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Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio. I saw this story. It was a couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks ago. We had Johnny Bench on the best

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Speaker 1: catcher in history, two time World Series champ, and Johnny

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Speaker 1: was going to auction off a lot of his items,

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Speaker 1: and I think what we think. And when I was

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Speaker 1: growing up, I thought, Johnny Bench and Pete Rose and

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Speaker 1: Joe Morgan and Tony Perette, they must be as rich

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Speaker 1: as anybody in the country because they played for the

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Speaker 1: Big Red Machine and they won World Series titles. And

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Speaker 1: and then you realize what they got paid when they

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Speaker 1: were playing is a whole lot different than what these

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Speaker 1: athletes are getting paid now. And you know, I was

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Speaker 1: a little bit sad that Johnny had to auction off

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Speaker 1: his items. You're talking about MVP, won the MVP a

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Speaker 1: couple of times. There are other things that gold gloves

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Speaker 1: in there. And I saw the story. Todd goes, hey,

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Speaker 1: Johnny's gonna keep all of his memorabilia and I go, lad,

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Speaker 1: he's not going to auction it, and he goes, no,

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Speaker 1: somebody bought all of it and gave it back to him.

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Speaker 1: I said, well, we gotta have Johnny on because talk

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Speaker 1: about a financial angel there and Johnny Bench joining us

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Speaker 1: on the program. When did you hear about it? What

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Speaker 1: was your reaction when you got you know, most of

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Speaker 1: your memberabilia back. The auction was on Saturday, and then

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Speaker 1: on Monday David Hunt from Hunt Auctions called me and

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Speaker 1: said it was a great auction and everything else. I said,

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Speaker 1: are you sitting down and I said yeah. He said, well,

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Speaker 1: there's a there's a guy that wants to be remained anonymous.

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Speaker 1: And he said, but he bought thirty five of your

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Speaker 1: items and he wants to give him back to you. Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean I lost it. I absolutely lost it. I

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Speaker 1: was tears rolling down and and you know, I mean

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Speaker 1: it's breath taking. And to think that, you know, somebody

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Speaker 1: that would happen. And he said, the only only thing

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Speaker 1: he told me to tell you was it was from

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Speaker 1: a white haired old Jew. So I only know one

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Speaker 1: white hair told you. All you have to do is

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Speaker 1: google seventy six or sixth Man. I met this guy

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Speaker 1: when I was nineteen, he was twenty three. We were

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Speaker 1: in Puerto Rico. We became friends. It was just you know,

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Speaker 1: and every time I went to Philadelphia, we went out,

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Speaker 1: we had it. He never had kids, he had rolls, roys,

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Speaker 1: We grove around and he would come to spring training

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Speaker 1: every year and we were just great friends. And he

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Speaker 1: was a real estate business in Philadelphia. And so I

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Speaker 1: text I said, I'm looking for a white haired old Jew.

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Speaker 1: And I said, you know, and after I've walked all

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Speaker 1: the tears away and I'm trying to compose myself to

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Speaker 1: even think that this would even happen, I just can't

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Speaker 1: think enough. Man, if I'm marking up the wrong jew,

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Speaker 1: let me know. And he texts back and said, no,

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Speaker 1: you got the right Jew. And he said, look, I

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Speaker 1: can afford it. And he had text me about five

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Speaker 1: days before that and had said, why are you doing it?

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Speaker 1: And this is Alan Horwitz, this is Alan Horwell, Alan

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Speaker 1: HORROWI yes, and I said, I'm doing it for the kids.

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Speaker 1: I said, you know, I've seen too many families torn apart,

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Speaker 1: whether it be with memberabilia from a celebrity or an athlete,

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Speaker 1: to people who have picked paintings and antique furniture that

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Speaker 1: do it. And I wanted to make sure that my

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Speaker 1: kids were secure. And you know, it just turned seventy

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Speaker 1: three so you know, and all these things that are

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Speaker 1: happening to our people around us. It was the right decision.

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Speaker 1: And now it's pretty well, it's incredible, den I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's just unfathomable that this could happen. How much did

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Speaker 1: he spend for those thirty five items? Over a million

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Speaker 1: dollars And so with that, I started designating the Baseball

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. I called Jane Clark, the chairman. I said,

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Speaker 1: this is what's happening, and what items do you want?

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Speaker 1: And then the Reds Hall of Fame, and then Oklahoma

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Speaker 1: Sports Hall of Fame, and it was like, I mean,

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Speaker 1: these people were over the top. They're saying, you know,

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Speaker 1: the guy Mike James in Oklahoma said, you know, the

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Speaker 1: first thing to ask is words Johnny's exhibited. Now we're

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Speaker 1: able to put gold gloves, and we're able to put

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Speaker 1: items in there and be petrophies or whatever that they wanted,

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Speaker 1: and a couple of several will go to Binger. But

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Speaker 1: you know, and it was interesting the kids said dead

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Speaker 1: now everybody will be able to see and he said,

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Speaker 1: I don't. I didn't want these in the hands of

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Speaker 1: collectors that would people would never your fans, your family

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Speaker 1: would never be able to see them. And I would

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Speaker 1: have sent one to you, but your desk is totally full.

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Speaker 1: I would have gotten rid of a Dan d. I

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Speaker 1: would have gotten rid of Todd and put maybe your

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Speaker 1: gold glove over there instead of him. Absolutely, so lady

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Speaker 1: made a great four shot. Yeah, Um, how do you

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Speaker 1: explain to your kids what happened? Oh? I've tried. I've tried,

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Speaker 1: and they say really, I mean, they're they can't really

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Speaker 1: get their their heads around it. I called my attorney

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Speaker 1: first and I said, this is what happened, and he

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Speaker 1: just said there he was stunned, and then he called

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Speaker 1: me back ten minutes later said, I tail can't believe this,

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Speaker 1: he said, And then he's called me back the next day.

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Speaker 1: And the people that have, you know, have heard about it.

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Speaker 1: And now the response is just, you know, Alan Horowitz

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Speaker 1: is the angel. You know, I believe there are angels

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Speaker 1: among us. I mean, it's the Alabama song and and

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Speaker 1: I don't know that Dan. Can you ever imagine someone

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Speaker 1: actually this actually happening? And it's still you know, we

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Speaker 1: meet the kids. And I'll take him to Philadelphia as

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Speaker 1: soon as the as soon as the COVID clears and

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Speaker 1: we can get up there and meet this great man.

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Speaker 1: Didn't you do enough damage to the Phillies where they

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Speaker 1: shouldn't be helping you. Well, he was more of a

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Speaker 1: seventy six Ers fan. He I made him a Reds fan,

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Speaker 1: so it wasn't so much the damage. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: I did like Philadelphia though, very very good to me. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I was bringing this up the other day that it

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Speaker 1: seems like the life expectancy of a stadium is around

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Speaker 1: thirty years. Like river Front, three Rivers, the Vet. They

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Speaker 1: all look like big ash trays there. I'm wondering, Johnny,

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Speaker 1: if if Fenway was built thirty years ago or Wrigley

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Speaker 1: built thirty years ago, would they still be standing, because

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Speaker 1: it feels like we move on, like we have to

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Speaker 1: have a new one. Yeah right, yeah, Oh absolutely, I

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Speaker 1: don't think there's any question that Wrigley and Fenway would be,

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Speaker 1: you know, totally redundant. If you put a modern ballpark

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Speaker 1: it becomes just a cult thing for these people. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you can see the way they sell out every year

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Speaker 1: out there. How they're building the scoreboards and how how

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Speaker 1: what these really are. It's a mystique about them that

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Speaker 1: makes everybody across the country where do you want to go? Well,

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Speaker 1: I want to go to Wrigley Field, you know, I

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Speaker 1: think that's the one thing. And I think they feel

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Speaker 1: You can actually do that. In Boston, you know, it's

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Speaker 1: pretty much season tickets and uh, but it's still a

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Speaker 1: standard best ballpark though played. Uh wow. Um. I think

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Speaker 1: the first time going into Dodgers Stadium, I never liked

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Speaker 1: before the game, says, all right, get out there, now,

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Speaker 1: went by the ballpark where you were most comfortable. You know,

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Speaker 1: I worked panty host one night, just try to keep warm,

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Speaker 1: go back to the pantyhose here somebody and uh, we

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Speaker 1: and uh uh no, I couldn't buy anything. He didn't

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Speaker 1: those of them. They only made San Francisco. Could I

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Speaker 1: now if that's out for auction? I'll bid on your

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Speaker 1: panti hoos uh Okay. I won't go there, Dan, But

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess you were there, didn't start You'll hit

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Speaker 1: one of the longest home runs ever at Riverfront? That

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Speaker 1: but he just sort of shrugged his shoulders. I'd looked

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Speaker 1: been there for some good ones. Did you ever pull

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Speaker 1: a crash, Davis and tell the batter what was coming? No? No,

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Speaker 1: no no. I remember when Clay Dalrymple was the catcher

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Speaker 1: you can just big brain the opposition, and last night

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Speaker 1: I don't think that was the case. All right, So

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Speaker 1: what's the goal do you think with this team for

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Speaker 1: the rest of the year. What it should be excuse me,

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Speaker 1: is making sure that they know what they have going

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Speaker 1: into the twenty twenty one offseason. They have like sixty

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Speaker 1: million dollars in cap space. They're probably going to be

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Speaker 1: a top fifteen selector. They should know whether or not

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Speaker 1: Jared Stidham can play even a little. They should be

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Speaker 1: able to figure out who defensively is going to be

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Speaker 1: there going forward and figure out what pieces they'll need instead.

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Speaker 1: I think they're going to spend a fair amount of

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Speaker 1: time trying to Well, you have to try and win

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00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:02,280
Speaker 1: the Miami game. You still got shot. But going forward

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Speaker 1: into twenty twenty one, they have to address the quarterback position.

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Speaker 1: It's the most important position in sports. Dan, but really

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Speaker 1: since they traded Garoppolo, they've cast it about for any

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Speaker 1: solution at all. Danny, Yetling and Stidham are the only

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Speaker 1: guys they drafted at the spot. Hoyer and Newton are

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Speaker 1: the only guys who've held down the spot and twenty

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Speaker 1: seventeen Halloween was three years ago. Yeah, don't they know

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Speaker 1: what they have in Stidham? And if they don't, wiren't

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Speaker 1: they going to play him now? They suspect what they have.

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Speaker 1: He is no barrier to them having any future plans

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Speaker 1: at the spot, meaning that he wouldn't even if he

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Speaker 1: went off the next three weeks. I don't think that

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Speaker 1: that would stop them from doing anything. Why won't they

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Speaker 1: play him now? Bill is getting that question over the

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Speaker 1: last twelve hours, and both times he's bristled Today, said

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Speaker 1: I'm not answering that question ever again, but I think

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Speaker 1: that they're looking at it as you've got to dance

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Speaker 1: with what brung you. He gives us a chance to

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Speaker 1: score points, cam does if the rest of the game

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Speaker 1: falls a particular way. If I may, if I made

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Speaker 1: you the GM, what would you do? I would probably say, Bill,

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Speaker 1: it's a good idea to go ahead and use Stidham.

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Speaker 1: You know, lose this game against Miami and then we

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Speaker 1: sid him the last two we finished seven and nine.

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Speaker 1: You can't desert the players and say we're going to

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Speaker 1: Stidham to find out what's going on when there's still

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Speaker 1: a mathematical chance. I think that would be especially this

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Speaker 1: year where guys are sacrificing so much and affront But

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Speaker 1: I would probably go after Jimmy Garoppolo, Jacobe Brissette, bridge

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Speaker 1: guys until you can find the answer at quarterback. Well,

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Speaker 1: Garoppolo wouldn't be a bridge. Now, you're right. I said that,

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Speaker 1: and I said, oh, we get that back. Especially since

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Speaker 1: he's been so overpaid in San Francisco. That's going to

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Speaker 1: be fascinated to watch too, because if you're a Matt Stafford,

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Speaker 1: if he gets released or Jimmy Garoppolo or whoever do

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Speaker 1: you want to come to New England? I mean, this

476
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Speaker 1: attractive place for twenty years, you're gonna look at and go,

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Speaker 1: who am I throw it to? Again? You guys got

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Speaker 1: to sign a tight end at some point, and I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't be dying to come here to finish my career

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Speaker 1: in chase a ring. Yeah. And while I can credit

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Speaker 1: Belichick for doing some pretty good coaching this year, I

482
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Speaker 1: can also blame Belichick for having to do some really

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Speaker 1: good coaching because he doesn't have the personnel right. And

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Speaker 1: that's why conversations about whether or not he's Coach of

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Speaker 1: the Year come with that caveat Well, look what he's

486
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Speaker 1: done with Cam? Well why is Cam here? It's because

487
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Speaker 1: he held the door and tapped his foot until Brady

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Speaker 1: walked through it. Hashtag Tommy. Do you think Brady watches

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Speaker 1: Do you think he watched that game last night? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he likes football. Do you think he watches it with

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Speaker 1: his smile on his face at any point? That's a

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00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:06,400
Speaker 1: good question. I think No. I don't think he smiles

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Speaker 1: relative to the players on the field, but I think

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00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 1: that there's probably a satisfaction that he takes in saying, see,

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Speaker 1: see I didn't throw four touchdowns and ten picks. I

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Speaker 1: still somehow through twenty four touchdowns with these guys, and

497
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:22,840
Speaker 1: I was supposed to be the bad guy and decline.

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Speaker 1: Then of course he hasn't came this weekend. He's not

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Speaker 1: been lighting the world on fire. Either. No, if we

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Speaker 1: talk in a month from now about the Patriots, what

501
00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:35,000
Speaker 1: are we talking about. They finished eight and eight. It's weird,

502
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:38,400
Speaker 1: but it's January tenth and they're not in the playoffs,

503
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:40,800
Speaker 1: and they're starting to try and make their decisions. You

504
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:43,520
Speaker 1: have to figure out whether Patrick Chung and Janata high

505
00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:46,119
Speaker 1: Tower and Marcus Cannon and James White. I mean, they

506
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Speaker 1: got a lot of guys dan who are free agents,

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00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:52,399
Speaker 1: not just where the roster is right now, and not

508
00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:54,119
Speaker 1: just how much cap space they have that a lot

509
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:57,520
Speaker 1: of old Lions on this franchise that are free agents.

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Speaker 1: So I don't even know if the rebuild has started.

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Speaker 1: Could you see Bill Ever coaching a different team Wesleyan lacrosse?

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00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:12,359
Speaker 1: That's it, not an NFL No, No, I don't, I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't see that happening. I don't know if you

514
00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:16,760
Speaker 1: could kick upstairs and be a consultant and have Stephen

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Speaker 1: Belichick perhaps be a head coach or you know Mayo

516
00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 1: or someone like that. But I really think that, and

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Speaker 1: he is such a detailed, oriented guy, Dan, and you

518
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Speaker 1: know you dealt with him. I just don't think he

519
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Speaker 1: would want to walk away and give anybody the satisfaction

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Speaker 1: to saying yeah, well, Bill drove the team into the

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Speaker 1: ground at the end once Brady left. I think he

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Speaker 1: would be stubborn enough to say, no, I'm not going anywhere.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. As always, Tom, we appreciate your

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Speaker 1: time and uh, happy holidays, as they like to say,

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Speaker 1: thanks my friend. Say hi to Michael. That's Tom E. Curran,

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Speaker 1: Patriots Insider, NBC. Thanks for listening to The Dan Patrick

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Speaker 1: Show podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weekday

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Speaker 1: morning nine to noon Eastern or six to nine Pacific

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Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio. Find your local station for The

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Speaker 1: Dan Patrick Show at Fox Sports Radio dot com, or

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Speaker 1: Peacock Act. Case you're wondering how we were able to

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00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 1: book Michael Boublay, this all started because we were watching

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Speaker 1: the Christmas at Rockefeller Center last week, and then Paulie

536
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:27,720
Speaker 1: was distraught because Michael Boublay wasn't performing. So I said

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Speaker 1: that Todd reach out to Michael Boublay's people and find

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Speaker 1: out is everything okay with Michael Boublay, Because Mariah Carey

539
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 1: maybe you know Miss Christmas or whatever she is, but

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Speaker 1: Michael Boublet is mister Christmas. He sold over seventy five

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Speaker 1: million records worldwide and numerous number one hits. He wins awards,

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Speaker 1: we get nominated, he wins, and of course the number

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Speaker 1: one holiday album Christmas every year since its original release.

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Speaker 1: In twenty eleven, Christmas jumps back into the top ten

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Speaker 1: on the Billboard two hundred album chart. Michael Boublay, the

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Speaker 1: pri to British Columbia, joins us on the program. Michael,

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Speaker 1: how are you today? I'm mister Patrick, happy Hanka to everybody. Well,

548
00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:10,640
Speaker 1: I want to know if you're over the nineteen ninety

549
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 1: four Stanley Cup Final? Are you over it? Never? Never,

550
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:18,960
Speaker 1: never any chance I have to trash Mark Messii. I do,

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Speaker 1: even though I'm sure he's a great human being. It

552
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 1: was that was horrible. It was horrible, and I was

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00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:27,280
Speaker 1: I was there I went, and I was in the

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Speaker 1: festivities or the riot, both of them. And it's hard

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00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:32,960
Speaker 1: as a knack fan. It's a tough thing to take.

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Speaker 1: Have you talked to Messia about that? No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: I said, I was. I was in an NHL awards

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Speaker 1: where I presented something and I sat behind him and

559
00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:45,840
Speaker 1: I just glared at him. But if you saw him

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Speaker 1: you were doing a show, would you call him out

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Speaker 1: or say? Trash talk with Mark Messier? Oh? Like, you

562
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 1: know what, I think trash talk is a very healthy thing.

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Speaker 1: Honestly I do. It's It's honestly the reason when I

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Speaker 1: watched that segment with you guys, you guys were kind

565
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 1: of taking the piss out of me a bit. I

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Speaker 1: thought that, and I thought, I thought, you know what,

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Speaker 1: I have to go and see Dan. I've got to

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00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:10,360
Speaker 1: be on this show now, I've got to talk to

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Speaker 1: these guys. And I know what you've done for Sandler's career,

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Speaker 1: and I was hoping if I could just get a

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Speaker 1: bit of that. Do you do you want me to

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00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:19,400
Speaker 1: see if I can get you into a Sandler movie?

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Speaker 1: Are you are you can? I tell you, honest to God,

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Speaker 1: that is my my family, and I he is our favorite.

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Speaker 1: Like anything he does. We are crazy. Okay, okay crazy.

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Speaker 1: When we get done, I promise you I will text

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Speaker 1: you and then I will say that you would like

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Speaker 1: to be do a cameo. Oh, I'll be an idiot.

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Speaker 1: I'll make he can whatever. No, no, I do that.

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Speaker 1: That's my role. Michael, I'm Sandler movie. I will, I will,

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Speaker 1: I will check you. Now to recap what we did.

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00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:50,480
Speaker 1: We were talking about Michael Boublet, and then we all

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00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 1: did our Michael Boublet impersonations. So we yeah, oh my god.

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Speaker 1: Now I don't know if this is Is it Tony Bennett?

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Speaker 1: Is it? Ella Fitzgerald? Who's how did you find your voice?

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Speaker 1: That's a great question, you know, it's funny. I was

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Speaker 1: thinking about this this morning. I think, like all of us,

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Speaker 1: we all have people that we idolized. We all have

589
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Speaker 1: people that mean a lot to us, and so we

590
00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 1: borrow from them, we steal, borrow, we steal from them.

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00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 1: And so I stole from everyone I could steal with

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Speaker 1: little things. I took the way that say Dean Martin

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00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:31,240
Speaker 1: would drop his epiglottis. It's the way he would kind

594
00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 1: of have that thing where Elvis Presley's vibrato, or the sonata,

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00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:39,880
Speaker 1: the way Sinatra would sing on his vowels or whatever.

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00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,400
Speaker 1: There's all of these things. Ella Fitzgerald, she had sort

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00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 1: of the way that you would bounce between notes. I

598
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 1: would steal it all And at first I was nothing

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00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 1: but a thief. I truly was. I had no I

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00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:51,960
Speaker 1: don't think I could tell you what I sounded like.

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Speaker 1: And it took me years. I mean even after I

602
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:57,959
Speaker 1: got signed. I think I was into my second record,

603
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:03,200
Speaker 1: third record before I started to find my own distinct style.

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00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:05,560
Speaker 1: Up till then, I think I was really no more

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00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 1: than a kid, just trying to impersonate the people that

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Speaker 1: I loved, you know, But I think that's the same

607
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 1: for everybody. If you're in broadcasting. It's like I have

608
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:13,959
Speaker 1: many friends or broadcasting as the same thing. They look

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00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:15,680
Speaker 1: at guys and girls that came in before them, and

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00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 1: they just tried to steal and then they finally did

611
00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:21,360
Speaker 1: become themselves. But you grew up, you wanted to be

612
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 1: an athlete, you wanted to be a hockey player, Like

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Speaker 1: at what point do you go, Okay, I can't be,

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Speaker 1: you know, a tough guy hockey player. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: be a crooner. I haven't hasn't stopped. I still have.

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Speaker 1: I still have. I still have fantasies where I can

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Speaker 1: hear the announcers saying and the Vancouver Cannucks proudly select

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Speaker 1: with the first pick overall from Burnaby, Michael Bouble. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm forty four years old and I still do it.

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Speaker 1: I still do it, man, So you still want to

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Speaker 1: be Pavel Brey? Are you kidding me? Are you? The

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Speaker 1: Russian Rocket? I was so good. He was amazing. He

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00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:00,440
Speaker 1: was I was there at the first game at the

624
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:04,200
Speaker 1: Pacific Coliseum and my grandfather had had season tickets and

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00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 1: I remember him coming from behind the net. I think

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00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:09,880
Speaker 1: it was the Winnipeg Jets, and honest to God, and

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00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 1: I've never seen anything like it again in sports, right

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00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 1: at least I haven't witnessed it. Being there. Everyone in

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00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:20,880
Speaker 1: the crowd about fourteen thousand people, as he started to

630
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:23,280
Speaker 1: take off from behind his own net, we all started,

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Speaker 1: almost like jockeys on a horse. Everyone started to lift

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00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 1: out of their seats and you could see people starting

633
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:32,960
Speaker 1: to sort of move, and you could it was unbelievable.

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00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:34,799
Speaker 1: He rushed from all the way from the other end.

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Speaker 1: He didn't get the goal. But by the time he

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Speaker 1: had made the turn from the net, there was a

637
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:42,760
Speaker 1: buzz through that building like there will never be again.

638
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:45,960
Speaker 1: It was unbelievable. And then of course, you know, he

639
00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:48,000
Speaker 1: just went on to you know, sixty goals, one hundred

640
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:51,040
Speaker 1: and ten points, over and over again. Yeah, there's certain

641
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:54,240
Speaker 1: guys that you see and they just skated a different speed,

642
00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:56,719
Speaker 1: like there's just something about them. But then you come

643
00:34:56,760 --> 00:35:00,040
Speaker 1: across Gretzky and you go, I don't know why, but

644
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:03,799
Speaker 1: he does really well. Yeah, but he's the greatest player

645
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 1: of all time, Like how do you explain that. Yeah,

646
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 1: there's a kid that we have on the Canucks right

647
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:11,480
Speaker 1: now name Alias Peterson. He's a Swedish kid, really great kid,

648
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 1: nice guy, but he has that he has that thing

649
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:17,320
Speaker 1: where he may not be the fastest, sort of the

650
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:20,600
Speaker 1: biggest guy, but it seems like you know, they always

651
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:23,080
Speaker 1: sounds like a cliche, but they'd always say with Gretzky,

652
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:25,000
Speaker 1: he's not going to where the puck is. He's going

653
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:27,520
Speaker 1: to where the puck is going to be. And Petterson

654
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:30,080
Speaker 1: is like that. You watch him calculating in his mind

655
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 1: what is about to happen, what things are are happening,

656
00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:37,000
Speaker 1: and some of the plays he makes are it's crazy.

657
00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:40,160
Speaker 1: It's very strange. It's almost that the play slows down.

658
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:42,920
Speaker 1: Everything slows down for him, where the game is such

659
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:45,440
Speaker 1: a fast game obviously for other people, but for him,

660
00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 1: you just watch it just a chill mode and the

661
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:51,399
Speaker 1: next thing you know, the pucks in the net. He's

662
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 1: Michael Boublet, the singer songwriter, multi platinum platinum man, multi

663
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 1: Grammy Award winning artist. Full disclosure. My late mother in

664
00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 1: law came home one day and she said she wanted

665
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:06,840
Speaker 1: to know if we had any Michael Bubble music. And

666
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 1: I said, I don't. I don't know who Michael Bubble is, nanny,

667
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:14,920
Speaker 1: and then she goes, you know, Michael Bubble, he does

668
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:18,239
Speaker 1: all the Christmas music. I said, Michael Bobble and she said,

669
00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:21,239
Speaker 1: oh no, it's Bubble. So I don't know if you

670
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:24,520
Speaker 1: ever get that, but my late mother in law loved

671
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:27,840
Speaker 1: Michael Bubble. I never people never get my name. I mean,

672
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 1: it's the whole reason I do the bubbly. That's the

673
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 1: PEPSI bubbly because they may call me bubbly, booble, bobbles,

674
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 1: boobs in other countries they call me those are mine.

675
00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:41,399
Speaker 1: That's what they call me in Spain, they say, which

676
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:45,719
Speaker 1: is Bubble in Spanish? In Ireland, I'm Mickey Bubbles Hey.

677
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:48,800
Speaker 1: In a lot of the UK, I'm the Boobs, mister Boobs.

678
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 1: It's funny. When I first signed, the company kept saying,

679
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:58,239
Speaker 1: I said, we really need to change your name. It's

680
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:00,560
Speaker 1: a crap name and people are never we're gonna buy

681
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:04,239
Speaker 1: records from the name Boublay Bubbles. What happened? But I

682
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:06,800
Speaker 1: didn't what happened at Rockefeller Center. We were worried that

683
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 1: you weren't performing. I don't know what to say. I mean,

684
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:14,600
Speaker 1: the record that I have out right now is nine

685
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:17,640
Speaker 1: years old. Yeah, so it's not there's nothing to promote.

686
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:22,840
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't. You're mister Christmas. I don't know.

687
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:27,799
Speaker 1: Like Mariah Carey is the Queen of Christmas. Yeah right, yeah,

688
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:31,200
Speaker 1: I don't know that's you're proclaiming that, but I I

689
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:35,279
Speaker 1: know she proclaims that, but I'm she proclaims that. Yeah yeah,

690
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:38,200
Speaker 1: oh no, no, no, she's the Queen of Christmas. I'd

691
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:40,960
Speaker 1: like to be the queen of everything, but you can

692
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 1: be that being a christ Could I used to be

693
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:45,680
Speaker 1: the queen? Could it be a queen? Well? You are

694
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:49,520
Speaker 1: Michael Boobs, So Michael Boobs could easily be who knows

695
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:51,279
Speaker 1: how things are going to roll with my wife? You

696
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:53,600
Speaker 1: know what I mean? I know, I know. I want

697
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:56,839
Speaker 1: you to be the judge here, Um, Todd, you want

698
00:37:56,880 --> 00:38:00,920
Speaker 1: to start first with your Michael Bubley impersonation? All right?

699
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:03,239
Speaker 1: And just tell us which is I'm so excited to

700
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:05,719
Speaker 1: hear this. Okay, I'm sure you aren't. Okay, Todd, are

701
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:14,120
Speaker 1: you ready? Fire is so delightful, And since we've no

702
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 1: place to go, let it snow, let it snow, Let

703
00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:21,840
Speaker 1: it snow already. It's not bad at all. That's a

704
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 1: little got a little Bill Murray in there, one of

705
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:32,480
Speaker 1: the great singers of all time, Bill Murray. I don't

706
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:34,319
Speaker 1: mind that. I actually I thought that was pretty good.

707
00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 1: All right, mclough and you don't sing? Do you can?

708
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,759
Speaker 1: I give my turn to Todd for a second? No, no, no,

709
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:45,920
Speaker 1: I can't have to. Doesn't get all right, man, It

710
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:50,279
Speaker 1: doesn't show signs of stopping. And I brought me some

711
00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:56,880
Speaker 1: corn to turn with a low Let it snow, Let

712
00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:03,040
Speaker 1: it snow, Let it snow, alrighty Seaton O counter killing me.

713
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 1: But you know, Michael, I was thinking it's you sort

714
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:07,680
Speaker 1: of brought back that style of like that crooner style.

715
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:09,960
Speaker 1: I think what we're missing right now is more of

716
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:13,440
Speaker 1: the Bing Crosby's of the world, the sort of calm lad.

717
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:20,239
Speaker 1: I think that there's a market for that right now,

718
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:23,239
Speaker 1: more of a modern thing. I was just listening to

719
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:27,200
Speaker 1: Bing Crosby David Bowie last night at the dinner table,

720
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:30,239
Speaker 1: and you know that. My wife goes, you know that's

721
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:32,680
Speaker 1: David Bowie's number one single. I go, it's not Bing

722
00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:35,400
Speaker 1: Crosby's number one single, but I know it's David Bowie's

723
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:37,320
Speaker 1: number one single. All right, PAULI can you do that?

724
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:39,359
Speaker 1: Can you do that one piece again? Because I feel

725
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 1: like it may not work for Christmas, but it could

726
00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:45,800
Speaker 1: work for a porno Okay, Seaton because I keep it

727
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:54,960
Speaker 1: down here, I think it's what you're saying, calm, yeah, okay,

728
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:57,840
Speaker 1: all right, Michael, You're never gonna feel better about your

729
00:39:57,880 --> 00:39:59,799
Speaker 1: singing skills. In about three seconds here. It is from

730
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:03,480
Speaker 1: some at my favorite line, A lady doesn't wander all

731
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:07,800
Speaker 1: over the room and blow on some other guys, dice.

732
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:12,040
Speaker 1: I love luck for a lady. That's a great too.

733
00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:16,480
Speaker 1: Luck be a lady tonight. Yeah, if do you like,

734
00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:19,799
Speaker 1: like it's Sinatra. Who else would you say it would

735
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:23,520
Speaker 1: be go to? If I liked Sinatra? Luck But I

736
00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 1: think easily my favorites were Dean Martin. Dean Martin. Dean

737
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:31,800
Speaker 1: Martin was amazing man. That guy made things look like

738
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:34,919
Speaker 1: they were easy. Yeah, and they weren't easy. It wasn't easy.

739
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:37,879
Speaker 1: He was great and I loved his whole thing. Nat

740
00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:40,120
Speaker 1: king Cole, I love Nat. I loved how he's saying.

741
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:42,520
Speaker 1: I love that voice. I love a lot of the ladies.

742
00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:45,360
Speaker 1: I love Ella, and I love Sarah Vaughan. I like

743
00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:47,360
Speaker 1: the New a lot of like Diana Krawl. I'm a

744
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:53,279
Speaker 1: massive fan of Diana Um, big Conic fan, big Sincatti

745
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:56,239
Speaker 1: call Um. There's a bunch of modern guys and girls

746
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:59,040
Speaker 1: that they were uh Cecile McLaren savan is a great

747
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:01,440
Speaker 1: jazz singer. You're never gonna listen to any of these,

748
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:05,240
Speaker 1: I'm guessing, but they're really good, really talented people. No, Diane,

749
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:08,400
Speaker 1: I've heard of. Yeah, I mean, what's cool you guys? Is?

750
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:11,960
Speaker 1: I feel really protective of this genre because Isaac. I mean,

751
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:15,040
Speaker 1: I know I'm Canadian, but this is the greatest gift

752
00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:17,120
Speaker 1: I think America ever gave to the arts, you know,

753
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:20,400
Speaker 1: and I think that we just I want to be

754
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:23,439
Speaker 1: part of keeping it alive and introducing it to people

755
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:25,600
Speaker 1: because it deserves to be in such a beautiful root

756
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:28,640
Speaker 1: of so much of the music that we now love,

757
00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:31,719
Speaker 1: everything from rock to R and B to you know,

758
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:34,480
Speaker 1: wrap everything. It's sort of the root of that. Well,

759
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:37,640
Speaker 1: we gave that to you, but Canada gave us rush though, Michael,

760
00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:41,759
Speaker 1: so yes, yeah, could you sing songs like that? If

761
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:44,839
Speaker 1: I said, you know something I do sing songs if

762
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:48,320
Speaker 1: you guys were if you guys actually listened to me

763
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:50,640
Speaker 1: or came to a concert, you would see that I do.

764
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:53,919
Speaker 1: But because you don't, you have just put me into

765
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:58,480
Speaker 1: this place, you know, unlike me who watches everything you

766
00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 1: guys and it's completely in love with you. But but

767
00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:05,200
Speaker 1: here I wish, would you guys come to hang once,

768
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 1: come to a show, just hang with me, Bring your girls,

769
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:10,839
Speaker 1: bring your wives to come and and chill with me. Absolutely,

770
00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:13,640
Speaker 1: And I ask one more favor, Yes, yes you can.

771
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 1: Just one of the big reasons, I mean, of the

772
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:18,320
Speaker 1: many reasons I want to do this first time. I

773
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 1: really I am a huge fan. I think you guys,

774
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:22,960
Speaker 1: what you do is so great. Um, I really do,

775
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:25,880
Speaker 1: and I watch all the time. I'm fascinated about what

776
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:27,400
Speaker 1: you do. I love the world that you live in.

777
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:34,239
Speaker 1: I am five points behind in my Fantasy League. I

778
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:39,000
Speaker 1: know that Spade asked for help once, and I'm asking

779
00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:41,359
Speaker 1: for help because I think I can take this guy

780
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:43,439
Speaker 1: and go to the finals. We started a week early

781
00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:47,239
Speaker 1: in fourteen. I am I have the issue. This is

782
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:50,160
Speaker 1: it's my team started off. I was nine and three.

783
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:53,200
Speaker 1: I mean Kyler Murray. Who was going to stop Kyler Murray?

784
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:56,320
Speaker 1: I mean Alvin Kamara. You couldn't stop Album Kamara. I

785
00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:58,400
Speaker 1: was going to kill everybody and all of a sudden

786
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:00,640
Speaker 1: breeze went out. Kyler got hurt. And see at anyway,

787
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:04,919
Speaker 1: in my flex position, my my my wide receivers are great.

788
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:07,279
Speaker 1: I got a plethora of the choose from Okay, but

789
00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:12,800
Speaker 1: in my flex I've got to go between Dobbins Sanders,

790
00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:15,399
Speaker 1: which just they're saying that he's gonna get more work,

791
00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:17,480
Speaker 1: but I just it freaks me out the team he's

792
00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:20,560
Speaker 1: playing against, and God is he going to get more work?

793
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 1: And the third who is my third Mostard? And I

794
00:43:25,239 --> 00:43:28,920
Speaker 1: love Mostard and I put him in last week and

795
00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:35,400
Speaker 1: I got Shanahan, So what would what would you guys do? Ye?

796
00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:39,520
Speaker 1: We have a guy in the back, Mario, who has

797
00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:42,399
Speaker 1: Dobbins on his team, and he emailed yesterday the group

798
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 1: said should I play Dobbins or cam Akers for the Rams?

799
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:49,800
Speaker 1: And uh, we all said Dobbins and then cam Akers

800
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:51,480
Speaker 1: just had the night of his life last night, so

801
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:53,520
Speaker 1: you should not pay. I played him in two of

802
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:56,000
Speaker 1: my leagues and I can't even tell. And I'm in

803
00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:57,960
Speaker 1: the deep playoffs in two of those leagues, and I

804
00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:02,120
Speaker 1: was crying with joy. How important is fantasy in your life?

805
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:08,440
Speaker 1: More important in my family? I mean, my friends think

806
00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:11,520
Speaker 1: I have an issue. They really, they really do, because

807
00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:13,600
Speaker 1: I take it so. I love it so much. I

808
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:17,360
Speaker 1: have so much fun. I'm so passionate about it that

809
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 1: it takes up a lot of my life. Have you

810
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:23,799
Speaker 1: met Russell Wilson. I have not met Russell Wilson. I'm

811
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:27,359
Speaker 1: a big fan, though, I can make that happen too. Oh,

812
00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:29,440
Speaker 1: I'd love that, you know, because I'm from Vancouver, so

813
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:32,160
Speaker 1: our team is the Seahawks. Yeah, so it's weird when

814
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:34,200
Speaker 1: you go around Vancouver you see all these people in

815
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:38,880
Speaker 1: Seahawks uniforms. We all were big Seahawks fans. Can we

816
00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:41,680
Speaker 1: play we have something called stat of the day, and

817
00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:46,120
Speaker 1: I have Will Ferrell has done it, Darius Rucker has

818
00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:49,200
Speaker 1: done it. And all it is is just can Alan

819
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:51,800
Speaker 1: can we play Will Farrell or Darius Rucker? Just to

820
00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:55,800
Speaker 1: give Michael an idea of what it sounds like. Stat

821
00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:58,960
Speaker 1: of the day, stat of the day, that past, stat

822
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:03,120
Speaker 1: of the days, Dad of the day. Here comes that

823
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 1: what stat of the day? Okay, so that's Will Ferrell,

824
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:15,120
Speaker 1: is Ron Burgundy, Um, here's Melissa Ethridge whoa stat of

825
00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:18,640
Speaker 1: the day? Start of a day, start out of the day,

826
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:22,480
Speaker 1: start out of the day. This is the stat of

827
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:34,080
Speaker 1: the day. And then here's Darius Rucker that of the

828
00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:39,719
Speaker 1: day that day, Here comes the stat of the day

829
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:44,399
Speaker 1: as stat of the day, stat of the day, Here

830
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:50,560
Speaker 1: comes the stat of the day. Now I'm gonna put

831
00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:52,239
Speaker 1: you on the spot. You could either do it here

832
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:54,680
Speaker 1: or if you wanted to go to your recording studio

833
00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:56,879
Speaker 1: and dress it up and you could do it that way,

834
00:45:57,200 --> 00:46:00,120
Speaker 1: so I could do it like a serious production of it. Yeah, Like,

835
00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:03,880
Speaker 1: I'll let you have that option, because can I I

836
00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:06,120
Speaker 1: would I would do both. I would do one live

837
00:46:06,239 --> 00:46:08,160
Speaker 1: here and I would give you I would give you

838
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:14,520
Speaker 1: a massive orc saventy. Okay, all right, so uh it's

839
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:18,880
Speaker 1: you acapella, so bump bump, bump, stat of the day,

840
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:24,080
Speaker 1: stat of the day. Oh baby, it's the statu of

841
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 1: the day. Stat of the day, stat of the day.

842
00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:41,279
Speaker 1: It's the statu of the day. Wow. Grammys. Uh, you're

843
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:44,120
Speaker 1: welcome back anytime. And if you come around in the

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Speaker 1: to be there. What a blast that would be. Thank

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Speaker 1: you guys so much, and thank you and good luck

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Speaker 1: with the album that is not new, but it feels

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Speaker 1: like it's new every Christmas. Thank you, Thank you, buddy,

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having that is my Chael Boubley, Michael Boobs

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