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Speaker 3: Kevin, we're still allowed to play this song on the radio.

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Speaker 3: I love it well, Daddy and family forever the little.

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Speaker 4: I can't. Can I say it? I'm gonna get so

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Speaker 4: in the air everywhere the vast Fox Sports Radio network.

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Speaker 4: Kevin figures Adam Alslin filling in for Big Ben Maler

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Speaker 4: here on Fox Sports Radio. This is the big time, Adam.

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Speaker 4: I mean talking about a Fox Sports Radio legend that

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Speaker 3: Big Ben Mallor, who I used to listen to up

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Speaker 3: is kind of a big deal and I don't know.

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Speaker 3: It's a holiday. Happy New Year everyone.

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Speaker 4: Happy New Year everyone out there on the East Coast

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Speaker 4: and everywhere else. About an hour left in twenty twenty

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Speaker 4: to us about whatever's on your mind. Here on the

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Speaker 4: on the eve, on New Year's Eve, I should say

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Speaker 4: have twenty twenty five into twenty twenty six, depending on

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Speaker 3: Okay, I do have to say we have some early

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Speaker 3: technical difficulties. So don't ask me to play first off

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Speaker 4: Of course we do. I'll get a new machine.

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Speaker 3: Hold on, hold on, I'm trying to play something right now.

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Speaker 3: Bring it ain't working. It ain't working, like it's not

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Speaker 3: on my end. All I know is this.

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Speaker 4: New year, same machine. That's what it is.

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Speaker 3: No, Yeah, this year, she says, from nineteen ninety five,

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Speaker 3: What do you think that's my machine playing that.

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Speaker 4: I thought.

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Speaker 3: So they're just playing like random sound trucks.

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Speaker 4: Now that's John Lorain and just keep him rolling. Why not?

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Speaker 3: It's like one button in the sound. That's all I

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Speaker 3: can tell. Uh, it's just try every button. I don't know, Kevin,

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Speaker 3: Let's just start talking about the upset tonight, please. We

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Speaker 3: old school method. I can say, first off like Tupac

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Speaker 3: Miami one. Dam It ain't New Year's if you don't

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Speaker 3: got Michael Irving bringing out the belt on a gatorade

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Speaker 4: Doing a little bit too much. And I love Michael Irvan.

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Speaker 4: And by the way, you can't help if you ever

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Speaker 4: very charismatic. We'll talk to you almost like a politician

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Speaker 3: Oh you think he's like sister Jean a little bit, well,

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Speaker 4: I feel like she just passed earlier this year.

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Speaker 3: Okay, well, that'll be the in memoriam segment we do

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Speaker 4: Don't get cocky, kid. You know we're only four minutes

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Speaker 3: Check out the big brain on Bria Brie. First of all,

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Speaker 3: it had nothing to do on my end, Kevin. I

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Speaker 5: I don't even know what an IR machine is. But

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Speaker 3: Well, look, this is old stuff for us. This is

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Speaker 5: I work with Ben Maller, one of the dinosaurs of radio.

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Speaker 5: Don't tell me you're bringing in old stuff.

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Speaker 3: I actually have some Ben Mallor sound here.

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Speaker 3: I'm not. It's the end of twenty twenty five. I'm

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Speaker 4: Holiday?

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Speaker 3: Here we be, Look, Santa Claus, it's past. I got

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Speaker 3: Adam Ashland, I mean he literally called me Ashland before

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Speaker 4: He's not the only one you see with Linda White

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Speaker 3: Oh, I did not Lyndell or I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Thought a lot about the USC football program. I'll say that.

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Speaker 3: Oh, the fact that he didn't have that block in

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Speaker 3: from it. But that's fine. Everything's fine now, we're good machine.

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Speaker 3: No I am over it.

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Speaker 1: If everything's perfectly all right, now we're fine.

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Speaker 4: We're all fine here now, thank you?

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Speaker 3: How are you? You know where things aren't fine? Well,

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Speaker 3: they're never fine there, but Ohio, Ohio losing this ballgame tonight,

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Speaker 3: Kevin in the fashion they did being the number two seed.

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Speaker 3: The main takeaway I have, the Colin Cowherd takeaway is this,

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Speaker 3: and thank goodness Miami got in because they have more

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Speaker 3: than proven themselves. Notre Dame. I'm sorry, Brady Quinn, you

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Speaker 3: now they've taken out Ohio State to move on rolling

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Speaker 4: Well, this part is hard. And by the way, a

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Speaker 4: Notre Dame basically played the exact same way that Miami

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Speaker 3: Okay, you're right, but Miami certainly is deserving at.

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Speaker 4: This point without a doubt.

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Speaker 3: Over what I think, I mean, most brackets for the

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Speaker 4: season two, I guess right. Bringing in him now for

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Speaker 4: the CFP, why they hell not?

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Speaker 3: People are going to be confused with all the guns

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Speaker 3: being shot up into the air tonight. Yeah, no, kidd

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, in Ohio State, who I mean, without question,

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Speaker 4: the second half. The exact same thing happened with Miami.

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Speaker 4: myro Crystal Ball, any team that he coaches, they're going

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Speaker 4: to be good in the trenches, and that's exactly what

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Speaker 3: They started with that level of physicality and they finished

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Speaker 3: the first half. A lot of them were dinking dunk passes,

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Speaker 3: but been in a game against Ohio State, you might

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Speaker 3: have to do that, Julian saying. By the way, I'm saying,

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Speaker 3: he completed ten straight to start the second half.

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Speaker 4: He was spectacular.

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Speaker 3: I think the turning point of the ball game was

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Speaker 3: Miami at seventeen fourteen, and the first penalty of the

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Speaker 4: Yeah. The big thing for me, I guess is the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they did twist the pure snipple of

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Speaker 3: Then well, they're not letting that dog off the leash yet.

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Speaker 3: They're gonna wait for the playoffs to really turn up. Well,

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Speaker 3: Miami was too good. If they played this game ten times,

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Speaker 4: I could see that. Yeah, Well, it's one of those

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Speaker 4: Is there a team that they can't beat? I mean,

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Speaker 4: Why can't you make a deep run to the championship?

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Speaker 3: They can't you?

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Speaker 4: Who can't you beat?

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Speaker 3: Well? George is very familiar with Carson Beck, and I

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Speaker 3: I'm not saying they can't beat Georgia, but Georgia would

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think most people felt that about Ohio

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Speaker 4: congratulations to University at Miami. And if you're Ryan Day,

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Speaker 3: Say, oh, yeah, he'll be right back where he was

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Speaker 4: Done for me lately? Because apparently what happens in the

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Speaker 4: Oh they'll be better than competitive. They're they're gonna win

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Speaker 3: This was so disappointing of a loss, though, because they

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Speaker 3: So people aren't gonna forget this. Lord knows, somebody with

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Speaker 3: I'm good with it.

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Speaker 4: I'm sure it's not his intention to draw attention away

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Speaker 4: from the team, but to a certain degree I think

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Speaker 4: it does. It's like you can be on the sideline

442
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Speaker 4: and cheer when the team does well, but you're doing

443
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Speaker 4: a little much for me, Mike.

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Speaker 3: He thinks he's on the team still does What was

445
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Speaker 3: that speech he gave? It was Jamis Winston esque afterwards,

446
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Speaker 3: talking about you're not gonna take away my glory speaking

447
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Speaker 3: about the past. Yeah, I'm here for it, but I

448
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Speaker 3: know we got more to talk about with college football

449
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Speaker 3: because there are some games that are being overlooked right now, Kevin.

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Speaker 3: And it's kind of a change into the guard. It's

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Speaker 3: a new era of college football. When you got twelve

452
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Speaker 3: teams in how much do you care about these bowl

453
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Speaker 3: games going on? We had Texas Michigan earlier and as

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Speaker 3: our friend David Vassa would say, it was kind of

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Speaker 3: whole hum. It was a little bit ho hum out there.

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Speaker 3: We'll talk about that next. He's Kevin figures Amna Moslin.

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Speaker 3: It is Fna in on The Ben Mallor Show. Happy

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Speaker 4: Happy New Year out there to the West Coast, Happy

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Speaker 4: New Year, and if you're.

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Speaker 2: So Marget.

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Speaker 4: And for our friends listening Hawaii, still got a couple

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Speaker 4: hours to go.

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Speaker 3: Y'all get a New Year every day?

483
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Speaker 4: Yeah exactly.

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Speaker 3: Is this one of those opportunities where it's okay to

485
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Speaker 3: get drunk on the radio. It feels like it should be.

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Speaker 3: If Anderson Cooper and his boyfriend can get drunk on

487
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Speaker 3: the CNN broadcast, why can't we, Kevin.

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Speaker 4: I guess there's no rules saying that we can't. The

489
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Speaker 4: girls are wasted in the other room greatly frowned upon.

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Speaker 4: I don't think that that's the baby. Let's go necessarily

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Speaker 4: true right now. I appreciate the honesty. I do love

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Speaker 4: that about you.

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Speaker 5: My very first radio job in Oregon, the morning guys

494
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Speaker 5: who come in at four am, they kept a bottle

495
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Speaker 5: of fireball whiskey in their drawing at every morning, every morning.

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Speaker 3: Okay, that was like the first time I felt like

497
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Speaker 3: I should stop drinking. I had a fireball incident. I

498
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Speaker 3: had a Mario Brothers fireball incident where I woke up

499
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Speaker 3: the next morning because the fireball gets you with the

500
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Speaker 3: indigestion when you got to get the PEPs at ac. Yeah,

501
00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:47,639
Speaker 3: the esophagus is burning, it's on fire. That's the worst

502
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Speaker 3: option possible. First, of all those Oregon guys, I would

503
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Speaker 3: have thought they would have waked and baked, not waked

504
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Speaker 3: into fireballs like that. That too, okay, maybe a little

505
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Speaker 3: bit of both Jega bombs down here teeth Well, I hope.

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Speaker 4: You guys are just college at one point, I'm sorry,

507
00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:03,399
Speaker 4: just did you bring up fireball? And like you know,

508
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Speaker 4: we're young, we're broke, we don't have any money, and

509
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Speaker 4: all we had was my roommate's older brother had a

510
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Speaker 4: bottle of Fireball that he hadn't opened, and he's like, well,

511
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Speaker 4: it was cheap to pay for it. Yeah, it was

512
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Speaker 4: an absolute nightmare.

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Speaker 5: You can't smell cinnamon anymore.

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Speaker 4: It's just auxious thousand.

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Speaker 3: It's like if you have a certain drink when you're sick,

516
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Speaker 3: and then you always associate it with being sick, like

517
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Speaker 3: having seven Up or something like that. Now I can't

518
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Speaker 3: have seven up when I feel fine. It doesn't work

519
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Speaker 3: for me. Even sprites too close they had to take

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Speaker 3: away see or missed because it ruined things for me.

521
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Speaker 3: Now it's story. Yeah, I Fireball's the worst thing ever.

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Speaker 3: You know what, in twenty twenty six, I'm going to

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Speaker 3: continue to not drink. That just sealed it for me.

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Speaker 4: That's sure.

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Speaker 3: Just non resolution fireball incident. I can't have it. And

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Speaker 3: hopefully you guys out there tonight are being safe, ye

527
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Speaker 3: are staying off the road, are not doing whatever. Michael

528
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Speaker 3: Irving was at the Miami game that had him going

529
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Speaker 3: like that, or he brought out the belt like none

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Speaker 3: of us can wear belts anymore. Michael Irving has all

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Speaker 3: of them.

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Speaker 4: Kevin. That was an impressive performance by the University of

533
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Speaker 4: Miami and they maybe even more oppressive performance by Michael

534
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Speaker 4: Irvin down there on the sideline.

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Speaker 3: Can I say this? Somebody tweeted in that they want

536
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Speaker 3: more hate towards Ohio State, they want more trash talk,

537
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Speaker 3: even though the story should be about Miami winning. As

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Speaker 3: Ben Maller would say, the losing locker room has the

539
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Speaker 3: bigger story. Right.

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Speaker 4: Well, look, we did bring up Ryan Day, and you

541
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Speaker 4: know the fact that, as their rational West fans are,

542
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Speaker 4: just won a national championship last year, did beat Michigan,

543
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Speaker 4: and all of a sudden finds himself in a situation

544
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Speaker 4: where people the fan base is upset and there's new

545
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Speaker 4: blood at Michigan. I will not downplay again if Michigan

546
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Speaker 4: finds a way under Kyle Whittingham to jump up next

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Speaker 4: year and beat Ohio State going into the playoff. I

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Speaker 4: do think. I don't think Ohio State realistically is gonna

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Speaker 4: entertain getting rid of Ryan Day. But I do think

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Speaker 4: that those conversations are gonna start being had as ridiculous

551
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Speaker 4: as they are because that's just where the standard is

552
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Speaker 4: for university like that.

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Speaker 3: Look, Spock's weed, who got to me? I follow out

554
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Speaker 3: of Maya on X who wants us to go after

555
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Speaker 3: Ohio State more. I mean, I said they twisted his

556
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Speaker 3: nipple ring. That's what Miami did to Ryan Day in

557
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Speaker 3: Ohio State.

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Speaker 4: Get excited.

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Speaker 3: I'm just saying, like his black Beard is fake. They're

560
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Speaker 3: all frauds there, apparently, because they got bounced in their

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Speaker 3: first game of the playoff this season. And they've got

562
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Speaker 3: way too many stickers on their helmets. Okay, it's not

563
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Speaker 3: that serious.

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Speaker 4: Some of them. Do you have to earn those stickers

565
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Speaker 4: at it?

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Speaker 3: I don't know. They're sticker happy. It felt like there

567
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Speaker 3: were way less stickers back in the game or back

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Speaker 3: in the day.

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Speaker 4: So you're saying that, uh that Ryan Days like Oprah,

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Speaker 4: everybody gets a sticker, whether they earn it or not.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, these parts of going around these everybody gets a star,

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Speaker 3: everybody got nay plus all that stuff. Ohio State maybe

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Speaker 3: that's what they lost the game actually because they were

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Speaker 3: over confident, because they felt like they were better than

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Speaker 3: they actually were. Because every helmet you could barely see

576
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Speaker 3: the helmet. They probably didn't feel safe out there. They

577
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Speaker 3: thought they were just being protected by damn stickers.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, look I would rip into Ohio State if

579
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Speaker 4: they lost to James Madison. It's not like, with the

580
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Speaker 4: all due respect to James Madison.

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Speaker 3: Hey, Mario Cristo ball never wins a big game until now.

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Speaker 3: If I had a crystal ball and I looked into

583
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Speaker 3: it and it said Miami was going to win this game,

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't believe it.

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Speaker 4: Well, his game management certainly calls a lot of things

586
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Speaker 4: into question, but again, considering how this game played out,

587
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Speaker 4: he didn't really have to have a big decision come

588
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Speaker 4: come to a head for him because they dominated the

589
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Speaker 4: line of scrimmage. Now, maybe that's an indictment of Ohio State,

590
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Speaker 4: and maybe because it's happened in back to back games

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Speaker 4: for them against Indiana and Miami. If you want to

592
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Speaker 4: hope that against them, sure, but they still have a

593
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Speaker 4: stacked roster. They have all the talent in the world.

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Speaker 4: You said, if they played Miami and Ohio State played

595
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Speaker 4: each other ten times, that maybe Miami will win six,

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Speaker 4: maybe you'll be five and five. I think that's just

597
00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:01,400
Speaker 4: how this game played out.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Wait, I don't know. Wait a second. They played Texas,

599
00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:09,480
Speaker 3: they barely won. They played Indiana, they barely lost, and

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Speaker 3: the kicker missed a Blair Walsh esque twenty seven yard

601
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Speaker 3: er and missed another one in the at the end

602
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Speaker 3: of the first half. They played Miami and they lost

603
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Speaker 3: every good team to decent team that they played, because

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Speaker 3: I don't know how good Texas was. I mean, they

605
00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:25,520
Speaker 3: ended up beating Michigan. They finished strong, and arch Manning

606
00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:27,679
Speaker 3: looked better. But to start off the season when they

607
00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:31,080
Speaker 3: weren't very good, every good team Ohouse they played. I

608
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Speaker 3: don't know, Kevin, they played a lot of nobody's in

609
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Speaker 3: between all those close games against decent competition. I think

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Speaker 3: they may be big fat phonies. They were valued.

611
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Speaker 4: So see, this is what the guy who tweeted you

612
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Speaker 4: this is what he wanted?

613
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Speaker 3: Is this not what you want?

614
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Speaker 4: Is this what you want?

615
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Speaker 3: Are you not entertained?

616
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Speaker 4: Which is not a bad point at him, So you.

617
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Speaker 3: Know, I'm just saying I finally got to a good

618
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Speaker 3: point and all my hopeless ranting about Ohio State. They

619
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Speaker 3: didn't play the stiffest competition. No, they weren't battle tested enough.

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Speaker 4: A pretty paddy cake Big ten schedule all the way around.

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Speaker 4: When you think about it, what's your schedule and how

622
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:14,120
Speaker 4: it falls on a given year. It has as much

623
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Speaker 4: to do with whether or not you make the postseason

624
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Speaker 4: as anything. Yeah, So I don't know that is that

625
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:22,920
Speaker 4: is very much an accurate indictment of them that you

626
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Speaker 4: had there.

627
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Speaker 3: It just feels like piling on though, going after the

628
00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:29,520
Speaker 3: state of Ohio. You know, in Cincinnati, and they haven't

629
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Speaker 3: had a lot of success in Cleveland.

630
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Speaker 4: So it's just it's usually just Ohio State University, not

631
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Speaker 4: the entire state of Ohio.

632
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Speaker 3: I'm just saying, like, I have a friend from Cleveland, Okay,

633
00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:41,679
Speaker 3: Mike Tucker, mother Tucker, we used to call him, and

634
00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:44,200
Speaker 3: I still have a soft spot for those teams that

635
00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:46,159
Speaker 3: he rooted for. Now, Ohio State has had a lot

636
00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:50,440
Speaker 3: of success in their history. They're an outlier. Not this year,

637
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:51,640
Speaker 3: baby bout.

638
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Speaker 4: Okay it, God forbid. They don't win the national championship

639
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:56,959
Speaker 4: every single solitary season.

640
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Speaker 3: They didn't even come close. Kevin, that was belt to assy.

641
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Speaker 4: She had a fat ass, you know what I mean? Yeah, Mike, Mike,

642
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:07,160
Speaker 4: Michael Irvan, where you bess in two thousand and one,

643
00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:09,880
Speaker 4: the last time Miami won a national championship, we're talking

644
00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:11,920
Speaker 4: about belta asses. And I look in I love Michael

645
00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:13,040
Speaker 4: over my personal.

646
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:15,359
Speaker 3: Problems, all right, whatever what do you mean?

647
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:17,680
Speaker 4: Where he's been ste it's about Belta ass and talking

648
00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:19,760
Speaker 4: trash about Ohio State. Not that Mike is doing that,

649
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:23,200
Speaker 4: but just piling on Ohio State is a phenomenal program.

650
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Speaker 4: They're gonna bounce back. They're not going anywhere. They had

651
00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:29,080
Speaker 4: a bad year. It happens. I thought Alabama won the

652
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:31,800
Speaker 4: national championship every single year in the next sabment, even

653
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Speaker 4: though they did the majority of the time he was in.

654
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Speaker 4: Wasn't every year.

655
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Speaker 3: You're right, You're right. He set unrealistic expectations. But the

656
00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:41,800
Speaker 3: U is back. First, Texas was back. They made the

657
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:43,920
Speaker 3: playoff last year, made a bit of a run, got

658
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Speaker 3: lucky against Arizona State. Now Ohio State is not back.

659
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Speaker 3: You Miami? Miami is back? When will USC be back?

660
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Speaker 3: Their next st up? Right on who's back?

661
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Speaker 7: Am?

662
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Speaker 4: I take some time about they find themselves a defensive coordinator. Yeah,

663
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:04,240
Speaker 4: good luck with That's a bit of an issue. That

664
00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:07,040
Speaker 4: final play was unreal. I was watching that.

665
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Speaker 3: I don't want to out anyone, but my close personal

666
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 3: friend Carlo Jimenez, voice of the Clippers on the radio side,

667
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 3: went to USC just out.

668
00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:15,440
Speaker 4: At him and gave away his job, his government name

669
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Speaker 4: where he lives. Cool. I don't want to take this.

670
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:20,080
Speaker 4: You don't have to take this from Adam Carlough.

671
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:22,640
Speaker 3: The signature call is Nylon and it's a good one.

672
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:27,200
Speaker 3: But uh, he was not happy seeing that live and

673
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:30,400
Speaker 3: me being the one showing him the play live as

674
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:33,320
Speaker 3: it happened on my phone. I thought live actually first,

675
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 3: and then rewounded for him and made it seem like

676
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Speaker 3: it was going to be live as that frog stomping

677
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:41,520
Speaker 3: happened against USC with TCU the other night.

678
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Speaker 4: That was really really hoping Carlo would just smack the

679
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:45,600
Speaker 4: phone out of your hands as you tried to put

680
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Speaker 4: it up to his face.

681
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Speaker 3: Well, I got an otter box case or whatever the

682
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 3: hell it is like, it's been through worse.

683
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,360
Speaker 4: Come on, just taken throw it halfway across into it dome.

684
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Speaker 3: Okay, where we are burying the lead here? First of all,

685
00:29:57,040 --> 00:30:00,640
Speaker 3: it's New Year's. It is happy New Year. We're in

686
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:03,360
Speaker 3: for Ben mallor I'm out of Maslin. He's Kevin Figures

687
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,040
Speaker 3: and you know what, let's play it. We haven't played

688
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 3: it in a while.

689
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Speaker 4: It's not funny the Paddle O'Brien inspired jingle, thank you Petros.

690
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:26,840
Speaker 3: It is a New Year's so we got to theme

691
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Speaker 3: things out here in the show, Kevin, you had this

692
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Speaker 3: brilliant idea lay it on me.

693
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Speaker 4: I don't know how brilliant it was, but I was thinking,

694
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Speaker 4: people talk about New Years and having different resolutions, and

695
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Speaker 4: maybe that's something that we can get into a little

696
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Speaker 4: deeper at the very end of this hour. But as

697
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Speaker 4: far as the sports landscape goes, you know, people talk

698
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:44,520
Speaker 4: about issues that they have with certain sports. I know

699
00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:47,240
Speaker 4: instant replay is a big deal in in the NFL,

700
00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:49,360
Speaker 4: and what should be reviewed and what shouldn't be reviewed

701
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 4: really in any sport if it's about that in the

702
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:54,200
Speaker 4: NBA when it comes to fouls or goaltending and Major

703
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:58,040
Speaker 4: League Baseball with fair fair foul, or whether there should

704
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 4: be a skyjash, just any number of things, issues that

705
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:04,480
Speaker 4: you could potentially have with whatever sport you decided to follow,

706
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 4: and if there could be a sport that you would

707
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:09,120
Speaker 4: love to follow, but because of something that really grinds

708
00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:11,280
Speaker 4: your gears about it, you've just decided to check out.

709
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 4: I'm out. I don't want to watch it anymore.

710
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 3: As a burned my saddle with this sport, not only a.

711
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Speaker 4: Little bit a little bit. So the question is, if

712
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Speaker 4: there's one thing you can change about your favorite sport

713
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 4: or any sport. What would it be and why? Pop

714
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Speaker 4: quiz hotshot.

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Speaker 3: Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox If you guys

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Speaker 3: want to tell us, I could start with this, Kevin. Now,

717
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaker 3: this could be something that's pretty universal for many sports.

718
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:40,959
Speaker 3: But I'm gonna say this specifically about the NBA because

719
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Speaker 3: it is at least a twenty five year old problem

720
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Speaker 3: for the association. We got to get rid of, not

721
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Speaker 3: just divisions conferences in the National Basketball Associations.

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Speaker 4: Is a Fred Rogan special right here the West.

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Speaker 3: How dare you?

724
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Speaker 4: Hey, that's it through you.

725
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Speaker 3: I'm sorry twenty twenty six and you're still calling me

726
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:04,320
Speaker 3: Fred Rogan. This is going to have a bad take.

727
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 4: This is the company that you live in, or Adam?

728
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:07,920
Speaker 4: What table takes like that? Sorry?

729
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Speaker 3: Company of Wolves? Look, how the hell was she that

730
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Speaker 3: quick with it? I thought I was quick on the

731
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Speaker 3: instant replay machine.

732
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Speaker 5: Damn, you don't count with being quick because you come from.

733
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Speaker 4: Your own brain.

734
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Speaker 3: That's not sexual. All right. So that's our first one

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Speaker 3: of the new year.

736
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Speaker 4: Here you go.

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Speaker 3: Look, the NBA has had a problem for over twenty

738
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Speaker 3: five years. I can go back to Jordan retiring the

739
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Speaker 3: second time with Chicago. Since then, the Western Conference has

740
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Speaker 3: dominated and I think won the head to head overall

741
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Speaker 3: series against the Eastern Conference every year except for one.

742
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Speaker 3: I think it was two thousand and nine when it

743
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:53,560
Speaker 3: was the Lakers in Orlando Magic and the Eastern Conference

744
00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:55,920
Speaker 3: actually beat the Western Conference more than the West beat

745
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Speaker 3: the East overall record wise that season. That's it. So

746
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Speaker 3: we got all these teams that are in a blood

747
00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:06,080
Speaker 3: bath and a gauntlet every year. Everybody talks about the

748
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 3: SEC is so difficult to get through in these conferences

749
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Speaker 3: and it's not fair. No, no, no. The Western Conference

750
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 3: in the NBA has been the worst case of imbalance

751
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Speaker 3: between schedules and not having things leveled out. And if

752
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:25,640
Speaker 3: they could just go one through sixteen, the best team

753
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Speaker 3: in either conference, I mean the West might have twelve

754
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Speaker 3: teams in. There would definitely be years like that. You

755
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 3: do need to balance things out because the West plays

756
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Speaker 3: each other more correct.

757
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Speaker 4: So I was gonna be my question to you is

758
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Speaker 4: how do you balance out the schedule with the format

759
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Speaker 4: like that?

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Speaker 3: You could figure it out. There are ways, dude, I mean,

761
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 3: come on, those.

762
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Speaker 4: People who make way much more money than you that

763
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:47,440
Speaker 4: can figure that out.

764
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Speaker 3: Hey want to toe. I can get you a toe.

765
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Speaker 3: They can figure this out somehow, just smooth things out.

766
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Speaker 3: They can go in rotation with certain conferences every year,

767
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Speaker 3: like we see in the NFL, where a team from

768
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Speaker 3: an NFL division ends up playing a certain AFC division

769
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:04,840
Speaker 3: one year and around robin format that type of thing.

770
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Speaker 3: There are much better ways than what we're seeing right now.

771
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Speaker 3: And I think it is a serious problem because I

772
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Speaker 3: root for teams in the Western Conference, so I'm a

773
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Speaker 3: victim of the conference and balance that is going on

774
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Speaker 3: in the NBA. Otherwise, the Clippers would have probably fifteen

775
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:25,279
Speaker 3: championships by now if they had the easier route out

776
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Speaker 3: of the Eastern Conference. Ben Maller would agree with that. No,

777
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Speaker 3: he would.

778
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Speaker 4: No, I don't disagree that Ben would agree. I disagree

779
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Speaker 4: with that. Take me off, Excuse.

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Speaker 3: Me, all right, Kevin, you want to give me your

781
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 3: New Year's resolution in sports?

782
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm going to go to college football on this one.

783
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:48,080
Speaker 4: And it might sound like a minor thing, but it

784
00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 4: actually has a big trickle down effect with a lot

785
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 4: of other situations. We really need to go back to

786
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Speaker 4: one national signing period in February for college football, and

787
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Speaker 4: I think Petros alluded to this when we spoke to

788
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Speaker 4: him last two It's just just with the early December

789
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:04,040
Speaker 4: signing period, it affects so many different things. Coaches get

790
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 4: fired earlier, coaches are in a rush to be hired

791
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:09,600
Speaker 4: earlier so that you don't lose early commitments when it

792
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 4: comes to the December recruiting class. Remember Signing Day used

793
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:14,279
Speaker 4: to be a big deal. Yeah, it used to be

794
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:17,359
Speaker 4: National Signing Day in February. In the couple of weeks

795
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Speaker 4: leading up to it, you would have the All American Army,

796
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 4: Navy whatever it was called, a high school All Star game,

797
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:25,120
Speaker 4: and a lot of guys will commit and play there.

798
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:27,239
Speaker 4: They still play the game, but no one really pays

799
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:28,920
Speaker 4: attention to it because all the big time commits have

800
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:30,840
Speaker 4: already done by the time you even get to the

801
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Speaker 4: first of the year.

802
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Speaker 3: And I'll tell you that All Star Game over the

803
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:35,319
Speaker 3: NBA All Star Game. That's something else has to change.

804
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:37,799
Speaker 3: But you will take care of it. No egos on it.

805
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:41,120
Speaker 4: I love Noah and the NBC's done a phenomenal job,

806
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Speaker 4: but I don't think there an I don't think there's

807
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Speaker 4: any fixing.

808
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:47,279
Speaker 3: Ah, All right, what are you fixing here?

809
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Speaker 4: Yeah? So I would have the National Signing Day go

810
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:52,359
Speaker 4: back to February like it was. That's the only time

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Speaker 4: that you can sign an official letter of intent. The

812
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 4: early signing period goes away the idea that you have

813
00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 4: to have these seventeen year old kids enter a semester

814
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:02,719
Speaker 4: early or whatever. Does it help, sure, but just put

815
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:04,920
Speaker 4: everybody on a level playing field, because what that does

816
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:07,800
Speaker 4: there is a less coaching ball down. There's less rushing

817
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:10,440
Speaker 4: when it comes to firing and hiring coaches. Guys like

818
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 4: Brian Hartline, you know, won't get their play calling due

819
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:15,879
Speaker 4: these taken away from them because they're so distracted. Back

820
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:19,000
Speaker 4: in the day, guys would get jobs. Coordinators with teams

821
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 4: would get jobs, and they would stay with the team

822
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Speaker 4: through bowl season even if they accepted a head coaching position,

823
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:27,400
Speaker 4: because the landscape just wasn't changing so often while they

824
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:29,760
Speaker 4: were still with their team. It's really hard to manage

825
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:31,920
Speaker 4: being an offensive coordinator or a defensive coordinator for a

826
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Speaker 4: playoff team now while also trying to manage all the

827
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:37,440
Speaker 4: things that are potentially happening with your school that you're

828
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Speaker 4: going to later. I think if you get to take

829
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Speaker 4: the burden of responsibility off of them when it comes

830
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Speaker 4: to recruiting. They have done that with the transfer portal,

831
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Speaker 4: and honestly, I think I would move the transfer portal

832
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:47,919
Speaker 4: to be even later, maybe have signing the day before

833
00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:51,120
Speaker 4: the transfer portal, and do all knock all of that

834
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:53,720
Speaker 4: stuff after the games are played. There's too many things

835
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:56,680
Speaker 4: taking attention away from the game that's being played on

836
00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 4: the field. That's what I just want to separate more

837
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:02,000
Speaker 4: of the administrative stuff away from the play on the field.

838
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Speaker 4: And I think that's the biggest issue that college football

839
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:04,440
Speaker 4: is facing.

840
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 3: The college football calendar is an unmitigated disaster, and that

841
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 3: was put under the microscope of course with Lane Kiff

842
00:37:11,719 --> 00:37:14,359
Speaker 3: and leaving to go to LSU and how that played out,

843
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:16,560
Speaker 3: and now we got Ole Miss without them tomorrow taking

844
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:19,120
Speaker 3: on Georgia. But Kevin, we've got some phone calls here.

845
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Speaker 3: It's always seven ninety nine on Fox. Must be a

846
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:26,879
Speaker 3: good subject. James calling from Tacoma. James, what's up? You're

847
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:29,400
Speaker 3: on FNA. I've had a Mosley's Kevin figures in for

848
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:30,319
Speaker 3: Ben mallor.

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Speaker 7: Hight, not just the NBA, like he suggestsed, from all sports,

850
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Speaker 7: including the NFL. They're seedings top fourteen teams. NFL get

851
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:43,440
Speaker 7: the playoff Scuse, look what's happening this weekend. If they

852
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 7: lose to the forty nine ers, they go to the

853
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 7: down to the number five seed, and they could have

854
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 7: a thirteen to four record. It has to play on

855
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:54,960
Speaker 7: a road to Campo or Carolina, and which will have

856
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:58,200
Speaker 7: like eight or nine wins they get the host, whereas

857
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:02,080
Speaker 7: as will have thirteen wins and have it pay on

858
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Speaker 7: the road.

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Speaker 3: Now, James, are you a Seahawks fan or are you

860
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:09,239
Speaker 3: just a concern sports fanatic and you want you want

861
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:11,480
Speaker 3: fair fairness, that's all. You're unbiased.

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00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:14,719
Speaker 7: No, I'm a sports fan, even the NBA, but they

863
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:18,919
Speaker 7: break to have spurs and finals.

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Speaker 3: Ooh yeah, I like where your heads at.

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Speaker 4: I agree with you. That's a great call. And we

866
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:25,960
Speaker 4: talked about this with the NFL. We talked about the

867
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Speaker 4: Detroit Lions of the proposal they made at the NFL

868
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:30,200
Speaker 4: meetings last year trying to see if they can get

869
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:32,440
Speaker 4: the seeding situation fixed in the NFL so that a

870
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:35,719
Speaker 4: division winner doesn't get a guaranteed home playoff game. I

871
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:37,600
Speaker 4: still think that's something they need to pound the table

872
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 4: for because it's utterly ridiculous. And he has a good

873
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,400
Speaker 4: point there's no reason why the loser of Seattle in

874
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:44,319
Speaker 4: San Francisco should be relegated to have to go on

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Speaker 4: the road to face the team with the worst record.

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Speaker 4: That doesn't make any sense.

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Speaker 3: But if it's a Carolina Panthers, we can make an exception.

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Speaker 4: Ken, No, we can't.

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Speaker 3: Why you're right, they're gonna lose either way.

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Speaker 4: But exactly, I wasn't gonna say that out loud. I

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Speaker 4: didn't want to like upset you completely.

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Speaker 3: But I want fairness. I want teams who want to win.

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Speaker 3: I want teams who deserve to be in that position

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Speaker 3: based off record. Look at the NFC West, it might

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Speaker 3: be the toughest division in sports right now. You have

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Speaker 3: three teams that are getting in that all could have

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Speaker 3: twelve wins or more this season. It's been staring the

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Speaker 3: NFL in the face since when was the seven to

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Speaker 3: nine Seahawks team that.

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Speaker 4: Won the n eleven or twenty twelve?

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Speaker 3: I believe, Yeah, So it's been an issue. The problem

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Speaker 3: is I still think the owners have to vote on it.

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Speaker 3: They do, and some of these owners with terrible teams,

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Speaker 3: they're never going to give in, especially Eastern Conference teams

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Speaker 3: in the NBA. Those owners will never vote for it.

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Speaker 3: They have to have a majority. It's not going to happen,

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Speaker 3: but it'd be nice, and it's my New Year's resolution.

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Speaker 4: Still very idealistic, but you know what, I'm right there

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Speaker 4: with you. I'm right there with you. We have more

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Speaker 4: calls that we need to get to. It gets you

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