henry,

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00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:24,839
Speaker 1: Travis Henry.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, Richie, you know, all right, okay.

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00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 3: Richie, we have a little kids, Richie, we have American pie.

603
00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 1: Uh.

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00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:36,399
Speaker 5: These athletes were in high school band that one time

605
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:37,920
Speaker 5: in band camp. Are you ready, Richie?

606
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:38,960
Speaker 1: Yeah?

607
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:41,319
Speaker 5: All right, forty five seconds of the clock. Let's begin.

608
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 5: This guy was a famous in Toronto. He was a

609
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:48,680
Speaker 5: big time dunker.

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00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:49,080
Speaker 3: Yes.

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00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:55,239
Speaker 5: Uh, this guy's running back. His nickname was Sweetness. I

612
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:56,760
Speaker 5: don't know, okay.

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00:34:57,080 --> 00:34:57,200
Speaker 1: Uh.

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00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:00,400
Speaker 5: This guy's brother is Travis. He was a enter for

615
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:01,000
Speaker 5: the Eagles.

616
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:05,920
Speaker 1: Trav Travis Kelsey.

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00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:13,000
Speaker 3: No his brother, Oh all right, Hall of Fame wide

618
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 3: receiver spent most of his career with the Raiders.

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Speaker 1: Antonio Brown.

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00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 3: That's not his first name.

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Speaker 1: All right.

622
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:26,480
Speaker 3: This guy is the current kicker for the Chiefs.

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00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:30,799
Speaker 1: All right, I think you got it, Tim Brown, You're

624
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 1: right in the game.

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00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:35,879
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's Tim Brown. Walter Payton is Sweetness Jason Kelse.

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00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:40,040
Speaker 5: All right, Richie, do you want Buffy the Vampire Slayer

627
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:41,320
Speaker 5: or American.

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00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:43,760
Speaker 1: Reunion to the Vampire?

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Speaker 5: All right, these retired athletes look like they have barely

630
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Speaker 5: aged forty five seconds of the clock.

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Speaker 3: Let's begin.

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Speaker 5: The best running back of all time on the Lions.

633
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:56,759
Speaker 3: Yes uh.

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00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 5: This guy was a slugger for the Yankees and the Mariners.

635
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 5: He did steroids. He was also on the Rangers. He

636
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:08,880
Speaker 5: dated j Lo.

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Speaker 1: He dated j Lo Odrio.

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Speaker 3: Yes, this guy was on the Pacers. He's a broadcaster now.

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Speaker 3: He did the choking sign.

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Speaker 1: Regie Miller. Yes uh.

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Speaker 5: This guy was a wide receiver on the forty nine

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Speaker 5: Ers and then later the Cowboys. He cried, He's like,

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Speaker 5: that's my quarterback. Uh he stood, he stood on the star. Okay,

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Speaker 5: this guy's the best.

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Speaker 1: All right, all right, you didn't get bankrupt. We don't

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Speaker 1: need the full amount of time. We're gonna run up

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Speaker 1: the score. What do you say? Here we go ready?

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Speaker 4: Uh?

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Speaker 1: These athletes all went back to their original team from Akron, Ohio.

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Speaker 1: He's on the Lakers right now, James. Yes, the answer

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Speaker 1: for the Sixers. Yes, Uh, straight cash homie. Minnesota Vikings

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Speaker 1: wide receiver Randy Moore, Yes, big ticket played with the

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Speaker 1: Minnesota tim was once Kevin Gardner. Yes, a picture for

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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Braves. Not not Greg Matic, John Smolt, Tom Glovin,

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Speaker 1: there you go, all right, glab and Uh running back

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Speaker 1: for the Dolphins in the nineteen sixties, hosting an outdoor show. Uh,

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Speaker 1: we're doa. We won, We won. That was Larry Zonka.

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Speaker 1: We won Oncle Mo