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Speaker 1: To be Around the NFL Podcast. He is waiting for

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Speaker 1: an old friend. Welcome to another edition of the Around

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Speaker 1: the NFL Podcast. My name is Dan ANSAs, and I

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Speaker 1: am joined in a conference room filled with a hero's

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Speaker 1: whom I left. A man beat cancer and he had

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Speaker 1: the love of the Bengals beat out of him. Chris Westling,

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Speaker 1: what's up boy? Hey dude? Uh, couple of things that

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Speaker 1: are unique. We've done so many episodes now, and yet

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Speaker 1: here we are doing something less that we've never done before.

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Speaker 1: There's never been a handsas Westling, I'd be a Thursday

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Speaker 1: night recap or something. I don't count that, okay, I

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Speaker 1: mean a straight pod or it was just us two.

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Speaker 1: I've definitely done tandem shows or two handers to use

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Speaker 1: Ricky some industry parlance. Yeah, a lot of people wondering

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Speaker 1: about the two hands. A lot of people, uh, with

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Speaker 1: Greg and with Mark and I've done all sorts of

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Speaker 1: other combinations with more than two people, but never before

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Speaker 1: just west and I. And this is exciting that surprises me.

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Speaker 1: I haven't been tracking, but I know I've done with

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Speaker 1: just Greg and just Mark right, No, with just the

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Speaker 1: two of us, like just in previous you know, two

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Speaker 1: thousand fourteen, the dark days before anybody was listening to us,

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Speaker 1: and you get away with just one like a half

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Speaker 1: an hour and two people you call in the dark days.

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Speaker 1: That sounds joyful. Well, yeah, I meant before electricity. The

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Speaker 1: other um exciting slash unique thing is we've been kicked

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Speaker 1: So we're doing this from a conference room on a

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Speaker 1: level one right near Ricky Hollywood's desk. In fact, the

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Speaker 1: conference room that is called Beast Quake with a large

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Speaker 1: image of Marshawn Lynch's famous run in the two thousand

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Speaker 1: playoffs No. Twelve eleven. It was the beginning of that

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Speaker 1: Seattle run. Actually it was yes this the Saints were

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Speaker 1: the defending Super Bowl champions and the twenty they had won,

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Speaker 1: oh nine season they were defending their title got knocked

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Speaker 1: off in January eleven with Beast Quake. Ricky, gotta be

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Speaker 1: a goose bumps moment for you to be sitting in

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Speaker 1: um yesterday when I set this up. Um when there

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Speaker 1: was a miscommunication, so sort of the first day, jitters

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Speaker 1: are out. Yeah. Well, I was texting you and you

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Speaker 1: were on a flight and I was like, hey, like

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Speaker 1: one o'clock, you're not gonna make it if you're just

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Speaker 1: taking off, Like how about I push it to three.

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Speaker 1: You're like, yeah, that would give me a lot more

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Speaker 1: time to get my life together. And I was like, okay, great,

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Speaker 1: I was already late for the show. When you were

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Speaker 1: texting me people, I was like, a different time zone

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Speaker 1: was the whole thing going on? I know? And then

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Speaker 1: even you West in the text the three of us,

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Speaker 1: day jitters out set up all this and uh oh no,

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Speaker 1: it's okay, it's okay that now I feel terribly But

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Speaker 1: I didn't know you had actually done work and yeah,

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Speaker 1: I had I do put some workers this once in

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Speaker 1: a while. Well my apologies, UM, I owe you a

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Speaker 1: beer for that. Yes, so three of us here in

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Speaker 1: not been booked by any shadowy League figures who might

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Speaker 1: mosey on here on in here and you know, waste

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Speaker 1: everybody's time with a meeting about nothing. At some point

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Speaker 1: in the next hour happen. Well, if the podcast ends abruptly,

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Speaker 1: you'll know. I think the third floor is empty. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Coming up on today's show, mail Bag. It's a mail

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Speaker 1: bag show because it's just West and I and Rickey's

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Speaker 1: here of course as well. No glass, you're not behind

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Speaker 1: as well. How fun is that? It's super cool. Um,

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Speaker 1: we'll just hit the mail bag and connect with the listeners. Um.

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Speaker 1: I just got back from yes the Jersey Shore a

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Speaker 1: week with the family, full time grind for the old zeuser. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You know, every day at the beach West and when

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Speaker 1: And then it was chased yesterday by a flight where

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Speaker 1: Jack and Harrison we're just losing their crap the entire

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Speaker 1: time during the flight, we were hated. On the flight.

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Speaker 1: I missed the part where you read a book peacefully

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Speaker 1: to let you know us and you're you, of course,

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Speaker 1: are in the middle of your four maze in a

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Speaker 1: funeral stretch here where you're gonna get engaged one way,

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Speaker 1: married the next, kid won the May after that, and

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Speaker 1: then kid to the May after that. Let's keep the

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Speaker 1: funeral party a few decades later, um, hopefully several decades later.

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Speaker 1: I just want to say, remember in um Billy Madison

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Speaker 1: he can't wait to go to high school and you

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Speaker 1: caught a cherish it. Stay here as long as you can. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I just well, I'm sure what you did? What what

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Speaker 1: come on, well, that sounds like the greatest trip ever.

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Speaker 1: Went to Oracle Park, the most beautiful baseball park in

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Speaker 1: the country, caught a Cardinals Giants game. It was. It

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Speaker 1: was a nice little weekend. I resent you cherish it.

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Speaker 1: I feel like I've been cherishing it for twenty five years,

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Speaker 1: living to the living to the hilt. What did you do, Rickie?

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Speaker 1: I haven't checked your Instagram? You haven't? It was it? No,

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Speaker 1: I actually was just chatting with West. It was really

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Speaker 1: really nice. I was back in New Hampshire, late life,

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Speaker 1: year is your summer. That's interesting. Meet anybody, Ricky. No,

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Speaker 1: No getting any fights and family members. No, it was

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Speaker 1: really uneventful. I got sprayed by a skunk. You did, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And Boston, Oh my god, So you've been drinking all

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Speaker 1: It was a really bad sight. Yeah, terrible, total catastrophe.

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Speaker 1: Team USA, back to back. I did watch that. I

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Speaker 1: And you said, Wes, you made the point we talked about.

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Speaker 1: the sport evolves it'll be more egalitarian. Who's your favorite Rockie?

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Speaker 1: He's um taking a break. Wasn't he out before the

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Speaker 1: He has told us on numerous occasions when he leaves

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Speaker 1: he comes back, come back. Mark, he's not listening. Let's

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Speaker 1: get to the news. Ezekiel Elliott will not face a

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Speaker 1: suspension for his most recent off field incident. Mike Garafolo

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Speaker 1: reported Uh Elliott met last week with Commissioner Goodell regarding

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Speaker 1: an incident in Las Vegas and which the running back

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Speaker 1: nudge a security officer. After the meeting, Elliott issue apology

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Speaker 1: for his actions, promising to make better decisions in the future. UM.

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Speaker 1: I just think you know, we don't need to dwell this.

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Speaker 1: We're kind of catching up because we were out last

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Speaker 1: week except for the of course Wheel of Destiny episode,

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Speaker 1: of recent Cowboys history, last time they had a true

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Speaker 1: star running back in their midst DeMarco Murray, they maxed out,

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Speaker 1: um what they could do in terms of team control.

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Speaker 1: if the Cowboys. How crazy they are really about extending

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Speaker 1: a player and Elliott who is undeniably talented but continues

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Speaker 1: Cowboys did not extend Elliott long term? I would be

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Speaker 1: put it back, put it back. This is the newest thing.

426
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Speaker 1: It's all over the internet. Um, people are licking the

427
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Speaker 1: top of ice cream cartons, putting the back, putting it

428
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Speaker 1: on the internet, and a viral challenge people are getting

429
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Speaker 1: thrown in jail is in the New York Times. Actually

430
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Speaker 1: an article just today in the Times about a guy that,

431
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Speaker 1: h uh track down They tracked down the girl that

432
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Speaker 1: started in East Texas? Did she? Oh? Come on? And

433
00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:11,919
Speaker 1: then there's this other dude, Lenise Lloyd Martin, the third,

434
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Speaker 1: thirty six year old unemployed man. He's been in jail

435
00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:18,160
Speaker 1: for days because he licked it. Uh. It was caught

436
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:20,720
Speaker 1: on camera. He said, I bought the ice cream that

437
00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:22,760
Speaker 1: I licked. I had the receipt. They said, we don't care.

438
00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:24,600
Speaker 1: You didn't buy it when you licked it. You're going

439
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:27,359
Speaker 1: with a slammer and you're staying there. And you know what, Ricky,

440
00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:33,200
Speaker 1: I think that's fine. Leave him there. Come. It's stupid

441
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Speaker 1: to crack a book. Once in a while. You wan't

442
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:37,000
Speaker 1: be going around doing stupid things like this. You know what,

443
00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:40,080
Speaker 1: Stay out of cvs, stay at a right aid, uh,

444
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Speaker 1: stay at a stopping shop and Vaughan's stay away from

445
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Speaker 1: our ice cream library. Crack a book. Also, quit trying

446
00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:53,159
Speaker 1: to impress other people. Just stop be yourself. Yep. Just

447
00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:57,119
Speaker 1: that what what what? What? What? Nothing would cause you

448
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Speaker 1: to do something like that? I do this will get

449
00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:01,400
Speaker 1: you married? He plays. The only reason to do that

450
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:06,760
Speaker 1: I want who's impressed? Like, guess what I did over

451
00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:08,520
Speaker 1: the fourth I lick some ice cream and put it back.

452
00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:10,199
Speaker 1: I would be like, I don't want to speak to

453
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:15,680
Speaker 1: you again. Sophomores. It's a bad job. That's what's happening

454
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:19,280
Speaker 1: in the news. Quicksoftball update before we get to the

455
00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:24,720
Speaker 1: mail bag, where do we stand? Eight and two West?

456
00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:27,840
Speaker 1: We can never tell anyone else on the team, especially

457
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:31,560
Speaker 1: some of the less motivated members of our team. I

458
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Speaker 1: won't specify who Ricky keep this in this conference room.

459
00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:38,919
Speaker 1: But after looking at an updated um, taking an updated

460
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:41,280
Speaker 1: glance at the standings, we have clinched a playoff spot

461
00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:44,680
Speaker 1: the top three. We will be playing for a third

462
00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:48,520
Speaker 1: consecutive title, something that even the US women's national team

463
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:52,040
Speaker 1: has never done. Win three straight, that is that would

464
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:55,800
Speaker 1: be impressive. There's still drama left here. We have to

465
00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:57,639
Speaker 1: make sure that the tournament gets played on the right

466
00:26:57,680 --> 00:26:59,840
Speaker 1: day so half our roster can show up right. There's

467
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:03,560
Speaker 1: concerns about yeah, there's a rain makeup date that if

468
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:05,399
Speaker 1: it's not made up, we're gonna be down two of

469
00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 1: our top women. Uh so we need some things to

470
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 1: go our way. But eight and two two games to

471
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Speaker 1: play before the Big Dance and Erica. This has been

472
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Speaker 1: your first season with the Shields softball team. Any takeaways surprises, um,

473
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:24,200
Speaker 1: things you are happy about, things you're disappointed by. Surprises

474
00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:27,080
Speaker 1: would probably be how serious you guys take it. I

475
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:28,639
Speaker 1: sort of thought it was a bit. I thought you

476
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:31,119
Speaker 1: guys were like, oh, yeah, I mean it's yeah, but

477
00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:33,960
Speaker 1: it's not. You guys are like, legit serious, Like I've

478
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:37,399
Speaker 1: never seen Dan like you've like sworn and like thrown

479
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:40,040
Speaker 1: your bat against the fence like when you you like

480
00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:43,160
Speaker 1: were popped out once, but you hit like a slammer

481
00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:46,199
Speaker 1: like way out into the outfield and someone randomly caught it,

482
00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:48,160
Speaker 1: Like it's not your fault, Like that's a really you're

483
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:49,960
Speaker 1: really good. So that was funny to me because I

484
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:54,119
Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, and they're like serious, you

485
00:27:54,200 --> 00:28:00,000
Speaker 1: hit a slammer. Yeah you know, so you you're surprised

486
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:02,400
Speaker 1: by how serious we take it. Yeah, but we have fun.

487
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 1: It's not oh, it's so much fun, but it's also

488
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:06,920
Speaker 1: like ha ha fun as long as we're like dominating

489
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:11,600
Speaker 1: to be honest with no No one likes no one

490
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:15,320
Speaker 1: likes to lose another takeaways. Someone lit my apartment on

491
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:20,640
Speaker 1: fire again last week again, but I had moved. Now initially,

492
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:23,199
Speaker 1: you'll say, what listeners might be, like, what does that

493
00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:27,080
Speaker 1: have to do with the softball team. We we speculated

494
00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:29,800
Speaker 1: a few weeks back the first time that Rickey's apartment

495
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:32,560
Speaker 1: was set a blaze that it was possibly the girl

496
00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:35,320
Speaker 1: on our team that was told that she was not

497
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,360
Speaker 1: starting and Erica was instead starting in right center field.

498
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:42,920
Speaker 1: A day later, the apartment went up. Um, we don't

499
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 1: have any evidence collaborating that, and we don't know for sure,

500
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:48,400
Speaker 1: but we just thought that. But now that it's happened

501
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:51,640
Speaker 1: a second time, it seems almost certain it has to be.

502
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:54,680
Speaker 1: And and they don't know that I moved apartments because

503
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:58,400
Speaker 1: I did move about like two weeks ago. So the

504
00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:00,840
Speaker 1: jokes on them, So the jokes on whoever is moving

505
00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 1: into my new place. I guess I hope this president

506
00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 1: doesn't listen to the podcast, because then they're going to

507
00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:09,040
Speaker 1: start putting together. They might follow you home. They know

508
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:12,480
Speaker 1: that moved, right. Yeah, well, let's keep again, let's keep

509
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 1: this investigation open. But there is potentially west. We're always

510
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:19,480
Speaker 1: putting out fires apart in that um with certain women

511
00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:21,880
Speaker 1: on the team, And now we might have a situation

512
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 1: where arson is involved between two teammates houtfielders. What if

513
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 1: Arson and skunks were both involved? I don't know, Like

514
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:32,360
Speaker 1: this has been a weird stretch of time for me.

515
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 1: There was when I played in Cincinnati our home ballpark

516
00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:39,400
Speaker 1: for softball. After the game every Sunday night, the whole

517
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 1: family of skunks would come out, like right when where

518
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:45,640
Speaker 1: we sit and drink beer, we had thrown hot dogs

519
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 1: and stuff. Really would they wouldn't spread you. That's some

520
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:52,840
Speaker 1: hardcore west side Cincinnati. If the skunks come out at

521
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 1: night and just chill out at the basis and they

522
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:57,120
Speaker 1: don't spray, they sit there and needle each other and

523
00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:02,720
Speaker 1: there you just dare you? Um? All right? So yeah, Ricky,

524
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:06,160
Speaker 1: I expect a contribution to from you before the season

525
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 1: is out that I want you to win a game

526
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:13,040
Speaker 1: at some point. I believe in you. Oh yeah, let's

527
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:17,720
Speaker 1: hit the mailbag. Put it out there this morning, and

528
00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:20,680
Speaker 1: of course you guys stepped up as you always do,

529
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:24,600
Speaker 1: the listeners. So let's dig into it. Uh. We'll start

530
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Speaker 1: with a nice beefy one that we could sink our

531
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Speaker 1: teeth into a little bit nick astick rights. Given how

532
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:35,480
Speaker 1: spicy NBA free agency has been, what would you do

533
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Speaker 1: to improve parenthetical, if anything close parenthetical the heat level

534
00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:44,720
Speaker 1: of NFL free agency? How would you make NFL free

535
00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:51,680
Speaker 1: agency more beefy? Ah? Nice? Well, I think there's there's

536
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:55,200
Speaker 1: a couple of things here. First of all, it can't

537
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Speaker 1: be like the NBA because of the scheming that coaches do.

538
00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 1: In the NFL, you need the players to match the scheme.

539
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:03,960
Speaker 1: Um the players are in control. The union is in

540
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 1: control in the NBA. It's not in control here. And

541
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 1: for that reason, in the NBA you have super teams,

542
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:12,800
Speaker 1: and you usually only have in the last you don't know,

543
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,720
Speaker 1: five years, a couple of teams that are relevant every year.

544
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:18,360
Speaker 1: And the NFL's great strength, besides the fact that it

545
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 1: fits television so well, is the parody that every team

546
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:23,600
Speaker 1: has a chance every year, that you don't get an

547
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 1: advantage just because you're in a major market or because

548
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 1: you're the glamour team. I think that that's and honestly,

549
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:34,440
Speaker 1: look back, even three or four years ago, NFL free

550
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:36,920
Speaker 1: agency was pretty boring, and it has been way spicier

551
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:38,640
Speaker 1: the last couple of years, as Gregg has noted with

552
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:41,360
Speaker 1: the trade tsunamis, I think it's really been beefed up.

553
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 1: Um yeah, I think it's been better maybe in recent years.

554
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:49,840
Speaker 1: But I totally see where Nick's coming from. July one,

555
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 1: when NBA free agency opened, it was the center of

556
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:56,000
Speaker 1: the sports universe, and it's a lot of fun tracking

557
00:31:56,360 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 1: who's meeting with who, who's recruiting who, what billboard is up,

558
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:03,160
Speaker 1: who's flying somewhere and somewhere else. The only time I

559
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:04,960
Speaker 1: could really think about that in my time here at

560
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 1: the NFL media is when Peyton Manning was a free

561
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 1: agent and he really felt that, Um you felt that

562
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:13,840
Speaker 1: energy of where is he gonna go? He's meeting here,

563
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:16,480
Speaker 1: he might go here, and that was a lot of fun.

564
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,360
Speaker 1: I don't really I can't recall any other scenario that

565
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:21,880
Speaker 1: came close to matching that. And I think one thing

566
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:24,280
Speaker 1: that really feeling for what would be a change you

567
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 1: can make? Um, I think the and it's something that

568
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 1: we'll see when the c b A, the new CBA

569
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:34,240
Speaker 1: gets rolled out after the season and hopefully without any

570
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:38,920
Speaker 1: work stoppage. Uh in between the franchise tag really does

571
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 1: keep exciting young just entering their prime. Players tethered to

572
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:47,360
Speaker 1: the team. They get drafted by a team, they have

573
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:49,480
Speaker 1: no they have no choice where to go when they

574
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:52,400
Speaker 1: get drafted, So then they get locked into either four

575
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:55,000
Speaker 1: or five year contract. Then they get the option to

576
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:58,040
Speaker 1: get franchise. That could happen twice. There's a transition tag.

577
00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:00,600
Speaker 1: It's all this stuff that's designed to keep these guys

578
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:03,760
Speaker 1: from maxing out their value on the open market. I

579
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:06,240
Speaker 1: think if you somehow were able to negotiate that out,

580
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 1: free agency would be a lot of fun because guys

581
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 1: after that four year period or five year period could

582
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:13,760
Speaker 1: hit the market at twenty six and I think that

583
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 1: would change a lot of things. Um As as things

584
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 1: stand now, that's not the way it is. That would

585
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 1: be the one change I would make. But I imagine

586
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,600
Speaker 1: the owners would rather shut down the league for two

587
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:26,960
Speaker 1: years than give out give up the franchise tag, which

588
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:29,800
Speaker 1: is incredibly valuable. Yeah, it's to me, it's take your pick.

589
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 1: Do you want the free agency to be fun or

590
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:34,080
Speaker 1: do you want the season to be fun? And I

591
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:36,200
Speaker 1: don't you know if you if you allow super teams,

592
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 1: I don't think the NFL season is going to be

593
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Speaker 1: as fun. This offseason though, I think was one for

594
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:43,960
Speaker 1: the books with Antonio Brown. Let me on Bell, I

595
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:46,640
Speaker 1: mean the Odell Beckham trade. I feel like nobody saw

596
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 1: coming so as far as exciting when you just have

597
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:51,280
Speaker 1: those big players. You just mentioned trades, you know what

598
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:54,360
Speaker 1: I mean? Those are trades, that's not that's the off season,

599
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:57,120
Speaker 1: the off season. That's the trade tsunami that West was

600
00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 1: talking about. I agree with that, so like the off

601
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 1: season has gotten spicier through the trade tsunami. But how

602
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 1: do you make free agency with the NFL those are

603
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:08,120
Speaker 1: officially or the NBA, those are officially trades to signing

604
00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:11,240
Speaker 1: trades or I mean they're their trades. To me, Odell

605
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 1: Beckham is basically free Agency's trading and free agency are

606
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:17,319
Speaker 1: almost the same thing in sports now. It is amazing, though,

607
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:21,960
Speaker 1: how much power the players have in the NBA, and

608
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 1: when you compare to what happens in the NFL, which

609
00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:29,480
Speaker 1: is very much still dominated by the owners and and

610
00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:32,000
Speaker 1: the teams have the power. And it does get me

611
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:35,640
Speaker 1: noivus West about that cb A, especially with you know,

612
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 1: the players in the Union seeing what a bonanza and

613
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,360
Speaker 1: how fun it is and lucrative it is over in

614
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:44,759
Speaker 1: the NBA right now for these superstar players. Yeah, new

615
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:49,640
Speaker 1: CBA should always get you nervous. Next up, let's go

616
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:56,680
Speaker 1: to so many great questions justin Sullivan eight four Marcus

617
00:34:56,680 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 1: Mariotta entering his fifth year, speaking of rookie contra and

618
00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:03,959
Speaker 1: every year, the same question remains, is Mariotta franchise QB.

619
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Speaker 1: If you're John Robinson the GM, what do you have

620
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:10,600
Speaker 1: to see from Mariotta this year to resign him to

621
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:15,400
Speaker 1: a big contract? Tds, interceptions, yards, health, games played and

622
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:19,479
Speaker 1: games one playoff appearance? What do you need to say?

623
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:22,000
Speaker 1: What do you need to see? West you get us

624
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:24,240
Speaker 1: going on this one? Well, I'll throw throw the stats

625
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 1: out the window because they lack context, and I don't

626
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 1: think you can accurately judge quarterbacks by stats. But I

627
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 1: would say what John Robinson has to see is threefold.

628
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:38,120
Speaker 1: One stay off the injury list while remaining a threat

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Speaker 1: to run in key situations. That's number one. He hasn't

630
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:43,439
Speaker 1: been able to do that yet. Number two, make more

631
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:46,319
Speaker 1: plays outside the numbers and down the field. This guy

632
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:49,719
Speaker 1: is a very good quarterback between the numbers. His accuracy

633
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:53,160
Speaker 1: is great. He just doesn't make enough plays outside the

634
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 1: numbers and down the field where big plays happened. So

635
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:58,120
Speaker 1: that element has been missing. And one thing that really

636
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Speaker 1: caught my eye last year, if you remember when Tony

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Speaker 1: Romo praised Sam Donald for having like special innate spatial awareness,

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00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:09,800
Speaker 1: Mariota was missing that. Like he stepped into pressure instead

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Speaker 1: of away from it. He didn't really sense pressure until

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Speaker 1: it was too late. His internal clock was off, and

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00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:17,279
Speaker 1: he took way too many sacks. I think that's the

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Speaker 1: one problem like that maybe a lot of people don't

643
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Speaker 1: know about it has really held him back. I agree

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Speaker 1: with everything you said, and I agree somewhat on the

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Speaker 1: stats thing. Yes, you can't, don't use stats as a

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Speaker 1: bill end all, But I think if you're an elite quarterback,

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Speaker 1: you're you're a guy that's you're you're involved with like

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Speaker 1: thirty touchdowns a year. You you're passer rating orright now,

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Speaker 1: you guys prefer the what do you prefer to pass

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Speaker 1: rating list? I guess QBR. But but you know, Mariota

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Speaker 1: putting up about fifteen touchdowns a year, that's just to me,

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00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:52,279
Speaker 1: that's not a guy. That's not a franchise guy. And

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00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:54,359
Speaker 1: the injuries obviously play a big part in that he's

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Speaker 1: missing parts of seasons every year, but you know what,

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Speaker 1: you gotta stay on the field. Huge year for him,

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Speaker 1: and right Tannehill that that was a very good move

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Speaker 1: I thought by them because Tannehill is a guy who

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Speaker 1: was waiting in the wings who I think could give

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Speaker 1: that team a spark potentially. I wouldn't rule it out

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Speaker 1: that he could. If Mariota goes down, Tannehill could take

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Speaker 1: the the rein to never give him back. Wasn't there

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Speaker 1: just an article saying that, like, you know, Mariotta is

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Speaker 1: our quarterback, you don't. For me, It's just like you

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Speaker 1: don't need to put out a statement like that if

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Speaker 1: you're if you're sure of your franchise quarterback, don't you

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Speaker 1: think don't you think if there was a backup quarterback

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Speaker 1: that your your team wouldn't have to be like just

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Speaker 1: to let you guys know they're definitely still our quarterback. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think that, Yeah, that's a good point, But I

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Speaker 1: also think it's more about health with him than anything.

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Speaker 1: And you invite that question when you trade or signed Tannehill,

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Speaker 1: you know you could just go with a regular backup.

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Speaker 1: Uh Josh Allstram asks uh, Dan if the Knicks trade

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Speaker 1: for Russell Westbrook would have saved this offseason. Well, I

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Speaker 1: what a terrible offseason for the Knicks who seemed locked

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Speaker 1: and loaded. Uh uh have Kevin Durant and perhaps more

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Speaker 1: even it seemed like they could get the number one

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Speaker 1: pick that didn't work out. Um. But the only reason

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Speaker 1: I bring this one up it ties into the NBA

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Speaker 1: we're just talking about, but also where the Knicks are

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Speaker 1: now as a franchise is probably I think similar to

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Speaker 1: probably have Browns felt the Browns fans felt before Baker

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Speaker 1: Mayfield showed up, where everything just seems like lipstick on

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Speaker 1: a pig right now. If they got Russell Westbrook, for instance,

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Speaker 1: what would a thirty thirty one year old guard do

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Speaker 1: for that franchise? They need to have somebody that's a

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Speaker 1: game changing young talent like Baker Mayfield in Cleveland, maybe

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Speaker 1: it would have been zigoned you know Williamson that didn't

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Speaker 1: work out. But that is where I come down on that.

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Speaker 1: Well said, I think it's about three years past the

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Speaker 1: time when you want Russell Westbrook on a team if

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Speaker 1: you're rebuilding. He was a problem for his team in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs last year. Also, one of the most expensive

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Speaker 1: players in the league in terms of what's left on

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Speaker 1: his contract. Steer clear the Knicks. Meanwhile, they'll probably end

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Speaker 1: up getting him. Moving on, Let's see our old friend Jim.

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Speaker 1: Laura again asks West. If you had to cook one

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Speaker 1: meal for Gordon Ramsey, do you respect Ramsey in his game?

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Speaker 1: He's a little loud and obnoxious. For me, you have

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Speaker 1: someone in this realm that you do respect well. Anthony

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Speaker 1: Bourdain would have been my first pick. Let's go wait, Anthony,

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Speaker 1: let's go back in a better world where Anthony Boordan

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Speaker 1: was still with us. If you could cook one meal

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Speaker 1: for Bourdaine, what would you make? So you've had Dan

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Speaker 1: my homemade uh marinara grego um, so I turned that

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Speaker 1: into a new dish. I make the marinade myself homemade,

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Speaker 1: and then I turned it, put it on the big

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Speaker 1: green egg, throwing some cream cheese, some Eiffel Tower pasta

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Speaker 1: and smoked it on the big green egg and a

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Speaker 1: cast iron skillet, and I was one of the best

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Speaker 1: things ever made. That's what I would make for him.

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Speaker 1: M Ricky, can you cook? I can cook really well? Actually,

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Speaker 1: what would you make for the late Anthony Boardan? I

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Speaker 1: would probably make him like a really tricky, hard to

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Speaker 1: nail risotto. There's really risotto. You can really screw up.

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Speaker 1: So if I got it right, you know, bigger risk,

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Speaker 1: big reward. You know, we've been our producer for a

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Speaker 1: while now. At what point is there, you know, a

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Speaker 1: text that goes out to me and the other fellas, Hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm cooking dinner. Yeah, come on over, Let's bring some wine,

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Speaker 1: have a nice night and all of this. Yeah I do.

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Speaker 1: I actually did want to have you guys over for

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Speaker 1: my new housewarming, little wine night and I'll cook. Let's

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Speaker 1: do it. Put on the box. I won an Iron

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Speaker 1: Chef competition at U n H with my buddy. I

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Speaker 1: want a thought screen TV. What did you make? That

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Speaker 1: was like a steak? And I did a mushroom asparagus risotto.

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Speaker 1: Nice and the magic ingredient was hikima. Yeah, it's like

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Speaker 1: an apple potato one. I kind of like a West

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Speaker 1: Erica tam pose and you know, or just like another

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Speaker 1: two hander, like sometimes the reality cooking show would be great.

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Speaker 1: All right, that's good? All right? Uh uh oh, what's

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Speaker 1: more likely? Let's do it? Dean Bonner asks, what more?

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Speaker 1: The Saints make a third straight NFC Championship game or

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Speaker 1: the Browns make the playoffs. Now, I don't believe the

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Speaker 1: Saints made the NFC title a game two years ago.

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Speaker 1: Didn't they get knocked out by the Vikings and the

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Speaker 1: divisional playoffs on the miracle in the Minneapolis and then

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Speaker 1: the Eagles beat the Vikings. Yes, that's incorrect, Dean. But

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Speaker 1: let's just say, will the Saints return to the NFC

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Speaker 1: title game or the Browns make the playoffs? M hmm? Interesting? Interesting? Well,

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Speaker 1: I think the Browns have a playoff roster and the

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Speaker 1: top of the NFC is pretty loaded. To me, there

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Speaker 1: are a lot of really good playoffs super Bowl contender

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Speaker 1: type of teams. It's a lot harder to make the

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Speaker 1: conference finals than to make the playoffs, so I think

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Speaker 1: it's more likely that the Browns make the playoffs. I

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Speaker 1: put it probably pretty close. But it is easier to

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Speaker 1: when the nine ten games to get to the postseason,

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Speaker 1: so I would put the Browns as more likely. But um,

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Speaker 1: as we've talked about in this podcast, and I'm on

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00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:12,120
Speaker 1: Mark's radar for it, I'm not as um you know,

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Speaker 1: pumped about penciling in the Browns or twelve wins in

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00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:16,840
Speaker 1: the a f C title game is a lot of

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00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:20,000
Speaker 1: other people seem to be. Um. My eyes are wide

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Speaker 1: open about expectations and how that could crush a team

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Speaker 1: or lead to a slow start that they may or

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00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:30,000
Speaker 1: may not recover from. So I'm not as bullish on

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Speaker 1: the Browns, but I think that is a very talented

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Speaker 1: roster and yes, more likely in the Saints getting back

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Speaker 1: to the game again. We gotta see if Drew Brees

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Speaker 1: can still sling. We do and I know are Are

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Speaker 1: the Saints really that much better than like the Eagles, Cowboys, Bears? Rams?

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Speaker 1: Mark Ingram was an important guy in that locker room

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Speaker 1: and on the field. He's no longer in the picture. Um,

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Speaker 1: all right, let's move on. Dave Evans asks Gregg fails

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Speaker 1: a drug test that would never happen and get suspended

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Speaker 1: for the twenty nineteen season. Which member of the football

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Speaker 1: GAGNACENTI do you choose to replace him? All? Right? This?

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Speaker 1: To me, it was it was really I could go

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Speaker 1: either way on this. Um Mike Rico right there. I

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Speaker 1: feel like to Rico um would be a great addition,

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Speaker 1: total pros pro, so versatile, But then I thought, better

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Speaker 1: host than me, never want that in the studio, So

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Speaker 1: to Rico is out, So I'm gonna go with a

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Speaker 1: little Debbie, make a full time presence the Bay Area

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Speaker 1: rap star uh and friend of the show, make her

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Speaker 1: full time member of the crew. It's amazing how much

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Speaker 1: this question has changed in the last five years that

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Speaker 1: now we've been we've been told that, um, you probably

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Speaker 1: aren't gonna go so far with four whites in the

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Speaker 1: middle ages. Well, I'm in my third, but you guys

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Speaker 1: are definitely you're looking down the barrel of forte. So

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Speaker 1: I think they called me kid dynamite. I would look

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Speaker 1: to diversify, and the first thing I would do was,

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Speaker 1: you know, obviously check with Connie Fox and try to

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Speaker 1: get her back yet Steve, why she has been a

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Speaker 1: natural on this show, Patrick claibn um Lakisha, You never

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Speaker 1: know a little nepotism. I like that. Hey, if she's

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Speaker 1: good enough to do it, she's good. And now you're

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Speaker 1: getting me in trouble with Colleen. I'm not counting Colleen. Colleen,

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Speaker 1: she would be the natural sliding but she's a very

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Speaker 1: busy woman with her Thursday night football and Good Morning

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Speaker 1: Football duties. Rising Star. While we've kind of hit that ceiling, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's you know, that's fair. I mean you almost everyone

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Speaker 1: we would consider. You'd have to say, would you mind

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00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:47,480
Speaker 1: stepping back and joining our podcast? And Erica, we need

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Speaker 1: you behind the class. I know you're thinking the natural succession,

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Speaker 1: I slide in through the door. Um. I just think

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Speaker 1: where we are right now. It's better that you were

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Speaker 1: in the producer role at this moment. Okay, thanks appreciate

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00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:07,239
Speaker 1: honestly moving on, uh from Frank Signetti p I also

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Speaker 1: known as Frank Underscore Murrietta. Um, but you can interview, Yeah,

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00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:20,760
Speaker 1: bring a resume, put on a business suit. Uh. Frank

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Speaker 1: says the value placed on the dual threat quarterback for

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00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 1: an NFL offense seems to be climbing and climbing. Are

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00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:29,120
Speaker 1: we watching the beginning of the end of the true

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00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:33,319
Speaker 1: pocket passer? Good question, Frank, what do you think? Well?

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Speaker 1: I think the easy answer is people have been asking

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Speaker 1: this question since Randall Cunningham was, you know, a second

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Speaker 1: year player with the Eagles in in the late eighties. Um,

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Speaker 1: And the the answer from NFL types has always been

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Speaker 1: the pocket passer will always have a place because running

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks get injured. And I think it's worth reviewing that

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Speaker 1: at least insane now when quarterbacks don't get hit as

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00:45:56,239 --> 00:45:58,919
Speaker 1: much and it's a big penalty to hit them. Um,

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00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:00,840
Speaker 1: it's almost flag foot ball to the point where the

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00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:05,720
Speaker 1: quarterbacks are treated like punters. Um, is that still relevant today?

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Speaker 1: I know that a running quarterback is still gonna have

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Speaker 1: to get outside the pocket and take hits, but we've

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Speaker 1: seen guys like Russell Wilson who has immaculate instincts on

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Speaker 1: when to get down, when to avoid hits. Not every

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Speaker 1: quarterback is going to have those instincts, but I think

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Speaker 1: some of that can be taught a little bit. So

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Speaker 1: between the rule changes and teaching that, I do think

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Speaker 1: we're gonna see way more running quarterbacks. But I don't

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Speaker 1: think the pocket quarterback will be will be extinct. I mean,

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Speaker 1: look at the best guys in the last you know,

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Speaker 1: half decade, Tom Brady, Drew Brees, Aaron Rodgers. Right, if

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Speaker 1: you could sling it and you have that spatial awareness

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Speaker 1: and you could show those leadership skills, there's always gonna

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Speaker 1: be a role for those guys. But yeah, we what

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Speaker 1: we've seen is if you have that dual ability, you

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Speaker 1: are invaluable. All Right, here's the next one coming up,

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Speaker 1: Daniel Anderson, which team is this year's twenty six teen

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Speaker 1: Raiders seemingly from nowhere pulling a twelve and four. So

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Speaker 1: the two thousand and fifteen, just to refresh my memory,

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Speaker 1: Raiders went seven and nine, So maybe they weren't quite

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Speaker 1: as bad as Danny remembers. But who is the team

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Speaker 1: kind of buried in their Division West last year that

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Speaker 1: you'd be least surprised to see make a you know,

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Speaker 1: double digit win season type run, not even ten like

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Speaker 1: eleven and eleven plus wins. We always have to preface this,

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Speaker 1: I guess with except the Browns, right, I mean, would

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Speaker 1: you also say except the Packers. Let's keep the Packers

846
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Speaker 1: out of it as well? Yeah? Except the Carolina Panthers. Yeah,

847
00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:43,759
Speaker 1: injured quarterback. I mean, there's no to me. Those are

848
00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:46,439
Speaker 1: the three obvious ones. And I don't see a team.

849
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:48,839
Speaker 1: I mean Jets and Bills. I love what they've done

850
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:50,960
Speaker 1: this offseason, they still have a lot of question marks

851
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:56,719
Speaker 1: to me. Jags, yeah, because of their defense, but I

852
00:47:56,760 --> 00:47:59,840
Speaker 1: look at their offense. I'm I'm doing some some articles

853
00:47:59,840 --> 00:48:03,440
Speaker 1: on deepest and thinnest position groups and well it was

854
00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:08,280
Speaker 1: assigned to me by our gracious editor ALIVM. Pardy Um

855
00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:11,640
Speaker 1: and you looked at the Jags offense and for thinnest

856
00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:15,880
Speaker 1: position groups is basically their entire offense. What about your boys,

857
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:19,920
Speaker 1: the Broncos six and ten last year? I get tired

858
00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:21,600
Speaker 1: of backing him on the show because you guys, a

859
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:24,239
Speaker 1: black or Fluco, that's the question. I don't see a

860
00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:26,319
Speaker 1: twelve and four out of him. I see a ten

861
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:28,400
Speaker 1: and six possibly, but I don't see one of those

862
00:48:28,440 --> 00:48:30,480
Speaker 1: like he's going for the m v P Award, like

863
00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:32,799
Speaker 1: Derek Carr was going for the MVP Award that year.

864
00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:34,480
Speaker 1: All right, so you don't, you know, you don't have

865
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:36,799
Speaker 1: the spine to thrown out there. You know, got threw

866
00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:38,719
Speaker 1: three out there, but they were all ineligible. You know,

867
00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:41,839
Speaker 1: here's you know, here comes uh the onion hanger. All right,

868
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:46,360
Speaker 1: Bruce arians and the tip of ba Buccaneers bang because

869
00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:48,400
Speaker 1: he's still got the love of the game. Was you

870
00:48:48,480 --> 00:48:50,279
Speaker 1: think Garions was in the booth and he's out of

871
00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:52,560
Speaker 1: the game too long and he's no longer a quarterback

872
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:54,839
Speaker 1: whisper and he can't do it. And the Bucks will

873
00:48:54,880 --> 00:48:57,560
Speaker 1: always think, well, guess what five and eleven? Flip it

874
00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:01,399
Speaker 1: eleven and five, let's fly based on what really? Well,

875
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:04,120
Speaker 1: I just explained the Bruce Arians is one of those

876
00:49:04,120 --> 00:49:07,000
Speaker 1: coaches west. He is like that that parcels you know,

877
00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:10,239
Speaker 1: he's a guy with the parcels background. Uh. He is

878
00:49:10,480 --> 00:49:13,120
Speaker 1: one of those guys that could have a transformative effect

879
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:16,400
Speaker 1: on the team. And what are the most important H

880
00:49:16,560 --> 00:49:22,160
Speaker 1: three positions? Uh for any team ownership? Head coach, quarterback. Well,

881
00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:25,279
Speaker 1: guess what you put the old coach out to see?

882
00:49:25,320 --> 00:49:27,560
Speaker 1: You brought in a great one in Arians, and it's

883
00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:30,719
Speaker 1: a guy can fix the quarterback. That's two out of

884
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:33,920
Speaker 1: three and that ain't bad. Do you have a lot

885
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:37,480
Speaker 1: more confidence in Byron Leftwich and Jamis Winston than I

886
00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:42,839
Speaker 1: do Byrolin? All right, now you're not now Arians isn't

887
00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:45,000
Speaker 1: even involved with the office, He's not. This has been

888
00:49:45,040 --> 00:49:47,799
Speaker 1: a story that he has left the offense to left Wich,

889
00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:50,279
Speaker 1: who is handling it himself. Who will be calling the place?

890
00:49:50,360 --> 00:49:52,600
Speaker 1: You know what he's trying to do, because Aaron's is

891
00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:55,560
Speaker 1: that selfless trying to get his boy left with the job. Absolutely,

892
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:58,000
Speaker 1: so he's putting it out there. Who did that? Remember

893
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:01,000
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy did that? Did it go so well? Karthi

894
00:50:01,080 --> 00:50:03,120
Speaker 1: had to take back over? If the Bucks getting a

895
00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:06,600
Speaker 1: similar quagmire, guess what Brucey's headed in. Then you played

896
00:50:06,640 --> 00:50:09,920
Speaker 1: Carol King and it's too late, baby. All right, a

897
00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:12,440
Speaker 1: few more before we get out of here. Uh da

898
00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:20,560
Speaker 1: da da da. Let's see care fans uh from Jordan

899
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:22,839
Speaker 1: Lang for the two biggest baseball fans on the pod.

900
00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:25,680
Speaker 1: Thoughts on the state of the game and if the

901
00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:29,360
Speaker 1: league put too much emphasis on home runs A K

902
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:34,480
Speaker 1: juiced the balls. Well, this goes way beyond juice balls.

903
00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:36,440
Speaker 1: I mean, this has been in the works for a

904
00:50:36,520 --> 00:50:40,440
Speaker 1: while since Moneyball came out and the move to analytics

905
00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:44,920
Speaker 1: and they move away from treating players as humans and

906
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:48,719
Speaker 1: more towards assembly line pieces where emotions are out of

907
00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:51,480
Speaker 1: the game. And what the big thing I think if

908
00:50:51,520 --> 00:50:54,760
Speaker 1: you look now versus even ten years ago, the biggest

909
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:58,239
Speaker 1: difference in the game to me as umpires are so

910
00:50:58,440 --> 00:51:01,440
Speaker 1: much better with the strike zone that hitters and pitchers

911
00:51:01,520 --> 00:51:04,320
Speaker 1: can rely on a borderline call going exactly how it

912
00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:07,920
Speaker 1: should go, and it's made batters so much more confident

913
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:12,080
Speaker 1: about taking borderline pitches. And now you have everybody's waiting

914
00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:14,960
Speaker 1: on a walk pitches or waiting on a strikeout, and

915
00:51:15,080 --> 00:51:18,360
Speaker 1: batters want the home run, and it's boring, boring, baseball.

916
00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:21,520
Speaker 1: That's my opinion. Again, who knows if this can change

917
00:51:21,640 --> 00:51:24,040
Speaker 1: or not. I'm sure the guys from the eighteen nineties

918
00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:26,680
Speaker 1: who are doing the Baltimore Shop looked at the nineteen

919
00:51:26,719 --> 00:51:29,239
Speaker 1: fifties baseball and said, these guys don't run. All they

920
00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:31,800
Speaker 1: do is sit around and hit Homer's I mean. And

921
00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:36,560
Speaker 1: then it took black players, Latin players, and AstroTurf to

922
00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:39,360
Speaker 1: get the game exciting again after the fifties. So I

923
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:41,680
Speaker 1: don't know, we'll see. You never really can tell what's

924
00:51:41,719 --> 00:51:44,560
Speaker 1: gonna save baseball, but every generation asks when it's gonna

925
00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:47,960
Speaker 1: be saved. Uh. Yeah, I think overall it's good. I

926
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:50,880
Speaker 1: think it's good for the game home runs. But I

927
00:51:50,920 --> 00:51:55,400
Speaker 1: will say that Justin Verlander, the Astros All Star who

928
00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:58,440
Speaker 1: had some cutting comments this week ahead of the All

929
00:51:58,480 --> 00:52:02,319
Speaker 1: Star Game about juice Baseball's it's an effing joke. Major

930
00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:05,319
Speaker 1: League Baseball is turning this game into a joke. They

931
00:52:05,400 --> 00:52:09,480
Speaker 1: own rawlings, and you've got Manfred, he's the commissioner up

932
00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:11,839
Speaker 1: here saying it might be the way they center the pill.

933
00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:15,080
Speaker 1: They own the FFing company. If any other forty billion

934
00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:17,880
Speaker 1: dollar company bought out a four million dollar company and

935
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:20,680
Speaker 1: the product changed dramatically. It's not a guess as to

936
00:52:20,760 --> 00:52:23,319
Speaker 1: what happened. He ain't wrong, and I get it. He's

937
00:52:23,360 --> 00:52:26,239
Speaker 1: a pitcher and he makes his living um trying to

938
00:52:26,320 --> 00:52:31,080
Speaker 1: get people out on the mound. Uh. Ironically his career

939
00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:35,400
Speaker 1: skyrocketed as this power surge has come about after his

940
00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:38,120
Speaker 1: trade from the Astros, or it went into a second

941
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:40,480
Speaker 1: gear after it seemed like he had been a decline.

942
00:52:40,760 --> 00:52:42,759
Speaker 1: But that's not really the point. I think that it's good,

943
00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:45,799
Speaker 1: but also what to your points like? And I'll use

944
00:52:45,840 --> 00:52:48,360
Speaker 1: my favorite team, the Yankees an example. Last year they

945
00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:50,640
Speaker 1: set the home run home run record for a team,

946
00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:53,439
Speaker 1: and that was not a team that Yankee fans really liked.

947
00:52:53,480 --> 00:52:57,320
Speaker 1: It was very home run, strikeout, walk, three outcome baseball.

948
00:52:57,400 --> 00:53:00,279
Speaker 1: This year, Uh, they're having success again, but they're they're

949
00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:02,480
Speaker 1: putting the ball and play more. They're just a more

950
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:05,480
Speaker 1: fun team to watch. DJ Lemayhew and players like that

951
00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:07,600
Speaker 1: are a little bit more exciting. And guys that strike

952
00:53:07,640 --> 00:53:11,120
Speaker 1: out two times. Well, this this is a complex issue

953
00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:13,239
Speaker 1: and we could do an entire show on it. Um.

954
00:53:14,560 --> 00:53:17,919
Speaker 1: But to me, so every baseball game, if you watch

955
00:53:18,040 --> 00:53:19,600
Speaker 1: it all the way through, is sort of like a

956
00:53:19,640 --> 00:53:22,960
Speaker 1: house of cards. Each inning is a new layer, and

957
00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:25,799
Speaker 1: the tension rises every time, and then by the eighth

958
00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:29,400
Speaker 1: or ninth inning in a well played game, that tension releases.

959
00:53:29,440 --> 00:53:31,120
Speaker 1: The house of cards come down, and that's where the

960
00:53:31,160 --> 00:53:34,560
Speaker 1: glory of baseball happens. All that layering and subtleness and

961
00:53:34,680 --> 00:53:36,879
Speaker 1: texture and it's all being taken out of the game

962
00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:40,000
Speaker 1: by the three true outcome stuff. And I think baseball

963
00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:42,759
Speaker 1: has known this for thirty years. They have known this

964
00:53:42,880 --> 00:53:45,680
Speaker 1: is where the game's gone, and instead of fixing the game,

965
00:53:46,320 --> 00:53:50,640
Speaker 1: they've juiced the ball, moved in the fences, taking personality

966
00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:53,759
Speaker 1: and distinct styles for managers away from the game, and

967
00:53:53,840 --> 00:53:57,520
Speaker 1: now you're left with this kind of boring Everybody does

968
00:53:57,560 --> 00:54:01,880
Speaker 1: the same thing game. It's just not that esthetically appealing

969
00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:05,640
Speaker 1: as it was Um And yet West and I combined

970
00:54:05,680 --> 00:54:07,560
Speaker 1: to watch about a hundred and fifty five out of

971
00:54:07,560 --> 00:54:10,160
Speaker 1: a hundred sixty two games this year. Still a beautiful game,

972
00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:14,719
Speaker 1: but there's always room for improvement. Easy with the home runs.

973
00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:18,319
Speaker 1: How about those London games Yankees Red Sox that wasn't

974
00:54:18,360 --> 00:54:22,160
Speaker 1: fun to watch? That was basically an arena league baseball series,

975
00:54:22,520 --> 00:54:24,360
Speaker 1: and it was the introduction of the sport to a

976
00:54:24,440 --> 00:54:27,399
Speaker 1: lot of people overseas. Um, but that was I don't

977
00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:28,960
Speaker 1: even know what was going on. Did you happen to

978
00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:31,360
Speaker 1: catch any of that was? I didn't see him, but

979
00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:33,360
Speaker 1: it seemed like the fences were short, We're short, and

980
00:54:33,440 --> 00:54:35,680
Speaker 1: the turf was fast. It was just it was absurd,

981
00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:42,720
Speaker 1: and um, let's move on. Uh Adam Foxcraft, Foxcroft, Conair,

982
00:54:42,840 --> 00:54:46,680
Speaker 1: the Rock or face Off? The Great Knick Cage trilogy

983
00:54:46,719 --> 00:54:51,560
Speaker 1: of the nineties. Obviously face Off a completely bonkers performance

984
00:54:51,600 --> 00:54:56,080
Speaker 1: by Cage and also Travolta, who to me steals that

985
00:54:56,200 --> 00:55:00,319
Speaker 1: film right out from under Knick Cage and his primes feet.

986
00:55:00,840 --> 00:55:03,759
Speaker 1: I believe it is the Rock, the one that has

987
00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:10,200
Speaker 1: Katherine Zeena Jones dipping beneath lasers? That was? What was

988
00:55:10,280 --> 00:55:11,800
Speaker 1: that one? That was a different one? No, that was

989
00:55:11,840 --> 00:55:13,799
Speaker 1: a different one. Well, that was not a good movie.

990
00:55:13,960 --> 00:55:16,480
Speaker 1: I've never seen face Off. I made it about halfway

991
00:55:16,520 --> 00:55:18,880
Speaker 1: through conn Arab before I decided it was too ridiculous

992
00:55:18,920 --> 00:55:21,000
Speaker 1: to watch. But I did make it through the Rock,

993
00:55:21,120 --> 00:55:23,440
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna put that on there. There you go, Uh,

994
00:55:23,800 --> 00:55:26,919
Speaker 1: Kathy Zeta Jones under lasers? Can you google that, Erica,

995
00:55:27,040 --> 00:55:28,640
Speaker 1: just so we can remember what movie that was? I

996
00:55:28,719 --> 00:55:31,319
Speaker 1: think it was one of those one word titles back

997
00:55:31,400 --> 00:55:36,000
Speaker 1: in the day, Dean Bonner asks qualace to Fantasia? Uh,

998
00:55:36,080 --> 00:55:39,160
Speaker 1: the Browns become a dominant force, but Mark Cussler becomes

999
00:55:39,200 --> 00:55:42,799
Speaker 1: insufferable as a fan. Or the Patriots fall hard from

1000
00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:47,280
Speaker 1: their lofty perch, and Greg Rosenthal becomes so depressed. Entrapment,

1001
00:55:47,680 --> 00:55:50,400
Speaker 1: perfect name for the nineties movie. He is seriously considering

1002
00:55:50,520 --> 00:55:57,360
Speaker 1: changing careers and becoming a tennis blogger. Wait, what qualas

1003
00:55:57,400 --> 00:56:00,640
Speaker 1: to Fantasia? The Browns become a dominant force, but Mark

1004
00:56:00,680 --> 00:56:04,480
Speaker 1: Sessler becomes an insufferable fan, or the Patriots fall hard

1005
00:56:04,560 --> 00:56:08,240
Speaker 1: from their lofty perch, and Greg Rosenthal becomes so depressed

1006
00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:12,040
Speaker 1: he's seriously considering changing careers and becoming a tennis blogger.

1007
00:56:13,200 --> 00:56:15,759
Speaker 1: I think it's way more likely that Greg would take

1008
00:56:15,800 --> 00:56:18,239
Speaker 1: a long, hard look in the mirror and switch professions.

1009
00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:21,200
Speaker 1: I just don't see Mark ever becoming in an obnoxious fan.

1010
00:56:21,280 --> 00:56:23,920
Speaker 1: He doesn't trust, he doesn't trust his team enough to

1011
00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:26,840
Speaker 1: be obnoxious. That's just not That's not who Mark is

1012
00:56:27,200 --> 00:56:31,200
Speaker 1: personality wise. I could see Greg, who's already deeply obsessed

1013
00:56:31,239 --> 00:56:33,920
Speaker 1: with tennis, maybe going down that road at a later

1014
00:56:33,960 --> 00:56:35,200
Speaker 1: point in his life, But I don't think because of

1015
00:56:35,239 --> 00:56:37,360
Speaker 1: the Patriots. I don't think Greg has like feelings. I

1016
00:56:37,400 --> 00:56:41,040
Speaker 1: don't think he would be like, oh my god, the Patriots. Yeah.

1017
00:56:42,040 --> 00:56:46,879
Speaker 1: Uh that's right, that's correct too, all right. Uh two more,

1018
00:56:47,680 --> 00:56:51,279
Speaker 1: Andrew Lewis asks which album would West most want to

1019
00:56:51,320 --> 00:56:55,120
Speaker 1: give the throwback treatment? Synergy to Throwback podcast, of course,

1020
00:56:55,200 --> 00:56:57,839
Speaker 1: my podcast to do with Bobcat drone where we look

1021
00:56:57,920 --> 00:57:02,960
Speaker 1: back at an album put out in the you know years,

1022
00:57:03,280 --> 00:57:07,320
Speaker 1: revisit it, talk about it. What about us? Okay, so

1023
00:57:07,400 --> 00:57:09,319
Speaker 1: I've got sort of a top five or six here,

1024
00:57:09,560 --> 00:57:11,279
Speaker 1: but I want to know if you guys have done

1025
00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:14,239
Speaker 1: these before. I was trying to think of things that

1026
00:57:14,320 --> 00:57:16,520
Speaker 1: you guys have not already done. Have you done Mermaid

1027
00:57:16,560 --> 00:57:19,240
Speaker 1: Avenue by Billy Bragg and Wilco We have not. That

1028
00:57:19,360 --> 00:57:22,480
Speaker 1: would be high up for me writing these down, by

1029
00:57:22,480 --> 00:57:26,800
Speaker 1: the way, Neil Young Harvest Moon, we have not done that. Uh.

1030
00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:29,920
Speaker 1: Lauren Hill, The Miseducation of Lauren Hill, we have not

1031
00:57:30,080 --> 00:57:34,960
Speaker 1: done that yet. But Lakisha Westling your wife. Your wife

1032
00:57:36,040 --> 00:57:40,040
Speaker 1: said she wanted to do that album That could be ideal, uh,

1033
00:57:40,240 --> 00:57:43,240
Speaker 1: west Lakisha Joint coming into the garage. This one you

1034
00:57:43,360 --> 00:57:47,040
Speaker 1: may have done. Jeff Buckley's Grace. I love Grace, have

1035
00:57:47,240 --> 00:57:49,120
Speaker 1: not done it. It's almost such a heavy album to

1036
00:57:49,160 --> 00:57:51,720
Speaker 1: be a little weird in the throwback pod format, but

1037
00:57:51,880 --> 00:57:53,760
Speaker 1: doesn't mean we want to do it. Okay. Two more

1038
00:57:53,880 --> 00:57:58,160
Speaker 1: Johnny Cash's American Recordings. Is that the cover's album. Yeah, well,

1039
00:57:58,200 --> 00:58:00,880
Speaker 1: there's like a series of like four of them, but yeah, um,

1040
00:58:01,040 --> 00:58:03,800
Speaker 1: and then finally one Way Off your Radar. I love

1041
00:58:03,880 --> 00:58:08,440
Speaker 1: this album. Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise is the name of

1042
00:58:08,520 --> 00:58:11,200
Speaker 1: the group and the album is Blackwater Surprise. It is

1043
00:58:11,440 --> 00:58:15,800
Speaker 1: a blind, middle age African American son of a share cropper,

1044
00:58:16,520 --> 00:58:19,960
Speaker 1: one of thirteen children, who ends up in Detroit and

1045
00:58:20,520 --> 00:58:24,320
Speaker 1: these early twenties white rockers hear him singing on the

1046
00:58:24,360 --> 00:58:27,240
Speaker 1: sidewalk for money. They stationed them as the head of

1047
00:58:27,320 --> 00:58:30,040
Speaker 1: their group and he's the singer, he's the writer, and

1048
00:58:30,120 --> 00:58:33,120
Speaker 1: everything is like this soul blues a little bit of

1049
00:58:33,200 --> 00:58:36,680
Speaker 1: rock mixture that is just incredible. Do you have any

1050
00:58:36,680 --> 00:58:41,800
Speaker 1: of those albums? Nor uh? I I have, the Wilco,

1051
00:58:42,040 --> 00:58:48,200
Speaker 1: the Billy bragg One, Um Grace, I have, um, Lauren

1052
00:58:48,240 --> 00:58:50,200
Speaker 1: Hill I have. I mean you love Harvest Moon obviously,

1053
00:58:50,560 --> 00:58:53,760
Speaker 1: who doesn't love that song? Unknown legend also on that

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Speaker 1: album is a great song. There you go. That's it.

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Speaker 1: That's it for the Mailbags, close up the Mailback. Good stuff.

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Speaker 1: Not even interrupted once during our conference room podcast here

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Speaker 1: some people walk by looked at us like we were crazy.

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Speaker 1: That's their problem. They're just they're they're they're living an

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Speaker 1: envy because they don't cut the headset on, they don't

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Speaker 1: have the chords, and they don't have the laptops. Because

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Speaker 1: this is status symbol right now, you know what it

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Speaker 1: says important people in the conference room. In the conference room.

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Speaker 1: All right, when did we get back into the studio,

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Speaker 1: the real studio. We got like two weeks of this?

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Speaker 1: Oh damn ye? All right, so we'll be back on Thursday, okay,

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna have Greg back, I believe from Japan. Mark,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe maybe not. I would I would

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Speaker 1: lean toward the week after or the month after, or

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Speaker 1: the year after whatever. The Tumbo's taken. All right, good stuff, West,

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Speaker 1: that was fun. That was good, all right? Is Dan

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Speaker 1: hands Is signing off for the Mailman. Chris Wesley future

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Speaker 1: Throwback Podcast guests can't wait, and Ricky Hollywood already softball

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Speaker 1: the game this week tell Thursday gee, I can't wait

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Speaker 1: till I go to hikes. Don't you say that. Don't

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Speaker 1: you ever see that? Stay here, Stay as long as

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Speaker 1: you can, for the love of God, Cherish it.