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Speaker 1: endless discourse, truly endless discourse. That ha come sentence.

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Speaker 2: So background story, Jaguars, they lose that playoff game with

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Speaker 2: their their first year head coach, who did an incredible

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Speaker 2: turnaround job this season led them to the playoffs. Like

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Speaker 2: I said, they were one of the hottest teams in

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Speaker 2: the in the league, turned Trevor Laws into the Trevor

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Speaker 2: Laws that everyone wanted him to be in one season, right.

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Speaker 2: And so in the postgame presser, you know, folks are

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Speaker 2: asking their question blah blah blah, and we hear this

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Speaker 2: lovely voice of an angel that we've never heard on

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Speaker 2: a national level before, who tells him, you know, hey,

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Speaker 2: keep your head up, we're proud of you.

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Speaker 1: You to one do ball.

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Speaker 2: We'll see you next season. And journalists lost their fucking mind.

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Speaker 2: They lost their fucking mind. I honestly, legitimately did not

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Speaker 2: think we'll get this big, like I feel like the

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Speaker 2: It got retweeted by Adam Schefter and Am Scheffeld like

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Speaker 2: this is an incredible moment.

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Speaker 1: And then the the.

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Speaker 2: Beat reporter for the Steelers, who was Who's who, I

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Speaker 2: like quote tweeted that's prior I think her name was,

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Speaker 2: who was like, you know, this is unacceptable. You know,

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Speaker 2: reporters are there to ask questions and to see what's

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Speaker 2: next and all that, and I quote tweet her, I

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Speaker 2: was like, I disagree, And I was like, my whole

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Speaker 2: thing is you know, this was not some kid from

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Speaker 2: Bleacher Report from Ohio who got flown in for this game.

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Speaker 2: This is a local reporter who has been covering jackson

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Speaker 2: that Jacksonville community for twenty plus years, who was an

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Speaker 2: associate editor at the Free Black newspaper in that in

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Speaker 2: that city, who was a pillar of that community. And

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Speaker 2: she and and and and you know, as you know,

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Speaker 2: to counter what that reporter said about reporters there to

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Speaker 2: ask questions, I don't solely believe.

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Speaker 1: I believe that local reporters, at times you need to be.

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Speaker 2: The mouthpiece of your fandom, of your community, because when

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Speaker 2: you're covering sports locally, it's bigger than just the exes

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Speaker 2: and O's, bro, you are covering community, you are covering

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Speaker 2: a shared kinship in that city, you know. And for

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Speaker 2: her to say, hey, we're proud of you, keep your

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Speaker 2: head up, there's nothing to be ashamed of.

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Speaker 1: That was factual. That is how that community feels.

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Speaker 2: And she was speaking for her community in that moment,

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Speaker 2: and everyone was like, you know, the the journalists, they

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Speaker 2: overplayed their hand on this.

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Speaker 1: This was the angle. They kept trying to hammer it

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Speaker 1: down on us.

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Speaker 2: They kept trying to act like you didn't know the

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Speaker 2: rules of journalism. One one, we're supposed to be a

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Speaker 2: partial We fucking know that. But bro, those rules should

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Speaker 2: be bent at times when you especially when you were

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Speaker 2: dealing with the Jacksonville Jaguars. There are very few cities

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Speaker 2: in the NFL who loved their team as much as

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Speaker 2: the Jaguars, right, a very short list, and that is

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Speaker 2: a fan base that has been searching for hope for

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Speaker 2: thirty fucking years. And you get this first year coach

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Speaker 2: who comes in, turns things around, turns your quarterback into

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Speaker 2: the number one overall picked the Franchi's got you wanted

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Speaker 2: to be.

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Speaker 1: He becomes the the.

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Speaker 2: An embodiment of the glimmer of hope that these fans

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Speaker 2: have been praying for. I think you can bend the

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Speaker 2: rules for the last question and the last presser for

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Speaker 2: a local Jagsonville, you know, community reporter to say.

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Speaker 1: Hey, I'm speak for our community here. We're proud of you.

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Speaker 2: This is a hug from us and embracing and welcoming

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Speaker 2: you into the fold of this community where football means

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Speaker 2: so much to us and the job you did was

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Speaker 2: incredible and you're one of us now. I think that

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Speaker 2: that was an incredible moment because I personally think that

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Speaker 2: sports at their best, sports journalism at his best is

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Speaker 2: when it highlights, you know, what sports me to us

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Speaker 2: on an emotional and a communal level. And that's exactly

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Speaker 2: what that moment was. That was that was that was

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Speaker 2: miss miss Jones, Lynn Jones, speaking for that community saying,

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Speaker 2: you know, football means so much to us and you

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Speaker 2: did an incredible job and we're happy to have you.

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Speaker 2: And that's it, bro. And then these journalists lost their

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Speaker 2: fucking minds. They lost their fucking minds. And I want

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Speaker 2: to say I'm not someone who's anti sports journalists. I

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Speaker 2: love of fucking sports journalists. Like when when you know Mike,

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Speaker 2: like you shared that story in the chat today about

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Speaker 2: Mike Tomlins, you know, going away on speech that he

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Speaker 2: big incident happens in sports, my first thing is I

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Speaker 2: can't wait for you know, a reporter to give us

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Speaker 2: the insights. Like when that Chris Faul should hapen, I

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Speaker 2: was like, bro, please sit an alarm when we get

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Speaker 2: to write up on what happened behind the scenes there.

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Speaker 1: I think sports journalists serve a great purpose.

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Speaker 2: I also think that like s VP had a great

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Speaker 2: spill where he was like, bro, what we do is

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Speaker 2: not that serious. We are covering a game, and I

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Speaker 2: think so many folks like you can take your job

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Speaker 2: seriously while still having the perspective of it's not that serious.

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Speaker 1: Like we're podcasters.

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Speaker 2: You know, you shut your mouth podcast you know what

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Speaker 2: I mean? Like, we are podcasters, and you know what

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Speaker 2: we take We take podcasts serious because our listeners are

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Speaker 2: paying us for this, right like we we we we

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Speaker 2: commit to the appearances, you know, we commit to the schedule.

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Speaker 2: We take the the the commitment of being podcast seriously.

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Speaker 1: But you think we take podcasting seriously as they do.

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Speaker 1: You think we will call this ship art form.

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Speaker 2: You think we would tell people who criticize bought them

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Speaker 2: unless you've done a podcast, you can't that bullshit.

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Speaker 1: Like, Bro, it was just and the thing is, this

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Speaker 1: is what really killed me.

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Speaker 2: This is what really really really killed me after all

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Speaker 2: of this, this this big ass fiasco behind this Jacksonville

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Speaker 2: Jaggs presser. Right Monday night, we get Steelers Texas and

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Speaker 2: I'm like, yo, all right, y'all talk reporters, meet it,

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Speaker 2: y'all talked all the ship about what should be done

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Speaker 2: in these postgame presses?

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Speaker 1: What what what? What? What?

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Speaker 2: We have no space for whatever? And they went out

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Speaker 2: there him that was that was their game seven. They

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Speaker 2: went out there and put up a stinker. Amaron Rogers

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Speaker 2: stormed off, fat motherfucker because the question was so terrible.

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Speaker 2: They asked him the same questions twice about about how

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Speaker 2: he thought about Mike Tomlin. After he gave a fucking

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Speaker 2: minute and a half soliloquy the first time, he was

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Speaker 2: asked the reporter at hand, who who really can started

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Speaker 2: this whole thing?

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Speaker 1: Beth Pryor, She asked him