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Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL podcast is actually real life friends

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Speaker 1: with move for sticks. Welcome to another distion to the

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Speaker 1: Around the NFL podcast. My name is Dantances and I

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Speaker 1: am enjoying in a room that is just scheming with

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Speaker 1: What's up people? Hey, what's up? Friends with the sticks.

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Speaker 1: Let's calm down with that. But Greg, maybe we should

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Speaker 1: kick a feud into the ether right now, a little

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Speaker 1: a T Drake type feud going with some football COGNISCENTI

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Speaker 1: to me for the cultural reference. Well you'd like to

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Speaker 1: Daytona The New Push it T I think you went

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Speaker 1: Let's start the feud. I mean it's a bit of

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Speaker 1: with Michael David Smith, a former coworker of Greg's, been there,

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Speaker 1: a large segment of people listening who are is like,

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Speaker 1: there's someone named tiny Box. What Greg is saying is

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Speaker 1: Um speaking of empathy coming up later on today's show,

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Speaker 1: a new empathy. A thesis written by Seahawks head coach

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Speaker 1: Empathy and will be reading it in multiple parts. A

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Speaker 1: up today. Also news on the Steelers and there to

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Speaker 1: their big stars, to the Killer Bees. Is that a thing? Yeah? Sure,

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Speaker 1: who cares? Also, Uh, you know the trope machine is

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Speaker 1: the O T S GREG three, Stage three of the

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Speaker 1: and uh, this doesn't happen often. Some news from Japan

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Speaker 1: football coming up, and then a segment we call Letters

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Speaker 1: Sometimes they talk about drinking and conniving around ladies and stuff.

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Speaker 1: We're not gonna, you know, go around having a drink

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Speaker 1: Namath seventy five years old today Broadway, Joe, the most

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Speaker 1: aware of this big day for Joe. Willie in the news.

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Speaker 1: Did they come in and out? They don't don't know

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Speaker 1: the Ravens. As of this day, we are Team thirty two,

424
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Speaker 1: Hexa declared, staring down the founder of ball So Hard University.

425
00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:42,040
Speaker 1: This man and this Purple Bird team are never more.

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Speaker 1: Transmission out sent by NFL Media's Jeremy Bergman. At one point,

427
00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:55,119
Speaker 1: when you were describing the the seven ft woman, it

428
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Speaker 1: was like a penthouse letter from the future, right, That

429
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Speaker 1: was pretty much I thought was the whole idea. I

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Speaker 1: thought it was gonna end with like Mark waking up

431
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Speaker 1: in his bed or something. It's like because it's basically

432
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Speaker 1: your fantasy Amazon Warriors seven ft tall Amazon women who

433
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Speaker 1: Amazon Warriors vanished, No one knows where they win, and

434
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Speaker 1: they have been living under an arctic According to this

435
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Speaker 1: you would just mentioned they are a toned redhead with

436
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Speaker 1: icy blue It's basically Kristen s it's your fantasy, and

437
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Speaker 1: I don't like. I don't like to, you know, but

438
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Speaker 1: your point I really enjoyed. They're destroying your least favorite

439
00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:34,159
Speaker 1: team and least favorite players. Well, I tried it. With

440
00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:36,720
Speaker 1: the different method. I do like knowing through ell sugs

441
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,720
Speaker 1: is history. I thought it was ironic in a in

442
00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:43,280
Speaker 1: an interesting and fun way. What happened, and also what

443
00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:46,679
Speaker 1: he couldn't see immediately is what we all knew was

444
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:48,760
Speaker 1: that the Ravens were about to be destroyed. They're out

445
00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:50,680
Speaker 1: there on the way up in this great dream scenario.

446
00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:52,639
Speaker 1: I'm really sad that I would have no shot to

447
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Speaker 1: play on this team with warrior women. I could maybe

448
00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:58,080
Speaker 1: be like a ball girl for them, though. That's how

449
00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:01,920
Speaker 1: we feel about football in general, so yeah, I would

450
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:03,119
Speaker 1: have put that a little more in the future. I'm

451
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:04,840
Speaker 1: surprised it's right around the corner. I feel like things

452
00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:09,320
Speaker 1: are heading towards rough territory, Sir Sea of Fire in Antarctica.

453
00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:10,919
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know how I can follow it up,

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Speaker 1: but here we go alright. This takes place February seven

455
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Speaker 1: from the Borough of Brent. Greetings from London. Forgive me

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Speaker 1: as I write this from my hovercraft as it is

457
00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:26,080
Speaker 1: a bit windy today and the gusts sometimes affect my

458
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Speaker 1: new brain translator. If you haven't figured it out already,

459
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Speaker 1: this is Shod Khan, owner of many fancy things, including

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Speaker 1: the London Jaguars. Yes, I'm sorry to break the future

461
00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:42,200
Speaker 1: news this way, but our new home is now Wembley Stadium. However,

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Speaker 1: thanks to the amazing work of Elon Musk and the

463
00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:48,840
Speaker 1: generous support of HSBC, we've been offering a select number

464
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Speaker 1: of previous season ticket holders from Jacksonville free rides on

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Speaker 1: the Transatlantic Tunnel with exclusive discounts at our partner hotel

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Speaker 1: Premiere in but between us. This is probably the final

467
00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:05,600
Speaker 1: year of that bloody deal. Anyway, enough of my chin wagging.

468
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:07,920
Speaker 1: My craft is landing and I have a Super Bowl

469
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:11,399
Speaker 1: parade to attend, So enjoy the pool for now, because

470
00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:14,879
Speaker 1: the future is across the pond. Wow. Now, the Jaguars

471
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Speaker 1: fans listening. The Jaguars fans do not have a sense

472
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Speaker 1: of humor about the London trips, so you're probably going

473
00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:25,040
Speaker 1: to get some tweets. Probably probably. I don't blame them.

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Speaker 1: You don't want to hear about your team leaving. But

475
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Speaker 1: they get all sorts of discounts and they can ride

476
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Speaker 1: on the Transatlantic Tunnel. What about the woman were living

477
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:35,639
Speaker 1: a few blocks from the beach. She's probably not doesn't

478
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Speaker 1: have the funds to get onto this. I thought and

479
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:41,800
Speaker 1: I was in Miami when one new beach. Well it

480
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:44,080
Speaker 1: was a couple of minutes from the beach. Maybe she's

481
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:47,879
Speaker 1: maybe she's uh can get take part in the promotional situation.

482
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:50,560
Speaker 1: I know she she's not a season ticket holder. But

483
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:53,440
Speaker 1: you've got Elon Musk in there. If you threw grimes

484
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Speaker 1: like the halftime show, I was Musk, stop at this

485
00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:03,760
Speaker 1: transit land a tunnel nonsense and get busy on the mouser. Right,

486
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,399
Speaker 1: did the mouse wipe out the Ravens too? Well, no,

487
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Speaker 1: that's it did not because the mouse it does not exist,

488
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Speaker 1: So that maybe have to go through new methods. I

489
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Speaker 1: do want to throw out there, I don't hope that

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Speaker 1: the Jaguars moved to uh London, Just saying all of

491
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:26,600
Speaker 1: you Jaguars fans out there, frightening of discontent, clamoring for

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Speaker 1: a sympathetic ear. In many ways, our leaders have fostered

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00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:33,200
Speaker 1: a dialogue of discord and division, resulting in an elevation

494
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Speaker 1: of this discontent. We have witnessed perspectives that have communicated

495
00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:40,200
Speaker 1: a contempt, perhaps even a hatred, that has always existed

496
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Speaker 1: but has remained somewhat dormant to our distracted senses. It

497
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:46,040
Speaker 1: is not too dramatic to say that there is a

498
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Speaker 1: revolution of social awareness on our current horizon, and it

499
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:51,960
Speaker 1: seems we could miss it by burying our heads in

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Speaker 1: the sands of complacency and delusion. These challenging times are

501
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Speaker 1: not only testing our daily all right, Next Letter from

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Speaker 1: the Future. It's kind of hard to keep the letters

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Speaker 1: from the future. There, of all the shows, there's the

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Speaker 1: next letter. This is the letter podcast comes from Brown

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Speaker 1: Safety to Marius Randall. It's a November two, eighteen um.

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Speaker 1: Here we go to Marius. Here writing to you from

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Speaker 1: Cellblock six at the Cleveland Corint Correctional Center. As you know,

508
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:32,320
Speaker 1: after the Calves took out the Warriors in the finals,

509
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:34,920
Speaker 1: the district judge ruled that my tweet about buying all

510
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:37,959
Speaker 1: the jerseys was legally binding. This put me roughly one

511
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars in the hole, which obviously was not ideal.

512
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 1: My attempt to make good at my word Randall always

513
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Speaker 1: pays his debts, after all led to the bank foreclosing

514
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Speaker 1: on my home, Janey leaving and taking the kids, and

515
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Speaker 1: obviously the federal tax of Asian charges that put me

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Speaker 1: in the six by eight human cage. I write to

517
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Speaker 1: you from right now. As you can imagine, it's very

518
00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:01,040
Speaker 1: very lonely here. And the fellas make fun of me

519
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 1: about the circumstances that led to carson incarceration. True story.

520
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 1: I had to pummel a fellow inmate in my first week,

521
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:11,520
Speaker 1: and sure I get dinner every night. I didn't even

522
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:13,960
Speaker 1: know the man's name. I think about him a lot

523
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 1: when I sleep, if I sleep, which isn't often. It's

524
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:19,440
Speaker 1: hard to close my eyes when all I could see

525
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 1: her his that look of confusion and terror. Another victim

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Speaker 1: trapped behind the walls of a living health scape. And

527
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Speaker 1: now call my life any who write me back soon?

528
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Speaker 1: Very dark in there, My god, Yeah, he by the way,

529
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Speaker 1: he's walked back, and yes, I get it. We got

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Speaker 1: the math wrong on the jerseys. I had it fifty

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Speaker 1: five dollars of Jersey times three hundred thousand. That's Greg

532
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Speaker 1: to help me out with a comma. Didn't help me out.

533
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:53,680
Speaker 1: It was supposed to be fifteen million. We said one

534
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Speaker 1: and a half million, but really the jerseys are cost

535
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Speaker 1: one hundred dollars now, which I did not know that,

536
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Speaker 1: and it's up to one million read Tweetshow Greg did

537
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:05,200
Speaker 1: help me out with this? He did ask me one

538
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 1: million times a hundred easy to read tweet, it's hard

539
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:12,920
Speaker 1: to beat the Warriors, That's the thing is. It seems

540
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 1: like a fairly safe maneuver by him. Anyways. I mean,

541
00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:18,280
Speaker 1: there have been a lot of bad tweets this week.

542
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:21,000
Speaker 1: That one is still in contention for the most costly.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you're yeah, if you're a if you're

544
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:27,520
Speaker 1: a Cleveland fan, though, would you take the Calves title

545
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:32,360
Speaker 1: or would you take a safety turn cornerback turn safety?

546
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:34,600
Speaker 1: I think you might take the Calves tighter and lose

547
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:36,920
Speaker 1: the safety in mid November and just see what, you know,

548
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 1: what else is on the ross with him in the

549
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Speaker 1: print you're saying, yeah, you're fine, put him in prison.

550
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Speaker 1: Just you know, your husband, a very um prominent UH

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Speaker 1: hoops writer. John Ronald Gonzalaz Bar Mar twelve nine is

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00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:53,120
Speaker 1: an American sports writer. Was married NFL meda broadcaster Collein Wolfe. John,

553
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:54,720
Speaker 1: who was a pieces, resides in Los Angeles with his

554
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:56,720
Speaker 1: wife and two dogs. Does he think the Calves have

555
00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 1: any chance? I'm just curious. I think he said Warrior

556
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 1: is in five, so probably not. Okay, That's kind of

557
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 1: where I'm at too, all right, all right, right now,

558
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:09,880
Speaker 1: we I threw it to you to start. Now we're

559
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:12,280
Speaker 1: gonna throw it to you about midway through the second. Okay,

560
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:15,640
Speaker 1: sounds good. And what we're supposed to say the name

561
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 1: I'll get to. Hey, you sniveling little Jeff Fisher, It's

562
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:30,240
Speaker 1: Jeff Fisher. Bet you thought you were rid of me, didn't.

563
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 1: You don't think I haven't heard your little seven and

564
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:36,280
Speaker 1: nine jokes or that little Rosenthal talking about me holding

565
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 1: a dog like a ghost at the end of all

566
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 1: or nothing. I love that dog. The day is February four.

567
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:48,640
Speaker 1: I just got back from Pat O'Brien's in New Orleans.

568
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 1: The Super Bowl is later today, and I'm coaching in it.

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Speaker 1: That's how confident I am. You clowns. My Miami Dolphins

570
00:32:56,880 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 1: are facing John Fox's Carolina Panthers. Oh yeah, Fox, he's

571
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:05,600
Speaker 1: back to You know what else is back? Defense, running

572
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:09,400
Speaker 1: the football, kicking field goals on fourth and inches from

573
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:13,320
Speaker 1: the three yards when you're down four points. You know

574
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:16,400
Speaker 1: what else is back throwing three yard passes on third

575
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 1: and long. It's all happening. Ever since when they tried

576
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 1: to change the catch rule, offense and passing numbers have

577
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 1: been sinking and going by the wayside. Twelve to ten

578
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:32,760
Speaker 1: games are back in style. I'm now I'm like a

579
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:36,720
Speaker 1: mix of Vince Lombardi and Barack Obama in this new world.

580
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:40,960
Speaker 1: I'm out. My favorite part about this is as Greg

581
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 1: is reading it, he's rocking back and the performance artists.

582
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Speaker 1: I can see why you didn't want to go first,

583
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:48,200
Speaker 1: because it would have been a little bit of a

584
00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 1: wild intro to this thing. But I loved it. I

585
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 1: like the gravel in that rocky maneuver that's from the

586
00:33:56,880 --> 00:34:01,200
Speaker 1: Val Kilmer school of method. Acting to Greg, he's been

587
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 1: getting in the mind of Jeff Fisher. I'll buy everyone

588
00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 1: a jersey, by the way, if Jeff Fisher gets another

589
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:13,799
Speaker 1: head coaching job. Retweet retweet. He's not right, Stephen Ross.

590
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:16,840
Speaker 1: He saw the game was changing. He brought back Fisher,

591
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:19,520
Speaker 1: he knew he really wanted him. Wow, he went to

592
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Speaker 1: the bar before the Super Bowl the night before well,

593
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:28,839
Speaker 1: and what time did he get home? Though Resolve, they

594
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:31,720
Speaker 1: are also calling us to search our souls for deeper meaning.

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00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:33,960
Speaker 1: We have been thrust into a moment in time where

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Speaker 1: we can no longer ignore the real history of our nation,

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00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:39,840
Speaker 1: a history that not only ignored social injustice, but fostered

598
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:43,560
Speaker 1: raging inequality and a history so sordid that many have

599
00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:46,239
Speaker 1: repressed and defended against the truth in an effort to

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Speaker 1: ignore the despicable realities. Our leadership has opened the scars

601
00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 1: of our past by encouraging a re emergence of biased sentiments.

602
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:56,400
Speaker 1: Most of us in the majority have been raised with

603
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:59,799
Speaker 1: such a bias, often disguised, and eventually we become oblivious

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00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:03,320
Speaker 1: to truth of our history. Our teachings have masked the facts,

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00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:06,840
Speaker 1: thus creating incensitivity and a lack of awareness about the

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00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:12,799
Speaker 1: realities of those in the minority. Ironically, the same all

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Speaker 1: right West again. I was under the impression this was postcard.

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Speaker 1: I like that. It's a nice township. This is usually

609
00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:26,840
Speaker 1: the role that I play in the games. I haven't

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00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:29,440
Speaker 1: written down in my notes from our meeting postcards from

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Speaker 1: we we kicked around a couple of things. You said,

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Speaker 1: is it emails from the future? Is that letters as

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Speaker 1: a postcards? And I guess maybe the rest of the

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Speaker 1: group came down on letters. I think a nice little postcards.

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Speaker 1: I feel like treat treat this. Uh. This postcard is

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Speaker 1: from NFL Honors next early next February. People are sending

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Speaker 1: postcards from NFL honors. Sacy brown sends a postcarder Brookie

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Speaker 1: of the Year Josh Allen to the analytics community with

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Speaker 1: the following message on the back, Deacons, struction isn't cool.

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Speaker 1: You know what's cool, reconstruction. Go forth and follow no

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Speaker 1: one whoa Anybody can tear down a roster? Can you

622
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:18,359
Speaker 1: build a roster? That's the important thing. He's not honors, huh.

623
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Speaker 1: He was doing that. He was there to appreciate Josh Allen.

624
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Speaker 1: Rookie of the Year, Rookie of the Year. You don't

625
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Speaker 1: believe that though, Yes, do you think Josh Allen's would

626
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:29,120
Speaker 1: not surprise me at all? I think he's gonna start

627
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:31,319
Speaker 1: from day one and it would not surprise me at all.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he'll play a lot. Sounds like you're reading

629
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Speaker 1: some of these O t A stories and you're getting

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Speaker 1: excited about Josh. I just I'm really invested in him

631
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Speaker 1: doing well and shoving it in the face close minded

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Speaker 1: dolts good. I like that. I like because you were

633
00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 1: not a Bills fan last season. I've I've never been

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Speaker 1: a Bills fan. I find them to be incredibly boring.

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Speaker 1: I hope that Josh Allen so Bills fans are of

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Speaker 1: this podcast. This is a really great turn of events.

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Speaker 1: This is West. Has Josh Allen like in his stable

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Speaker 1: of boys? Yeah yeah, basically very Dan just trying to

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Speaker 1: stick that position. Had Josh Allen landed on the Jets,

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Speaker 1: would you have this zeal to No, absolutely, there's enough

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Speaker 1: Jets talking. I'm not sure how Sashy Brown and Josh

642
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Speaker 1: Allen are connected, but because all of his fall, all

643
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Speaker 1: of Saucy Brown's acolytes have determined that Josh Allen's career

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Speaker 1: is already over, so he is. It's like Bill James

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Speaker 1: telling his followers twenty years ago, be fair before you

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Speaker 1: criticize m. This is the Saucy This is the postcard

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Speaker 1: version of that letter, or Bill James letter to his followers,

648
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Speaker 1: underestimating the fog. You don't know everything. Sometimes these leaders

649
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Speaker 1: have to tell their followers every once in a while,

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Speaker 1: you don't know everything. And my goal and starting this

651
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Speaker 1: movement was never to tell you guys that you know everything.

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Speaker 1: I'm a little worried that Josh Allen doesn't have a

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Speaker 1: good set up around him to succeed. Well, that's a

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Speaker 1: legitimate concern, but that's killing my narrative. All right, Mark,

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Speaker 1: you got another one? All right? Bear with me? Okay,

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Speaker 1: here we go. You know it's gonna be a long one,

657
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Speaker 1: Mark says, bear with me. Hey, guys, it's your friend

658
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Speaker 1: and sometimes producer Erica. I'm writing you from my corner

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Speaker 1: office at NFL Network. That's right. I'm high up now,

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Speaker 1: in charge of tons of people, a queen the way

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Speaker 1: it should be. Oh so the date. It's Christmas Eve,

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Speaker 1: and I'm kind of feeling myself right now. I'm with Thor,

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Speaker 1: my little awesome dog. How did I get here? Why

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Speaker 1: am I in charge of all of you now? Well, actually,

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Speaker 1: more like none of you because none of you work

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Speaker 1: here anymore. Sorry to break the news. It's kind of

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Speaker 1: my fault too, But I don't feel too bad. See,

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Speaker 1: I had to do what was right and reveal the truth.

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Speaker 1: The four of you aren't who you say you are.

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Speaker 1: Greg West, Dan and Mark total frauds. I'd say, come clean,

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Speaker 1: but it doesn't matter. You've already been fired in the future.

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Speaker 1: How did you think you'd get away with this? Dead

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Speaker 1: Spin was all over it headline. Four so called journals

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Speaker 1: admit to never writing an article subhead totally phony football

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Speaker 1: scribes hired college co eds and outsiders to author White

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Speaker 1: Knuckle Football blog for NFL Media. That's right, we know

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Speaker 1: all about it. For the past five years, you've waltzed

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Speaker 1: around the newsroom look at us, while four strangers did

679
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Speaker 1: all the work in your names, Greg Rosenthal. In real life,

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Speaker 1: his industrious output was crafted by a USC student named

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Speaker 1: Felicia Musberger. Hardworking Felicia. Hardworking Felicia would tell Greg what

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Speaker 1: to say about Lyons Packers week six while he sat

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Speaker 1: and Sloane Stevens. Dan hans Is his funny man post.

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Speaker 1: Dan hans Is His funny man posts were done by

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Speaker 1: a twenty year old LMU student named George Hapkins. The

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Speaker 1: second Dan mostly ignored him. Chris Wesley He's certainly benefited

688
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Speaker 1: from fourteen year old tape watcher Eugene Wexler offering to

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Speaker 1: write every one of the Mailman's articles for free as

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Speaker 1: an intellectual experiment in free trade, and Mark Sessler hiring

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Speaker 1: his work out to a Los Angeles area housewife named

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Speaker 1: Wendy Pockets. Wendy vaguely knew her football, and it showed

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Speaker 1: in Mark's work Wendy also had a problem with pills,

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Speaker 1: forcing Mark to spin incredible yarns about various health issues

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Speaker 1: and a string of phantom jury assignments. Cool work, ethic, bro,

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Speaker 1: You guys are Milli Vanilly Part two. So sit back

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Speaker 1: and enjoy the final few months of your fading Heyday.

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Speaker 1: Best part is the around the NFL podcast was quickly

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Speaker 1: replaced by the broadcast I sit Where Dance at m

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Speaker 1: v P sits where Mark sat, Cynthia Freeland took Greg seat,

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Speaker 1: and Collin Wolf grabbed West's empty chair. I will say

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Speaker 1: I sympathize with Dan. We can't get Colleen to hang

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Speaker 1: exclusively with our show. She's constantly being pulled away to

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Speaker 1: do check and two thousand other assignments nationwide as her

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Speaker 1: pockets gets swoll off network money. It's all good, though.

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Speaker 1: The broadcast is massive, topping your fading numbers, that's for sure.

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Speaker 1: I love you, Erica, Wow, congratulations, Thank you. I feel

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Speaker 1: kind of bad, but I mean I guess the truth

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Speaker 1: came out. I mean, you're kind of a terrible person,

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Speaker 1: but I signed it. Love you. Also on Christmas Eve,

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Speaker 1: I have nothing but to do with my puppy up

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Speaker 1: in a corner office. I'm impressed by the level of

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Speaker 1: spite in that. Yeah, it's shocking any of it. There's

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Speaker 1: always been a lot of ambition, not shocking to us,

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Speaker 1: but now it all comes out, does you? Wexler also

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Speaker 1: share your affinity for Josh Allen Wes. Yeah, oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's a big fan. The writer for Greg greg is

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Speaker 1: Felicia Musburger, Felicia by Felicia. Same leadership has now provoked

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Speaker 1: an opportunity to surge toward a calling for openness and

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Speaker 1: a newfound sensitivity, one grounded in a new carrying, a

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Speaker 1: new awareness, a new calling, a new empathy. Will I

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Speaker 1: ever stop reading today? This new empathy could serve as

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Speaker 1: the baseline of thinking that would produce a willingness to

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Speaker 1: see and listen with a fret. Colleen, Okay, mat One

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Speaker 1: Hamilton's Canada. It's been three years and here I still

726
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Speaker 1: sit in my Canadian housecoat. Not a ton has changed.

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Speaker 1: Drake is still angry at push a t for chirping

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Speaker 1: on dis tracks. Brian Colangelo is still wearing large Italian collars,

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Speaker 1: and I'm still in the CFL. Mentally I'm in bad shape,

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Speaker 1: but physically I'm definitely in the best shape. Of my life.

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Speaker 1: I find myself saying, Johnny be a man Zell, snap

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Speaker 1: out of this funk and start rubbing your money fingers

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Speaker 1: together again. Don't get me wrong, I love Canada. I

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Speaker 1: visited the Canadian Hollywood Walk of Fame the other day

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Speaker 1: and took my picture with a Nickelback star. I'm just

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Speaker 1: bored of Toboggan low on Looney's and miss the NFL aired, like,

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Speaker 1: what's the Canadian Hollywood? What? What bad thing? One thing

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Speaker 1: I got to point out, and the Canadians as into

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Speaker 1: the show. Um, they have a large contingent of famous

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Speaker 1: people that we sleep on. So like getting like the

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Speaker 1: Nickelback basis kind of like under sells Joan and Mitchell,

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Speaker 1: Jim Carrey, Justin Bieber Young and Rachel McAdams, Ryan Reynolds,

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Speaker 1: Seth Rogan. Yea, this is not a shot at Canada.

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Speaker 1: This is just what Johnny Manzel is going. You have

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Speaker 1: Jacksonville and shot. I know he's still doing the money sign. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: well I think he just he wants to do it again.

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Speaker 1: Maybe he feels like it's going to up. They didn't

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Speaker 1: even hand him the starting job up there. You know,

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Speaker 1: he's the cat backup for the Tiger Cats. How long

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Speaker 1: will that last? Let's he's making a third as much money.

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Speaker 1: I think, as the starter who's played pretty well, you

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00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:01,839
Speaker 1: gotta put some meat in the seats. Uh. Next letter,

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Speaker 1: this comes from uh Nick Foles, Eagles quarterback, to a

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Speaker 1: childhood buddy. Uh. This is Sunday, November. It's a week

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Speaker 1: twelve in the NFL. Hey, Nick here writing this from

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Speaker 1: the sideline during another super impressive Eagles win with star

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Speaker 1: flyboy Carson Wentz and the controls. Give me a break?

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Speaker 1: Can I just acknowledge the eight pound grille in the

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Speaker 1: room and admit you were right? I really should have

760
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Speaker 1: got myself traded last spring. I mean, what was I thinking?

761
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Speaker 1: I had all the leverage you could ever ask for.

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Speaker 1: Why would I ever choose to stay here and basically

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Speaker 1: go into self imposed witness protection. I'm the reigning Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl m v P. For goddamn sake. Does an elite

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Speaker 1: skydiver set a Guinness World record then join an old

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Speaker 1: lady malwalking group as an encore, of course? Not. But

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Speaker 1: here I am board as hell. You might as well

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Speaker 1: be wearing a track suit gleaming white orthopedic shoes. Speaking

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Speaker 1: of clothing, did you know I walked down a broad

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Speaker 1: Street lasts at Broad Street, pulled up Broad Street, Broad

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Speaker 1: Street last Saturday, in full uniform, pads and everything, and

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Speaker 1: not a single person recognized me. I'm old news. And

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Speaker 1: the worst part is I chose this fate. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: go fire my agent later. Two sad quarterbacks back to back.

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Speaker 1: I totally believe that surprising that surprises me. He strikes

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Speaker 1: me as a man who's who's at peace with himself

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Speaker 1: right now. But once the lights go up and there's

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Speaker 1: eighty thou people in the arena, I think he's gonna

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Speaker 1: think to himself, I never had more leverage in my

780
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Speaker 1: career than I did six months ago. I wish I

781
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Speaker 1: was somewhere throwing the football in the starting line. I

782
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:40,920
Speaker 1: wish I was playing for Hugh Jackson. I don't know

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Speaker 1: what's going on in Philadelphia, but that that's a that

784
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Speaker 1: would be a major disappointment. Because Nick Foles is um

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Speaker 1: pretty high up for everybody right now. I know he'll

786
00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:54,800
Speaker 1: always have basically will always have a seat at everybody's table.

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Speaker 1: I guess my point is that was amazing, an amazing

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Speaker 1: moment in time, but it's now in the past in

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Speaker 1: terms of like what he provides for that team in

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00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 1: that city. He doesn't have a future in Philadelphia unless

791
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:09,320
Speaker 1: he's just the backup quarterback. But he pro he proved

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Speaker 1: in those last two games alone that he deserves he's forever. God,

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00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:20,560
Speaker 1: maybe he's just choosing happiness. Happiness is the most underrated

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00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:22,839
Speaker 1: thing that you can possibly have in your life. He's

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Speaker 1: at he's a professional athlete. I'm I'm more banking on

796
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Speaker 1: what drives a lot of these guys, that competitive fire

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00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:31,719
Speaker 1: that's gotten to where they are when when it's the

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Speaker 1: season comes around, is Nick gonna be want to be playing?

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Speaker 1: I'm sure he does. Maybe Nick Foles knows how good

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Speaker 1: Nick Foles do. Nick Foles thought about thought about retiring

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00:46:39,719 --> 00:46:43,200
Speaker 1: a few years ago because he wasn't enjoying his situations.

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Speaker 1: I think he's got a situation. How many Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: winners who don't retire like Peyton Manning potentially don't play

804
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Speaker 1: a single game the next season, yet are fully healthy.

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Speaker 1: Just kicked Jeff host Hostetler went on to start for

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Speaker 1: the Raiders. It wasn't the next year. I don't even know.

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Speaker 1: It's not the next year. I don't know. I think

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Speaker 1: it was. He he was like they're in all right,

809
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Speaker 1: last one? Yeah, okay, why acting surprise? You know, what's

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Speaker 1: your time? Oh me, he's getting into characters. No, it's

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Speaker 1: from It's from June three, Mondays and it's from me.

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Speaker 1: It just says, uh, I just want to say, hi, guys.

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Speaker 1: Not much as changed in the meantime, O T A

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Speaker 1: s are still going on. I just want to say, like,

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Speaker 1: enjoy your weekend. It's all that we really know that

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Speaker 1: we have. So if you're not gonna have this fun

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Speaker 1: this weekend and enjoy your life like you might never

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Speaker 1: enjoy it, let's let's live it up. We're out carpet DM.

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Speaker 1: No you well, you know if we have enjoyed it,

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Speaker 1: if it's June three, Oh yeah, that's true. I hope

821
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Speaker 1: we get. I'm saying this is all all we know

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Speaker 1: we have. I yeah, I know it's gonna be a

823
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Speaker 1: great week and so at least we know we know

824
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Speaker 1: something terrible didn't happen. At least the Warrior Goddesses are coming.

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Speaker 1: Good point. It's kind of like the So it's like

826
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Speaker 1: the box within the box within the box within the box.

827
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Speaker 1: You're from telling us to enjoy the weekend that already happened.

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Speaker 1: I hope you enjoyed. That's useless. Hasn't happened, hasn't happened

829
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Speaker 1: for us yet. I don't know it. Future it's going

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Speaker 1: to be a blast. I think we really nailed this exercide.

831
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Speaker 1: But you're already you already know whether or not we

832
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Speaker 1: did enjoy it. Don't uncover the I think he at

833
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Speaker 1: least knows nothing terrible happened, because so we can could

834
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Speaker 1: go by where none of us communicate with each other,

835
00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:33,600
Speaker 1: because you could future guy could say, enjoy the upcoming weekend,

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Speaker 1: even in future Greg's future. But then you could even

837
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Speaker 1: just say that to us right now, So you don't

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Speaker 1: need a future guy at all. I just knocked down

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Speaker 1: your future straw man. No, not at all. No, but

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Speaker 1: it was a nice sentiment. Maybe it was a very

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Speaker 1: nice sentience. You could look at it the other way

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Speaker 1: that the future guy knows, maybe things could go something's

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Speaker 1: enjoy it this weekend. It's the one behind the glass Erica.

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Speaker 1: There was some they not like it was. There was

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Speaker 1: an ominous tone there, sensitivity and awareness, one that would

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Speaker 1: facilitate the engagement of necessary for real learning and understanding

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Speaker 1: to take place. And this new understanding would open the

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Speaker 1: passageways to true critical transformation. It won't be easy, and

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Speaker 1: of course resistance is to be expected. There will be

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Speaker 1: many unable to agree that we are even in need

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Speaker 1: of a new empathy. But can't we all agree that

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Speaker 1: people caring for people in need is a simple place

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Speaker 1: to start. Please consider living out a renewed commitment to empathy.

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00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:34,719
Speaker 1: Make a conscious effort to listen, to understand, to care,

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Speaker 1: to build bridges instead of building walls. Be a part

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Speaker 1: of the change by moving toward a new caring for others.

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Speaker 1: Help create a culture of new empathy, one day at

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00:49:43,719 --> 00:49:48,520
Speaker 1: a time, one person at a time. There you go.

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Speaker 1: I think I got the gist of it. What I

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Speaker 1: didn't It was just a bunch of word salad. It's

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Speaker 1: the word salad for the ages. That's I think it

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Speaker 1: has a nice base to it. I think I kind

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Speaker 1: of get what he was going for, but he it does.

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Speaker 1: It has a nice space to it. If you didn't

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Speaker 1: know that. He just had Jordan Peterson, that psychology professor

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Speaker 1: in to speak to the team, who has some similar

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Speaker 1: ish thoughts, but some really out there messed up thoughts.

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Speaker 1: And I've been thinking about the Seahawks a lot this

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Speaker 1: this offseason. I think they're really interesting, just because Pete

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Speaker 1: Carroll and starting over this whole thing, and I've been

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Speaker 1: thinking I'm gonna pick the Seahawks to the playoffs. I

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Speaker 1: kind of like getting it all going in. I'm that

873
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Speaker 1: I was going to pick them after hearing that letter.

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Speaker 1: They're not making the players. Now I'm thinking this is

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00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:43,680
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll's last season in Seattle, and uh, I just

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00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:46,360
Speaker 1: I'm not liking what's happening there. Who knew it was

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00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:49,479
Speaker 1: gonna be empathy? The stroll that broke the Camels back? Yeah,

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00:50:50,520 --> 00:50:53,120
Speaker 1: a new empathy. Like I'm also thinking of a group

879
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:55,880
Speaker 1: of of fifty three men that he's going to be leading.

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00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:59,879
Speaker 1: Reading this Instagram post and thinking with an eye rolls,

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Speaker 1: there's no such thing as new empathy. This is the

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Speaker 1: same old empathy, empathy with like a perpetua filter of

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00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:08,640
Speaker 1: coach speak a lot. It's just a bunch of coach speak.

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00:51:08,719 --> 00:51:11,560
Speaker 1: But I mean, hey, Jesus is just all right with me.

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00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:14,839
Speaker 1: I love empathy rate some good fiction. That's the most

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00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:17,239
Speaker 1: valuable aspect of good fiction. It gives you empathy. I

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Speaker 1: also like that new empathy is capitalized in every reference

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Speaker 1: within this letter. Oh is it think it's like it's

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Speaker 1: a movement cult almost. I think to Greg's point, I

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00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:30,400
Speaker 1: think someone's been in his hemisphere. Yeah, that's it. What

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00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:34,200
Speaker 1: are these weird bizarrow ideas that this psychologist. I don't

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00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:35,879
Speaker 1: even want it to get into it because it's pretty

893
00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:39,160
Speaker 1: dark bad. It's it's since you brought it up, just

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00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:42,400
Speaker 1: maybe a cliffs notes for us, because I feel people

895
00:51:42,640 --> 00:51:45,560
Speaker 1: people can can read up on Jordan Peterson if they

896
00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:48,920
Speaker 1: want big A big part of it is he's part

897
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:51,400
Speaker 1: of this new like men need to take more control

898
00:51:51,520 --> 00:51:54,959
Speaker 1: and be more manly. And he once tweeted to women

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00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:57,640
Speaker 1: in general saying that if they use men, they will

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00:51:57,719 --> 00:52:00,680
Speaker 1: rebel and fail and you will have to jail enslaved them.

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00:52:00,719 --> 00:52:07,319
Speaker 1: That was one really disappearing masculinity in America and they

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00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:09,560
Speaker 1: and he just talked to the Seahawks, which it was

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00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:13,520
Speaker 1: became it was kind of a mini drama that he

904
00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:16,799
Speaker 1: spoke to the Seahawks. Better were offended by this, Jordan

905
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Speaker 1: A better watch out for those those hot seven foot

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00:52:19,600 --> 00:52:23,480
Speaker 1: creatures that you feel somewhat of attention between those two groups,

907
00:52:24,080 --> 00:52:26,759
Speaker 1: the seven foot Redheads. Carol seems like a nice guy.

908
00:52:26,840 --> 00:52:30,280
Speaker 1: Who's pretty balanced and like happy, but he just seems

909
00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:32,160
Speaker 1: like maybe he shouldn't be. I don't know, you think

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00:52:32,200 --> 00:52:35,239
Speaker 1: he's a little little too deep, just goes I don't know,

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00:52:35,320 --> 00:52:40,640
Speaker 1: because a little too Yeah. Uh, you know, a little

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00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:43,279
Speaker 1: dog paddle back to the shore. He's like coaching off

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Speaker 1: the cell of steam. Prophecy. Um, good stuff, good stuff.

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Speaker 1: We thank you. I don't, I don't. I didn't get

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Speaker 1: that ref but it sounded very intelligent that marks aware

916
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Speaker 1: of the Celestine prophecy. Oh the book, I mean that

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00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:01,600
Speaker 1: of readers can go check out this. It was a

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Speaker 1: big new a G book that came out, and uh,

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00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:07,959
Speaker 1: it's filled with gobblieook book club book, book club book

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00:53:08,040 --> 00:53:11,920
Speaker 1: or book club book. It's probably about twenty years old.

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Speaker 1: I would think, Yeah, uh, good show. Most of my

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Speaker 1: references Louise Cannon, Louis Cannon, even though we now know

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Speaker 1: what's about to happen in the future, the near future,

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00:53:23,239 --> 00:53:27,480
Speaker 1: right yeah, year right, Um, you did a nice job

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00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:32,640
Speaker 1: this week of filling in. Appreciate it. And uh and

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00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:35,040
Speaker 1: just you know, keep this in mind, these kind words

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00:53:35,040 --> 00:53:37,120
Speaker 1: I'm saying to you. Yeah, you actually just keep it

928
00:53:37,200 --> 00:53:39,399
Speaker 1: going on a little bit more. Yeah, I really want

929
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Speaker 1: to know where you stand. Yeah, you did such a

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Speaker 1: seamless job. Dan doesn't even remember that Lindsay did Tuesday show.

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Speaker 1: I feel like you've been back there a lot. Yeah

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Speaker 1: last week. Continue to the meticulous over correcting on this really. Um,

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Speaker 1: all right, that's it. We'll be back on Tuesday with Lindsay.

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Speaker 1: Are you We'll wait and see. Okay, yeah, if we're back,

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Speaker 1: We'll be back Tuesday with another episode of the Around

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Speaker 1: the End of the NFL Podcast. Thank you to everyone

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Speaker 1: we read some of those again soon? Yeah? Maybe we

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