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Speaker 1: We begin at the scouting Combine in Indianapolis, one of

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Speaker 1: the great bull crap weeks of the year, and it

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Speaker 1: is going on. It's all like don't get call. And

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Speaker 1: we mentioned in a previous episode, previous episode of show

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Speaker 1: that it's all you can eat nugs, a lot of nuggets,

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Speaker 1: a lot of nuggets. Most of it is bullcrap and

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Speaker 1: a lot of it you have to decode, but it's

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Speaker 1: all there. The Underwear Olympics are underway in Indianapolis. There

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Speaker 1: now the feature that I want to start with because

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Speaker 1: I thought this was extra foul, extra foul. The Raiders. Yes,

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Speaker 1: the Raiders, the laughing stock of the NFL. If they

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Speaker 1: were to have a table of the last twenty years,

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Speaker 1: the Raiders would be sitting side by side, they'd have

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Speaker 1: the Jets on one side and the Browns on the other.

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Speaker 1: Those are the contemporaries. Now, back in my day, when

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Speaker 1: I was a kid, the Raiders considered themselves the gold

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Speaker 1: standard of the NFL, the commitment to excellence. Now it's

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Speaker 1: commitment to excrement. And so the Raiders have been garbage.

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Speaker 1: Their top player is not happy and had a hissy fit.

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Speaker 1: So the Raider GM, John Spytech decided to give an

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Speaker 1: update what he was asked about. He didn't decide to

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Speaker 1: give an update, but he spoke at the Underwear Olympics there,

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Speaker 1: so if you did not see this or hear about it,

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Speaker 1: perhaps not. Spy Tech said he expects Max Crosby, the

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Speaker 1: guy that's not happy there, to continue on.

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Speaker 3: With the Raiders.

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Speaker 1: Now, just to prove I'm not making this up, let's

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Speaker 1: go to the audio tape. Here is the Raiders GM.

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Speaker 3: Which is really, let's be honest. Here, come on, it's Tom.

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Speaker 1: Brady, but this is Brady's college buddy who gets to

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Speaker 1: pretend to be the GM of the Raiders.

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Speaker 3: He does some.

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Speaker 1: Cosplay, and he was asked the question about Max Crosby,

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Speaker 1: take you lis, Max.

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Speaker 4: Is an elite player, and I've been very upfront from

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Speaker 4: the from the start when I got here that, you

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Speaker 4: know where, we're in the business of having really good

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Speaker 4: players on the team, and we need we need a

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Speaker 4: lot more of them. And you know, it's hard to

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Speaker 4: build the great team with at elite players.

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Speaker 5: You hold the first pick in the draft, teams are

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Speaker 5: bound to come caller in the pool, because do you

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Speaker 5: guys feel like the need to answer those calls and

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Speaker 6: Offers right now?

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Speaker 4: A lot I learned a long time ago. Always listening.

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Speaker 3: I'm always listening. Yeah, all right, So that's great.

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Speaker 1: So the juxtaposed the beginning of that and the end

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Speaker 1: he did not say that Max Crosby was untradeable, as

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Speaker 1: So that is a good jumping off point. Let us

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Speaker 3: Pretend you're on Wall Street.

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Speaker 1: How much stalk do you put into the Raiders General

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Speaker 1: manager John Spytech saying that he expects Max Crosby to

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Speaker 1: stay in Vegas at least at the beginning of that soundpight,

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Speaker 1: that's what he isn't someone else, but at the beginning,

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Speaker 1: that's what he said.

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Speaker 3: So my thoughts on this, I've got pottery, barn, tupperware,

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

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Speaker 3: A Wiener mobile, is what We're going to make. Round

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Speaker 3: and round and round and round.

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Speaker 1: The Wienermobile goes all right, So a, this is a

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Speaker 1: classic GM shell game. Now I say GM again, he's

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Speaker 1: pretending to be the GM. We all acknowledge he's not

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Speaker 1: the GM. That the GM by proxy is Tom Brady,

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Speaker 1: and that's the one calling the shots here because Mark

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Speaker 1: Davis just gave ob you know, twenty years of suck,

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Speaker 3: Okay, that sounds good. Why not?

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Speaker 1: And then the low information part of the fan base,

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Speaker 3: There's a murders anyway.

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Speaker 1: So to address the issue, though, you heard spy Tech

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Speaker 1: twenty six. Now, this is analos many of the fans

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Speaker 1: who are on the spectrum dumb d dumb, dumb dumb.

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Speaker 3: They hear that and they think the word and it's it's.

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Speaker 1: As simple we all use it. Expect. They think of

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Speaker 3: Well, he said it, he said it. Okay, relax, relax

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Speaker 1: The word expect is like a coop at pottery Barnen.

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Speaker 3: The coupons expire, right, they expire.

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Speaker 1: And this particular coupon for Max Crosby is already passed

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Speaker 3: You know, the best buy. You use it by this date,

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Speaker 3: it's past that.

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Speaker 1: Now spy Tech again, the guy pretending to be the

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Speaker 1: league and he's announcing, via the wink from Tom Brady,

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Speaker 1: you know, I love my guy. I love my guy.

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Speaker 1: He's a heart and soul player and he's just born

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Speaker 1: to be a.

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Speaker 3: Raider out of Central Casting.

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Speaker 1: That's all true, while simultaneously within less than thirty seconds,

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Speaker 1: less than thirty seconds, essentially saying check the fine print

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Speaker 1: on this, and if I can get a first round

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Speaker 1: pick next year and a second round pick this year

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Speaker 1: and a side of fries. They don't even have to

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Speaker 1: be jumbo size. We got something right. And so it's

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Speaker 1: a classic old fashioned two faced serpent, which of most

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Speaker 1: of these people are. That's how they play the game, right,

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Speaker 1: you know, reveal your hand. Everyone's paranoid. They're all princes

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Speaker 1: of paranoia in the NFL. So, first of all, he

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Speaker 1: GM here, of course a fake GM, that he needs

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Speaker 1: more elite players. He gave the whole cliche you got

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Speaker 1: guess he's a the Tom Brady has programmed him spy Tech.

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Speaker 1: So he's like the programmed by Tom Brady, and Brady

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Speaker 1: and hopes spy Tech that he gets a smiley face

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Speaker 3: Office in Henderson, Nevada. The Raider facility.

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Speaker 1: Now to Cleveland, we go, well, actually the Combine, but

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Speaker 1: the Brownies among the teams to address the media. More

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Speaker 1: nugs from the Cleveland Browns. He laughing said, I love

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Speaker 1: talking about bad sports, the Raiders, the Browns man. All right,

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Speaker 1: so GM, Andrew Barry, this guy you talk about, how

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Speaker 3: How does Andrew f and Berry have a job. He's

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Speaker 3: not good at his what does he do? Anyway?

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Speaker 1: Andrew Berry said, it's quote too early to say if

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Speaker 1: Shader Sanders will be the Browns Week one quarterback or

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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson for that matter. So I guess we have

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Speaker 1: a little bit. We'll play a little bit. This is

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Speaker 3: So let's go to the audio tape.

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Speaker 8: Right now, it's what February twenty fourth, So you know,

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Speaker 8: we don't have to make.

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Speaker 3: That decision almost twenty fifth most places.

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Speaker 8: Player that we have in that room, we would expect to,

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Speaker 8: you know, to compete to earn a role because he

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Speaker 8: would be no different. I think the biggest thing that

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Speaker 8: we want to see from Shador is just continue to growth.

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Speaker 8: I think he grew a lot social media to start seven.

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Speaker 8: You know, I think certainly, you know, playing more efficiency,

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Speaker 8: not putting the play more efficiently.

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Speaker 3: Turned the ball over dubbing.

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Speaker 8: As much, you know, would be important, you know, while

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Speaker 8: maintaining the you know, the ability to produce out of

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Speaker 8: the sield. So the biggest thing that you can do

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Speaker 8: is learn the new offense. You know, get in when

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Speaker 8: continue to work on his his body physically, and make

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Speaker 3: Stop talking. What are you doing?

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Speaker 1: Barry Well, he refused to stamp any player as the

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Speaker 1: starting quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. So question, question, what

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Speaker 1: do you make of the comments? You heard a lot

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Speaker 1: of them from the Browns general manager Andrew Berry regarding

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Speaker 1: the status of Shadur Sanders. So, Andrew Berry just gave

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Speaker 1: a masterclass in the Cleveland crouch bobbing and weaving. Bobbing

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Speaker 1: this guy blows ah there, she blows and I need

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Speaker 1: who else I'm going to get. If Shadur Sanders was

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Speaker 1: the undisputed heir to the poopy throne of Cleveland. If

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Speaker 1: would be saying what he just said. Of course not,

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Speaker 1: he'd be getting a boombox out to announce to everyone

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Speaker 1: on the top of the terminal tower there in Cleveland,

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Speaker 1: we got our guide baby.

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Speaker 3: Whoa. He's not doing that.

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Speaker 1: Instead, he's treating the quarterback room like it's like a

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Speaker 1: hand side that's got bad meat loaf in it, and

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Speaker 1: with the bad meat loaf, And you're like, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: it's been in the back of the fridge for a while.

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Speaker 1: check the time I put that in not good.

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Speaker 3: And so I get it. I'm not saying he's wrong,

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Speaker 3: by the way, I'm not saying it's right. Just like

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Speaker 3: the amount of words used.

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Speaker 1: Could have been yeah, shit, her Sanders not that good. Next,

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Speaker 1: you know, he can't say that. So he's treating the

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Speaker 1: quarterback room there in Cleveland like a pair of worn

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Speaker 1: out tires, hoping he can get on his phone, go

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Speaker 1: to tire rack dot com and find a new set

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Speaker 1: of white walls or some other kind of tire. But

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Speaker 1: the read on this one is rather simple, Shouldar Sanders

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Speaker 1: and we'll toss in Deshaun Watson as well. Those are options.

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Speaker 1: They are the options of last resort, Dick's last resort.

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Speaker 1: Right if Barry can land a shiny new toy, wouldn't

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Speaker 1: that be great?

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Speaker 3: Boy?

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Speaker 1: They're gonna waste another draft pick on a quarterback. Well,

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Speaker 1: This is so good, Bravo, keep him there forever, sign

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Speaker 3: Because that's what you do, You go back to where

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Speaker 3: How many? How many? No chance?

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Speaker 3: All right, anyway, So the Lakers are set. Now let

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Speaker 3: Gotta pay him. Get out these scrubbing bubbles, because you

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Speaker 1: That is a mess, and we will be here every

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Speaker 1: So I leave this hour from the scouting combine. We

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Speaker 1: and ex pat who Nick Casario, he addressed the Komodo

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Speaker 3: Talked about the future of his quarterback, not a good one.

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Speaker 3: By the way, let's get to the audio tape.

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Speaker 1: If you didn't hear it, here is Nick Cassario, the

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Speaker 3: Strout. It's Maroni, Like, we're not trading a guy.

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Speaker 5: He's a quarterback, so he's gonna be playing quarterback if

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Speaker 5: I mean again, like that's that's your world. You guys

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Speaker 1: That was the money quote, and we're not trading the

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Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question Texans GM, said Nick Cassario,

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Speaker 3: Maronic Maronic to trade quarterback c J. Strout.

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Speaker 1: Is that how you see it? So I have abstract art,

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Speaker 1: Fisher Price and the Mightiesultar, and we will combine all

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Speaker 1: Connect three, not connect one, not connect two, connect three.

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Speaker 1: So number one. So Nick Cassario, the GM there, I

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Speaker 3: My guy, that's my guy. Who would ever do that?

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Speaker 1: the word I would use is pragmatic. That would be

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Speaker 1: Stroud had this amazing rookie season, look like he had

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Speaker 1: But that is a distant memory and you've got back

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of dumb dumps that get in there,

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Speaker 1: big games the last couple of years that this guy

437
00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:38,600
Speaker 1: is a big donor for abstract art in playoff games.

438
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Speaker 1: His favorite type of art is abstract art. He likes

439
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Speaker 1: the he likes being a choke artist. He enjoys that.

440
00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:48,480
Speaker 1: And but wait, there's not just a choke artist. But

441
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Speaker 1: he uses finger painting, not Bob Ross. He's using finger

442
00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:54,320
Speaker 1: painting and that's what he's doing here.

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Speaker 3: How bad is he? Well?

444
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Speaker 1: C J Stroud owns. Congratulations CJ. The NFL record the

445
00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:02,280
Speaker 1: first player in the one hundred year history of the

446
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Speaker 1: NFL to have five interceptions and five fumbles in a

447
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:11,520
Speaker 1: single postseason. Way to go, and for that. The general

448
00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:13,560
Speaker 1: manager of the Houston Sections said, it would be moronic

449
00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:14,400
Speaker 1: to get rid of this guy.

450
00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:21,240
Speaker 3: So bad. Oh, it's so bad. It's good. I am

451
00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:22,280
Speaker 3: so happy I'm here.

452
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Speaker 1: If people did the right thing, then what we talk

453
00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:28,640
Speaker 1: about we'd just be boring. It'd be so boring. Think

454
00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:31,960
Speaker 1: these idiots in sports, it's wild.

455
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Speaker 3: He has been. The word for c J.

456
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Speaker 1: Stroud in the playoffs is bedrackled. He has been bedrackled.

457
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Speaker 1: And even when the Texans have won the I think

458
00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:45,040
Speaker 1: they've won three games with CJ. Stroud, he's gotten the

459
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Speaker 1: federal bailout from the White House. He's gotten the bailout. Right,

460
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Speaker 1: it's the defense. When the lights get bright, it's always

461
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Speaker 1: Halloween for CJ.

462
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Speaker 3: Stroud. He turns into a pumpkin he does. And your

463
00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:00,720
Speaker 3: waste and this is.

464
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Speaker 1: Why you should be offended, the hutzpah of the Texans.

465
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Speaker 1: You're wasting what has been a generationally good defense, at

466
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Speaker 1: least statistically the last couple of years. And when you

467
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Speaker 1: have a defense like that, you just need a guy

468
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Speaker 1: to stay out of the way. And they can't even

469
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Speaker 1: get that. They can't even get the bear necessities out

470
00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:24,119
Speaker 1: of out of CJ strets wild. You just need a

471
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Speaker 1: custodian for the offense. Right guy, sweeps up the floors,

472
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Speaker 1: mops the floors, don't burn down the damn building. Make

473
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Speaker 1: sure the toilet paper rolls are in there, clean behind

474
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Speaker 1: the toilet.

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Speaker 3: That's what you need. Yeah, don't need the hero. He's

476
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Speaker 3: not very good.

477
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Speaker 1: He's not so I would say you would unload him now,

478
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Speaker 1: and rather than give him a big contract, which is

479
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Speaker 1: what you're ultimately looking at, if this does not go

480
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,199
Speaker 1: well this year, or you know, you just can eventually

481
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Speaker 1: give him that that contract. Maybe he'll cut you a

482
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Speaker 1: little bit of a deal, but you're still gonna pay

483
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Speaker 1: them a ton of money and he's not worth it.

484
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Speaker 1: And any sensible football observer would say that you don't

485
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Speaker 1: want to be anchored to this player. You do not

486
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Speaker 1: want to be anchored to this player. And yet you're

487
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Speaker 1: getting closer and closer to it. It sounds like the

488
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Speaker 1: Texans is gonna triple down. Normally, you're allowed one bad year.

489
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Speaker 1: You can't have back to back bad year. C J

490
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Speaker 1: strats ad back to back bad years, and they're gonna

491
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Speaker 1: give him a chance to have a third bad year.

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Speaker 3: The issue is, what if he's not bad? What if

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Speaker 3: he's just average? Next year? What do you do with him?

494
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Speaker 8: Then?

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00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:31,359
Speaker 3: What do you do?

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Speaker 1: So he said, one good year, two bad years, and

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Speaker 1: then an average year.

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Speaker 3: You're gonna give that guy the big contract? Are you?

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Speaker 1: Okay? Who's moronic? Then all right, toss me and moronic.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Arizona. Arizona, that is where the Cardinals GM.

501
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Speaker 1: Monty Austin Fort, that's a mouthful. Monty austen Fort said

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Speaker 1: that he's had conversations with Kyler Murray about how the

503
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Speaker 1: Terrible twenty twenty five season unfolded. So then some reporter

504
00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 1: went to somebody with Kyler Murray and said, okay, what

505
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:05,159
Speaker 1: did this?

506
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:07,600
Speaker 3: What happened? How did this go?

507
00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:13,320
Speaker 1: And so the people around Kyler Murray who are writing his.

508
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Speaker 3: Co tails there are little cottails.

509
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Speaker 1: They said that the two have not talked since the

510
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:18,880
Speaker 1: season ended.

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Speaker 3: So then he said, oh, this guy lied. Austin Ford,

512
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:25,560
Speaker 3: the Cardinals GM lied. He's a liar. Got all excited.

513
00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:28,199
Speaker 3: Here's a liar, okay.

514
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Speaker 1: Austin Ford also said that those conversations about Murray's future

515
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Speaker 1: are happening daily.

516
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Speaker 3: Boy, that must be really exciting. Wow.

517
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Speaker 1: And he reiterated the Cardinal GM Monte ousen Ford reiterated

518
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Speaker 1: that all options are on the table, all options, all right,

519
00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:53,280
Speaker 1: So question yet the Cardinals GM monty ousen Ford saying

520
00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:56,440
Speaker 1: that all options are on the table with the little

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Speaker 1: fella Kyler Murray and his future. So how does that

522
00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:02,159
Speaker 1: lane with you? How does that land with you? So

523
00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 1: this is not a declaration, this is not a statement.

524
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:12,679
Speaker 1: It is a talking points memo that he was just

525
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:14,160
Speaker 1: repeating the talking points here.

526
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Speaker 3: And it's like going to the Disco Tech.

527
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:19,920
Speaker 1: You go down to the Disco Tech and you get

528
00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:22,760
Speaker 1: to Bell Bottoms, you get the hippie boss. You drive

529
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:27,560
Speaker 1: that down there and you drive straight in to a

530
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:30,000
Speaker 1: game of he said, he said, because you got the

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Speaker 1: GM said, hey, I talked to the player, somebody with

532
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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray, who might have been Kyler Murray said we

533
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Speaker 1: haven't talked.

534
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Speaker 3: We have not talked.

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Speaker 1: And so my theory on what happened, I got theory,

536
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:48,320
Speaker 1: the malord theory is that the GM Austin Ford claimed

537
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 1: he said he talked to Kyler Murray, but he meant

538
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 1: his agent. Agents are the conduit, the conduit between the player,

539
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:59,480
Speaker 1: the middleman between the player and the team. So a

540
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Speaker 1: little who may or may not be flying through the

541
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Speaker 1: Valley of the Sun tells me it's almost impossible to

542
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Speaker 1: get a hold of Kyler Murray this time of the

543
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:10,720
Speaker 1: year because he's a two sport athlete. A lot of

544
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Speaker 1: people don't know this, but he's a two sport athlete

545
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:16,920
Speaker 1: and it is in the middle of Call of Duty season.

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Speaker 1: Do you expect Kyler to put down the joystick, to

547
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Speaker 1: get off the Twitch stream and talk to his part

548
00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:31,080
Speaker 1: time boss? Come on, come on, he's a brand ambassador,

549
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:35,440
Speaker 1: brand ambassador for Call of Duty. You think he's gonna

550
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:36,959
Speaker 1: worry about a little side hustle. I don't care if

551
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Speaker 1: they're paying like forty or fifty million dollars a year,

552
00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:41,960
Speaker 1: whatever it is. I don't care about that. It'd be

553
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Speaker 1: nice if the Cardinals just said, hey, we're getting rid

554
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Speaker 1: of me. They don't want to do that until they

555
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Speaker 1: trade him. Obviously, Well we decided it's better we go

556
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:49,960
Speaker 1: our separate way. So for now they're playing the game

557
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:54,160
Speaker 1: good luck. At some point I guess they realize, well,

558
00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:59,240
Speaker 1: he's not very good and he needs a Fisher Price

559
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:03,360
Speaker 1: plastic Toddler step stool in the huddle.

560
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Speaker 3: That's not great. And so he'll be wearing some different laundry.

561
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:09,640
Speaker 3: It'll be kid laundry, but he'll be wearing some different laundry.

562
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Speaker 3: Kyler Murray.

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Speaker 1: Next years he go to the Dolphins, the Falcons, the Vikings,

564
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Speaker 1: the Steelers, or my favorite mystery team. I love the

565
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Speaker 1: mystery team. So it s it's a dry heat in Arizona.

566
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Speaker 1: Dry heat doesn't sting quite like the humidity in most

567
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:32,000
Speaker 1: other places, but you're still turning into dust.

568
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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 1: Last point, we go to Cincinnati. We go to Cincinnati

570
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Speaker 1: and they've got some issues. The GM there, Duke Tobin,

571
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Speaker 1: the duke good name, not a good gym. So Duke

572
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Speaker 1: Tobin was asked about the future of defensive end Trey Hendrickson,

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Speaker 1: and what did he say at the scouting combine. Well,

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Speaker 1: the GM there, the Cincinnati Bengal said.

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Speaker 3: I don't throw anything on or off the table.

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Speaker 10: Sounds like the default answer at the combine is everything's

577
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 10: on the table. That must be one fin big table

578
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:11,120
Speaker 10: the combine for the NFL, everything's on the table.

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00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 3: Yeah.

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00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,680
Speaker 1: Anyway, I went on to say that we are excited

581
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:19,800
Speaker 1: about attacking this offseason. See his nose growing when he

582
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:23,960
Speaker 1: said that we have resources, not many resources, to attack

583
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Speaker 1: the offseason in a big way, and we want.

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Speaker 3: To do that. Rah rah. I added that other part.

585
00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 3: I added that other part. All right.

586
00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 1: So there has been speculation that the Bengals, the Bengals

587
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:38,960
Speaker 1: will use these redded Franchise tag yet again on Trey Hendrickson.

588
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:41,160
Speaker 3: You're gonna lock him down now.

589
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 1: Tobin did not clarify on that issue, whether or not

590
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Speaker 1: the team would.

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Speaker 3: Actually do that.

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00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: He said, quote in terms of how we're going to

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Speaker 1: deploy the tag, if we are going to, that's not

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Speaker 1: something I'm going to talk about here.

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00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 3: Why not? Who cares? Anyway?

596
00:31:58,080 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 8: All right?

597
00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:01,880
Speaker 1: So let us discuss this the question what is the

598
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Speaker 1: Bengals message regarding Trey Hendrickson?

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00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:05,280
Speaker 6: So?

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00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:08,720
Speaker 1: What is the Bengals message regarding Trey Henderson? So this

601
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:13,959
Speaker 1: is a what I call a SOOP situation in Cincinnati,

602
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 1: a shop situation in Cincinnati, Standard operating procedure SOP, that's

603
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Speaker 1: what it is. So you got the GM there, Duke

604
00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:25,360
Speaker 1: Tobin who gets up at the dais at the combine

605
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 1: and it's like he's speaking in pungs. He's acting like

606
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Speaker 1: he's trying to sell you a funnel cake at the

607
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:34,320
Speaker 1: Ohio State Fair. Or more likely, I guess the analogy

608
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:38,160
Speaker 1: would be, it's like oatmeal, but it's corporate GM oatmeal,

609
00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:40,720
Speaker 1: which is warm room temperature.

610
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 3: It's bland. It fills the bowl and there's really nothing there.

611
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:45,920
Speaker 3: There's really nothing there.

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00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:49,240
Speaker 1: Trey Henderson would like a nice Mealia the great steakhouse

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Speaker 1: there that is Jeff Ruby's I believe in in Cincinnati

614
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:53,080
Speaker 1: all the baseball writers go to.

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00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:54,960
Speaker 3: You want to go there and get that big steak.

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00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 1: The Bengals are like, listen, if you want to stay here,

617
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:04,560
Speaker 1: need a discount code. We need a discount code. It's

618
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:07,560
Speaker 1: like they're shopping on the clearance rack here. So the

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Speaker 1: franchise tag it's thirty million over thirty million. That's a

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00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 1: nice neighborhood. If they give that to Trey Hendrickson, they

621
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Speaker 1: could tag him. That's option number number one is to

622
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Speaker 1: tag him. So they could do that. They could tag

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Speaker 1: him and trade him that's option number two. Or they

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Speaker 1: could do none of the above and just say bye bye,

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00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:33,360
Speaker 1: get out of here.

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00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:36,479
Speaker 3: Out now.

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Speaker 1: We did check with the Mighty Zultar for some Council

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Speaker 1: on this. No other radio show has access to the

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Speaker 1: Mighty's Altar, and the Mighty Zultar told us that all

630
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 1: things end. That's a message from the Mighty's Altar, all

631
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Speaker 1: things end. This does feel like the final scene that

632
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 1: Hendrickson is going to raise a hullabaloo if he is

633
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Speaker 1: not traded, and the Bengals don't seem like they're wired,

634
00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:10,040
Speaker 1: they don't have that thick rhino skin to handle the criticism,

635
00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:12,600
Speaker 1: because then it'll be a dog pile. You'll have Joe

636
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:16,839
Speaker 1: Burrow and Jamar Chase and these guys will pile on

637
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. So it's more likely than not

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00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:23,520
Speaker 1: that Hendrickson will pack up the station wagon and go

639
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 1: up on I seventy one there, maybe head to Baltimore,

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Speaker 1: see what's going on in Baltimore or Chicago or Detroit

641
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:31,680
Speaker 1: or anywhere, and then.

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00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 3: The Bengals will get a gonna get a back. It's

643
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:33,920
Speaker 3: not a big bag.

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00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:36,280
Speaker 1: It's more like a fanny pack, like a fanny pack

645
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:40,839
Speaker 1: of draft picks. They'll get a classic nineteen eighties fanny pack.

646
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:46,080
Speaker 1: And Cincinnati that is where ambition and trying to win

647
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:50,120
Speaker 1: goes to take a nice nap, take a really nice

648
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:52,959
Speaker 1: nap and have a good time. And it's the same

649
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:54,879
Speaker 1: issue the Raiders have and so many of these teams.

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00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:59,480
Speaker 1: It's old family money. It's the Great Gatsby old family money.

651
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 1: Every dollar that the Ben Gals do not spend on

652
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:07,879
Speaker 1: player payroll goes back into the Brown family piggy bank.

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Speaker 1: So if you get to take that money that you

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Speaker 1: don't spend on that extra linebacker or that offensive tackle,

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Speaker 1: and that goes into your vacation funds, so you can

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Speaker 1: afford an extra private jet.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. So just the plan is.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what the Bengals plan is. As a

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Speaker 1: distant relative of Nostradamus and friend of Nostradinas, I think

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Speaker 1: we're back being friends.

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Speaker 3: He lives in Seattle. I think we're back being friends.

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Speaker 1: So the Bengals plan is that just do the very

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Speaker 1: minimum sees get degrees, just get a C grade, and

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Speaker 1: then hope that Joe Burrow is Superman.

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Speaker 3: That's it.

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

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

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Speaker 3: It's maller.

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Speaker 5: How about that to the third degree.

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Speaker 2: This is one big Ben gets quick.

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Speaker 7: Joey Bosa is a free agent, and many have been

672
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Speaker 7: pushing the idea that he should sign with the forty

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Speaker 7: nine ers and team up with his brother Nick and

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Speaker 7: Santa Clara. Ben, do you think Bosa would be a

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Speaker 7: good addition for the forty nine ers?

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Speaker 1: Yes, for they'd sell some T shirts, They'd sell a

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00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 1: lot of the hats and crap like that, Bosa and

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00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:24,719
Speaker 1: Bosa and for four games, those guys would dominate the

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Speaker 1: NFL for four games.

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Speaker 3: Unfortunately, play seventeen.

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Speaker 7: Next, Urban Meyer was asked on a recent podcast about

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Speaker 7: the NC Doublea's repeated legal defeats. Meyer went on to

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Speaker 7: deem the NC Double A quote a powerless organization right now, Ben,

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Speaker 7: is he right?

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Speaker 1: Well, they don't have any teeth, they don't have a backball,

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Speaker 1: and they have no balls.

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Speaker 3: Other than that, they're fine. I don't even know what

688
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:49,400
Speaker 3: they do. I really don't know what they do.

689
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 1: The Big Ten in the Southeastern Conference, they run college sports.

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00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:57,040
Speaker 11: Next, it was reported that a that avoiding of Kawhi

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00:36:57,120 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 11: Leonard's contract with the Clippers is on the table as

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Speaker 11: a potential punishment or the team's a legend salary cap

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Speaker 11: circumvention scandal.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, then what are the chances that this happens. It

695
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:07,880
Speaker 3: doesn't seem like they're in a hurry to do it.

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Speaker 3: If he's everyone.

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00:37:08,719 --> 00:37:10,799
Speaker 1: Thinks he's gonna go get released and sign with like

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Speaker 1: the Knicks or something like that. But he they have

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Speaker 1: to release him by March first. I don't think that's

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Speaker 1: gonna happen. I think Clippers, if they did something, they

701
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Speaker 1: should be punished. But I know the president is to

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Speaker 1: get rid of Kawhi Leonard if they did do what

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Speaker 1: people are saying.

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Speaker 3: So if that's the case, he'll be gone. I'm fine

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Speaker 3: with it. How do we do coop? You pass the

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Speaker 3: seconds they went?

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

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Speaker 2: dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to

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Speaker 2: listen live. It's another Ben Mallard game.

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Speaker 3: We've endured too many of this. Is it too much

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00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:53,600
Speaker 3: or not enough enough? Already here we go too much

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Speaker 3: or not enough.

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Speaker 1: I got an email from somebody saying that the I

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Speaker 1: think this was Mike.

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Speaker 3: I don't know where Mike is.

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Speaker 1: Send me an email the other day saying that the

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Speaker 1: biggest competitor for Caller of the Year on the show

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Speaker 1: is SpongeBob, who's only made a couple of phone.

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Speaker 12: Calls, but he's so impactful when he does call.

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Speaker 3: That would be a massive upset, Loraina of SpongeBob. Where

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Speaker 3: to win?

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Speaker 12: Who else gets to call from under the sea?

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Speaker 3: I know? Will he have Patrick start with him? Who knows?

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Speaker 3: Let's say hello to SpongeBob SquarePants.

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Speaker 9: Hello, SpongeBob morning, everyone to know of my loyal constituants

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Speaker 9: out there, ben coopen, Hey, Lorena.

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Speaker 1: Look at that SpongeBob stealing Anthony and Louisiana's act. Now

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Speaker 1: SpongeBob Anthony said he likes going down to impress a woman,

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Speaker 1: takes her to outback. Where does SpongeBob take a lady

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Speaker 1: to impress her?

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Speaker 9: Dah, we go to the chum Bucket and then we

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Speaker 9: blow it up, and then we go back to the

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Speaker 9: krazy Krad because I can make a mean democratic supreme.

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. All right, well I'll.

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Speaker 9: Make sure that Swinward's not there because he's a he's

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Speaker 9: a mean old part.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, all right, well here we go, alright, calm down, SpongeBob,

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Speaker 1: all right, here we go too much or not enough?

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Speaker 3: And all you have to do is get three questions.

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Speaker 3: Right now you're getting help from mister Crabs. Is he

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Speaker 3: helping you on this? Or what are we what are

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Speaker 3: we looking at?

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Speaker 9: No, he's still at home. I'm at the Groscy Crab

745
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Speaker 9: getting it ready for the day. Patrick just says, a big,

746
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Speaker 9: big honking one, and I'm cleaning it up.

747
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Speaker 3: But it's not okay, alright, alright, here you are. Question

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Speaker 3: number one, Victor Wemba Nyama. That's a basketball player.

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Speaker 1: He had He's had down eight games with five or

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Speaker 1: more blocks so far this season.

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Speaker 3: Too much or not enough? Too much or not enough?

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Speaker 9: Well, I'm gonna say, because he's like ten feet tall,

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Speaker 9: that is not enough.

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Speaker 3: Fright out.

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Speaker 1: That's right, okay, SpongeBob very excited. I love how excited

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Speaker 1: SpongeBob is.

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Speaker 3: I was thought when I was watching.

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Speaker 1: I don't watch SpongeBob is pretty much after my time,

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Speaker 1: but when I when I've seen a few episodes, I

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Speaker 1: was thought he'd be one of our fans, you know,

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Speaker 1: he'd be a fan of show.

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Speaker 3: Question number two.

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Speaker 1: There are seven running backs making ten million dollars more

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Speaker 1: annual average salary. Is that too much or not enough? SpongeBob,

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Speaker 1: M Well.

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Speaker 9: There's three two teams with everyone has a running back.

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Speaker 9: I'm gonna say that's not enough.

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Speaker 3: Okay, let's find out right again, right.

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Speaker 9: Again, waiting, ready, ready?

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Speaker 3: Is this SpongeBob or Sheldon J. Plankton the genius? I

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Speaker 3: don't know.

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Speaker 9: Hey, eat my name Ben out of your mouth? Watch

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Speaker 9: all right?

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Speaker 3: Okay, come down. Question three. You're doing great.

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Speaker 1: Here's a SpongeBob and you listen to a live I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't like that too much or not enough?

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Speaker 3: Get it in my computer wipe. Question number three.

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Speaker 1: There are five players in the NBA with one hundred

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Speaker 1: or more steals so far this season.

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Speaker 3: Is that too much or not enough?

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Speaker 9: SpongeBob, Well, there are thirty semidd teams in the NBA. Yeah,

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Speaker 9: lots of players. I am going to say. For well,

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Speaker 9: I say it too much.

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Speaker 3: Okay, SpongeBob, let's find out La Marina. You know you

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Speaker 3: got it right? You got it right. I have a shock.

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Speaker 3: I fuddy, I thuy, why you say my name for something?

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Speaker 12: I j car.

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Speaker 13: Bring it around town.

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Speaker 3: I thought it was gonna get wrong.

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Speaker 9: No it coun bring it hey, great one warling and

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Speaker 9: I forgot about that one.

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Speaker 3: Okay, calm down, let's let's keep going here. Question four.

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Speaker 3: You've already won the game. But question for Jerry Allen.

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Speaker 1: Of the Cavaliers has thirteen double doubles so far this season?

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Speaker 3: Is that too much or not enough? SpongeBob, he had.

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Speaker 9: Double double, He had a double double cratic Aatdy Supreme. Well,

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Speaker 9: I'm gonna say that is pactic? What can I say?

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Speaker 3: Okay, not enough? Let's find out? Oh right again? Right again, SpongeBob,

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Speaker 3: what amazing? One more to get right, one more to

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Speaker 3: get right? Here we go. Number seventeen not enough? Was right? Seventeen?

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Speaker 7: All right?

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00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:38,480
Speaker 3: Here we go. There are ten NFL.

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Speaker 1: Teams that currently have over fifty million dollars in cap space.

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Speaker 1: Is that too much or not enough to sweep the board? SpongeBob, Oh.

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Speaker 9: Crab isn't too much or not enough?

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Speaker 10: He said?

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Speaker 9: Well, I say it is not enough?

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00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:07,239
Speaker 3: You sure about that? Are you sure about that? SpongeBob?

809
00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:09,759
Speaker 9: Yes?

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00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:15,680
Speaker 3: Wrong, No, we were so close to having We're gonna

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Speaker 3: get sued. Naming the game after you next week by SpongeBob. Congratulations,

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00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:20,799
Speaker 3: you won the game.

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00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:25,239
Speaker 1: You got four rights and a tremendous job, and thank you,

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00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 1: thank you, and you do get a golden.

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Speaker 9: Tickets and guys, had a wonderful night to the toilet.

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Speaker 1: Okay, there he goes our friend SpongeBob, a big winner

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Speaker 1: there on too much or not enough?

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Speaker 3: I okay.

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

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

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Speaker 12: It's love It Boys with Little Rain at nine clean

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Speaker 12: up Hearts going to help you.

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Speaker 13: Gear Rye, gear ride to night, gear Rye to night.

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Speaker 3: Dear Rye.

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Speaker 12: Yes, it is time for love here on the Ben

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Speaker 12: Malice Show.

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Speaker 13: I know you were all some hopeless.

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Speaker 12: Romantics out there, really, Oh yes, oh yes, with booming

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Speaker 12: love lives.

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Speaker 1: All right, we have we have questions here, we we

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Speaker 1: got all right BP rights in He says, what is

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Speaker 1: the appropriate number of dates before your significant other can

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Speaker 1: let one rip? Is the number different for the man

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Speaker 1: than the woman? There a sweet spot, Lorena, Yeah, No, I.

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Speaker 12: Mean it depends on who you ask, okay, because I

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Speaker 12: would just I just don't.

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Speaker 13: I would never.

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Speaker 12: I could never it just unless I'm like dying and

839
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Speaker 12: you I don't know what happened, like I'm asleep.

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Speaker 13: I just would never. But I know men who do

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Speaker 13: it all the time. They have no shame.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: See you think there's probably women that do it too,

844
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Speaker 1: but you don't know any women like that.

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Speaker 12: Well, I do have some friends who, you know, they've

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Speaker 12: been married seven plus years, and I'm pretty sure they

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Speaker 12: also no longer care. Yeah, and maybe after a seven

848
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Speaker 12: year marriage, Mark, maybe I wouldn't care either, Ben, do you?

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Speaker 1: Uh? Well, I try. I try not to in the hotel,

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Speaker 1: I end up. I'll go to the lobby sometimes.

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Speaker 13: Walk around, so you go somewhere that but sometimes.

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Speaker 3: But sometimes you know it happened. Yeah, I try not to.

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Speaker 12: But also using the hotel lobby if you have to,

854
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Speaker 12: like explode the bathroom.

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00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:27,520
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, this big proponent of the hotel lobby bathroom.

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Speaker 3: Yes, bird Dog says.

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Speaker 1: My friend Robbie just got dumped by his longtime boyfriend.

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Speaker 1: Can you cheer him up?

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Speaker 13: Oh, I'm so sorry about that.

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Speaker 12: You know, the best way to get over someone is

861
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Speaker 12: getting under someone else.

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Speaker 1: Ello, My friend Robbie has a crush on a girl

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Speaker 1: way way out of his league.

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Speaker 3: How do you tell him to give up on her?

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Speaker 13: Oh, that's a that's a good one.

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Speaker 12: Don't give up because no one's ever really out of

867
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Speaker 12: your league. It's a matter of how you conduct yourself.

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Speaker 12: So yeah, yeah, I've dated some interestingly, like really Lorena,

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Speaker 12: that one type man men.

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Speaker 1: So you know, okay shot Late night drug Tester says,

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Speaker 1: instead of getting a tattoo to honor your woman, is

872
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Speaker 1: a message shaved in your hair a good substitute.

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Speaker 12: Oh, I think that's so much better. For one, it's

874
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Speaker 12: giving me hocus pocus vibes, you know when he has

875
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Speaker 12: the ice in the back of his head. But also

876
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Speaker 12: it's not permanent, so a tattoo is usually cursed. If

877
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Speaker 12: you put a tattoo of someone's name on you, it's

878
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Speaker 12: not gonna end with Yeah, the relationship is bound to end.

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Speaker 12: So I think doing something more removable or you know

880
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Speaker 12: what else would be fun hennah tattoos. Going get some

881
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Speaker 12: henna tattoos and then every what three weeks you could have.

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Speaker 13: A new girlfriend.

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Speaker 3: There you go. You can change it up, and then.

884
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Speaker 13: You'll be like, look what I got for you?

885
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Speaker 12: Make it seem so thoughtful every time.

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Speaker 3: Now, what if you don't tell him it's a henna tattoo?

887
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Speaker 3: What if you say this.

888
00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:53,800
Speaker 13: Is just a brown tattoo. I like that idea.

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Speaker 1: Shane and boy And says, how does the Queen of

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Speaker 1: Hearts feel about the us hockey US women's hockey team

891
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Speaker 1: winning the gold.

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Speaker 3: Watch any of that, Lorena, I did not watch it,

893
00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:06,680
Speaker 3: not a second, no, not a not interest you at all. No,

894
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Speaker 3: you did not care at all about that. I got you.

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Speaker 13: Sorry, Sorry, ladies. Jaj I heard you did.

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Speaker 1: JQ Wingman says, what's the best compliment you can tell

897
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Speaker 1: your woman?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 13: Oh gosh, Oh that's a good one. So many good compliments.

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Speaker 13: You smell good, you look smell good.

901
00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:26,359
Speaker 3: That's a good one.

902
00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:29,560
Speaker 13: You feel good, Me feel good?

903
00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:32,720
Speaker 12: Oh man, oh honey, you make the best food.

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Speaker 3: Okay, let me taste.

905
00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:36,919
Speaker 13: Never mind, all.

906
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Speaker 1: Right, it's a family show at this time of the morning. No,

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Speaker 1: not really, No kids are away.

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Speaker 13: Good, Queen of Hearts.