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Speaker 1: invested a lot of money into their secondary and at cornerback,

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Speaker 1: and at the end of the day, you have the

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Speaker 1: draw lines somewhere, right. I mean the Ravens I would

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Speaker 1: expect to give Marlon Humphrey a contract extension, you know,

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Speaker 1: the next offseason is what I would expect. Maybe it

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Speaker 1: can come at some point during this season, Um, but

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Speaker 1: I would expect that deal to get done. They've already

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Speaker 1: paid Marcus Peters, so they've already paid Pavon Young. You know,

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Speaker 1: you can't pay everybody top money. And I think that

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Speaker 1: Jimmy as much as he would like to stay with

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Speaker 1: the Ravens and said so on our own podcast. You know,

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Speaker 1: and I think the Ravens would love to have Jimmy.

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Speaker 1: At the end of the day, you can't spend all

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Speaker 1: your money at quarterback. In the same and of the secondary,

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Speaker 1: just did the secondary in general. You know, you are

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Speaker 1: also got Earl Thomas. You signed Chuck Clark to a

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Speaker 1: new extension exactly so, and and and you also have

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Speaker 1: some young corners that maybe it's their time to step up,

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Speaker 1: you know. I mean you dropped you drafted Anthony Ever

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Speaker 1: in the fourth round, the talented get out of Alabama

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Speaker 1: who has all the tools to feed everything. You know,

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Speaker 1: how is he Ever gonna get better? He doesn't get

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Speaker 1: any rep he's not you know, so he needs a

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Speaker 1: chance to to step up. I'm in Marshall from last

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Speaker 1: year's draft. I think another fourth round pick out of

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Speaker 1: a Southern cow. Um. So, uh, you know it's it's

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be interesting. The Ravens obviously have three top

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Speaker 1: end corners, and they still might have the best corner

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Speaker 1: duo in the league because while on Humphrey and Marcus Peters,

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Speaker 1: Cavan Young on the inside coming back and he has

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Speaker 1: some question marks obviously because he's come back to the

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Speaker 1: neck injury. UM. But when he's healthy and playing, I

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Speaker 1: love Tavan. He's a a fantastic spot corner. So it's

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Speaker 1: hard to it's hard to and justify paying Jimmy. Jimmy

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Speaker 1: falls into in the categories to me similar to Michael Pierce,

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Speaker 1: where the Ramonds just had an an abundance of talent.

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Speaker 1: They were overlood at one position. It was, you know,

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Speaker 1: at defensive tackle they had Brandon Williams and Michael Pierce,

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Speaker 1: two fantastic run stuffers. They were spoiled at quarterbacks they

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Speaker 1: had all these top end corners. They were spoiled at

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Speaker 1: the position, and at at some point you have to

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Speaker 1: kind of put a capital amongst other positions. Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: with you. I think it's gonna be tough to keep him. UM.

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Speaker 1: And if he ends up leaving, this is like you know,

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Speaker 1: he's a tenure veteran, this is gonna be the last

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Speaker 1: big contract us like did he has a chance to sign,

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Speaker 1: So I don't fall him for trying to maximize that. UM.

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Speaker 1: I never fought any players for trying to maximize what

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Speaker 1: they get. That any and anybody who does silly. I mean,

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Speaker 1: these guys, uh listen to Marshal the Marshally on the

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Speaker 1: podcast last These guys put themselves through a lot, uh physically,

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Speaker 1: mentally to do this. You should not expect hometown discounts

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Speaker 1: or anything like that. Players are gonna take what they

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Speaker 1: can get, and I don't blame them. You know, one

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Speaker 1: position that I thought the Ravens can maybe target um

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Speaker 1: is inside linebacker during free agency. You know, like Christian

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Speaker 1: Kirksey from the Browns. That's an example, but it doesn't

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Speaker 1: look like I think you may even just signed somewhere.

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Speaker 1: I think sign with the Packers. I think yeah, so

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Speaker 1: so Like that's an interesting one because as the Ravens

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Speaker 1: saw last year with Josh Bines, a lot of times

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Speaker 1: those guys can kind of fly under the radar. And

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Speaker 1: they've actually had success in finding some of those veteran

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Speaker 1: inside linebackers. Like go back to when ray Lewis retired

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Speaker 1: and they brought in Darryl Smith and no one even

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Speaker 1: like batting an eye like Darryl Smith, who's that? And

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Speaker 1: then he was really good. Yeah, but that wasn't a

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Speaker 1: free agency that was like I think later that was

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Speaker 1: after the that was there's something with the timing of

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Speaker 1: that that was after that was after June one, So

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Speaker 1: basically he didn't count against the top pick formula. But

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Speaker 1: he just sat there for three months because no one

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Speaker 1: cared about a side linebacker, so did Josh Binds. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I know, I know with with veterans, with veteran inside linebackers,

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Speaker 1: I agree with you. That's more rather than a Christian Kirksey, Like,

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Speaker 1: these inside linebackers are getting paid these days. Um, I

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Speaker 1: mean everybody's getting paid, so like, I don't really think that.

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Speaker 1: Look at last year, a bunch of inside loners got

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Speaker 1: a big deals. Um, so I don't think that I

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Speaker 1: expect them to go after one of those kind of guys.

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Speaker 1: But I expected to be more like you're talking kind

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Speaker 1: of Darryl Smith, you know, maybe not at Josh Bindes,

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Speaker 1: where they kind of mid season, you know, we're waiting

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Speaker 1: for I would not be surprised for them to wait

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Speaker 1: until the wave passes and see who they get. Maybe

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Speaker 1: maybe it's just still last of the draft and you see,

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Speaker 1: if you end up getting an inside linebacker in the

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Speaker 1: first round, who happened to play it Oklahoma? Well, I

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Speaker 1: mean if if if you're thinking, if the thinking is,

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Speaker 1: let's see if we could get a guy like Josh

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Speaker 1: Bindes who is most likely to be out there still

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Speaker 1: this summer, then you could wait until after the draft. Um,

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Speaker 1: if you're if you're trying to go more in the

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Speaker 1: an elevated level from that, then maybe you have to

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Speaker 1: act before the draft. But yeah, I think, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think the Ravens want to use free agency, which

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Speaker 1: is how they approach it every single year, to plug

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Speaker 1: up as many wholes as possible. They don't, you know,

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Speaker 1: you just you don't want to go into the draft

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Speaker 1: where it's like, oh my gosh, they have a glaring

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Speaker 1: need at whatever position and they everyone knows that's gonna

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Speaker 1: be the position that you take because it's such a

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Speaker 1: huge need. And then you get desperate and you um,

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Speaker 1: teams do it all the time. They're desperate to fill

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Speaker 1: a specific need. They end up trading, they end up

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Speaker 1: over they end up reaching on players. So you don't

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Speaker 1: want to go into the draft with that kind of

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Speaker 1: a situation. The Ravens have done a really good job

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Speaker 1: of avoiding that. So then you can say, we've got

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Speaker 1: a couple of spots we'd like to address. We can

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Speaker 1: take best player available, um and allow the quality of

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Speaker 1: the player to dictate it more than just the need.

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Speaker 1: So if they if there is a player that makes sense,

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Speaker 1: there would not surprise me. UM. I think that there

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Speaker 1: will be. My prediction would be I don't know there

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Speaker 1: will be a assigning to the level of an Earl

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Speaker 1: Thomas or mark Ingram, But I think the Ravens will

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Speaker 1: make you know by the end of the week. Really

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Speaker 1: of Earl Thomas, I mean making market is a little

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Speaker 1: unique because he didn't sign a huge contract, but the

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Speaker 1: name recognition there is massive. Earl Thomas signed a massive contract,

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Speaker 1: Like like, I don't know, I don't know there will

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Speaker 1: be another guy that signs that big. You're not sure

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Speaker 1: that the Javian clown is coming, is what you said. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know that's gonna happen. Yeah, I probably agree

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Speaker 1: with you on that, But I think I think there

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Speaker 1: I think there could be a couple of like bigger

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Speaker 1: deal mark Ingram kind of level talent of deal. I get.

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Speaker 1: I would agree with that. I just don't I don't

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Speaker 1: know that they're going to have mega deals that are

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Speaker 1: gonna be handed out like they did for I agree

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Speaker 1: there's too many players on this team to get that

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00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 1: you need to pay. Yeah, and and they're already a

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Speaker 1: really good team, so not as many holes necessarily. Um yeah,

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Speaker 1: I would agree with that. So look, alright, by the

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Speaker 1: time we finished this, uh, it's probably gonna be outdated

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Speaker 1: because things change in an instant during free agency. People

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Speaker 1: are gonna be like, why are they reacting to DeAndre Hopkins?

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Speaker 1: Yeah that's yeah, that was hours ago wherever ago? Exactly? Yes,

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Speaker 1: I gotta. I do have one question for you before

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Speaker 1: we go. How well stocks are you on the toilet paper?

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Speaker 1: You are you in need? I know, I'm good, I'm good,

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Speaker 1: I got I just had somebody hitting it up on

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Speaker 1: Twitter action, I got rolls. You're you're looking to barter it,

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Speaker 1: you're trying to sell? Yeah, I might, I might be.

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Speaker 1: Will see, you'll sell me some toilet paper for hand

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Speaker 1: sanitized or something like that. You know, my wife's got

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Speaker 1: a hand sanitizees too well, you know so, And I

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Speaker 1: don't think she paid like, you know, three for it either,

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Speaker 1: so I was pretty excited about that. I will also

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Speaker 1: add that I have a bi day, so that's cutting

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Speaker 1: down right. I'm smart man. You gotta think you gotta

577
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 1: think it's not like, yeah, that's that's how we do

578
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:12,400
Speaker 1: it down on one for Centerville with a bidet. We

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Speaker 1: all got that up here. Uh. I have stocked. I'm

580
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Speaker 1: not one of those crazies that went to like Costco

581
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Speaker 1: and b J's and and took you know, ten thousand

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Speaker 1: rolls of toilet paper, but I got the normal amount.

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Speaker 1: I'm stocked. I've got groceries for probably at least the

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Speaker 1: next ten days. So I feel like, well, the grocer

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Speaker 1: stares grocery stores are staying open, We'll be good. Well,

586
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 1: I know, but that you're still putting yourself at risk.

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00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:42,520
Speaker 1: I know, I know. I gotta get a mask. I'm

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00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:45,240
Speaker 1: in full bunker movie. I could go three months down here.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna be hunker down down there. Huh. Basically this

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Speaker 1: is the nature walks Man. Yeah, best to luck to

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Speaker 1: you all. See you Garrett, and to everybody out there

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Speaker 1: listening to the pod police, stay indoors as much as

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Speaker 1: you can. This is my my public service announcement. Stay

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00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 1: inside flatten, all right, Let's keep everybody safe as much

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Speaker 1: as we can. Don't be going to the bars for St. Patty's, say,

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Speaker 1: if they're even open. Maryland, they're not. Yes, stay inside

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00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 1: as much as you can, and uh, like like RST

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Speaker 1: said of the start of this, we're gonna try to

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Speaker 1: do the podcast every day during this time. UM, so

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Speaker 1: we hope we can be a little bit of uh

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00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:26,880
Speaker 1: enjoyment during this kind of scary, uneasy time. So uh

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Speaker 1: send us your questions at the lounger Ravens on NFL

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Speaker 1: dot net. Thank you so much for listening, and we

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Speaker 1: will be back with you tomorrow