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Speaker 1: Our lead this hour from right here in the Bay

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Speaker 1: Area in San Francisco. We are so excited to be

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Speaker 1: here and it's nice. They actually cleaned up some of

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Speaker 1: the some of the filth for the media. So with

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Speaker 1: the they did, actually I'm not making matter. So with

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl coming up, it was a big galla

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Speaker 1: award night.

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Speaker 3: Now, I'm not an award shows guy, I'm not. I

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Speaker 3: don't know. If you do. You like award show you

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Speaker 3: don't either, Okay? Good.

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Speaker 1: The only one I like is the Bennies. I don't

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Speaker 1: know why. I don't know why.

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Speaker 3: I enjoyed the Betty's. I'm just a fan of the many.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, they handed out the biggest prize for an

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Speaker 1: individual player in the in the NFL you saw you

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Speaker 1: heard by now no, maybe not? Okay, Well, the envelope

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Speaker 1: is in. So it was a two horse race. You

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Speaker 1: had Drake May of the Patriots, who's going to play

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Speaker 1: one more game? And then you had Matthew Stafford or

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Speaker 1: the Lrrims. And the vote is in and the winner

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Speaker 1: and the twenty twenty five MVP handed out here in

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Speaker 1: February of twenty twenty six, Matthew Stafford edging out Drake May,

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Speaker 1: and he is your NFL Most Valuable Player in the

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Speaker 1: closest race in over twenty years. You gotta go back

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Speaker 1: to twenty oh three when Peyton Manning and the late

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Speaker 1: Steve McNair shared the MVP award. And I was, well,

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Speaker 1: don't tell anybody. I was here at Fox Sports Radio

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Speaker 1: when that happened, and people were freaking out, losing their mind. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I believe it, thought right, blah blah blah. How close

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Speaker 3: Thanks for asking.

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Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford received twenty four of the fifty first place votes,

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Speaker 1: twenty four of the fifty, while Drake May got twenty three.

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Speaker 1: So one fricking vote, one vote, that's it. That's all

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Speaker 1: that separated the winner and the loser, and that is

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Speaker 1: a good jumping off point. A lot of my friends

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Speaker 1: in the Commonwealth are up in arms.

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Speaker 3: I'm getting messaged no, you're a Ram Homer and you're

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Speaker 1: Gonna celebrate Stafford and shouldn't have wanted a shut up.

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Speaker 1: All right, So let us discuss the question did the

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Speaker 1: voters get it right? Giving Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford the

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Speaker 1: edge over the Patriots Drake May by.

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Speaker 3: One vote for the MVP.

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Speaker 1: So my observations on this, I've got Churchill, downs, Hamburger, Helper,

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

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Speaker 1: we're going to play. I know you're excited to play

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Speaker 1: Connect three and not Connect four. Connect three. We didn't

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Speaker 3: So number.

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Speaker 1: To answer the question, did the voters get it right?

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Speaker 1: You can't see me. I'm in a remote studio. There's

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Speaker 1: Despite all of the bluster, and I get the bluster.

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Speaker 3: It was close I understand that.

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Speaker 1: But when you take a step back and you look

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Speaker 1: pretend like this is Churchill Downs, the most iconic racetrack

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Speaker 1: in American horse racing. So this came down to a

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Speaker 3: Oh the drama.

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Speaker 1: However, when you zoom in, they got it right. Matthew

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Speaker 1: Stafford earned it. And the reason he earned it. I

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Speaker 1: cupcakes and he enjoyed them. Drake May, Matthew Stafford led

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Speaker 1: And this is not like he just won on a

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Speaker 1: theme of the hour question, what does the ENVP award?

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Speaker 1: This ENVP award the first of the career of Matthew Stafford.

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Speaker 1: What does this do for the resume of the Rams

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Speaker 1: quarterback Matthew Stafford.

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Speaker 3: So this is obviously a big deal.

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Speaker 1: This is a box checking exercise, is what it is.

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Speaker 1: It's a big box. I'm talking the kind you get

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Speaker 1: at Costco, like really big Kirkland brand size. It is

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Speaker 1: a booster rocket also that is strapped in magine Matthew Stafford.

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Speaker 1: It's strapped Matthew Stafford's resume and launched directly in the

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Speaker 3: On Canton, Ohio.

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Speaker 1: And one of the great arguments in sports radio died tonight.

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Speaker 1: Is Matthew Stafford a Hall of Famer?

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Speaker 3: It's over.

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Speaker 1: You don't have a leg to stand on so much

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Speaker 1: for the Hall of very Good.

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Speaker 3: You lose.

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Speaker 1: Take your parting gift, get out of here. That was

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Speaker 1: yesterday's argument. The argument has now been repossessed. It is

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Speaker 1: a very tough day. I'm going to send my friend

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Speaker 1: Rob Parker a text. I love Rob. I saw Rob

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Speaker 1: I'm a remote location, but I was there during the day.

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Speaker 1: one of the all time great Matthew Stafford haters.

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Speaker 3: I love him to death.

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Speaker 1: But a tough day for the SHS, the Stafford Hater Society,

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Speaker 1: and they got to sit this one out.

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Speaker 1: You're eating crow. There's no ketchup, there's no barbecue sauce,

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Speaker 3: That's it. You got to eat it ice.

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Speaker 1: Cold out of a paper bag, and you've got to

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Speaker 1: Stafford already had the Super Bowl ring. He already had

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Speaker 1: multiple playoff.

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Speaker 3: Runs in LA.

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Speaker 1: Now you toss an MVP on top, the cherry on top.

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Speaker 1: That's a combo meal deal. That seals it. It turns

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Speaker 1: what was a borderline conversation into what part of Canton

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Speaker 3: Can we start working on it right now?

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Speaker 1: And then you've got Sean McVay who enters the chat

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Speaker 1: and McVeigh is the hamburger helper. I guess, in this case,

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Speaker 1: the quarterback helper. We just add water. In this case,

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Speaker 1: all Stafford needed was ram horns on his helmet and presto.

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Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford is a Hall of Famer. Meanwhile, tough one

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Speaker 1: for the Lions. Right oo know, all you geniuses from

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Speaker 1: this is a bad trade for the Rams. Stafford's a loser,

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Speaker 1: and the Lions got all these shiny draft picks and we.

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Speaker 3: And they got Jared Goff. Oh my god, it's so sexy.

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Speaker 3: They're so happy. And this is a.

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Speaker 1: Body blow, body blow for the Detroit Lions. They traded

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Speaker 1: Stafford for Jared e f and golf and what amounts

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Speaker 1: five years, he's one of the Most Valuable Player Award.

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Speaker 1: Has Jereed Goff done that? I'm asking for a friend. No,

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Speaker 1: but Stafford did it as well.

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Speaker 3: And he's won over sixty percent of his start.

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Speaker 1: So it's not narrative. It's you know, that's malor math,

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Speaker 3: He didn't change. It's just the uniform, the coaching, better coaching,

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Speaker 1: I am with the Rams. He had Cooper Cup. When

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Speaker 1: Devonte Adams and those guys all right now, final point.

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Speaker 1: We spent a lot of time, very valuable, I'm told,

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Speaker 3: We learned this week that Robert Kraft did not get in.

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Speaker 3: So who got in? Well, we now know the gold

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Speaker 1: If you have not heard yet, the class of twenty

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Speaker 3: And they will be played.

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Speaker 1: There'll be a Hall of Fame weekend with a terrible

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Speaker 1: then they'll be the awards ceremony where these guys get

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Speaker 1: in living funeral, right, you know, you give eulogis about

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Speaker 1: how great everyone is, but you're still alive, You're not dead.

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Speaker 1: So Drew Brees and Larry Fitzgerald are the headliners on

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Speaker 1: five players, but not Bill Belichick. Now there's a Patriot

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Speaker 1: that gout in now Breeze and Fitzgerald both made it

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Speaker 1: time eligible. The results announced at that Fugacia Awards show

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. So you had that and other guys

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Speaker 3: Name is Roger Craig.

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Speaker 1: That was the loan pick from the the Geezer Department

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Speaker 1: of coaches and contributors and senior members. And that is

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Speaker 1: where there's good talk radio. It's about the former Niners

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Speaker 1: So the story that everyone has been talking about, everyone

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Speaker 1: in his elbow. And at this point, Ja Moran is

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Speaker 1: like a high end rolex that doesn't actually tell time.

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Speaker 1: Well it's not a rollers Well it says Rolex on it,

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Speaker 1: but it doesn't tell time. Why does it not tell time?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. But it says Rolecks on it, so

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Speaker 1: it should tell time. It looks beautiful from a distance,

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Speaker 1: you know, on your on your wrist or whatever, but

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Speaker 1: you're still late because it doesn't tell time, and it's

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Speaker 1: it's the baggage.

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Speaker 3: Also like the.

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Speaker 1: Air guns, the imaginary hand grenades, all very entertaining, the suspension,

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Speaker 1: not listening to your coach, the behavioral nonsense, all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: So his value shockingly low and nobody, nobody is giving

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Speaker 1: up premium assets for a head case with a bum

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Speaker 1: wing that is not happening. So he's not worth a

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Speaker 1: bag of delicious soft pretzels. I would rat at this

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Speaker 1: point today we do the show today, I would tonight.

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Speaker 1: I would rather have a bag of delicious soft pretzels

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Speaker 1: that you just put in the air fryer for a

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Speaker 1: little bit and they come out just marvelous. That's what

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Speaker 1: I would want. That's what I want all right now.

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Speaker 1: The last word, we did have a trade of note,

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Speaker 1: as my former colleague Eddie Garcia, was a trade of

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Speaker 1: note Indianapolis we go and the trade the last big deal,

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Speaker 1: last big deal.

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Speaker 3: Before the trade deadline ended.

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Speaker 1: The Pacers, who absolutely blow this year. The Indiana Pacers

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Speaker 1: have acquired e Vizza Zubots, the center from the People's

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Speaker 1: team no more. The Clippers said bye bye to Zubots

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Speaker 1: and in exchange they got Benedict Matherin, a fine Canadian

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Speaker 1: lad Isaiah Jackson, I have no idea who that is.

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Speaker 1: And two first round picks whoop damn do? And one

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Speaker 1: second round pick. So all you idiots that we're complaining about,

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Speaker 1: Oh the Clippers have no draft picks.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, now they got draft picks.

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Speaker 1: Whoop dam do. That's so great. I'm so happy. So question,

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Speaker 1: how did you grade the Pacers trade of Viza Zubots

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Speaker 1: to the Indiana Pacers. How do you grade this trade

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Speaker 1: between the Pacers and the Clippers. So we always go

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Speaker 1: to the Mala report card. We always go to the

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Speaker 1: malor report card, and I'm going to give on my

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Speaker 1: report card, I give Indiana a B plus and I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna give the Clippers a C. And I'm I'm being

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Speaker 1: generous because I had a night lunch, so I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: be generous the Clippers. They didn't just give up like

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Speaker 1: it appears. They folded the tent. The Clippers had a

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Speaker 1: chance to make the playoffs after a historically bad start,

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Speaker 1: and they've decaid, wow, we don't really want that. And

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Speaker 1: my theory is because James Harden didn't want to be

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Speaker 1: there anymore, and so then that there was a trickle

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Speaker 1: down economics thing where Harden didn't want to be there.

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Speaker 1: They got rid of Harden, and so then okay, well

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Speaker 1: Harden's not there, we're pretty much, you know, we're cooked.

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Speaker 1: So let's get rid of Zubats and so they did.

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Speaker 1: But Zubats doesn't go to a content any is not

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Speaker 1: a contender. They suck this year. They're terrible, all right.

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Speaker 1: So the Clippers gave up. I don't want my teams

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Speaker 1: to give up. I'm not happy about that. You know,

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Speaker 1: I haven't been watching much anyway, because they're pretty bad.

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Speaker 1: But they packed up the cooler. They put everything in

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Speaker 1: the station wagon. They left the campsite and the fire

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Speaker 1: was still burning. They said, let somebody else put it out.

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Speaker 1: And again this is collateral image because of the beard

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Speaker 1: who's like, I don't want to be in LA and

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Speaker 1: all that stuff. So Zubots is he's a legit NBA center.

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Speaker 1: He's not a star. I'm not gonna sit here and

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Speaker 1: tell you behind the very powerful microphones of Fox Sports

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Speaker 1: Radio that in any way Zubots is a star.

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Speaker 3: He's not.

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Speaker 1: He's not a stiff though. He's a solid, dependable player.

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Speaker 1: He's like a I hate saying blue collar because these

505
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Speaker 1: guys are filthy rich, but that's what we used to

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Speaker 1: say back in the day before everyone was filthy rich.

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Speaker 3: Like, he's that kind of player.

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Speaker 1: He'll set screens occasionally, he'll protect the rim, and he'll

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Speaker 1: always be there. And it's pretty obvious that this was

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Speaker 1: a move where the for the Indiana Pacers, where they

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Speaker 1: they got cooked by Miles Turner who bolted town. They're like, oh,

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Speaker 1: Miles Turner's not gonna go anywhere.

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah he did.

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Speaker 1: He left, and so you had nothing in the middle,

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Speaker 1: and he had open spot on your Bengo card and

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Speaker 1: so This is a move not for this year, because

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Speaker 1: this year is over.

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Speaker 3: It's a move for next year now on a tablet.

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately, games are not played on a tablet, but on

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Speaker 1: a tablet, Zubots fits perfectly next to Tyrese Halliburton.

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Speaker 3: Pick and roll, dunk, repeat the whole thing.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the Clippers are at Disney's Sleeping Beauty Castle tossing

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Speaker 1: gold coins into a wishing well with these draft picks,

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Speaker 1: and they're betting that they can develop Benedict Mathern and

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Speaker 1: he'll turn out to be a functional NBA player. And

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Speaker 1: I don't even know this Isaiah Jackson guy. But Zubots

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Speaker 1: to the Clippers got from the Lakers. He was when

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Speaker 1: they got I was like, well, who cares. The Lakers

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Speaker 1: were terrible at the time they got Zoobots, and he

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Speaker 1: became something with the Clippers.

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Speaker 3: So they're like, well, we can do this, but that's.

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Speaker 1: Not a road to long term success getting meybe one

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Speaker 1: of these guys turns out to be good. I don't

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Speaker 1: care about draft picks. I lived through years of terrible

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Speaker 1: draft picks. I don't need that. So it's not really

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Speaker 1: a plan. It's like a seance, right, you're trying to

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Speaker 1: connect to the other side. So the Clippers, they're not

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Speaker 1: they're in this weird vacuum because they're not contenders right now.

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Speaker 1: You don't trade two of your top players and say

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Speaker 1: you're contender. You're not.

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Speaker 3: They're not pretenders though they're in the middle.

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Speaker 1: And the word I got a text from a guy

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Speaker 1: during the day once the Zubots thing went down, and

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Speaker 1: it's like keeping on Kawhi is not happy. And when

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Speaker 1: Kawhi is not happy, Kawhi.

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Speaker 3: Raises a hulla baloo. And that's my word. He didn't

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Speaker 3: use the word hullabaloo.

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Speaker 1: I don't think anyone else uses the word hullabaloo, but

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Speaker 1: me and I use the word hullabaloo.

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Speaker 3: I like the word hullabaloo. It's a fun word. I

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Speaker 3: like fun words.

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

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

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Speaker 5: It's Mallard, how about that? To the third degree? This

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Speaker 5: is one big Ben gets qrilled.

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Speaker 3: All right, coop a loop all right?

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Speaker 6: Packers GM Brian Gudakounz told reporters on Wednesday that the.

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Speaker 1: Team pronunciation coop. That's a very dangerous name.

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Speaker 6: It is, thank you. The team is probably losing Malik Willis,

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Speaker 6: as Jordan loves backup as he is likely heading to

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Speaker 6: a team that will give him a chance to compete

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Speaker 6: for a starting job. Ben, could you see him starting anywhere?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's better than Kyler Murray. I would rather have

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Speaker 1: him than Kyler Murray as a starter. There's a job

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Speaker 1: that'll be open up there. Pittsburgh is a possibility.

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Speaker 3: He showed enough Malik Willis.

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Speaker 1: He was terrible when he first started with the Titans,

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Speaker 1: but he showed enough with somebody will give him a shot.

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Speaker 1: He's like low risk, high reward and it's a kind

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Speaker 1: of a big position, so it'd be the usual five

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Speaker 1: or six quarterback changes this year. The Jets are another possibility.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't wish that out of my worst enemy.

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Speaker 6: Next I'm actually stunned by that answer. I was not

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Speaker 6: expecting that one. With Jalen Brunson's huge performance against the

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Speaker 6: Nuggets on Wednesday, the Knicks have extended their win streak

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Speaker 6: to eight games. Only the Pistons are ahead of them

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Speaker 6: in the Eastern Conference. Is this finally the year that

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Speaker 6: we take the Knicks seriously as championship contenders.

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Speaker 1: No, they have Mike Brown as their coach. Come on,

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Speaker 1: that's his place, and I want to see it in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, and it's all prologue.

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Speaker 3: Check back in April.

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Speaker 1: And let's see. We're in February. It's early February. I'll

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Speaker 1: see how it goes in April next.

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Speaker 6: So Tarik's scooball shattered the record for arbitration deal here

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Speaker 6: last picture that you know, the highest.

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Speaker 3: One was nineteen thirty millions.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, he gets thirty two million, this guy. Yes, David

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Speaker 6: Price was the previous highest pitcher at nineteen won Soto

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Speaker 6: was the highest position player at thirty one. It's because

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Speaker 6: of a clause in the league. Do you think they're

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Speaker 6: going to try and remove that clause? He gets treated

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Speaker 6: like a free agent basically, m Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Are the are the owners gonna, you know, try to

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Speaker 1: get rid of that? Of course, I mean anything to

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Speaker 1: protect them, but it's it's wild man before say, guy's

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Speaker 1: never got this guy or players in arbitration.

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Speaker 3: How do we deal Coobolo? You pass this edition? That

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Speaker 3: is a putter on the board. I want to tell

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Speaker 3: another win. I can't believe.

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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.

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Speaker 1: Who's there?

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Speaker 5: Blame week, Blame week? Who It's Big Ben's lame joke

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Speaker 5: of the week.

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Speaker 1: It's is weed Man, Hippie in the hissy Hello, weed Man, Hippie. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm here.

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Speaker 2: Then make me laugh.

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Speaker 6: Real quick, Ben?

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Speaker 3: Yes cool.

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Speaker 6: Since your your Twitter is not working, I have been

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Speaker 6: asked to inform weed Man that he has two packages.

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Speaker 6: One should be arriving this weekend, another midweek. Keep an

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Speaker 6: eye out, weed Man.

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Speaker 3: Weed Man, you're getting some stuff in the mail.

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Speaker 1: And Sir scratch Off said, when you he's sending you,

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Speaker 1: I guess an air frier. I don't know if I'm

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Speaker 1: supposed to say that, but there's there's something. Don't don't

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Speaker 1: open you got to open the thing. There's stuff inside

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Speaker 1: the air fier. Okay, hey, okay, thank you. That's uh,

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Speaker 1: sir scratch I mean some other people who are also

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Speaker 1: sending a yeah, thank you.

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Speaker 3: What about Burrito?

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Speaker 1: You don't want to thank Purrito?

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Speaker 3: All right?

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Speaker 1: All right, enough of that, all right, let's get to it.

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Speaker 1: Big Bangs Lame jokes of the week. These are actual

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Speaker 1: jokes from actual listeners. What is weed Man's favorite type

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Speaker 1: of edible? What edible underwear? That's Surfer top comedian? Who

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Speaker 1: set that one in?

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Speaker 3: All right?

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Speaker 1: Who is weed Man's favorite all time Chiefs quarterback Trent Green?

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Speaker 1: You love him?

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Speaker 3: That's Eric in Kansas?

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Speaker 1: All right, and get our laugh track working here. What's

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Speaker 1: the much between Ben Mahler and weed Man hippie? What?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 1: Ben will be on radio row and weed Man will

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Speaker 1: be on skid row. Oh my goodness, that's Eke in Roseville, Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: What does weed man call a pothole? What the toilet is?

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Speaker 1: What he calls it? That's Surfer Todd the comedian. Why

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Speaker 1: is weed Man complaining about his weed stalks?

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Speaker 3: Why?

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Speaker 1: Well, apparently after smoking the inventory, these stalks provide little value. Unfortunately.

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Speaker 1: That's Drew in Minnesota. Big Ben's Land Jokes.

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Speaker 3: Of the Week.

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Speaker 1: Our buddy weed Man hippie from Hollywood, Florida, hanging hours.

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Speaker 3: Well, weed Man, do you have an alter ego?

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Speaker 1: No? No?

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Speaker 3: All right?

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Speaker 1: Well, since you don't have one, Bill Miller has suggested,

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Speaker 1: Gimpy the grassman is what he suggested that that's a

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Speaker 1: Drew in Minnesota. Why does a referee call or what

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Speaker 1: does a referee call an undocumented weed man getting government assistance?

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Speaker 1: What an eligible receiver? That's a Kurt from Earth. We

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Speaker 1: set that one in Why was weed Man's dog so

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Speaker 1: sad and tired? Why? Because the dog was always thinking

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Speaker 1: this is the longest walk ever?

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Speaker 3: I don't understand.

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Speaker 1: That's Mike, Mike the Leprecaun said that when in why

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Speaker 1: is weed Man always yelling? Why he never learned how.

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Speaker 3: To use his inside voice?

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Speaker 1: That's Mike the Leprecaunt again. All right, Big Ben's lamb

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Speaker 1: jokes a week? What what would weed Man be called

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Speaker 1: if he was the Super Bowl halftime performer? What bad money?

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Speaker 3: That's Kurt from Earth.

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Speaker 1: Set that one in Why why did weed Man and

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Speaker 1: stopped playing center? Why do you stop playing center?

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Speaker 3: Wow?

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Speaker 1: Apparently he ran out of snap benefits?

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Speaker 3: That's why.

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Speaker 1: That's a curd from Earth. All it's Big Ben's lame

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Speaker 1: jokes league.

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Speaker 3: Why did you or.

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Speaker 1: Did you hear? Did you hear that weed Man hippie

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Speaker 1: is leaving Florida and heading to San Francisco? Wow? Really?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Apparently he heard about all of their high ceilings.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I had a very high ceiling.

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Speaker 1: Yesterday. Absolutely, all right, what do we have here? Did

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Speaker 1: you know weed Man Hippy's name appears in the Epstein files?

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Speaker 3: How about that?

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Speaker 1: Wow?

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: It turns out that when weed Man was homeless and

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Speaker 1: living on the beaches of Miami, someone came up and

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Speaker 1: wrote Epstein Island on his cardboard box home. But it

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Speaker 1: was yeah, that's a Benny Brightside, all right. Weed Man

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Speaker 1: is so poor? How poor is he? He's so poor

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Speaker 1: He got forced, so got forced at gunpoint to take

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Speaker 1: eight five dollars from the gunman. That's how poor he was.

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Speaker 1: That's a Noah in Austin. Why can't we men give

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Speaker 1: out advice? He can't afford his two cents. He can't

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Speaker 1: afford his two cents. We met, Thank you had his

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Speaker 1: big band's lame jokes of the week. Thank you.

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Speaker 3: We man. Check your mail, weed Man, check your mail.

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Speaker 5: But