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Speaker 1: So our lead is in La a sun soaked There's

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Speaker 1: it game for the Brewers, a matchup with the Dodgers.

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Speaker 1: Game three. You blew the first two games at home,

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Speaker 1: How did that go?

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Speaker 1: Well, if you watched it, you know what happened. But

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Speaker 1: So my thoughts it was like about that's right, I've

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Speaker 1: oapener meaning Aaron Ashby a tactical error. Now you could

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Speaker 1: I have long died on the mountain of despising these openers.

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Speaker 3: Well, you're such a boomer. Well I'm not a boomer.

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Speaker 1: However, back in my day we call this a spring

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Speaker 1: Well it's an opener. Yeah, because we're smarter than everyone.

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Speaker 1: Before all of a sudden, Pat Murphy's oh you know what,

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Speaker 1: The whole point of the opener is like, Okay, we're

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Speaker 1: Now, the Brewers are averaging if my math is correct,

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Speaker 1: And starting Aaron Ashby not the greatest solution, not the

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Speaker 1: The again, the point is, you start the opener, you

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Speaker 1: run the openers out, it is unbecoming in the postseason.

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Speaker 1: It's just embarrassing, right, And there's not like Dodgers have

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Speaker 3: It's just embarrassing.

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Speaker 1: It's usually because you have a roster that is devoid

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Speaker 1: But the Openers, I don't like them anything outside of

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Speaker 3: If you want to make an argument. They work in

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Speaker 3: April and May.

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Speaker 1: Okay, not in the National League Championship Series, not against

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Speaker 3: Flip the switch. And they flipped the switcher.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think the offense is all that good. Actually,

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Speaker 1: one out, as we said. And the Milwaukee plan, well,

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Speaker 1: before most of the people had gotten through the traffic

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Speaker 3: And it's the classic move.

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Speaker 1: I'm smarter than you, and I'm smarter than everyone else

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Speaker 1: who's in this little room we're in, and all I

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Speaker 1: Championship Series and everything the Brewers had been pesky, determined, annoying,

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Speaker 1: all that good stuff, now it's like a Warner Brothers cartoon,

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Speaker 1: Pepe the pew pu what stinks Milwaukee? Three runs, nine hits,

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Speaker 1: twenty seven innings of baseball. William Contreras hitless in Game

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Speaker 1: three for Milwaukee, part of a two for thirty three

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Speaker 1: combined performance for the likes of Christian Yelich and Bryce Terrang,

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Speaker 1: For four with the strikeout and left some runners in

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Speaker 1: the Brewers right now are drowning. They're not drowning in

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Speaker 1: the Pacific Ocean. They're drowning in flop sweat. The lack

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Speaker 1: again the word is unbecoming now turning the page on that.

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Speaker 1: From the LA side of things, the question is there

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Speaker 1: anything anything at all? The Dodgers are eight and one

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs, They're three to zero in the NLCS

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Speaker 1: is anything we can nitpick about the Dodgers' performance. So

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Speaker 1: after a thorough deliberation, I have made the editorial decision

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Speaker 1: about the Dodgers, and here it is. You know what

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Speaker 3: That's just a financial boondoggle. And I wouldn't do it.

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Speaker 3: And here's why.

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Speaker 1: Schoogle to me has a pre existing condition and the

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Speaker 1: He's got the gas and the breaking pitches and all that.

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Speaker 3: Scooble is not a whatever it takes warhorse.

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Speaker 1: And there's nothing nobody liked that in baseball. But like,

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Speaker 3: He's very delicate, And.

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Speaker 1: For four hundred million dollars, you better give me Shakespeare

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Speaker 3: Not gonna pay him. Yeah, it's not my money. I

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Speaker 1: I'm skeptical whether the Tigers are gonna pay him, which

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Speaker 1: so that's a problem. But there's some owner who's going

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Speaker 3: So again, we love the player, it's not my deal.

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Speaker 1: Okay, the Dodgers have had a good run here in

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Speaker 3: Mike Tomlin, the.

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Speaker 1: Longtime Steeler coach, discussing how Jamar Chase absolutely embarrassed his defense.

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Speaker 3: Take a list.

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Speaker 6: You know, we played these guys a bunch. We double

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Speaker 6: teamed them some, we double teamed five some. It's a

439
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Speaker 6: mix of mixes required. They got depth and talent. Just

440
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Speaker 6: like the one play eighty made down the middle. We

441
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Speaker 6: were doubling them both and they were one on one

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Speaker 6: in that circumstance, And so you know, as many way

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Speaker 6: as you can analyze it. But the bottom line is

444
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Speaker 6: they made more plays than we did.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So that's the default answer, and it's a good

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Speaker 1: jumping off point. So let us discuss who gets to

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Speaker 1: wear the Dunce cap for Mike Tomblins, Petsberg.

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Speaker 3: Steelers, they Insers.

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Speaker 1: So on this, I've got rebranding, Ben Stiller and glazed Donut,

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

451
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Speaker 1: we will spill.

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Speaker 3: The tea all over the radio, all over the radio.

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Speaker 3: So all right, I know, So first of all, let's

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Speaker 3: start with TJ. Watt. All right, let's start with TJ. Watt.

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Speaker 1: He is the brand ambassador of that Steeler defense and

456
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Speaker 1: they gave him the one hundred and twenty three million

457
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Speaker 1: dollar deal. They pay him plausibly to make game changing plays,

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Speaker 1: to make impact plays for the Steelers defense.

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Speaker 3: How did that go?

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Speaker 1: Well, he was putting around out there, and if you

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Speaker 1: want to know how he did, don't ask what had

462
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Speaker 1: as many tackles as many tackles as you had.

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Speaker 3: That's it. He had half a sack.

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Speaker 1: There was like one half of a tackle, like a

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Speaker 1: half combined thing, but no individual tackles and half.

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Speaker 3: A sack, which was really like a charity thing. Yikes.

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Speaker 3: It's not all bad. Though. It's not all bad for TJ.

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Speaker 1: Watt because I'll be betting bright side Wat had he

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Speaker 1: had no numbers of any of note. However, he got

470
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Speaker 1: a good cardio game in, he had work out, good workout.

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Speaker 1: In fact, I saw more plays being made by Steely mcbeam,

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Speaker 1: the mascot than from what the Bengals offense, led by

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Speaker 1: Joe Flacco had four hundred and seventy yards of offense,

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Speaker 1: four hundred and seventy yards of offense, three hundred and

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Speaker 1: forty two passing yards, one hundred and forty two rushing yards.

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Speaker 1: This is not twenty twelve, all right, This is not

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Speaker 1: the twenty twelve. Now, they didn't lose a few yards

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Speaker 1: on sacks. That's why the numbers don't completely add up.

479
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Speaker 1: But insane, This is Joe pretty much off the couch, Flacco,

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Speaker 1: who was benched, demoted by the Factory of Sadness, carving up,

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Speaker 1: absolutely carving up the once proud Pittsburgh defense like they

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Speaker 1: were a Halloween pumpkin.

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Speaker 3: You talk about a.

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Speaker 1: Rebrand this is a time for a rebranding in Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 1: What an embarrassment. The Steel Curtain, my fat ass, the

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Speaker 1: steel curtain that's rebranded to the steel turnstile. And my god,

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Speaker 1: that is a cultural loss, is what that is? The

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Speaker 1: old Steelers defense. If you add those old Steeler defensive

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Speaker 1: teams matched up against forty year old Joe Flacco, all right,

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Speaker 1: the fossilized body of Joe Flacco, they would.

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Speaker 3: Have dragged that through the mud, all right through the mud.

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Speaker 1: This group handed him Joe Flacco, a mint julip and

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Speaker 1: a lawn chair.

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Speaker 3: Holy Canoley, how bad was it? It was so bad?

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Speaker 3: Mike Tomlin, now he was diplomatic. We played the little

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Speaker 3: sound by from Tom.

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Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin is gonna have that secondary, including the likes

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Speaker 1: of Jalen Ramsey, Darius Slay, Joey Porter Jr. They're all

499
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Speaker 1: gonna have to give him ten burpies, run at least

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Speaker 1: twenty hill sprints and several laps around the outfield because

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Speaker 1: and also some updowns, do some updowns as punishment.

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Speaker 3: And then we had Joey Porter Jr.

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Speaker 1: The defensive back of the Steelers, who had the hutzba

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Speaker 1: to deflect some of the blame for the absolute gutless performance.

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Speaker 3: By the defense. You know who he blamed? What did

506
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Speaker 3: he blame?

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Speaker 1: The schedule because it was on Thursday night? Who did

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Speaker 1: he But you think he blamed to travel because you

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Speaker 1: know it's so.

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Speaker 3: Far from Pittsburgh to Cincinnati. My god, No, he blamed

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Speaker 3: the officials.

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Speaker 1: He blamed the Zebras porter In third, that Pittsburgh's defense

513
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Speaker 1: absolutely could have held the Bengals offense with Joe Flacco

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Speaker 1: in check, but bd it was the officials. They were

515
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Speaker 1: too stingy. They would not let them play. And that

516
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Speaker 1: is a special kind of wacker doodle. That is a

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Speaker 1: special kind of wackerdoodle.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 1: Now, secondly to the winning side, which is not as

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Speaker 1: good as side all right, to the winning side. So

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Speaker 1: the question here is there a movie? Let's play the

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Speaker 1: movie game. Is there a movie to describe the Joe

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Speaker 1: Flacco Bengals offensive performance, the unexpected performance?

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Speaker 3: You make the call? What movie is it? All right?

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Speaker 3: So I'm gonna go first.

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Speaker 1: Now the movie I'm picking to describe Joe Flacco's performance

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Speaker 1: for the Cincinnati football team.

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Speaker 3: Here's what I have.

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Speaker 1: I wrote down on my scorecard, A Ben Stiller classic

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Speaker 1: Night at the Museum, who says no, come on? Right?

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Speaker 1: Is that not the perfect movie to describe Joe Flacco.

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Speaker 1: The security guard discovers that the museum exhibits come to

533
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Speaker 1: life after Sunset jump Ball.

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Speaker 3: Joe Flacco an artifact in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: And yet that museum piece, Joe Flacco painted a masterpiece

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Speaker 1: for the Cincinnati offense man. And he did it like

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Speaker 1: if I was the offensive coordinator, assume you as well,

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Speaker 1: you would do the same thing. So we were advising

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Speaker 1: the quarterback of the Cincinnati.

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Speaker 3: Bengals, right, and you just to go over. You say, Okay,

541
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Speaker 3: what are you gonna do?

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Speaker 1: How about I would say, use the kiss method, right,

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Speaker 1: keep it simple, stupid, And that's what Flaco did. He

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Speaker 1: had tunnel vision. He targeted Jamar Chase twenty three times.

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Speaker 1: Twenty three times, essentially a third of the offensive plays.

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Speaker 1: I don't have the numbers in front of it, about

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Speaker 1: a third of the offensive plays the Bengals ran. He

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Speaker 1: threw the ball to Jamar Chase. Jamar Chase rewarded him

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Speaker 1: with a game for the ages, sixteen catches, one hundred

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Speaker 1: and sixty one yards, and a touchdown. And Flaco also

551
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Speaker 1: got help from Chase Brown, the nonexistent Cincinnati running game.

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Speaker 1: He had one hundred and eight yards. The huge issue

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Speaker 1: for Flaco for years has been the hiccup. He's had

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Speaker 1: a lot of hiccups, a lot of hiccups, turned the

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Speaker 1: ball over quite a bit in recent years. Flacco in

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Speaker 1: this game was mister clean. No picks, no fumbles, no

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Speaker 1: obvious mistakes. Cincinnati was fifty percent on third down. It

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Speaker 1: could have been worse for Pittsburgh's defense. They only converted

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Speaker 1: the Bengals forty percent in the red zone in this game.

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Speaker 1: This performance was just what the doctor ordered. And now

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Speaker 1: the Bengals, I believe they have the Jets upcoming, which

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Speaker 1: is like a bye week. The Jets are on a

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Speaker 1: real NFL team, and so you can add another.

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Speaker 3: Win and all of a sudden, all of us boomerang up.

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Speaker 1: And now after a four game losing streak, you've now

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Speaker 1: won those early wins.

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Speaker 3: You're three and four.

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Speaker 1: And all you have to be is around five hundred,

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Speaker 1: and you're a playoff contender in the American Football Conference. Now,

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Speaker 1: final fun, let's go back, we'll hit and we'll jump

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Speaker 1: and jump.

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Speaker 3: Over the other side. Let's go to the Steelers side

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Speaker 3: of things. So mister Rogers' neighborhood.

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Speaker 1: A close game Pittsburgh did take the lead late, the

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Speaker 1: Bengals got the ball and ran the clock essentially out

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Speaker 1: for the game winning field goal. Here's Aaron Rodgers on

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Speaker 1: the nail biting loss. How upset is Aaron Rodgers, Let's

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Speaker 1: find out.

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Speaker 7: I think you got to realize. Listen, we want to

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Speaker 7: win every game. There needs to be an expectation of winning.

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Speaker 7: But this is a short week division opponent. Anything can happen. Obviously,

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Speaker 7: Joe played really well for them, and Chase and t

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Speaker 7: you got going for him. So this is the NFL.

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Speaker 7: You know, we had a chance to really open up

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Speaker 7: some space, but we're four and two, still first in

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Speaker 7: the division. Got a couple you know, home games coming

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Speaker 7: up back to back, another Sunday night opportunity against my

588
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Speaker 7: former team. So I'm not going to ride the roller coaster,

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Speaker 7: and I know Mike isn't and hopefully you guys follow suit.

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Speaker 3: All right, So that was very robotic, That was very

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Speaker 3: level headed. That was right off sportscliche dot com.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so the question as we go into mister Rogers neighborhood,

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Speaker 1: what grade? What grade did you give Rogers in the

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Speaker 1: Icy Hot Bowl for Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 3: So if you didn't see the game.

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Speaker 1: Rogers finished with two hundred and forty three yards passing

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Speaker 1: and four touchdowns. Sounds pretty good, right, sounds sexy. Four touchdowns,

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Speaker 1: that's a lot. When you peel back the ayahuasca infused

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Speaker 1: onion on the Malor report card. Now this is a

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Speaker 1: pass failed grade. This is not ABC one two three.

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Speaker 1: This is a past fail grade. And unfortunately Rogers gets

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Speaker 1: what not a passing grade, as League Corso would say,

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Speaker 1: not so fast, my friends. If you think it's a

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Speaker 1: passing grade, this was like a glazed donut. It looked good,

605
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 1: kind of smelled good, but you bite into it and boom, it's.

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Speaker 3: Kind of a hollow, the middle parts hollowing. You're like,

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Speaker 3: I want the full.

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Speaker 1: Rogers had the numbers. There wasn't enough substance here. And

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Speaker 1: you do the side by side comparison. Joe Flacco outplayed

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, so Aaron gets a failing grade. Cincinnati. You

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Speaker 1: gotta understand how bad the Bengals are. I don't think

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Speaker 1: we can put into words how much they blow or

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Speaker 1: how much they had been terrible. It's hard to believe

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Speaker 1: they could be this bad with all the blood, sweat

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Speaker 1: and tears they put into these NFL practices are so

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Speaker 1: we're told. And the Bengals had the NFL's thirty first

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Speaker 1: ranked defense. They played without Trey Hendrickson, their top defensive player,

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Speaker 1: their star Hendrickson, and Rogers, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: He almost almost pulled.

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Speaker 1: A rabbit out of his hat anyway, and so it's

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Speaker 1: no hard feelings. The good thing is Rogers can now

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Speaker 1: go home to his fake wife and she can cuddle

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Speaker 1: him and they'll be good together, and they can he

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00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:11,920
Speaker 1: can talk to his imaginary wife and they'll have a

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Speaker 1: good times.

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Speaker 3: But most games are lost, not one.

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Speaker 1: And that's the bugaboo on why we give Rogers a

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Speaker 1: failing grade. Not only did he fail in terms of

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Speaker 1: the yardage and the offensive power of the Bengals compared

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Speaker 1: to Pittsburgh, but it's the little thing stupid, or in

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Speaker 1: this case, a couple of big things.

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Speaker 3: Rogers tossed a pair of interceptions. Well they weren't all

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Speaker 3: he's full, all right.

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Speaker 1: Well, let's do some mal of maths. So Cincinnati on

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Speaker 1: those two possessions. On those two possessions, the Bengals scored

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Speaker 1: ten points off those turnovers, ten points off Rogers interceptions.

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh lost by two points. You can do the math,

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Speaker 1: whether it's Malard math or whatever. You can't unring the

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Speaker 1: bell on those interceptions. You cannot unring the be well

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Speaker 1: on those intercepts.

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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 1: Here We're going, Here, We're going.

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Speaker 3: He gets grilled Coop oh Loop.

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Speaker 8: Daniel Jones was asked on Wednesday what it means to

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Speaker 8: him that people are talking about him as a potential MVP,

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Speaker 8: and Jones said, not much after six weeks. Ben, do

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Speaker 8: you think he'll still be talked about as an MVB

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Speaker 8: candidate at the end of the season.

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Speaker 1: No, the Colts will come back down to earth, and

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Speaker 1: no one's the MVP right now. The names that are

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Speaker 1: being tossed out are Drake may Maholmes is being mentioned.

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Speaker 1: The Chiefs don't have a great record, Baker Mayfield by

654
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Speaker 1: default is the favorite. And it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's nice to.

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Speaker 1: Talk about for a segment on a radio show, it

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter. I don't believe Daniel Jones will keep this

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Speaker 1: up next.

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Speaker 8: An anonymous Eagles player told an NFL and insider that

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Speaker 8: this season is starting to feel like the twenty twenty

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Speaker 8: three meltdown all over again.

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Speaker 9: Ben, Do you think things will go that badly for Philly?

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Speaker 1: Well, this is a pivot point this weekend. If they

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Speaker 1: beat the Vikings, they're fine. If not, panic at the

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Speaker 1: disco next.

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Speaker 8: Matt Rule is the clear favorite to become the next

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Speaker 8: head coach of Penn States. Some analysts think this would

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Speaker 8: be a mistake, as he would be a lateral move.

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Speaker 1: Do you agree, Yeah, you know, it doesn't excite the

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Speaker 1: fan base. If he wins, it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 3: But he doesn't.

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Speaker 1: You don't win the news conference with Matt Rule. He's

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Speaker 1: just kind of a blog.

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Speaker 3: How do we do? How do we do it? Come on?

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Speaker 3: I passed with an A, not a c an A.

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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. Knock Knock, Who's there? Blame week, Blame we too.

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Speaker 3: It's Big Ben's lame joke of the Week, Big Ben's

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Speaker 3: Lane Jokes and Week.

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Speaker 1: These are actual jokes by actual listeners from.

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Speaker 3: All over North America and the world that have sent jokes.

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Speaker 1: In and a reminder a reminder if you would like

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Speaker 1: to send a joke in send it care of Ben

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Speaker 1: Malorshow at gmail dot com.

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Speaker 3: That's Ben Malors Show at gmail dot com. Now weed

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Speaker 3: Man is.

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Speaker 1: Such a big star. He's got two segments a week.

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Speaker 1: We had Ask a weed Man, which I thought was

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Speaker 1: going to be a disaster.

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Speaker 3: People loved it. And then now he's such a big star.

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Speaker 1: We had to call him to wake him up, to

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Speaker 1: call in Hello, weed Man, are you there?

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Speaker 6: No, that's.

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Speaker 1: Me Early, I'm downed man at it. People loved it,

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Speaker 1: Weed Man. They can't wait till next week's episode Ask

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Speaker 1: a weed Man. We'll see if it continues. But you

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Speaker 1: did very well.

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Speaker 9: We have advertisers asking about it already.

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Speaker 3: Calm down, all right, all right, come on, that's the

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Speaker 3: first lamb joke. Okay, no, that's not we've been please

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Speaker 3: come on.

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Speaker 1: You've had a great life. You ran a toy store

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Speaker 1: in Manhattan. How many people have done that?

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Speaker 3: Not many?

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Speaker 1: Of course, you ran it. You ran it so well

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Speaker 1: it went out of business. But that's fine. All right, Uh,

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Speaker 1: let's do it.

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Speaker 3: Here we go. Big Ben's Lamb.

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Speaker 1: Jokes of the Week actual jokes by Actually, what does

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Speaker 1: weed Man and a fresh Thanksgiving turkey have in common.

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Speaker 3: What they both have cavities with no teeth.

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Speaker 1: All right, that's uh Andy, Andy sent that one in.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 1: Why doesn't weed Man have any teeth? Why his dentist

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Speaker 1: is named doctor Pepper?

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Speaker 3: That's the pen. That's Eeke in Roseville, Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: What's the difference between James Franklin, the former Penn State coach,

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Speaker 1: and weed Man.

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Speaker 3: What's the difference?

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Speaker 1: Well, James Franklin gets paid millions of dollars for doing nothing.

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Speaker 3: That's the difference. We had some intercer chances. Drew in Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: Trew in Minnesota rights and says, what was the best

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Speaker 1: and worst seller at weed Man's toy.

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Speaker 3: Store in New York?

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Speaker 8: What does it tell me?

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Speaker 3: It was a spin off toy. It was called mister Pothead.

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Speaker 3: It was.

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Speaker 9: You can Leaves?

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Speaker 1: What does what does Lisa hide around the house for Christmas?

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Speaker 3: Of course Lisa weed Man's famous lady friend there. She

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Speaker 3: lives in New York. He's in Miami. What does Lisa

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Speaker 3: hide around the house for Christmas? What tell me? Dope

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Speaker 3: on a couch is what it's a spin off of?

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Speaker 3: All right?

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Speaker 1: What did weed Man say when his multi functioning printer,

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Speaker 1: stop working?

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Speaker 3: What I give no facts? Uh?

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Speaker 1: Noah in Austin sent that one in what should be

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Speaker 1: the name of weed Man Hippie's news segment? If it's

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Speaker 1: on Wednesdays? What over the hemp with weed Man Hippie?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go. It's George.

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Speaker 1: Now, George is a longtime listener to Fox Sports rad

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Speaker 1: He's a great teacher, weed Man and you've all the

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Speaker 1: Texas George, So he's a listener and he loves loves

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Speaker 1: the show. All right, George and Rochester. We go from

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Speaker 1: that George to a different George. George and Rochester, Minnesota

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Speaker 1: says an eighty year old grandmother is now the oldest

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Speaker 1: to complete the iron Man triath triathlon.

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Speaker 3: You're about that wee Man?

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Speaker 1: Wow? No, yes, weed Man Hippie is also a triathlete

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Speaker 1: begging for cash, crypto or credit.

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Speaker 3: That's from George.

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Speaker 2: How How will.

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Speaker 3: Weed Man son scare weed Man on Halloween?

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Speaker 1: How how will he do it? He will dress up

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Speaker 1: as Mary Povich and tell weed Man you are not

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Speaker 1: my father?

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Speaker 3: Oh my, that's not right.

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Speaker 8: That's Eric.

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Speaker 3: How's your kid doing, weed Man? Your kid doing? All right?

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Speaker 3: Last we heard he was it like Georgetown or something

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Speaker 3: like that, right, big school. Yeah, no, he graduated from Harvard.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, we graduated from Harvard. Holy crap.

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Speaker 1: I guess the apple.

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Speaker 3: Does fall far from the tree. All right, here we go.

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Speaker 1: Did you hear that hollering James went to Vegas at

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Speaker 1: a seventeen thousand dollars Honda and he left Vegas in

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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty thousand dollars vehicle.

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Speaker 3: Wow? You kidding? Yeah? It was a Greyhound, that was

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Speaker 3: what it was. Yeah, all right.

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Speaker 1: Why is Andrea in Berkeley such a proficient witch?

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Speaker 3: Andrea in Berkeley? She's a hex burt is what she is?

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Speaker 5: There?

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Speaker 3: I was from Steve who sent that one in?

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Speaker 1: What do Andrew and Bakersfield and referees have in common?

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Speaker 3: Tell me what? People hate their calls? People hate their calls?

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Speaker 3: Scan stand him?

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Speaker 1: What does hollering James use more than his Obama phone?

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Speaker 3: What his right hand is? What he uses?

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Speaker 1: That's Noah in Austin fagaweed man. There he is, weed man.

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Speaker 1: Ask a weed man next week?

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Speaker 2: Why direct from.

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Speaker 1: The outside of the glass or inside? That is your

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Speaker 1: coop scoop On Entertainment Fox Sports Radios Friday segment tradition

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Speaker 1: starts right now.

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Speaker 3: And here's your home shot the Cooper at pam Rocco

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Speaker 3: fan on X Fix.

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Speaker 2: You follow him, everybody here, he is right now.

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Speaker 9: Bring it away.

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Speaker 8: Thank you, Marcel, great toss. As always, all right, we

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Speaker 8: are going to start in the theaters, as we always

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Speaker 8: do here on Coopscoop on Entertainment. And there's a couple

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Speaker 8: of movies that I want to point out that come

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Speaker 8: out this weekend that I'm interested in. And they're both

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Speaker 8: horror movies, which makes sense for October. The first one

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Speaker 8: is a sequel Black Phone two. Yes, the movie from

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Speaker 8: four years ago. If you well spoiler alert, it's a

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Speaker 8: four year old movie. He kills his abductor in the

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Speaker 8: first movie, and now he is back from the grave

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Speaker 8: to get his revenge.

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Speaker 3: That's cool. How do you come back from the grave.

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Speaker 3: I'd like to do that some day.

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Speaker 8: Oh, you know horror movies they do that. Okay, But yes,

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Speaker 8: Ethan Hawk reap prizes his role as the grabber.

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Speaker 3: Ooh, the Gray.

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Speaker 9: Watched out for him on the stairs. Okay, also out

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Speaker 9: in theaters. I moved him into his cage. I think

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Speaker 9: I almost made him die, kept him in the coffee cup.

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Speaker 9: Too long, all right.

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Speaker 8: Also this weekend is Frankenstein Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.

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Speaker 3: Yes, this special.

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Speaker 1: I was that a blue Frankenstein or like red Frankenstein

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Speaker 1: or a gold Frankenstein.

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Speaker 9: I don't think there's anything weird about it.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, but this adaptation stars Oscar Isaac as Doctor Frankenstein

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Speaker 8: and Mia Goth, the scream Queen, is in this movie,

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Speaker 8: as well as Christoph Waltz.

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Speaker 9: So for them, Yeah, check that one out.

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Speaker 8: This one's getting rave reviews in theaters and moving over

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Speaker 8: to television. You know how in TV when this one

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Speaker 8: production company does something and then you just you tend

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Speaker 8: to see like all the other production companies coming out

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Speaker 8: with their version of the same thing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, for sure, Topcat.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like you go to you go to everyone's

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Speaker 1: got like chicken, like chicken sandwiches at all the fast

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Speaker 1: food restaurants.

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Speaker 9: Because that's yes, yes, exactly exactly what we.

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Speaker 3: Talked about it last week in my podcast. Did you

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Speaker 3: know that what's that chicken place? The fast food place?

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Speaker 9: You know what I'm talking about, Popeye, Zaxby's.

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Speaker 3: It's it's it's a fish place.

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Speaker 9: Oh long, John Silvers, how they rebranded the Chicken.

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Speaker 1: Yes, their logo to a chicken.

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Speaker 3: I know, so good.

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Speaker 9: Yes.

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Speaker 8: Well, so the the hot thing right now in TV

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Speaker 8: is serial Killer John Wyn Gaizy.

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Speaker 3: Oh big, people love this guy. Yeah.

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Speaker 8: So I talked about how the The Monsters series on

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Speaker 8: Netflix that debuted last week got terrible reviews. I've heard

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Speaker 8: it's like comically bad, like one of those so bad

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Speaker 8: it's like you actually want to watch it because it's ridiculous.

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Speaker 9: But this what.

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Speaker 8: Premiered today on Peacock is Devil in Disguise John Wayne Gacy,

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Speaker 8: and so this one's actually getting good reviews. So if

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Speaker 8: you want, I guess an actually good adaptation of the

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Speaker 8: clown serial Killer, check that out on Peacock right now.

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Speaker 3: Don't go to the basement, whatever you do.

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Speaker 9: Yes, that's right.

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Speaker 8: Also available right now is the third season of the

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Speaker 8: Emmy nominated show The Diplomat on Netflix, starring Kerrie Russell.

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Speaker 8: It's a great show. I've watched the first two seasons.

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Speaker 8: I am excited about that. If you like spy political dramas, that's,

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Speaker 8: you know, right right up your alley.

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Speaker 9: And then moving on, I'm gonna skip ahead to this

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Speaker 9: last thing here.

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Speaker 3: Ben.

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Speaker 8: We have a documentary series. Okay, good, where we got

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Speaker 8: That is available right now on Apple TV Plus. And

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Speaker 8: I don't know if you would like this, Ben, because

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Speaker 8: it's you hate the hero worship stuff.

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Speaker 3: I do not like hero worship. I don't do that.

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Speaker 8: But this is a limited documentary series called Mister Scorsese,

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Speaker 8: and of course it is.

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Speaker 3: Uh so it's toes.

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Speaker 8: It is a five part look at one of the

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Speaker 8: planet's most famous directors, Martin Scorsese, and uh it has

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Speaker 8: interviews with him as well as his collaborators and colleagues,

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Speaker 8: including Robert de Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Spielberg, Daniel Dave Lewis,

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Speaker 8: Kate Blanchette, et cetera, et cetera. And it's got pretty

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Speaker 8: good reviews. So that is available right now on Apple TV.

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Speaker 8: But oh, actually.

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Speaker 3: They are there. There's more.

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Speaker 8: It's not another thing. But I was about to say

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Speaker 8: it's available right now on Apple TV Plus. Apparently they

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Speaker 8: are rebranding. They're getting rid of the Plus. It's just

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Speaker 8: going to be Apple TV now.

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Speaker 1: Oh well, yeah, because it's remember when HBO started their

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Speaker 1: other thing, but then they went back to the HBO

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Speaker 1: because it was so stupid.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, everybody's simplifying.

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Speaker 3: Now you got to be keep it stupid man. People don't. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I'm not going to sit there and worry about your

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Speaker 3: stupid channel.

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Speaker 9: You know, Sick Stop, not a Scoops Go entertainment