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Speaker 1: Hi everybody, and welcome back to a very special episode

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Speaker 1: of Off the Beat. As always, I am your host,

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Speaker 1: Brian Baumgartner, but everything else will be a bit different.

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Speaker 1: There's so much going on this week in my world

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Speaker 1: and in the world of the office, and in the

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Speaker 1: world of things that I like, mainly NFL football and

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Speaker 1: fantasy football. I've got my old friend and yours, Rain Wilson,

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Speaker 1: on the podcast today. We're going to be talking about

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Speaker 1: the Office Fantasy Football League now here, I believe in

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Speaker 1: our twentieth season. So not to steal a line from

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Speaker 1: David Letterman, but our first guest needs no introduction. Rain

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Speaker 1: Wilson aka Dwight Shrut. He has been working with Lee

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Speaker 1: da Haiti, his charity for now fourteen years. Girls' Education

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Speaker 1: is what Lee da Haiti supports. It's been a tough

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Speaker 1: time down in Haiti now, so Rain is hosting a

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Speaker 1: big charity office trivia contest that a number of us

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Speaker 1: are attending this weekend. I wanted him to come on

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Speaker 1: the podcast and talk about that and talk about he

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Speaker 1: and I and the Office Fantasy Football League. Here's Rain,

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Speaker 1: Bubble and Squeak.

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Speaker 2: I love it, Bubble and Squeakna.

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Speaker 1: Bubble and squeak.

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Speaker 2: I cook get every month lift from the Nabopo.

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Speaker 1: Here we go. I'm gonna blow.

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Speaker 2: Whatever you need. Let's get in. And I'm oh, wow,

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Speaker 2: what's happening? You do you have a cold? Do you

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Speaker 2: have COVID?

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Speaker 1: I don't think I have COVID.

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Speaker 2: COVID is everywhere. Everyone's getting COVID again.

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Speaker 1: Well maybe I do. Maybe I did and didn't test.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Wow.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and yet you're podcasting.

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Speaker 1: Listen. We just do the best we can. We're professionals.

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Speaker 1: We work with what we got.

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Speaker 2: You know, if you've got half an ear, you know,

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Speaker 2: and a microphone you got at radio shack, it's fine.

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Speaker 1: We're rolling. It's no, it's totally fine. That's just the

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Speaker 1: new world. Yes, well, first off, thank you for coming on.

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Speaker 1: Have you been out of the country?

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Speaker 2: I was, Yes.

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Speaker 1: Your your Instagram is very confused. It's like, I are

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Speaker 1: you posting like talk backs, like sessions, and then I

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Speaker 1: click on it and it's like in Belgium or something like,

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Speaker 1: they're not even in the United States. You don't announce

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Speaker 1: I'm going on a world tour. You just sort of say, hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm in Amsterdam this week.

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Speaker 2: That's how I roll. I like to keep it a

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Speaker 2: little mysterious. Do you notice my my get up is

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Speaker 2: a little mysterious.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're a rat? Now are you a hat guy?

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Speaker 3: Now?

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Speaker 1: I've kind of become a hat guy.

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Speaker 2: Well, when you have a very large, rapidly balding dome,

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Speaker 2: such as myself, yeah, sometimes a hat is the only alternative.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, now do you? Here's here's the thing though, I

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Speaker 1: think hats, those kind of hats don't hide me. I

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Speaker 1: feel like they cause more attention.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's that's for certain. This is not a hey,

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Speaker 2: I want to walk around and be anonymous hat. This

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Speaker 2: is this is like I want to look incredibly sexy

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Speaker 2: and content temporary right hat. And I think it's working magnificently.

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Speaker 1: Yes, in your home, it's working great. And for you

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Speaker 1: to do with me here, yeah exactly.

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Speaker 2: But I definitely do with the baseball I get the

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Speaker 2: baseball cap, going, the sunglasses, baseball cap, even the head

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Speaker 2: noise canceling headphones, and maybe even a COVID mask, and

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Speaker 2: just try and stay as under the radar as possible.

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Speaker 1: You do, see, I don't do the headphones. The headphones,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't I don't do that.

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Speaker 2: You just take those headphones you're wearing right now and

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Speaker 2: just wear them around.

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Speaker 1: It just helps, does it? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: It helps. Everything helps.

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Speaker 1: But when you can't hear with them that, it's probably

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Speaker 1: not not good to have them on. All right, We're

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Speaker 1: recording here on September the ninth, Monday, the Monday night

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Speaker 1: football games haven't happened rain. You and I and our

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Speaker 1: office fantasy league are both losing by sixty points.

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Speaker 2: Your reaction, my reaction is discussed fear, chagrin, overwhelm. I

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Speaker 2: have seventy two points right now.

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Speaker 1: Well, here's the thing. I think you would be beating

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Speaker 1: me now after tonight. I don't think you would be,

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Speaker 1: but I think you are currently currently lead leading me.

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Speaker 1: I have sixty three points. Now, I've got Breithe Hall tonight,

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Speaker 1: I've got the kicker. But yeah, is the season over

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Speaker 1: for you? Have you given up?

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Speaker 2: No? I really like my team.

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Speaker 3: I don't.

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Speaker 2: I don't understand it. I don't understand how Patrick Mahons

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Speaker 2: only got sixteen, Amon Ross sat Brown, who is a

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Speaker 2: top five wide receivers, got me three points, and Christian

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Speaker 2: Kirk got me three points. He's a top you know,

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Speaker 2: twenty receiver yeah, so I think things are going to

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Speaker 2: turn around. I have Lad McConkie on the bench so

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Speaker 2: I can bring him out.

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Speaker 1: He's yeah. I like him too. I wanted him. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I you know, the Chargers looked for The Chargers looked

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Speaker 1: fun all. By the way, all of the principal cast

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Speaker 1: members are are being saddled with an l that are

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Speaker 1: in the office fence meet you. John Soxy, our commissioner.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna win. Andy Buckley, who knows nothing about football,

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Speaker 1: admittedly his son runs his team. He's gonna win. We

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Speaker 1: feel like we know things, yet we're terrible. It's very discouraging,

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Speaker 1: it is. It's very sad.

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Speaker 2: Uh. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what to say.

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Speaker 2: But Mahomes is gonna light it up some more. And

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Speaker 2: he had a tough go. Baltimore defense is tough and

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Speaker 2: just wren up. And I think Kamara and etn and

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Speaker 2: I've got debo tonight. I feel good about my chances.

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Speaker 2: I've got a good team.

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Speaker 1: Your chances in the future, not this week. Yeah, you're

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Speaker 1: you're destroyed this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's okay. I have I have learned in the

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Speaker 2: in the great game of Fantasy football. I have there

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Speaker 2: have been multiple seasons where it's like I've lost like

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Speaker 2: five of the first six games, Yes, and then picked

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Speaker 2: up some waiver wire additions and made a late season

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Speaker 2: run and gotten in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: So you you do not give You do not give up.

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Speaker 1: There are there are some people who do you do?

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Speaker 1: You do not?

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Speaker 2: I work the wire till the bitter end.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm discouraged though, because I liked my team as well.

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Speaker 1: I will ask you this. I was texting during the

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Speaker 1: draft with Uberaga, who drafted third, who built his entire

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Speaker 1: draft on on the assumption that I was going to

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Speaker 1: take Tyreek Hill. Uh, we can't really say how my

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Speaker 1: I took bres Hall and not Hill. What would you

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I definitely wouldn't have taken Breee Hall. I think

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Speaker 2: he's like number ten or something, So I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure what the thinking was there. Is your

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Speaker 2: podcast audience are they really into fantasy football? Because what

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Speaker 2: about your podcast audience that just loves conversations about being

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Speaker 2: an actor and.

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Speaker 1: Well, we're going to have that conversation too. But I

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Speaker 1: mean it's week one, it's the Office, Fantasy League. I

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Speaker 1: feel like, you know, people are interested in the things

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Speaker 1: that we're interested in. I don't know, Rain, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: It's interesting to me. There's a lot going on, the

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Speaker 1: Emmys coming. Are you watching television?

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Speaker 2: I watched television sometimes. Yeah, I'm watching Chimp Crazy. Have

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Speaker 2: you seen Chimp Crazy?

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Speaker 1: I have not seen chimp Crazy. What's chimp Crazy?

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Speaker 2: Oh my god? It's amazing. It's about the world of

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Speaker 2: people that collect and chimpanzees, and.

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Speaker 1: We mean collect chimpanzees, like actual chimpanzees.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they raise chimpanzees.

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Speaker 1: Is that called collecting?

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Speaker 2: I don't know. You collect, you collect them, You collect

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Speaker 2: them in your basement or in your backyard, and they're

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Speaker 2: really crazy and it's just a fascinating train wreck.

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Speaker 1: So it's this is a reality to me.

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Speaker 2: It's a docu series on a docu series on HBO Max.

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Speaker 1: Are you watching? Are you watching Bad Monkey?

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Speaker 2: I haven't seen Bad Monkey yet? Is it good?

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Speaker 1: Michelle Monaghan on the podcast a couple of weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: I'm enjoying it. I'm enjoy I mean it's it's Vince Vaughan.

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Speaker 1: Is is Vince Vaughn And he's back and he's doing

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Speaker 1: his thing, and it's entertaining.

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Speaker 2: To me fair enough, Maybe I'll give it a try.

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Speaker 1: You should, you should. Here's the thing that strikes me

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Speaker 1: quickly about about the Emmys this year when you look

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Speaker 1: at the comedy show that none of them feel like

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Speaker 1: comedies to me. The bear is the bear a comedy.

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Speaker 2: The bear is not a comedy. Beef is not a comedy.

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Speaker 2: Palm Royal, it's not a comedy. I don't understand the

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Speaker 2: lack of comedies in the comedy realm. But I don't

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Speaker 2: understand why networks and streamers aren't buying more comedies, developing

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Speaker 2: more comedies. Why they Surely there's an audience for comedies

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Speaker 2: out there somewhere, right, I would think, so, yeah, people

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Speaker 2: doing funny things. Yeah, I mean those are some good shows,

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Speaker 2: don't get me wrong, they're very absolutely but even like

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Speaker 1: I was going to bring that up, it's not really

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Speaker 2: Bit more of a comedy, but it pushes the needle

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Speaker 2: a little bit more towards comedy. There are certainly comedians

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Speaker 1: That's what I was going to say. It stars too

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Speaker 1: great comedians and even Hacks, which is about stand up comedians.

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Speaker 1: I don't is that a comedy? Is Hacks a comedy?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's a little it's a little bit dark. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but you're you're watching the Chimp thing.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's what I'm watching. I watched The House of

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Speaker 2: the Dragon. I love that show. That's over with. I

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Speaker 2: think Slow Horses has a new season out. I really

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Speaker 2: like that show on Apple.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it's out now. I enjoy that show as well.

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Speaker 1: The limited series stuff is I mean, that's what it

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Speaker 1: feels like everything is these days.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: But Baby Reindeer Fargo, I just absolutely love Fargo. Do

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Speaker 2: I couldn't get into this last season. I thought the

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Speaker 2: tone was weird. It got very goofy in ways that

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Speaker 2: earlier Fargo's didn't. So I did not.

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Speaker 1: I didn't.

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Speaker 2: I didn't get it. But I know people that thought

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Speaker 2: it was just brilliant and loved it.

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Speaker 1: I loved it. Ripley, Yeah, I loved Ripley. I was fished. Ripley.

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Speaker 1: Replease the comedy.

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Speaker 2: Here's my comedy pitch. Serial Killer moves to Italy in

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Speaker 2: nineteen sixty three, very stylish.

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Speaker 1: We filmed it black and white and it's going to

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Speaker 1: be a riot. All right? Are you are you going?

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Speaker 1: Are you? Are you presenting?

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Speaker 2: I haven't watched an award show in ten years. Really,

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Speaker 2: I don't. I'm not what are you boycotting? I just

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Speaker 2: don't enjoy award shows. I mean that's not true. I've

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Speaker 2: seen some of the Oscars, not every year, but some

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Speaker 2: of that. But so I don't know. I couldn't tell

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Speaker 2: you what's going on in that in the world of Amys.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well we just talked about a lot of shows

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Speaker 1: that are nominated, So I mean, that's okay, that's a start.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations on soul Boom. By the way, I'm so happy

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Speaker 1: for you and the success of the book, the new podcast.

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Speaker 1: Where can people hear that anywhere that you listen to podcasts?

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Speaker 2: Wherever you get your podcasts. Soul Boom our our YouTube channel.

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Speaker 2: Check out the book soul Boom on a bookstore near you,

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Speaker 2: and thank you for all your support. You're the best, Brian.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Rain, I love you. I'll see you this weekend. Okay, great, all.

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Speaker 1: Who impressed you the most Week one? Week one? Cooper Cup?

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Speaker 4: know what the I don't know what the Rams call

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Speaker 4: him in their playbook, but you know he ran for

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Speaker 4: ten yards, twelve yards, they're given the ball handing him

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Speaker 4: off to him too.

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Speaker 1: I was listening to some people this morning who commentate

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Speaker 1: about football. They will remain nameless, but they said that

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Speaker 1: loss by the Rams last night was maybe the best

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Speaker 1: loss in a decade. That they looked really good. Both

444
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Speaker 1: their tackles were out, three members of their offensive line,

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Speaker 1: and they dominated the second half.

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Speaker 4: What do you think as a viewer, as a fan

447
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Speaker 4: of the game, I could see that. I mean, I'm

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Speaker 4: not going to argue. I think going to the Rams

449
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Speaker 4: facility today and tell them that was the best loss

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Speaker 4: of all time and see how they see how they feel,

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Speaker 4: I think you're going to get a different answer.

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Speaker 1: But no, I mean it was a great game. It

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Speaker 1: really was.

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Speaker 4: I mean Matt made some great throws. That was a

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Speaker 4: one throw where the guy was in his face and

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Speaker 4: he was getting pushed back hit, So yeah, it was

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Speaker 4: just I mean in Collinsworth went over and over and over,

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Speaker 4: so I don't have to redo it. But it was incredible.

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Speaker 4: It was a great game. I enjoyed it a lot.

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Speaker 4: It's interesting to see the Lions be good again, because

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Speaker 4: they haven't really since I was a kid and Barry

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Speaker 4: Sanders was running around.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I mean.

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Speaker 4: I think there's there's plenty a Week one headlines to

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Speaker 4: go around.

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I mean it is overreaction Monday. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Monday is always overreaction Monday. But this week, Week one,

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Speaker 1: obviously you can't you can't read too much into it. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: the Bengals were very surprising. What was the biggest surprise

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Speaker 1: game for you this week?

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Speaker 2: Surprise surprise?

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Speaker 4: I mean I think New Orleans scoring forty seven points

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Speaker 4: was not on my vision board.

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Speaker 1: They scored nine possessions in a row.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that was not I mean, not trying to be judgmental,

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Speaker 4: I'm not trying to be judgmental, but that was not

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Speaker 4: on my vision board for twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: Well, I was surprised by a lot. I think that

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Speaker 1: how good this early that the Chiefs look that had

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Speaker 1: to put some people on notice. I think I showed

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Speaker 1: on my social media my candle predicted the Ravens were

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Speaker 1: going to win. On Thursday night, I was surprised by

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Speaker 1: how good Kansas City looks better than they did. I

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Speaker 1: know it's overreaction. Monday, they looked as good or better

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Speaker 1: than they did all of last year. They just looked

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Speaker 1: like a more well rounded team to me against what

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Speaker 1: should be a really good Ravens team.

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Speaker 4: And it is a really good Ravens team. I think,

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Speaker 4: what's the name of the kid Xavier Worthy that they drafted.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I would love to see him in Tyreek Hill.

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Speaker 1: In a race.

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Speaker 4: I mean he just yeah, like he just out. I

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Speaker 4: mean he's super fast and will knew it like it's no.

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Speaker 4: But like when you see it in a game, it's

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Speaker 4: it's a different and it's a different story.

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Speaker 1: People talk about the NFL being the greatest reality show

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Speaker 1: on television, and if you watched the games this week,

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Speaker 1: starting with that the toe being out of bounds on

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Speaker 1: Thursday night, so many of the endings, it sort of

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Speaker 1: lived up to that billing. At one point, there were

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Speaker 1: eight games in the early time slot on Sunday, Six

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Speaker 1: of them, halfway through the fourth quarter were one possession games.

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Speaker 1: Most of the games very very close and compelling till

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Speaker 1: the end, with storylines that abounded.

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Speaker 4: I agree one but two, if you back up, you

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Speaker 4: still want to talk Chiefs Ravens. The drama in the

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Speaker 4: first half, was it like four illegal formations in the first.

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Speaker 2: Half called on that more.

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Speaker 4: And I mean, I'm not a not a player, but

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Speaker 4: as far as I know, that's that's a penalty where

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Speaker 4: the ref's always kind of like, hey, you're you're moving

512
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Speaker 4: a little, you gotta scow it in, or hey, you

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Speaker 4: gotta you gotta scoop back a bitter. For me, that

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Speaker 4: seems like a penalty that the refs always kind of

515
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Speaker 4: give you a little, uh, a little grace with and

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Speaker 4: kind of warn you and if you if you adhere

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Speaker 4: to what they're saying.

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Speaker 1: They don't call it. Yeah. I heard this morning a

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Speaker 1: friend of the podcast, Andrew Whitworth, who's been on here

520
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:22,920
Speaker 1: obviously having a ton of success on Thursday Night Football

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Speaker 1: as a commentator now that he's retired a Super Bowl

522
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Speaker 1: champion with the Rams. I heard him talk and he

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Speaker 1: said something that was really interesting to me, and I'm

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Speaker 1: glad you brought this up. What he said is what

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Speaker 1: he doesn't like is the NFL saying this penalty or

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Speaker 1: this rule is a point of focus for us. He

527
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Speaker 1: was like, look, it's either a penalty or it's not, like,

528
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Speaker 1: but all of the rules should should play in and

529
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Speaker 1: he doesn't like this sort of targeted focus on one

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Speaker 1: specific thing. And I don't know if you've ever had

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Speaker 1: this speaking of reality shows, I mean I don't watch,

532
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Speaker 1: as you know, a lot of reality television shows, but

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Speaker 1: that like cringe moment or like cringe comedy. At the

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Speaker 1: beginning of that game, that's how I felt. I was like,

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Speaker 1: really again, no, stop, like it felt, it felt uncomfortable,

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Speaker 1: and ultimately I wonder if somebody started sending a message

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Speaker 1: down because it was not a good look for the league.

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Speaker 4: I thought, well, and it's one of those things where like,

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Speaker 4: are you you know, everything is reviewed at the end

540
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Speaker 4: of the year, right, so the ref's performances get reviewed,

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Speaker 4: their calls get reviewed. They probably get reviewed weekly and

542
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Speaker 4: then yearly and then whatever, I mean, do they look

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Speaker 4: at it and they go, hey, there's a there's a

544
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Speaker 4: there's a bunch of missing illegal formation penalties here. We

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Speaker 4: need to overcompensate now, Like that's what it's That's what

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Speaker 4: it seemed like. Because it's game one, it's two of

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Speaker 4: the best teams in the league. Everybody wants to see it.

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Speaker 2: But I think the.

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Speaker 4: You know, you talk about the moment, the cringe moment.

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Speaker 4: I think the thing that sucks for fans is like,

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Speaker 4: let them play, right. I want to watch Lamar and

552
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 4: Patrick go at it. I want to watch like.

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Speaker 1: This is what everybody does.

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Speaker 4: This is why it's the first game of the season

555
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Speaker 4: and it's a primetime game. Everybody wants to watch these

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Speaker 4: two teams play.

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Speaker 1: Obviously, you and I have watched a lot of the

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Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers over the years. Ultimately, I don't think

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Speaker 1: the folks at the NFL will be happy that I

560
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:33,040
Speaker 1: say this. It felt like going to Brazil. Great, you

561
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Speaker 1: want to expand the fan base, great, if this is

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Speaker 1: something you want to do. It felt unfortunate to me

563
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Speaker 1: that these two teams that everyone, at least on paper,

564
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Speaker 1: believes are going to be two great teams in the NFC,

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Speaker 1: that they have to make this trip and do this game,

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Speaker 1: and obviously turf issues, some players concerned about security issues

567
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Speaker 1: down there. It felt a little awkward to me, although

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Speaker 1: I did like having a game on Friday night. What

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Speaker 1: what what did you think?

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Speaker 4: I I I'm not gonna I'm not a player, so

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Speaker 4: I can't speak for for any of them, but it

572
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Speaker 4: I mean, how can you be a fan of that

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Speaker 4: flying in on a was it like on a Wednesday

574
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Speaker 4: or Tuesday night ten hour flight, they're two hours ahead.

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Speaker 4: You practice the next day, and then you have a

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Speaker 4: game the next night, and you turn around and fly home.

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Speaker 4: I mean, when anybody travels internationally getting your bearings, there's

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Speaker 4: always a day or two of kind of just like

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Speaker 4: I feel a little weird from flying across the world.

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Speaker 4: I think airplanes do that in general, but I don't know,

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Speaker 4: that just seems it seems like a lot for the

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Speaker 4: players and coaches and and all the all the employees

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Speaker 4: of the teams as well, like the front office people,

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Speaker 4: the equipment people that are involved. Because they're not just

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Speaker 4: bringing players and coaches, they bring they bring staff. There's

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Speaker 4: a there's a whole city that travels with them. There's

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Speaker 4: a village, and I I that can't be easy for anybody.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, And that's.

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Speaker 4: That's always been kind of a conversation where like teams

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Speaker 4: like Chicago in Green Bay being in the middle of

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Speaker 4: the country that they have a slight advantage over teams

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Speaker 4: like New York and Seattle that have to travel. If

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Speaker 4: you know, Seattle's playing the Dolphins, or if you know,

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Speaker 4: the Giants are playing the Rams's two.

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Speaker 1: And a half hour flight as opposed to a six

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Speaker 1: hour flight. Yeah, it felt difficult, a little bit awkward.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully Jordan is okay. Obviously he's very important to their

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Speaker 1: success this year. Also, Josh Allen with an injury that

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Speaker 1: we're sort of waiting to hear back on. Those are

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Speaker 1: a couple of the marquee guys. I want to ask

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Speaker 1: you quickly about the other LA team, the Chargers. Chargers

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Speaker 1: relevant this year. They're one to zero.

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Speaker 4: I don't think you can count Jim Harbaugh out, with

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Speaker 4: his resume and what he's done everywhere he's gone. I

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Speaker 4: just don't think you can do it.

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Speaker 1: It felt like if there was a script for what

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Speaker 1: you thought might happen to them, it couldn't have gone

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Speaker 1: any better for them. And yeah, as an offensive coach

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Speaker 1: coming in, what was so surprising to me was how

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Speaker 1: great the defense looked and how tough they the entire

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Speaker 1: team played start to finish. I don't know that it

612
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:23,279
Speaker 1: was a fun game to watch, but the results well,

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Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's good for the NFL.

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Speaker 4: Well, I think too. The other thing in that game

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Speaker 4: is JK. Dobbins towards Achilles, and he came on and

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Speaker 4: played ran for the Chargers, and he played well and

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Speaker 4: didn't get hurt. I think it's the same for Atlanta

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Speaker 4: Kirk Cousins. They lost, maybe not had the game that

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Speaker 4: he wanted to have. But you know, tonight there's also

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Speaker 4: another guy with the same injury coming back. So it's

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Speaker 4: good to see those guys back and healthy, and it's exciting.

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Speaker 1: What's going to happen tonight? J Ets Jets, Jets, Jets

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Speaker 1: at the Niners, your pick.

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Speaker 4: I think the Jets take it. I don't think it's

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Speaker 4: gonna be easy on either side. I just hope everyone

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Speaker 4: stays healthy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I do as well. It should be a lot

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Speaker 1: of fun, obviously. I'm excited football is back. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for coming and talking about some of the biggest stories

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Speaker 1: this week. By the way, my fantasy football team sucks. Sorry.

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Speaker 1: Did you play rain this week? No? We just both

632
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:32,720
Speaker 1: lost by sixty so we're uh, yeah, we're not good.

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Speaker 1: We have to look ourselves in the face. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: is that what you're saying.

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Speaker 4: Nobody have to be good at fantasy People are lucky

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Speaker 4: at fantasy.

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Speaker 1: Well, don't tell me when I win that. Thanks for

638
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Speaker 1: coming on, appreciate it. I couldn't be more excited about

639
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:57,600
Speaker 1: the season being back, and we'll see what happens tonight.

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Speaker 1: I promise you this. I may have a cocktail and

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Speaker 1: watch the game. Yeah, I'm in let's do it all right.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Papa Sob, Thank you everybody for indulging me this week.

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Speaker 1: The last thing is the Emmys this weekend, the seventy

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Speaker 1: sixth edition of the Emmys. You know, it brings back

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Speaker 1: so many great memories for me. Every time I think

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Speaker 1: about the Emmys, I think about my first year. Angela

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Speaker 1: Kinzie and I went together. Very long story short, we

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Speaker 1: were late to our first Emmys. Our car broke down

649
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Speaker 1: on its way to Angela's house. Angela then got picked up,

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00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:59,799
Speaker 1: called me, said we're coming to you. We have no Eric.

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Speaker 1: We melted on the way to the Emmys and arrived

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Speaker 1: after missing the entire red carpet. The opening conan all

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Speaker 1: of our friends. But the story ended well. The Office

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Speaker 1: comedy of errors, maybe it made it a little more special.

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Speaker 1: So you never know what's going to happen there at

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Speaker 1: the Emmys, very excited about seeing what happens. And look, ultimately,

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Speaker 1: it's not about who wins and loses. I said that

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Speaker 1: to myself for many of the ten years we were there.

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Speaker 1: But it is a celebration of the thing that I

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Speaker 1: love more than football, which is television. So enjoy the Emmys,

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Speaker 1: regardless of what Rain says. I encourage you to watch

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Speaker 1: and celebrate along with me that and we will see

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Speaker 1: you next week on Off the Beat. Until then, have

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Speaker 1: a great week. Off the Beat is hosted and executive

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Speaker 1: produced by me Brian Baumgartner, alongside our executive producer Ling Lee.

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Speaker 1: Our senior producer is Diego Tapia. Our talent producer is

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Speaker 1: Ryan Papa Zachary. Our theme song Bubble and Squeak, performed

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Speaker 1: by the one and only Creed Bratton