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Speaker 3: Our lead this hour talking Bay's Ball.

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Speaker 1: Now the March Maddness FESTIVI is this our Wednesday show.

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Speaker 1: I know it's still late Tuesday night in the West,

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Speaker 1: but it's our Wednesday show doing the overnight and so

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Speaker 1: tomorrow because it's our Wednesday show, that's when the fun begins,

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Speaker 1: right to real. I know there was a bud playing

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Speaker 1: thing whatever that is in Dayton in college basketball, but

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Speaker 1: there were about seven people watching that, and then you

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Speaker 1: know that's where the March Madness is. But this thing

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Speaker 1: in Miami, it's so odd to see a baseball game

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Speaker 1: in Miami with fans.

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Speaker 3: It's wild. It's like, wha, this is twilight.

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Speaker 1: So there's actually people that liked baseball in Miami and

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Speaker 1: they went to watch a game.

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Speaker 3: Whoa anyway.

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Speaker 1: That was the stage for the championship game of the

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Speaker 1: made for television World Baseball Classic. You had Venezuela on

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Speaker 1: one side versus the USA on the other, medals and

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Speaker 1: a trophy, medals and a trophy, or as Rob Manford

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Speaker 1: would say, just a piece of metal. Anyway, stadium was packed,

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Speaker 3: Stadium that's normally a ghost town.

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Speaker 1: Marlin's man was there and he doesn't usually go to

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Speaker 3: He was checking it out.

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Speaker 1: You had a Eduardo Rodriguez for the team representing Venezuela

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Speaker 1: versus Nolan MacLean of the Mets for Red, White, and Blue,

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Speaker 1: wrapping himself in the fly, big opportunity.

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Speaker 3: Did you watch any of this? Were you? He was

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Speaker 1: It wasn't on NFS one or FS two or FS

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 3: Maybe not?

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Speaker 1: Well, the game was most of the game was two

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Speaker 1: nothing in favor of Venezuela, and then then the USA

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Speaker 1: tied it up. But in the end, heartbreak hotel as

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Speaker 1: Venezuela wins the World Baseball Classic for the first time

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Speaker 1: after choking away a lead in the eighth inning, blowing

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Speaker 1: on a Uhaneo Suarez tie breaking home run or not

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Speaker 1: There and Bryce Harper, who has not been very good,

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Speaker 1: Harper hit a two run dong for the team representing

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Speaker 1: Team Venezuela third baseman Michale Garcia wins the WBC MVP Award.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what that looks like, but he won it,

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Speaker 1: so congratulations there. The better story is in the losing

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Speaker 3: Who was available, who wasn't available.

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Speaker 1: The person who's getting absolutely charbroiled more than anyone is

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Speaker 1: El Capitan, Aaron Judge, all rise except in big games,

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Speaker 1: Aaron Judge. There, he was getting a lot of the plane.

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Speaker 1: and I need you if you want to have baseball people,

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Speaker 1: So the question is it true that Team USA Slugger

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Speaker 1: all right. So a to answer the question, is it true?

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Speaker 1: el slumpo for Aaron Judge.

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Speaker 3: It is an open and shut case. It is very straightforward.

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Speaker 1: And as much as the people that are on the

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Speaker 1: I'm not on the dime for baseball. They're not paying me,

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Speaker 1: I would they would. I'd suck up the Aaron Judge

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Speaker 1: so I'm gonna tell you what really happened. And what

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Speaker 1: really happened is Aaron Judge, who is the size if

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Speaker 1: you go to the zoo, He's the size of an elephant.

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Speaker 1: It looks like a glitch. We always goof on Kyler

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Speaker 1: like who let the little kid in there? There's a

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Speaker 1: little tiny mouse, a little tiny mouse. When the lights

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Speaker 1: still trying to find his swing. Everyone is in the

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Speaker 1: same boat. There's no one who wasn't in the same

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Speaker 1: situation there. This is not some spring training karaoke night.

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Speaker 1: It's not that right. This is supposed to be. And

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Speaker 1: I don't want to get this wrong because what we were

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Speaker 1: talking about some of the previous episod bigger than the

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Speaker 1: World Series. Those aren't my words. I didn't say that.

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Speaker 1: I don't think this is bigger than the World Series.

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Speaker 1: You know who does Aaron Judge. He said it, he

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Speaker 1: said it, he said it, and he sucked. He sucked,

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Speaker 1: had four at bats, all for four, and I am

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Speaker 1: I've got to know against a patchwork Venezuela pitching staff,

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Speaker 1: the radio. And so er for four again, three punch

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Speaker 1: is a Houdini vanishing act. And he said, well, it's

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Speaker 1: a team effort. Yeah, but when you're the biggest star,

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Speaker 3: You gotta get it done.

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Speaker 1: He's already had some experience in the past and big

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Speaker 1: Point in his career he's only got a couple more

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Speaker 1: a high level. But you look at it and it's

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Speaker 1: like now you see me, now you don't. Now you

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Speaker 1: see me, now you don't. And it's the same movie.

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Speaker 1: It's the same movie every time, different theater. Obviously a

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Speaker 1: playing scrabble. The phrase for this is common denominator. The

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Speaker 1: common denominator is Aaron Judge. And we love when things

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Speaker 1: line up as human beings. One of the weird things

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Speaker 1: But one of the weird things about this is the

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Speaker 1: way that we love the symmetry. When Aaron Judge was

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Speaker 1: playing in the World Series in twenty twenty four, he

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Speaker 1: played my favorite defensive inning in the World Series game.

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Speaker 1: It was a fifth inning of Game five of the

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Speaker 1: the fifth inning. It was top of the fifth just amazing,

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Speaker 1: just absolutely chef's kiss, and Aaron Judge was part of

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Speaker 1: that butchered a ball in the outfield. Terrible in that

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Speaker 1: World Series, Aaron Judge batted two twenty two. Well, bettering

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Speaker 1: average doesn't matter, Boomer.

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Speaker 1: Baseball Classic unless he did exactly the same he batted

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Speaker 3: And again Aaron Judge said, this is bigger.

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Speaker 1: This is bigger than the World Series and its common denominator, theater.

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Speaker 1: And Aaron Judge, you can like him and have a

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Speaker 1: Aaron Judge merch. The reality is, though, that Aaron Judge

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Speaker 1: There was no parachute for Aaron Judge. There was none.

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Speaker 1: And he needs some scrubbing bubbles because he really has

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Speaker 1: to clean some stuff up here. He's got that big

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Speaker 1: won't wash off. It will not wash off now. Fortunately

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Speaker 1: he's playing for the Yankees and their ownership doesn't seem

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Speaker 3: They don't. That's the reality. So it's okay.

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Speaker 1: I mean, imagine, if I'm dating myself this, a guy

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Speaker 1: the guy nicknamed Dave Winfield mister May because it's Dave

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Speaker 1: Winfield's big star back in a million years ago, and

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Speaker 1: He just can't get it done. We've got to get

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Speaker 1: rid of this guy. If it looks like a choking

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Speaker 1: That's Aaron Judge, So stop defending it. I know you're

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Speaker 1: all on the take. I got you all your baseball

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Speaker 1: scribes that have jobs around Major League Baseball, the broadcasters

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Speaker 1: that are approved by Major League Baseball, I get it.

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Speaker 3: I understand that.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully some of you will have enough common sense to

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Speaker 3: You're being fed propaganda.

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Speaker 1: And Judge, would I want them on my team in

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Speaker 1: when there's a big game, he turns into a cardboard

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Speaker 1: the page, but not far Now that the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: All right, let's slap a malor approved review label on this.

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Speaker 1: Bad boy, bad boy, bad boy?

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Speaker 1: So the question did the latest edition, the latest installment

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Speaker 1: Week pause in the Midsummer portion of the baseball schedule.

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Speaker 3: Or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Speaker 1: So our lead this, I will move away from the

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Speaker 1: World Baseball Classics. Team USA chokes, Aaron Judge does what

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Speaker 1: Hey, goodbye to Team USA, but we move on. We

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Speaker 1: Denver Broncos have made a move. After sleeping through the

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Speaker 1: twenty fifth in possessions and with three and out. So

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Speaker 1: they were twenty ninth out of thirty two teams in

436
00:23:57,080 --> 00:24:01,080
Speaker 1: possessions that ended in three and out. Twenty five percent

437
00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:04,320
Speaker 1: of the time the Broncos had the ball, it was run,

438
00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:06,640
Speaker 1: a play run, a play run, a play punt run,

439
00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:08,920
Speaker 1: a play run, a play run, a play punt run,

440
00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:10,600
Speaker 1: a play run, a play run, a play punt. That

441
00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:14,720
Speaker 1: was the Broncos offense there, So Wattle, he will help.

442
00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:20,040
Speaker 1: I'll use the word modernize the Broncos attack. And how

443
00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:22,200
Speaker 1: big an upgrade is it? You asked, how big and

444
00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:22,800
Speaker 1: up grade?

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00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:23,200
Speaker 3: I will?

446
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:26,760
Speaker 1: I will tell you so, thanks for asking. Wattle had

447
00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:29,919
Speaker 1: sixty four catches and nine hundred ten yards. He was

448
00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:32,280
Speaker 1: the part of the area, was the number one receiver

449
00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:34,480
Speaker 1: most of the he was the number two receiver in Miami.

450
00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:37,479
Speaker 1: So sixty four catches, nine hundred ten yards. I said, well,

451
00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:38,520
Speaker 1: that's a good year, not a great year.

452
00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:39,040
Speaker 3: I agree with you.

453
00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:40,960
Speaker 1: I absolutely agree. That's a good year, not a great year.

454
00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:44,320
Speaker 1: He had six touchdowns this past season. If those same

455
00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:48,320
Speaker 1: numbers had happened in Denver, he would have been third

456
00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:52,720
Speaker 1: in catches, second in yards, and second in touchdowns for

457
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Speaker 1: the Broncos wide receivers. So that's how bad the situation

458
00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:03,040
Speaker 1: was in Denver. And Waddle is not just a speed racer.

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00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:04,400
Speaker 1: He's got that.

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00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:05,560
Speaker 3: He's more than.

461
00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:09,160
Speaker 1: He's like the fastest guy in the NFL. At least

462
00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:11,560
Speaker 1: he was coming out of college the fastest guy in

463
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Speaker 1: the NFL. And this offense had been flatlining with all

464
00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:18,119
Speaker 1: the punts twenty five percent of the time here, So

465
00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:19,359
Speaker 1: it's a beep beep.

466
00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:22,240
Speaker 3: Now you got a jolt. Now you got a little joke.

467
00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:23,080
Speaker 3: Don't f this up.

468
00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:25,800
Speaker 1: Denver needed a spark plug on offense. They needed a

469
00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:28,480
Speaker 1: big time playmaker, and they got. They didn't get a

470
00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:30,880
Speaker 1: spark plug. They got a Roman candle, is what they got.

471
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,760
Speaker 1: So that's more than just your normal run of the

472
00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:37,080
Speaker 1: mill spark plug a guy that has not been a

473
00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:43,119
Speaker 1: full season number one wide receiver. However, you would assume

474
00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:48,360
Speaker 1: this is rather an easy upgrade situation and changes the

475
00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:52,760
Speaker 1: geometry for the Broncos next season. The way you approach

476
00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:55,159
Speaker 1: the Broncos. You have a good receiver, what normally happens.

477
00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:57,640
Speaker 1: We see this with Puka Nakua and other great receivers

478
00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:00,600
Speaker 1: in the NFL. The safeties have to it up a

479
00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:04,400
Speaker 1: little bit, back it up, and some lanes open up

480
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:07,920
Speaker 1: to make things easier to matriculate the ball down the field.

481
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:11,159
Speaker 1: Suddenly you have a little more daylight and things just

482
00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:13,560
Speaker 1: come together easier in the modern NFL when you have

483
00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:16,040
Speaker 1: a big time wide receiver. So the Mallor report card

484
00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:20,199
Speaker 1: on the Jalen Wattle Trade the Mallor report card, it

485
00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:24,160
Speaker 1: goes as follows. The Broncos on the Malar scorebook get

486
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:27,639
Speaker 1: an A minus, not an A plus, A minus. I'm

487
00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:30,400
Speaker 1: not going night plus as the Dolphins get a C

488
00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:34,440
Speaker 1: minus and I'm being very generous with that. The Dolphins

489
00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:37,399
Speaker 1: have announced long, not just now, they've announced this for

490
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:39,600
Speaker 1: a while. They've announced that they are out of the

491
00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:42,879
Speaker 1: trying to win business. The Broncos have said, essentially, this

492
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:46,560
Speaker 1: is a gap year and you people are such suckers.

493
00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:48,560
Speaker 1: You're still gonna buy our tickets, You're still gonna buy

494
00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:50,440
Speaker 1: our merch, and we're not trying to win.

495
00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:53,119
Speaker 3: Like they're not even hiding it. They're not.

496
00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,600
Speaker 1: You just gave away Jalen Waddle and said get out

497
00:26:56,640 --> 00:27:01,040
Speaker 1: of here, bye bye for some scratcher tickets and some comissory.

498
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:01,800
Speaker 3: Notes and all that stuff.

499
00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:06,880
Speaker 1: And the dolphins are moving. They've contacted the people over

500
00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 1: at U Haul. They're hiring some people to come help

501
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:13,639
Speaker 1: them move. And they're they're moving from They weren't in

502
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:16,159
Speaker 1: the penthouse, but they were like a nice like the

503
00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:18,879
Speaker 1: building was like twenty seven story, twenty eight stories, and

504
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 1: they were right in the middle. They're moving from that,

505
00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:25,480
Speaker 1: and they're relocating the Miami Dolphins, and they're they're looking

506
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:27,399
Speaker 1: to move into a porta potty.

507
00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:28,639
Speaker 3: They want to move in.

508
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:32,000
Speaker 1: It's small, it's small, minimalist living. They're going to live

509
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:34,520
Speaker 1: in a porta potty and it's fine during the winter.

510
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:36,200
Speaker 1: During the summer living in a porta potty is a

511
00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:37,840
Speaker 1: bit of a problem, A bit of a problem right now.

512
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:42,640
Speaker 1: Page two, as we continue the conversation, keeping the theme

513
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:47,400
Speaker 1: going with Jalen Wattle, love the name, Love the name,

514
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:55,320
Speaker 1: heading inbound the question how much extra pressure? How much

515
00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 1: extra pressure is now on quarterback bo Nicks in Denver?

516
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:04,239
Speaker 1: So the Broncos what they did is here, they just

517
00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:09,200
Speaker 1: walked into a five star steakhouse and they ordered a

518
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 1: nice hearty tomahawk steak and.

519
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:15,360
Speaker 3: They said, we would like the tomahawk steak. We want

520
00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:16,840
Speaker 3: the ribbi as well.

521
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:20,080
Speaker 1: We want all that the let's call it tomahawk ribbi,

522
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:24,879
Speaker 1: we want that, and that would be Jalen Wattle Wattle,

523
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:28,399
Speaker 1: wattle wattle. So they got him and they just Sean

524
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:33,439
Speaker 1: Payton just handed the fork to bow Nicks, who last

525
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:38,160
Speaker 1: year with the Broncos was eating dino nuggets and uncrustables.

526
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 1: So now he's got a nice, big tomahawk steak and

527
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:44,200
Speaker 1: he can enjoy that.

528
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:49,320
Speaker 3: Knock it out of the park. This is one situation here.

529
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:51,640
Speaker 1: Where you look at it and you're like, well, it's

530
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:56,280
Speaker 1: a positive because bo Nix now has a legit receiver

531
00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:59,040
Speaker 1: to add to the mix there in Denver. At the

532
00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:01,520
Speaker 1: same time, though, you have to queue up the Alison

533
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:07,760
Speaker 1: chains tune no excuses, because now the main alibi for

534
00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:09,960
Speaker 1: bow Knicks is yeah but yeah, but yeah, but he

535
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 1: didn't have this great wide receiver. Yeah but yeah, but

536
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:14,120
Speaker 1: you didn't have enough playmakers. Yea it, ye have it,

537
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:16,880
Speaker 1: ye have it, you have it. Theyabbitt Rabbit, the yabbet rabbit. Well,

538
00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 1: now he's got a big time player who will seemingly

539
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 1: only get better as he becomes a target fiend in Denver.

540
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 1: And so bow Knicks, now you can no longer just

541
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 1: be a bus writer. You have to be the bus driver,

542
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 1: like Lance the bus driver. That's what you have to

543
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:41,600
Speaker 1: do here. And the Broncos they made the AFC Title Game. Granted,

544
00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 1: much like the Patriots, they played a bunch of tomato

545
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:45,640
Speaker 1: cancer in their season, but they made the AFC Title

546
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:49,760
Speaker 1: Game and it wasn't because of the quarterback play. Is

547
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 1: it true that bow Knicks was the twenty fifth ranked

548
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 1: quarterback in the NFL? Is it also true that bow

549
00:29:56,440 --> 00:30:02,600
Speaker 1: Knicks was statistically worse to satistically worse in quarterback rating

550
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 1: than to a tongue of Iiloa and Justin Fields, a

551
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:12,200
Speaker 1: couple of quarterbacks that were decommissioned by their teams last season.

552
00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:13,960
Speaker 3: Yes, uh so.

553
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:16,960
Speaker 1: A lot of captain checkdown stuff, a lot of that,

554
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:21,240
Speaker 1: and you trade for wattle. You better not be checking

555
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:24,640
Speaker 1: down if you're bow Knicks on third and eight, you

556
00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 1: shouldn't be throwing a ball at a line of scrimmage.

557
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:30,560
Speaker 1: Then one yard in, No, you got you gotta throw

558
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:34,080
Speaker 1: the ball, don't check down. No, take the training wheels off.

559
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:37,960
Speaker 1: If you're Sean Payton and let let it rip put

560
00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:40,320
Speaker 1: up her shut up time. If the Broncos offense doesn't

561
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:43,600
Speaker 1: get tangibly better with bow Knicks this year, having added

562
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:46,760
Speaker 1: Jalen Wattle, then you have to question whether or not

563
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:50,680
Speaker 1: Bo Nicks is the guy. So there's people all foaming

564
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:53,080
Speaker 1: at them out there in Denver. They're all excited. This

565
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:58,400
Speaker 1: is great Waddle. He's taking all those targets. He wants

566
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:02,520
Speaker 1: all the targets. Jalen Wattle get and bonets again. Take

567
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 1: the training wheels off. Time to eat like a king

568
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 1: or the other option as you choke on the steak

569
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:12,680
Speaker 1: and then they got to call the paramedics because you're choking.

570
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 3: It's a problem right now.

571
00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:20,240
Speaker 1: Final point, with Jalen Waddle outbound and heading to Denver,

572
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:24,400
Speaker 1: we look at the losing locker room here. What does

573
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:28,240
Speaker 1: this do for the twenty twenty six Dolphins, especially the

574
00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:32,360
Speaker 1: fact that they did add a new quarterback tua Is out.

575
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 3: They went out and added Malik Willis their new quarterback.

576
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:40,040
Speaker 1: And there are some over the top stories bouncing around

577
00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 1: the echo chamber. Oh my god, poor, poor, poor Malik Willis.

578
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:48,760
Speaker 1: This is so sad, it's so depressing from Alik Willis.

579
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:53,600
Speaker 1: So the question are you gonna go thumbs up or

580
00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 1: thumbs down? Thumbs up or thumbs down? So up is this?

581
00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 3: And then down? Is this?

582
00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:02,680
Speaker 1: Thumbs up or thumbs down? On quarterback Malik Willis regretting

583
00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 1: his decision to sign with the Miami football team, So

584
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:09,920
Speaker 1: thumbs up or thumbs down. So thumbs up means he

585
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,760
Speaker 1: regrets it. Thumbs down means he doesn't regret it. And

586
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 1: I am going to go survey says thumbs down. Yeah,

587
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:18,880
Speaker 1: I'm going thumbs down on this, absolutely one hundred percent

588
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 1: thumbs down.

589
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 3: Just stop it, stop it?

590
00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 1: What are you doing here? Like this is not a

591
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 1: SOB story. It's not that at all. For Malik Willis,

592
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:34,240
Speaker 1: he knew exactly exactly what he was signing up for.

593
00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:37,920
Speaker 1: It wasn't like they were hiding it. And we mentioned

594
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 1: the fact that the Dolphins were never in the penthouse.

595
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 1: They hadn't been in the penthouse since Dan Marino. Even

596
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 1: before that, they hadn't. They hadn't been there a while.

597
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:52,000
Speaker 1: So this has been an active construction site with the

598
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 1: head coach gone, the quarterback gone, the star defensive player.

599
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 3: Gone gone, gone, gone, gone gone, Gonzo Gunzo.

600
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 1: And so there's a lot of caution tape. It's a

601
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 1: lot of caution tape. There's some exposed wiring. It's not safe.

602
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 1: You got to wear a hard hat when you go

603
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:12,400
Speaker 1: into the Dolphins locker room. It's a teardown. It's a teardown.

604
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 1: Studs and plywood. Of course, the Dolphins don't have any studs.

605
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:19,960
Speaker 1: It's mostly duds. It's duds at this point and plywood.

606
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:23,120
Speaker 1: That's where it's kind of like to complain about this.

607
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:28,080
Speaker 1: It's like buying a haunted mansion and then being surprised

608
00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:30,520
Speaker 1: to find out that poltergeist is living in the attic.

609
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:35,680
Speaker 3: When you bought a haunted mansion, dummy, what did you think? Yes?

610
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:39,600
Speaker 1: And so that's the feature that's not a bug, that's

611
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 1: not a glitch. You bought it said in the Zillow

612
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:47,360
Speaker 1: listing that it's haunted and there's a ghosts and goblins

613
00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:49,920
Speaker 1: in there, and you can't be shocked. So think about

614
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:52,320
Speaker 1: the you are. Here are the options from League Wills.

615
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:55,800
Speaker 1: You were at a fork in the road, and if

616
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:59,800
Speaker 1: you go to the right, Arizona, and if you go

617
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 1: to the left, Miami. Those are the options. That's like

618
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 1: a child having to eat dinner and Mom made the

619
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:14,520
Speaker 1: kid two possible dishes. Here, cauliflower on the right side

620
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:17,040
Speaker 1: of the plate and Brussels sprouts on the left side.

621
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:20,560
Speaker 1: Pick your poison, hope, there's a lot of ketchup or

622
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 1: barbecue sauce to cover the vegetables with, and just close

623
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,439
Speaker 1: your eyes and try to cover your nose and chew

624
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:31,840
Speaker 1: and get it over with and all that. Let's not

625
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:36,719
Speaker 1: act like Malik Willis deserve to get a job in

626
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 1: a good situation. I'm happy that he's gonna get an opportunity,

627
00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:45,560
Speaker 1: not that he necessarily earned it by doing anything magical.

628
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 1: In Green Bay. This is again where you go to

629
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 1: a team that's perceived to be a contender and you

630
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:54,880
Speaker 1: don't play, and your value skyrockets.

631
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 3: It's very bizarre.

632
00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:59,479
Speaker 1: It doesn't happen in any other line of work other

633
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:04,120
Speaker 1: than professional sports and mainly the NFL. How often do

634
00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:08,759
Speaker 1: we see a outfielder. Let's say there's some outfielder that

635
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 1: has supposed to be good, not very good, ends up

636
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 1: going to the Dodgers as a part time player, and

637
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:19,920
Speaker 1: then ends up getting a big opportunity after that didn't happen.

638
00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:25,120
Speaker 1: I can't recall that happening anytime recently. And so Malik Willis,

639
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:29,400
Speaker 1: he got the contract based on speculations kind of how

640
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 1: you play the stock market. You project certain stocks are

641
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:34,680
Speaker 1: going to do well. They're projecting that Maliku well, so

642
00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:36,960
Speaker 1: at this point is a penny stock is going to

643
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:40,279
Speaker 1: become something more than that, not necessarily a blue chip stock,

644
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:43,280
Speaker 1: but more than a penny stock somewhere in the middle.

645
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:47,360
Speaker 3: And there can be no regrets. The man is getting over.

646
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:51,960
Speaker 1: Sixty five dollars sixty I think the number is like

647
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:52,920
Speaker 1: sixty seven million.

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Speaker 3: There are zero regrets, zero regrets.

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Speaker 1: And you can afford really good therapy. You can buy

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Speaker 1: yourself a miniature horse if that's what you need. And

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Speaker 1: so if you think Malik Willis is crying, there's no

652
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Speaker 1: crying now when you get that kind of money. He's

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Speaker 1: laughing and he's hit. He's jumping up and down and

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Speaker 1: going crazy and it's just great as he goes to

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Speaker 1: the ATM to get as much cash as he wants.

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Speaker 1: And so this is the NFL where you know, you

657
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Speaker 1: take the cash, you don't ask questions, you take the money,

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Speaker 1: and if there's chaos, yeah, dysfunction's baked into the cake,

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Speaker 1: and you just deal with that when the time comes,

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Speaker 1: and make sure that you have all that money saved up.

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Speaker 3: And then who cares?

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller

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Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

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Speaker 3: It's mallard. How about that? To the third degree?

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Speaker 2: This is one big event.

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00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:52,360
Speaker 3: Gets grall coop a loop.

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Speaker 6: Jerry Jones spoke to the media and said, if the

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Speaker 6: Cowboys had played one lick of defense last year, they

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Speaker 6: would have had themselves a real playoff Do you think

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Speaker 6: that's the case?

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Speaker 1: Ben, Well, that's a bold Is that the take of

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Speaker 1: the day? The bold take of the day by Jerry Jones.

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00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 1: So Jerry Jones got in front of a microphone and said,

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Speaker 1: if the Cowboys, who had the thirtieth ranked defense in

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00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:14,719
Speaker 1: the NFL, had played a little bit better, they would

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Speaker 1: have been a real playoff team.

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Speaker 3: Well, no, please, that's nonsense. Poppy cock.

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00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:25,319
Speaker 1: Poppycock by Jerry joneson but Jerry's good at getting headlines. Here,

679
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 1: he is good at getting headlines. The Cowboys have more

680
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 1: than just defensive problems. They have all kinds of issues,

681
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:32,200
Speaker 1: popcorn problems.

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00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 3: That we'd like to say.

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00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:35,920
Speaker 6: Next, Defensive backt Darius Slay said over the weekend that

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00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 6: he would only accept a call from the Philadelphia Eagles.

685
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 6: Then on Monday, he announced his retirement after thirteen seasons.

686
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 6: Beniz Slay a Hall of Famer.

687
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:48,359
Speaker 3: It would be easy in the past to say Darius Lay.

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00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:49,879
Speaker 3: There's no way Darius.

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Speaker 1: Slay is a Hall of Famer because the standard is this.

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00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 1: But recently, Coop, the standard's been completely obliterated on what

691
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:01,359
Speaker 1: is a Hall of Fame and was not a Hall

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Speaker 1: of Famer. The fact that he was only a one

693
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:07,279
Speaker 1: time All Pro would indicate not a Hall of Famer. Right,

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00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:09,719
Speaker 1: he does not reach the threshold to be a Hall

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Speaker 1: of Famer, and it's not even close. You never know

696
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:16,919
Speaker 1: anymore though, like I was, in no way like he

697
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:19,280
Speaker 1: was a good player, not a great player.

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Speaker 6: Next, following a win on what was supposed to be

699
00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 6: a Magic City Night in Atlanta, Oh, it's so sad September.

700
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 6: But the Atlanta Hawks did come away with a win,

701
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:32,839
Speaker 6: and they are the hottest team in the league with

702
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:35,440
Speaker 6: ten wins in a row. But do you think this

703
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:36,879
Speaker 6: Atlanta team can make a run?

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Speaker 1: You know, Coop, what I always like to say they're

705
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:42,280
Speaker 1: gonna make some noise. They're gonna make some noise, Coop.

706
00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:46,680
Speaker 1: The East is relatively wide open. There's like, like, the

707
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:49,560
Speaker 1: Knicks are good, the Celtics are going. I mean, there's

708
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Speaker 1: a couple of teams at the top. You say, okay,

709
00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:54,319
Speaker 1: those are pretty good teams, and yet they don't look

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Speaker 1: invincible to me.

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00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:57,440
Speaker 3: They don't like teams like, oh.

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Speaker 1: My god, we're screwed if we have to play, you know,

713
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:02,759
Speaker 1: Teammateeltics are I would say, are the top team, but

714
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:04,560
Speaker 1: there are Knights and the Celtics.

715
00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:05,839
Speaker 3: That they look like mere mortals and all that.

716
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:08,640
Speaker 1: However, the thing about the Hawks, They've got all these wins,

717
00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:10,239
Speaker 1: and then you look a little.

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Speaker 3: Closer, Coop, and you're like, well, a lot of.

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00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 1: Those are against Brooklyn, Washington, Portland's in there. There's not

720
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Speaker 1: a lot of impressive wins in that stretch. So you

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Speaker 1: wonder how legitimate that stretch is for the Atlantaics. They're

722
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:26,799
Speaker 1: winning games, but all these teams are not trying to win.

723
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Speaker 1: Who they're playing there. It is mallardly third degree. How

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Speaker 1: did we do you passed this edition?

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Speaker 3: As they win, put it on the bar. That's a

726
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Speaker 3: Hawk Harrelson. Salute.

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Speaker 2: listen live its.

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Speaker 5: Bis, Good Little Rain at ten nine, clean Up Hawks,

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Speaker 5: going to help you.

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Speaker 3: Gear Rye gear Rye to nine. You're right, You're right.

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Speaker 7: You heard the man.

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Speaker 8: It is time for love night here on the Ben

736
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Speaker 8: Mallae Show.

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Speaker 3: A lot of questions for you, Lorena. Are you ready?

738
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:15,239
Speaker 3: You're going to rapid fire? I'm ready, ready for all right.

739
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:19,040
Speaker 1: Ferg Dog, a highly decorated winner of the Benny Awards,

740
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:22,719
Speaker 1: says Lorena, what can I do to be less irresistible

741
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:24,920
Speaker 1: than women? I've had to beat them off with the

742
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:26,839
Speaker 1: stick since my double Benny Night win.

743
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Speaker 8: It's so hard when you're irresistible to get people to

744
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:34,760
Speaker 8: leave you alone. If you don't want attention, My best

745
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:37,759
Speaker 8: advice is to go find a dark cave somewhere and go.

746
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:38,160
Speaker 7: Hide in it.

747
00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:40,480
Speaker 3: He already lives in a dark cave. Though that's a problem.

748
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:44,720
Speaker 7: They're sniffing you out. I see, Yeah, that can be complicated.

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Speaker 1: I feel like you're speaking from a point of experience, Lorena.

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Speaker 3: With people giving you attention.

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00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:51,719
Speaker 7: I feel like, yeah, sometimes I would like a little

752
00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:52,320
Speaker 7: less attention.

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Speaker 3: I understand. I never heard to worry about too much attention. JT.

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00:40:57,360 --> 00:40:57,840
Speaker 3: The Wingman.

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00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:00,600
Speaker 1: Rights Since says, I'm wondering if it's a appropriate to

756
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 1: wear my lucky hat while making love to my partner.

757
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:05,040
Speaker 3: JT. The Wingman.

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00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:08,400
Speaker 8: Yeah, lucky hat goes well with your lucky charms. So uh,

759
00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:11,960
Speaker 8: you know luck of the Irish pot of gold.

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00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:13,560
Speaker 7: Baby, you know what I'm talking about.

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00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:17,879
Speaker 1: Channon the Morne rites and says Lorena, have you been

762
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:20,959
Speaker 1: to a drag show? I'm guessing the answer is yes,

763
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:22,960
Speaker 1: as it apparently is very popped there with a lot

764
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Speaker 1: of women.

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Speaker 7: Yes, not necessarily intentionally. I've been to just some.

766
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Speaker 3: U Were you surprised that they were? I thought they were.

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00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:33,040
Speaker 7: I went to this one.

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00:41:33,719 --> 00:41:36,359
Speaker 8: It was like a club bar thing and they had

769
00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:37,880
Speaker 8: a drag queen clown.

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Speaker 3: He's your favorite drag queen.

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00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:43,880
Speaker 7: It's just got to be RuPaul's Lexis Lexus.

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Speaker 8: Oh, I did go to RuPaul's drag con here in

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Speaker 8: Los Angeles one time.

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Speaker 3: Congratulation.

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00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:50,319
Speaker 1: That was really cool, Big mom in your life. It

776
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:52,640
Speaker 1: was a late night drug Tester. Rights Since says, is

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Speaker 1: there really lovable losers?

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Speaker 3: Or will I need a Benny win to get affection?

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00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:02,800
Speaker 8: You know, those ben look real good to potential suitors.

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00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 7: The more Bennie is the better.

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Speaker 6: Ye.

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Speaker 1: It's a really a great afrodisiac for women. Is the

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Speaker 1: Benny Award? They can't they can't say no. I don't

784
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Speaker 1: know what happened.

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00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:12,919
Speaker 7: Put a nice plaque on your wall.

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00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:17,200
Speaker 1: Ello Mike the Leprechaun says, Why is the guy always

787
00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:19,680
Speaker 1: expected to pay for dinner on the first date. Maybe

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00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:21,600
Speaker 1: a cup of coffee is a better option.

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Speaker 7: If you're cheap, just say that.

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Speaker 3: Okay? Are you taking shots?

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00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:29,200
Speaker 7: If you do not have the money to date? Don't

792
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:30,040
Speaker 7: take a woman on a.

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Speaker 1: Date, okay, truck Stop Fungus says, what that's when.

794
00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:38,960
Speaker 7: You can eat with your cat for free?

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Speaker 1: When I was dating, there was always a sign like

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Speaker 1: if a woman really wanted to pay, it always told

797
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Speaker 1: me she wasn't that into me.

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Speaker 3: She feels bad.

799
00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:49,359
Speaker 7: I'm not going to talk to this guy again.

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Speaker 1: I should probably Yeah, yeah, truck Stop Fungus says, what

801
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:56,960
Speaker 1: kind of music do you suggest for seducing my wife

802
00:42:57,520 --> 00:42:59,000
Speaker 1: while I shave her back?

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Speaker 7: Oh gosh, that's a good one. I don't I don't know.

804
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:10,280
Speaker 7: You know, they have they have songs about carpet.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:14,880
Speaker 1: That's hard, Philippe writes in he says, how do I

807
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 1: approach the senorita at the nursing home for a date?

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00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:24,000
Speaker 7: You know, maybe keep your dentures in if you have

809
00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:26,319
Speaker 7: your teeth. But maybe she, you know, maybe she's into

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00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:27,279
Speaker 7: the no teeth thing.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think there's a lot of options with no teeth,

812
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Speaker 1: depending on where you're at.

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Speaker 8: You could learn a salsa dance that would be kind

814
00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 8: of cute, like up to her, you know.

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Speaker 3: In your mouth now you're talking. That's it right there.

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00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:43,399
Speaker 3: That's why we listen. Right.

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00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:46,880
Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller

818
00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:51,800
Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Attention everyone,

819
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:58,280
Speaker 2: and the password is password, you idiot, password the word

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00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 2: Game of the Stars.

821
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:01,520
Speaker 3: Spen Meler. Let's do it.

822
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:03,640
Speaker 1: Let's play password word Game of the Stars. Let's say

823
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:07,839
Speaker 1: hello to our combatants. We have any meany miny moe.

824
00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:11,359
Speaker 3: We've got Jed who fled who wants to play Hello?

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00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:14,600
Speaker 4: Jed on on a date with a high Higlan. One time,

826
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Speaker 4: I thought if we had kids, we could call him

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00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:19,400
Speaker 4: highly damn I put him own joke up, dude, dam.

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Speaker 3: Damn it. Jed, you know the sucking us out of the.

829
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Speaker 4: Before the gang. I'm going to dominate the game because

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00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:26,840
Speaker 4: I did not dominate the joke. I'm the joke. You

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Speaker 4: get dominated the baby because say.

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Speaker 3: This, But who do you want to partner up?

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00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:34,359
Speaker 4: The man putting partners on the air all night long

834
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:35,800
Speaker 4: and get explicably din Malley?

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00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 3: All right, and we have Lorena picked one or two?

836
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:43,440
Speaker 3: Here Lorena number one? All right?

837
00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:47,320
Speaker 1: You have picked Chris in Boston, one of our finalists

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00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:49,760
Speaker 1: for the Benny Award for Thank.

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Speaker 3: God, think Russell Peez, you want to Ben?

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00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:53,200
Speaker 4: How's it going?

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00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:56,080
Speaker 3: Hello, Chris, welcome, good to have you here. You are

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Speaker 3: ready to go? Who do you want to partner up with? Chris?

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00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:02,920
Speaker 3: All right? Coop, you are it? And we have a

844
00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 3: big board, not a list, a big board.

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Speaker 4: I know the writer doesn't know sports, right, no, words

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00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:10,279
Speaker 4: can't wow?

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00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:13,759
Speaker 3: All right? Jed? Picking number one to ten? Jed, No,

848
00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:16,919
Speaker 3: I don't either.

849
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:20,640
Speaker 4: Seven looking numbers for Michael ever gone?

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00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:21,920
Speaker 6: What what?

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00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:23,719
Speaker 3: Why? All right? Let's go?

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00:45:24,640 --> 00:45:24,759
Speaker 4: Yes?

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00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:41,399
Speaker 3: All right? How about automation? Robotic? Robotic? All right, Chris,

854
00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:51,880
Speaker 3: let's try contraption they no, let's go.

855
00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:57,960
Speaker 4: How about contraction in your first blocked out you first

856
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:00,279
Speaker 4: claper contraction? Go you ahead, need to.

857
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:04,480
Speaker 3: Block out any clues here? Uh, mechanical.

858
00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:10,880
Speaker 4: I'm gonna feel so stupid, dude, there's nothing new mechanical.

859
00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:16,480
Speaker 4: I've already you guys said, I said, robot silence.

860
00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:20,640
Speaker 3: All right, let's try. Let's want one more, Chris. Let's try.

861
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:23,400
Speaker 3: Let's try and pass word the word game of the

862
00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:32,160
Speaker 3: Stars appliance. Oh my school, old Chris got nothing?

863
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:35,040
Speaker 4: All right, how about Chris, I was just trying to

864
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:35,640
Speaker 4: I knew it.

865
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Speaker 3: I had no idea A factor factory. No, no, you're

866
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:43,440
Speaker 3: not gonna get it. Yeah, the word was the machine machine.

867
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:45,640
Speaker 3: All right, go ahead, Chris. Pick a number one to ten,

868
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:49,239
Speaker 3: but not seven. Chris, try and bone on my old

869
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:53,239
Speaker 3: screwed up your line there, he said, Number two, Chris,

870
00:46:53,719 --> 00:47:02,400
Speaker 3: number two, This is easy. Let's go with uh huh sleet.

871
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:07,839
Speaker 8: Hell no, how.

872
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:16,200
Speaker 1: About a blizzard? Yeah, all right, picking number Jed, hurry up, picking.

873
00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:21,839
Speaker 3: Number three three? Number three? Yeah, oh boy, I don't

874
00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:24,640
Speaker 3: have anything any quick, I said. Let's go with the

875
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:32,279
Speaker 3: stitch so nth W Yeah, said we won the.

876
00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:37,040
Speaker 1: Guy Jed, We won the gas word Game of the

877
00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:37,439
Speaker 1: Star

878
00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:41,719
Speaker 3: Put it on the part I want the guy