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Speaker 2: Blame Canada. You can a go ball on fourth and two.

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Speaker 2: What an absurd ending, too, frankly an absurd game. The

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Speaker 2: So maybe it's one of those weird, funky situations where

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Speaker 3: they win, and it's I just the Steelers to me

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Speaker 2: now they've kind of been exposed, and with the schedule

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Speaker 3: Well, it's I think it was mentioned on our Thursday

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think they're going to go near the

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Speaker 3: I just don't remember a season where within like a

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Speaker 3: There, I'm with you. And he did it with He's

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Speaker 2: You know what I'd like? I'd like to see Bill

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Speaker 2: We don't usually use this on Thursday night. It must

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Speaker 2: She's on the Mount Rushmore live around the NFL producers

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Speaker 2: now doing the damn thing with the rams and beyond.

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Speaker 2: Quite frankly. Some call her Erica Teposi. We know her

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Speaker 4: That is music, literally and figuratively to my ears.

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Speaker 2: Ricky, Hey, this is so nice.

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Speaker 5: This is so good to see you guys, to hear you.

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Speaker 4: Guys. We got a cat call from Mark, we got

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Speaker 4: This is exactly what I what I needed.

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Speaker 3: Ricky, did I just scribe Belichick's hat correctly? I don't

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Speaker 2: Now, it must be nerve wracking. I would think for

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Speaker 2: I was thinking and we ended up getting a w

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, it really really is two thousand and one,

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Speaker 2: No, I think that was on Big Willie Style. I

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Speaker 2: Say, I qualify as a what they call geriatric millennials,

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Speaker 3: Absolutely not. My parents are bom like that is.

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Speaker 2: Yankees fan, and I remember them coming for Joe Tory

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00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:54,280
Speaker 2: the same way back in the day to get him

434
00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:58,159
Speaker 2: out of town once the championships, championship started dry up

435
00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:01,439
Speaker 2: a little bit like that winning like this need for

436
00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:04,480
Speaker 2: more winning, and then when the losing starts, it's a

437
00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:07,199
Speaker 2: really nasty thing. So it's kind of a tough and

438
00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:10,679
Speaker 2: nobody really feels is gonna feel bad for Patriots. Patriots

439
00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:13,080
Speaker 2: are their fans, but it really is a tough come

440
00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:16,320
Speaker 2: down to be high that long and then suddenly be

441
00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:19,879
Speaker 2: this low floor. Yeah yeah, you're taking it very well, Eric,

442
00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:21,800
Speaker 2: And it does not surprise me. That's just the woman

443
00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:22,199
Speaker 2: that you are.

444
00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:28,600
Speaker 4: I feel I feel for players more than I ever have,

445
00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:31,560
Speaker 4: like especially you know, the past two seasons, being so

446
00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:35,159
Speaker 4: you know, involved with the Rams and seeing these guys

447
00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:37,840
Speaker 4: every day and like what they actually like put themselves

448
00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:39,920
Speaker 4: through win or lose every week.

449
00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:42,560
Speaker 5: Like you know, you hear those sort of cliches like

450
00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:44,879
Speaker 5: we just got to keep stucking building blocks and what.

451
00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:45,640
Speaker 5: But like they do.

452
00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:47,480
Speaker 4: They go back out and they keep showing up and

453
00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:50,359
Speaker 4: they keep they're just killing themselves to like play and

454
00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:53,439
Speaker 4: also put you know, stuff on tape for them for

455
00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:54,600
Speaker 4: their careers and everything.

456
00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:55,640
Speaker 5: So to hear like.

457
00:23:55,880 --> 00:24:00,359
Speaker 4: These Steelers fans booing the team that first half, sitting

458
00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:03,080
Speaker 4: on my couch like, oh my god, but they're trying

459
00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:03,840
Speaker 4: so hard.

460
00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:05,640
Speaker 2: You're too close now.

461
00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:08,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm like, but they're they're working so hard, and

462
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:10,959
Speaker 4: I was yeah, and I was also like, screw the Pats,

463
00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:12,960
Speaker 4: like come on, like you could get a franchise QB

464
00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:14,440
Speaker 4: with that second overall pack.

465
00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:15,920
Speaker 5: And then they're they're gonna blow that too.

466
00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:19,800
Speaker 2: Oh boy, Funk said he has something for Belichick from

467
00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:28,480
Speaker 2: the post game. Check it out. Check it out on YouTube. Everybody, Yeah,

468
00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:30,520
Speaker 2: who did he just do that? He just had celebrated

469
00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:31,800
Speaker 2: like a cool guy.

470
00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:34,639
Speaker 5: He then drapped him up, but he looked really sad too.

471
00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:39,679
Speaker 2: It's a good night. It's a good night for a

472
00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:43,080
Speaker 2: bad year. Mark the floor is yours.

473
00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,159
Speaker 3: Well, Ricky, I would ask you a question outside of

474
00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:51,080
Speaker 3: you know, with your rams uh employment, you have told

475
00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:53,320
Speaker 3: me some stories where you've been like in the coffee

476
00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:56,720
Speaker 3: room and like there's a bunch of RAMS players coming,

477
00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:59,600
Speaker 3: Like who's like the who is your favorite player to

478
00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:01,680
Speaker 3: hang out? Like, who's like the guy that we would

479
00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:03,840
Speaker 3: be like surprised maybe just like the coolest due to

480
00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:04,160
Speaker 3: them all?

481
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:06,080
Speaker 2: And conversely, who sucks?

482
00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:08,080
Speaker 5: Go ahead, yeah, like okay, so sucks.

483
00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:09,080
Speaker 3: I have a top ten?

484
00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:13,119
Speaker 4: No, no, no one really, no one, No one really sucks.

485
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:16,040
Speaker 4: They're like there's some that are way more down to

486
00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:18,200
Speaker 4: clown than the others. I know, there's been so much

487
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:20,760
Speaker 4: talk about this RAMS rookie class, but they are so

488
00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:24,399
Speaker 4: fun and they haven't like been beaten down by the

489
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:27,199
Speaker 4: world and like agents haven't got their claws in them

490
00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:29,720
Speaker 4: yet and stuff too. So like all the hype about

491
00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:33,800
Speaker 4: like Kobe Turner the conductor is like the sweetest guy

492
00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:37,000
Speaker 4: on planet Earth's so funny, like wants to do everything,

493
00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:40,240
Speaker 4: is like singing around the corners and you know, just

494
00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:42,800
Speaker 4: like through the halls, and Puka is like the sweetest

495
00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:46,000
Speaker 4: guy to ever step on planet Earth. And like it's

496
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,040
Speaker 4: so fun to see their innocence because they're just so

497
00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:52,680
Speaker 4: excited to be here and they're not like beaten down yet.

498
00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:55,040
Speaker 4: So I really like this rookie class is It's been

499
00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:55,760
Speaker 4: so much fun.

500
00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:00,560
Speaker 3: How much like it's McVay cool to you. How about that?

501
00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:01,320
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's great.

502
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:03,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, we do like me and him and Belichick like

503
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,080
Speaker 4: in that video we wont buy and Okay, He's like.

504
00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:09,280
Speaker 2: How often do you have like contact with him? Do you?

505
00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:11,480
Speaker 2: Are you guys liking the commissary together? Like how does

506
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:11,960
Speaker 2: this work?

507
00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:16,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, our corporate office for the Rams we're moving

508
00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 4: to Woodland Hills at the end of this season, which

509
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:21,880
Speaker 4: is which will be you know, the whole new complex

510
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:24,199
Speaker 4: that they're building. But right now, the corporate office is

511
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:28,160
Speaker 4: separate from the facility, so my studio is at the facility.

512
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:30,680
Speaker 4: So some days when I'm at the practice facility, that's

513
00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:33,879
Speaker 4: when I'll see the players or like Steve Avila, the

514
00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:36,760
Speaker 4: the you know, the center not the center of the

515
00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:39,879
Speaker 4: left guard that we drafted, like, came into the corporate

516
00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:41,920
Speaker 4: office just to like bring us donuts last week because

517
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:42,440
Speaker 4: he was just like.

518
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:43,920
Speaker 5: Oh, well, well where are they? Like I want to

519
00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:46,600
Speaker 5: like just they're just so nice, Like they're so nice.

520
00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:47,400
Speaker 5: I can't say enough.

521
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:52,520
Speaker 2: I have a question for you, Erica, Yes, you know us,

522
00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:58,600
Speaker 2: you know, like nobody else, nobody else in that building,

523
00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:01,440
Speaker 2: you know. Funks starting to try to edge his way

524
00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 2: into the inner circle. He's doing a great job with it.

525
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 2: But Erica was indep she was embedded. I want to

526
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:12,119
Speaker 2: ask you a question. Okay, that's allt like vaguely confrontational

527
00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:13,960
Speaker 2: with the Randy Randy, you know, I love you.

528
00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:16,120
Speaker 5: I'm like, wait, where's this going?

529
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:19,080
Speaker 2: I don't know, Erica? What if?

530
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:23,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm so happy Greg's not here? Of course, Well

531
00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:25,480
Speaker 4: I wouldn't. I'm like, why would you even.

532
00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 2: Have to ask that?

533
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:27,600
Speaker 5: Like this is my ideal show?

534
00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:29,040
Speaker 6: Uh?

535
00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:33,520
Speaker 2: Greg included what would the ATM guys be doing if

536
00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:37,320
Speaker 2: they weren't NFL media employee slash podcasters?

537
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:37,960
Speaker 5: Yeah.

538
00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:40,520
Speaker 4: So I was thinking about this earlier today, and it's

539
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:43,359
Speaker 4: so funny because like any odd random job that I

540
00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:46,080
Speaker 4: would come up with, like Mark has already done, you know,

541
00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:49,280
Speaker 4: like the text message of him, like with a private investigator,

542
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:51,240
Speaker 4: you know, with the crazy stories that you have. Like

543
00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 4: I was like, it needs to be something eclectic, but

544
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:56,719
Speaker 4: also something why, Like I kind of see Mark as

545
00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:59,960
Speaker 4: like a park ranger who like nine to five when

546
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:03,720
Speaker 4: he's done, like gets to just experience the wilderness in

547
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:06,480
Speaker 4: whichever way he chooses to do, so, you know what

548
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 4: I mean, Like he's very much one of those park

549
00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:10,399
Speaker 4: Rangers is like hey, kids, like you're drinking around a fire,

550
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:12,480
Speaker 4: like put it out if you'll get if you give

551
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:13,240
Speaker 4: me a beer, I'll let you.

552
00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 5: I'll let you keep it up, you know what I mean?

553
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:16,520
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, I say like underage drinking.

554
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:18,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Like he would just be like, okay, cool,

555
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:21,720
Speaker 4: like you know, give give me that doobie kid, that's

556
00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:22,880
Speaker 4: what that's what your age says.

557
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:28,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I wouldn't do certainly, I wouldn't stop like

558
00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:31,240
Speaker 3: the campfire drink fest. I'd probably you know, find a

559
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:34,439
Speaker 3: way to like keep other rangers or various authority fings

560
00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:35,320
Speaker 3: away from it, you know.

561
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:38,800
Speaker 4: Yeah, And we get like weird ominous texts from Mark

562
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 4: like I was on a horseback like searching Yellowstone where

563
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:45,640
Speaker 4: like a young maiden was locked under a boulder and

564
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:46,920
Speaker 4: I like helped, Like I.

565
00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:50,160
Speaker 5: Just feel like that that would happen. You know, that's answer.

566
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:53,480
Speaker 2: You know, that's that's uh. You would be like the

567
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 2: park ranger version of Amy Poehler's character and mean girls

568
00:28:57,120 --> 00:28:59,800
Speaker 2: like hey, I'm the cool mom, drink around me just

569
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:01,200
Speaker 2: I'll go driving anywhere.

570
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Dan, I was, I for some reason couldn't

571
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:07,840
Speaker 4: get you out of my head as like if you

572
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:10,960
Speaker 4: went the alternate route and was like sort of like

573
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:15,720
Speaker 4: a like a stockbroker in New York City, but not

574
00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:17,760
Speaker 4: the one where as bad as you are at math,

575
00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:22,120
Speaker 4: like the the personality higher where it's like, oh, Dan,

576
00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:24,680
Speaker 4: like he can't add for but he closes every deal

577
00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:27,240
Speaker 4: because he's like he's like, you're like the closer, like

578
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:29,720
Speaker 4: you would come and like Dan's like loosening his tie

579
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 4: on Wall Street after the long day and they're like, hey,

580
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:33,959
Speaker 4: I don't know how he does it, but like you

581
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:35,960
Speaker 4: bring Danny in there and he closes the deal.

582
00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:38,720
Speaker 2: Like it's like he's you know, he's mentally challenged, but

583
00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 2: he is charismatic as hell.

584
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 5: Yeah he is. He can talk to anyone.

585
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:45,040
Speaker 4: We bring them in, we get their guard down low,

586
00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:47,320
Speaker 4: and then he strikes like I don't know, I kind

587
00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:49,160
Speaker 4: of I kind of see I kind of see that.

588
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:52,520
Speaker 2: I could say to For you, Ricky, I think I

589
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 2: could see you as being one of those people that

590
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:57,680
Speaker 2: like one of those women that becomes a full time

591
00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:02,600
Speaker 2: reality star and you end up it's like like you look,

592
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:05,880
Speaker 2: fifteen years later, you see somebody, You see a woman

593
00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:08,200
Speaker 2: onto some show, and then fifteen years later she's on

594
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:10,600
Speaker 2: some other show and they're like, oh wow, and then

595
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:13,680
Speaker 2: you check like her Wikipedia and she's never stopped being

596
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:17,959
Speaker 2: on different reality shows. She's fairly well known in the medium.

597
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:20,880
Speaker 2: I see you as like a like a high level

598
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:26,760
Speaker 2: difference maker professional. Whenever like a reality program needs somebody

599
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:29,680
Speaker 2: that like kind of like the straw that stirs the drink,

600
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:31,560
Speaker 2: they dial up Ricky.

601
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 5: Yeah.

602
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:34,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know what if I take that as

603
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:37,320
Speaker 4: a compliment or a insult, but I think no, I

604
00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:38,120
Speaker 4: think that's great.

605
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:40,160
Speaker 5: I think I do. I have all like the work

606
00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:41,200
Speaker 5: done and everything too.

607
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:45,520
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, a ton of work botox. Yeah, just kind

608
00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:48,520
Speaker 2: of a mess, almost unrecognizable. I mean, in my defense

609
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 2: your description of my other life, I'm like wearing a

610
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 2: helmet full time.

611
00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:55,040
Speaker 5: So I mean, so is Mark Greg.

612
00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 4: I think would literally be coaching tennis like at like

613
00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:02,000
Speaker 4: a random po bunk town po dunk what's the word say.

614
00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:02,560
Speaker 2: Po dunk.

615
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:07,240
Speaker 3: I could see that, like with Rickey, Like one thing,

616
00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 3: I had the chance to go on like one of

617
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:12,920
Speaker 3: these like two day cruises not too long ago, but

618
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 3: like what happens is like the cruise in the football season,

619
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:16,800
Speaker 3: well no.

620
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:20,960
Speaker 2: Erica, Like Mark is going on cruises like all the time. Now,

621
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,520
Speaker 2: reg and I are always like he loves cruises so

622
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:26,040
Speaker 2: much and he goes he goes on cruises at odd

623
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:28,080
Speaker 2: times where the weather is bad where he's going. He

624
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:30,960
Speaker 2: like what he takes. He takes rickety old boats into

625
00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 2: like storms, and he enjoys it because he keeps doing it.

626
00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:37,520
Speaker 3: Well, some of that is not accurate. I've been on

627
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:40,920
Speaker 3: I've been on two short ones, like like they are

628
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:41,440
Speaker 3: like three.

629
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:45,640
Speaker 4: You've been on two cruises, Yes, I went with some

630
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 4: friend in the last how much how increment of time here?

631
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 2: But if you're in.

632
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 3: LA, they're very affordable, like actually you can find these

633
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 3: deals where it's like they're super insanely affordable. But like,

634
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:58,160
Speaker 3: let me tell you something like on these ships, okay,

635
00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 3: they have like the cruise direct who you think they're

636
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:04,240
Speaker 3: just like there is to like shake hands, but they're

637
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 3: like singers and dancers and they get up and do

638
00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:07,920
Speaker 3: these shows in front of everyone. I was always like

639
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 3: I could see Erica being like this, where like you're

640
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 3: just on this cruise, no stop, and you like, no,

641
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:15,680
Speaker 3: I think you'd be great at it, like I do.

642
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:18,440
Speaker 3: I could see it incorporating many of your many aspects

643
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:21,480
Speaker 3: of your you know, versatile talent like.

644
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:23,920
Speaker 2: Eric, you didn't make it in show business, here's life

645
00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 2: on it old.

646
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:26,920
Speaker 4: Literally, Yeah, everyone that like can't make it as a

647
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:29,120
Speaker 4: comedian or a singer, they're like, yeah, but I got

648
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,880
Speaker 4: booked on Princess Cruises for the six month, like.

649
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:34,120
Speaker 3: Contra to see where you're coming from. But I found

650
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:36,280
Speaker 3: them to be the one that I encountered seemed to

651
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:37,200
Speaker 3: be a talented person.

652
00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 2: So and in fairness, yes, a lot of people that's

653
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Speaker 2: where they get their start.

654
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:40,760
Speaker 3: Yeah.

655
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Speaker 5: Yeah.

656
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Speaker 4: And if you're a listener right now and you work

657
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Speaker 4: on a cruise ship, like, I think that's a great life,

658
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:46,880
Speaker 4: and I would love that.

659
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:48,800
Speaker 2: Wow, way to clean that one up.

660
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:50,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would over yourself.

661
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 5: I would. But I just don't.

662
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Speaker 4: I just don't understand how Mark's a going on multiple

663
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Speaker 4: cruises And I just saw you out and we met

664
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Speaker 4: up at a Star Wars bar Mark and I recently,

665
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:04,080
Speaker 4: and there was no talk of these cruise jaunts that

666
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:07,040
Speaker 4: you were going on. So it's like to talk about

667
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 4: so a cruise underground circuit going on here.

668
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, you guys are sitting in the spock booth. I mean,

669
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:15,080
Speaker 2: there's no time to talk about cruises.

670
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:19,840
Speaker 3: It's a strange place that we met. There's no doubt

671
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:20,239
Speaker 3: about that.

672
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 2: Four seats in the spot booth.

673
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Speaker 3: Please, that's not how it actually, I mean, I would

674
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Speaker 3: say it was a much more U it was not nerdy.

675
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Speaker 2: I did not.

676
00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:32,960
Speaker 3: I wouldn't say it was.

677
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 4: What do you mean there was like they were like

678
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:36,920
Speaker 4: play It was the nerdiest place I've ever been.

679
00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:40,440
Speaker 3: In my entire by the way. Like I got a

680
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 3: text Fromerica being like, have you heard of this bar

681
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 3: called Sko That's what it's called. She's like like, yeah,

682
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:49,720
Speaker 3: I've heard of it. It's like up the street. She's like,

683
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:51,800
Speaker 3: come meet me there. I didn't, and I didn't like

684
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:54,080
Speaker 3: lure you in from the wilderness to this place.

685
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:55,880
Speaker 5: So yeah, yeah, it was.

686
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Speaker 2: Hey, Ricky, we gotta get going soon. But how about,

687
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,120
Speaker 2: like old times, we hit a news item before we

688
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:08,839
Speaker 2: yeah something we should we should do a little uh

689
00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:13,320
Speaker 2: Musso and Frank get together. How about yes, absolutely, Testag

690
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:16,279
Speaker 2: kind of floated that, and I was saying, oh, yeah, yeah,

691
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:22,200
Speaker 2: I love that. Yep, that news item. And this was

692
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:22,840
Speaker 2: a doozy.

693
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 3: This is a jarring right turn for us at this point,

694
00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:26,240
Speaker 3: by the way.

695
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:30,680
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, that's fair to say. This broke about I

696
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:33,359
Speaker 2: want to say, right as we were wrapping up our

697
00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:37,880
Speaker 2: Thursday preview, which you could check out right now, here

698
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:41,759
Speaker 2: is the headline out of ESPN. Bill's coach Sean McDermott,

699
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:45,880
Speaker 2: Colon apologized for nine to eleven remarks in twenty nineteen,

700
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:50,800
Speaker 2: and here's the backstory here, and this was reported. This

701
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 2: is a big this is a big scoop on the

702
00:34:56,640 --> 00:35:02,319
Speaker 2: Tyler Dunn has his own blog or website called go Long.

703
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:05,680
Speaker 2: And if you want to kind of support Tyler or

704
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:09,600
Speaker 2: learn more about this and do both, check out go Long.

705
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 2: But McDermott back in twenty nineteen told players in a

706
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 2: speech to come together and use the terrorists on nine

707
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:22,960
Speaker 2: to eleven and those that are not aware, multiple jetliners

708
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 2: hijacked and it was a group of al Qaeda members,

709
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:31,160
Speaker 2: highly coordinated, pulling off one of the worst stays in

710
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:34,080
Speaker 2: the history of this country. Anyway, use the terrorists on

711
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:36,920
Speaker 2: nine to eleven as an example, asking players in the

712
00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 2: room questions about how the attacks were executed and referencing

713
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:44,480
Speaker 2: the hijackers getting on the same page. Multiple players who

714
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:46,960
Speaker 2: were with the team at the time confirmed the story

715
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 2: to ESPN, while others who were there told the ESPN

716
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 2: they did not recalled. Here's Sean McDermott. So when this

717
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:58,480
Speaker 2: story resurfaced thanks to Golong, which I'm sure McDermott is

718
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:03,239
Speaker 2: thrilled about Tyler's project, here go along. He had a

719
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:08,200
Speaker 2: unscheduled news conference on Thursday. It lasted about six minutes.

720
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:11,360
Speaker 2: Six minutes. Here is a little bit of his explanation

721
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:13,160
Speaker 2: about what went down in that meeting.

722
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:19,279
Speaker 6: Brought everybody together and said this was the goal, this

723
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:23,600
Speaker 6: is the intent, and I apologize if anyone whatsoever felt

724
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:27,040
Speaker 6: a certain type of way coming out of that meeting,

725
00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:31,040
Speaker 6: right that, if anyone misinterpreted or didn't understand my message,

726
00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:33,759
Speaker 6: I apologize didn't I didn't do a good enough job

727
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:37,719
Speaker 6: of communicating clearly the intent of my message. And that

728
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:44,839
Speaker 6: was about the importance of communication and that everyone needs

729
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:49,600
Speaker 6: to be on the same page, ironically enough, and so

730
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Speaker 6: that that was important to me then and it still is.

731
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Speaker 2: Now, okay, Erica. So and by the way, that is

732
00:36:56,239 --> 00:37:00,280
Speaker 2: something that apology occurred that same day or into twenty

733
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:03,319
Speaker 2: nineteen because he knew it didn't land the way he

734
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:06,200
Speaker 2: wanted to lend. That is a crazy explanation even today,

735
00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 2: because he's still not apologizing or saying that was a

736
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 2: that was a dumb idea to ever kind of in

737
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:17,839
Speaker 2: any way, lion Ey's what those psychos did, like what

738
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:20,839
Speaker 2: he what he said basically is like they didn't quite

739
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:23,360
Speaker 2: understand what I was trying to get across. This is

740
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:27,359
Speaker 2: a bizarre story featuring a Bill's head coach who's got

741
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:29,760
Speaker 2: his hands filled already with the six and sixteen.

742
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:34,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's also nine to eleven right now on the clock,

743
00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:38,399
Speaker 4: which is really odd. That's true as we're recording that,

744
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 4: So that felt weird for a second. Wanted to sign off, Yeah,

745
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:47,080
Speaker 4: good night, no that and just hearing that too, the

746
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 4: sort of like, hey, sorry if anyone misinterpreted what I

747
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 4: meant there. My I was kind of covering my mouth

748
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:58,000
Speaker 4: watching that presser and some of those clips from that today.

749
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Speaker 5: It it was I don't really know.

750
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:04,799
Speaker 4: I mean, you have to address that, you have to apologize,

751
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:08,279
Speaker 4: but I don't really know how you can justify that

752
00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:09,880
Speaker 4: or walk that back whatsoever.

753
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean absolutely on that front. And I think

754
00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 3: you know, he's stuck in a place where there's no

755
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 3: real explanation that anyone's gonna sit well with what Tyler

756
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:24,879
Speaker 3: done has created in general, because there's a lot more

757
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:27,800
Speaker 3: to come with this report, and I think like having

758
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:29,400
Speaker 3: met him and he's I think he's been on our

759
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:34,719
Speaker 3: show once. He's an incredible reporter, and what he kind

760
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:40,040
Speaker 3: of unearthed about the Sean McDermott experience in Buffalo is news.

761
00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:42,719
Speaker 3: It's incredible because I think that you've looked at this

762
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 3: coach I have all along as like they're a steady team,

763
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:48,440
Speaker 3: they've been in a super Bowl window. If anything, he's

764
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:50,800
Speaker 3: been a positive the entire time. There have been not

765
00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:53,919
Speaker 3: a lot of like Sean McDermott anecdotes that would shake

766
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:55,360
Speaker 3: you on it at all, if anything, has sort of

767
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:57,680
Speaker 3: been out of the way. But what he started to

768
00:38:57,719 --> 00:39:00,759
Speaker 3: create with this report is like he is the problem.

769
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:02,960
Speaker 3: He spoke that I think it was twenty five different

770
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:06,960
Speaker 3: sources who went to town on what's happening with the Bills,

771
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:10,440
Speaker 3: and it kind of changes everything you think about what's

772
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:13,840
Speaker 3: happened and everything that's happening right now and what could

773
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 3: happen if this season continues on its wayward trajectory. So

774
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:20,280
Speaker 3: you know, this just is putt of part and parcel

775
00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:22,680
Speaker 3: of what else you reported. I mean, if you go,

776
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 3: if you you know there is a paywall here, but

777
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 3: I would say it is so worth reading. It's a

778
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 3: pretty incredible, explosive NFL report. You don't get a lot

779
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:31,240
Speaker 3: of things like this these days.

780
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Speaker 2: And I guess and obviously he made a mistake and

781
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 2: he thought it was ancient history, came back and we

782
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:41,359
Speaker 2: all make mistakes. So I'm not going to bury murcdermott here.

783
00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:45,920
Speaker 2: I will add just as someone who grew up in

784
00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:48,279
Speaker 2: the New York area, I grew up about forty five

785
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:52,440
Speaker 2: minutes outside New York City, and there's a lot of

786
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:56,200
Speaker 2: you know, joking talk a lot in the NFL about

787
00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:58,200
Speaker 2: well there's only one New York team, and you know,

788
00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:00,319
Speaker 2: the Jets and Giants play in New Jersey, but the

789
00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 2: Bills are the New York team. Let me tell you something,

790
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 2: if Sean McDermott said this stuff and he was the

791
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:10,160
Speaker 2: coach of the Giants or the Jets, he'd be out

792
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:14,120
Speaker 2: on his ass tomorrow. I think he would be done.

793
00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:17,080
Speaker 2: That would be how big a story that would be.

794
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:19,200
Speaker 2: And if he wouldn't be done, it would have been

795
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:21,680
Speaker 2: a massive story. The fact that he's up in western

796
00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:24,439
Speaker 2: New York, so it's a little bit different up there.

797
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:27,359
Speaker 2: And I hope, I hope he just moves forward because

798
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:30,480
Speaker 2: it's just it's an unfortunate situation and a bad idea

799
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 2: that now is being amplified. So but pretty wild story

800
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:37,600
Speaker 2: to just kind of stumble.

801
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:39,560
Speaker 5: Upon everything this morning.

802
00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, like all the news that was dropping out and

803
00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:44,520
Speaker 4: like just like the different college games and BOLG and

804
00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:46,960
Speaker 4: then it's like, oh, also this nine to eleven headline.

805
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 5: I was like, what is happening, Ricky?

806
00:40:53,120 --> 00:41:00,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what's happening in the news. Awesome, Thank you, Ricky.

807
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:03,400
Speaker 2: Let's get some plugs out there. Where can they see Erica?

808
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:06,800
Speaker 5: Yeah? Anything RAMS related on on social?

809
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:09,360
Speaker 4: And then I host Ricky's Ramjam, which is once a

810
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:13,799
Speaker 4: week show, and I think I also some of my

811
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:17,600
Speaker 4: Game Day stuff airs on KABC weekly as well too.

812
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:22,120
Speaker 4: If you're in the rams La area. If not, you

813
00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:25,360
Speaker 4: know YouTube and social check that out. It's some fun stuff.

814
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:29,920
Speaker 2: Very nice, Mark, what do you got?

815
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 3: I don't. I am not featured on any ram you know,

816
00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 3: centric content at this point, but I support the Rams.

817
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:40,320
Speaker 3: I appear on this show the same days that you

818
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:42,239
Speaker 3: appear on Yeah.

819
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:46,040
Speaker 2: Very nice. All right, Ricky, this was a a great

820
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:49,600
Speaker 2: little treat for us. We wanted and we told the listeners.

821
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:51,520
Speaker 2: I don't know if you're aware of this, Ricky, but

822
00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:54,239
Speaker 2: we said, we know Thursday night football is not going

823
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:57,480
Speaker 2: to be a good one, but we're going to cook

824
00:41:57,520 --> 00:42:00,279
Speaker 2: up something special to make sure you tune in. You're

825
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:01,040
Speaker 2: that special thing.

826
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 5: That's so nice.

827
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:04,720
Speaker 4: I miss you guys, I miss I miss the fan base,

828
00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:07,520
Speaker 4: I miss you know, working with you guys so closely.

829
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:11,560
Speaker 4: And I have checked in to listen to your guys

830
00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:14,360
Speaker 4: rams recaps after the last three wins. So I have

831
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:16,960
Speaker 4: been been peeking in here and there.

832
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:20,080
Speaker 2: How about that JB. Long is feeling himself? I like it.

833
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:20,359
Speaker 5: Yeah.

834
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:21,719
Speaker 2: I think he said to you that, you know what

835
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:25,480
Speaker 2: I gotta I see Long at the barbershop Jags in

836
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:28,319
Speaker 2: Westchester here in LA all the time. Well not all

837
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:29,319
Speaker 2: the time, that'd be weird, but.

838
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:30,879
Speaker 5: You know, yeah, like how often you cut your hair?

839
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:32,879
Speaker 3: Yeah? How like how do you how would you ever

840
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:35,319
Speaker 3: see the same person at a barbershop more than once?

841
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:35,839
Speaker 3: By chance?

842
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 2: Multiple times? Multiple times. I've seen good old JB. You

843
00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:41,719
Speaker 2: guys are SYNCD up and he, uh, you know, we're

844
00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:45,200
Speaker 2: on the same cycle. Yeah, he said to the crib

845
00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:48,319
Speaker 2: in his call, which I was like, that's that's that's

846
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:50,000
Speaker 2: how you connect with the millennials. I like that.

847
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:53,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel everyone's like, oh yeah, the the Ravens

848
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:55,359
Speaker 4: this coming weekend, everyone's you know, oh they're gonna get

849
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:56,520
Speaker 4: trounced and whatever.

850
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:56,880
Speaker 2: I don't know.

851
00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 5: I got a sneaky kind of like feeling.

852
00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:02,160
Speaker 2: I don't know, do you give us a prediction?

853
00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:02,760
Speaker 5: Let's see.

854
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:08,080
Speaker 4: I I think that it's one of those teams where

855
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:10,480
Speaker 4: the Ravens are looking as just like a we can

856
00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:14,040
Speaker 4: put the w column here, And I think sometimes those

857
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:16,440
Speaker 4: are the biggest games, you know, any given Sunday.

858
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:18,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, so I.

859
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:20,640
Speaker 4: I kind of feel like I don't know, anything could happen.

860
00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:22,560
Speaker 4: I would I would love to see a win this weekend.

861
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:24,040
Speaker 2: It would be amazing to get off the fence and

862
00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:24,720
Speaker 2: make a pick.

863
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:28,960
Speaker 5: Okay, the Rams are gonna win this Sunday. Ann And

864
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:33,320
Speaker 5: where was Lamar today? You know, he just disappeared from practice. Hmmm,

865
00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:34,439
Speaker 5: what's going on?

866
00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:37,840
Speaker 2: You know? Maybe maybe he's heading over to do Ricky's

867
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:38,239
Speaker 2: ram jam.

868
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Speaker 5: You know, you know he's on. I got, yeah, I

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Speaker 5: gotta go. We're gonna record that, right.

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Speaker 4: I've asked both of you to come on, and you're

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Speaker 4: both too busy because you do what thirty shows a

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Speaker 4: week now or something.

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Speaker 2: No, you got me. You called me when I was

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Speaker 2: on the East Coast, but I told you any other

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Speaker 2: time I'm in Okay.

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Speaker 3: I also want to appear like I you know, I

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Speaker 3: do have a schedule that is complex, but I vow

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Speaker 3: to appear.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Like, are you're only gonna be on a cruise Erica.

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Speaker 2: We couldn't even get Zestag at the ATN photo shoot

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Speaker 2: organized by NFL Media yesterday. You couldn't even book him

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Speaker 2: for that. For Wednesday morning, it was just Greg and

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Speaker 2: I opposing in a room without the third guy. I

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Speaker 2: don't know, some FOCACCTA story about a dentist visit and

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Speaker 2: we're just.

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Speaker 5: Like, no, it was not.

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Speaker 3: It was absolutely died in the wool, accurate and factual.

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Speaker 3: And you know you were out of it down with

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Speaker 3: this crowd.

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Speaker 5: So yeah, no, I get it. Mark, It's tough. It

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Speaker 5: is tough. I think that's why.

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Speaker 4: Park Ranger could be like a third half third, a third,

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Speaker 4: the third.

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Speaker 5: Third of your life, because you're out, You're on the

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Speaker 5: third third of yourself.

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Speaker 2: Mark, just a solitary life in the woods might be

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Speaker 2: the best thing.

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Speaker 3: At this point, she's basically just put me into the

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Speaker 3: final third of my existence.

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Speaker 5: So not Basically, I did say you were in the

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Speaker 5: third third, you know.

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Speaker 2: All right, everybody, and uh enjoy your weekend. Uh and

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Speaker 2: remember the argument. Plus the Dreamatorium was open for business

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Speaker 2: big time uh today. So the triple header on Thursday's complete,

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Speaker 2: see on Sunday. Nuntil then, get the call, Bye Rick, Bye.

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Speaker 3: M hm.

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Speaker 4: Hm hm

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Speaker 2: Hm