Coop Is Heartbroken Over Kyler Murray + Weekend Recap

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Speaker 1: What is this episode thirty?

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Speaker 2: They're a lot of athletes.

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Speaker 3: You are all right, Welcome back to another episode of Inside the Bus with your host, Cooper Comstock, Jack McPherson, Mitch Krsley, and myself JP Hovey.

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Speaker 1: This is a this is an offseason pod.

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Speaker 3: We don't have a whole lot for you guys today other than arguably the most important topic in any sports fans career, and that is heartbreaks of athletes leaving your team or retiring from the sport.

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Speaker 1: Maybe we're gonna give you.

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Speaker 3: Our top athletes that broke our hearts due to retirement or trades or portal, whatever it may be. But other than that, it's a after the super Bowl week. It's always like kind of a two to three week lull in the office of things trying to get figured out for next year, and guys are in and out of the office doing things. So that's why we have a little bit of a shorter, shorter episode for you guys.

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Speaker 4: Did have a lighter squad.

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Speaker 3: Lighter squad, who would like to We want to talk about our weekend first.

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Speaker 5: What Mitch ript about the weekend?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's right, that's right. This this weekend was supposed to. It was the first nice day like over the weekend in Nashville. I mean, I don't know about y'all, but like the weather was perfect, and it's like it's super nice out right now. So it was like, and Matt and I were talking about last week on the show, how we were going to hit hit the town, hit Broadway, hit Whiskey Row, kind of just get after it for the first nice day we get. I'm how many days have you been this year?

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Speaker 2: Was that? Last year?

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Speaker 4: That was? That was? Last year? Was my resolution not to go.

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Speaker 2: As much twelve times average?

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Speaker 4: And I yeah, and I think I definitely broke that, but I don't think it was like I think it maybe went like fifteen to twenty times.

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Speaker 2: Right, I'm sure that you're not keeping that up this year.

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Speaker 4: Correct, No, but this year I've only been twice. It was after Yeah, it was it was after after the snowstorm. I went to the press game and I was only there for like an hour, So I don't know if that really counts. Uh. And then uh, this past weekend, but so I'm walking Me and my couple of my other friends are walking down to Broadway to meet up with Matt and I get this text. It's like, bro, we're chopped. All of y'all know Matt and his his lingo and how he acts. It's like, oh, this probably isn't that big of a deal. But then he's like we audible to al Dean's whiskey. Row had the the tent up still, which is I feel like this is the I don't know, Jack, you can correct me if I'm wrong, because obviously you've lived here. But do they normally put up tents on rooftops and stuff to like four winter.

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Speaker 6: In my neighboy, and they put up one of those plastic tents and then you had to bring it down when the weather's great, it's not cold enough anymore.

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Speaker 2: I think it's gonna get cold.

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Speaker 6: You. I can see it being an issue on Broadway because it's just seven days a week. People are sure out there, so you got to keep the patrons happy.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, it.

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Speaker 4: Does for sure.

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Speaker 1: So that was opening weekend.

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Speaker 4: That's like you check the weather, you know all week Hey, it's gonna be perfect.

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Speaker 1: Matt was talking about it for three weeks.

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Speaker 3: He had the twenty one day forecast pulled up and he said, Mitch, whatever it was March first, and this was back.

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Speaker 1: In February around the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, March first, be ready, we're going to out or we're going to uh.

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Speaker 4: And I was excited. I like that, Like that is my if I had to pick one on Broadway, that is my favorite part, especially the rooftop because it's obviously get the view of the downtown and stuff, and like normally they have really good DJs and it's like, don't get me wrong, I love live music, but sometimes like you just need some dance music for vibes and stuff. So we were looking forward to that tent was up receive the We're chop text. So then we just went to Al Dean's and met up with Matt Ryan chef and like their whole squad of shout out Carter, Yeah, shout out Carter, shout out Scott. Yeah. It was really the only two people that I know from their crew. But we had a good time. I mean I had my crew, he had his, so we were kind of like separate. We weren't as intermingled as I would assuming we probably would have been a whiskey row. But it was still like a gorgeous day out. Like Matt hit it too hard on Friday night because he had to go. He went to some influencer party.

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Speaker 1: He was in the section with the Montana Boys at barstool.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean just casual Matt weekend. I was like, and I had literally told him, I'm like, Matt, like we have been looking forward to Saturday. Do not blow your load on Friday night and get to too banged up. I get a face on him. It's like eleven am just hair crazy. He's like, bro, I just woke up, Like what did I tell him that? He's like, bro, gea daddy's sitting right next to you. What are you gonna do? Like you didn't say your words where? He's like, no, I didn't.

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Speaker 5: You know what's kind of funny? We haven't. I guess I don't know if we want to get into the whole Matt aboarding mission to clump and all that, because that stuff is so funny, But what's hilarious about it kind of being a flop, Like obviously I'll said a good time, just not like how it was hyped up to be. Is So, ADDIE's family came in town and I was we were driving out of uh and I guess they were at Ryan's we were driving out of the gate because I was taking them like her dad to see the office and stuff. So we were driving out and I see Ryan and the boys like fist fun because I see me and they like, you can tell they've already been getting it. They like the vibes are so high, and they're like, I wrote my window down. I'm like, hey, we're going to the bus. I want to come, like kind of joking. They're like, oh, we're about to meet Mitchen Clump at Whiskey Row, like we're about to get active. And I'm like they just look so happy. And then to hear on like Monday, when I like the hey.

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Speaker 4: It was was it wasn't all it was cracked up to me.

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Speaker 5: It wasn't all what. It was funny to see how excited the word.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, not that I'm like praying another down fall.

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Speaker 2: But.

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Speaker 5: It's just funny hidees because I'm like, man, they're about to have the time of their lives.

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Speaker 4: The whole Clump stuff was funny because like he had said, like I'll meet you all out like well moved by Clump in the first place, I don't, I mean he said when we had a Brooks birthday party, at the house and I don't remember. I think some of y'all may have came, I don't know, Like if not, it wasn't that big a Clump had said like, hey, I want to roll through and like get effort for like yeah, for sure, and like he he makes makes an effort, even if it's only for thirty to forty five minutes, like that's really all you, but like he wants to feel like he has fomo for sure sense, which is like completely understandable, but like he made it seem like he was going to come out obviously he was in communication with Matt, not me and Matt, like we were there for a long enough time to where he could have been like, hey, we're not going to Whiskey Row, come to al Dean's. Like Matt fumbled that for sure, But I meant, y'all know Clump, he kind of blows it out of proportion every once in a while.

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Speaker 5: But for sure, funny when he was telling the story that I know.

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Speaker 4: Like he for sure Matt did fumble and not like not say we audibled, but Clump also blowing it up to a little bit more than it was. But it was still a good time, Like seeing Chef Ryan and like the boys get after it a little bit and like my one buddy Gay, like Matt was talking to a girl. My one buddy Gabe was like, I work with that girl. Watch this and like immediately went up, was like hey, what's up? And then Matt like turned around said what just happened? And I'm like, charge you to the game, bro. But they ended up just they're like that was just one of Gabes coworkers. So it was just kind of funny. But all in all, it was a good time. It was fun.

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Speaker 1: We'll have to you gotta do a part two.

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Speaker 3: It sounds like, oh there there, there will be a part two, and I feel I low key this part.

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Speaker 4: This idea just popped in my head. I feel like it'd be fun to log it, but I also feel like that would be a terrible idea.

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Speaker 1: You could get you could.

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Speaker 3: Just get a little like into half long montage.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, like disco lines.

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Speaker 5: Behind overdue for our next it TV blong.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. The last one we did was the Caroling one, and that thing flopped. So if you're watching this right now, go check that out. It's a good time.

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Speaker 5: I mean, we'll guarantee we're guaranteed to have another pool day.

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Speaker 4: One that.

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Speaker 2: Hopefully it wills.

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Speaker 1: I went, true, Yeah, better than Taylor's.

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Speaker 6: Uh, they both bring different aspects of it, but they're they're very similar, gotcha. The same shape, same layout where it's like the Bahama Landing and.

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Speaker 2: Like a little hot area.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I just need some water in the tea.

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Speaker 2: Great. It's a great place to play the tea game.

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Speaker 4: So I'm assuming he has a deep end. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I went over there during the.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Also on the weekends. I look, he had a hitter of a weekend. I went to an always sunny and Philadelphia themed DJ said what and it was unbelievable. My buddy, he was opening for this guy, Tristan who's.

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Speaker 1: A friend of the show.

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Speaker 6: The show Tristan Thompson. Shout out the boy and now to confews with Tristan Thompson. Yeah, he came in and I thought he just wanted to go and support his buddy. And then on Friday night He's like, dude, I'm opening for this guy and I was like, well, this is fun. I ended up picking up the guy from the airport the next day. I'm like running around shuttle on people the original location they were Gonna do it at did not have an LED wall, and the show is like very visually dependent on all these time codes that match up with the music, that have like clips from the show mixed in with like trippy visuals.

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Speaker 2: And the guys like, I might cancel it. I'm like, I'm like, we're not. Why would you cancel it? You just played music if people are gonna dance.

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Speaker 6: They ended up switching into a different location in East Nashville called The Office. If any of the listeners know about the Office, you know that it's a little dungeon in East Nashville that plays some solid house music.

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Speaker 2: And it was it was so much fun. We had a bunch of friends show up.

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Speaker 6: I was decked out and always sunny year, having probably too much fun, really tired on Sunday.

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Speaker 2: I leave it at that, but it.

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Speaker 6: Was a good time, and I hope that there's more things like that. I forgot how much.

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Speaker 2: I love house music. And I know Matt Malone would identify with this. It's probably.

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Speaker 5: They don't understand, but it was a good I do on.

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Speaker 2: My weekend, got to see some friends.

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Speaker 4: And how does how does like a like an always sunny DJ set? Kind of like is trippy to me. I don't understand how that works.

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Speaker 2: So, like it was just like.

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Speaker 6: A house set with like the music they were playing was awesome, but in between songs they would kind of thread like funny one liners from the show or like you know, running jokes they have if you ever watch Always Sunny Philadelphia, and like there's a couple of songs like from the.

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Speaker 2: Show that they would mix in with music and dud. It was a blast.

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Speaker 6: They were all like, there's so many people dressed up like in costume, which I didn't anticipate. Overall, great participation on the crowd and and the DJs.

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Speaker 2: It worked out well. Man.

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Speaker 4: So for for lack of a better term, like a big booty mix type.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I could lay in that language. It was a little like deeper house, but.

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Speaker 4: I'm not going to hear the semantics of it all.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but overall, go to more house shows. That's fine.

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Speaker 3: I'm slept on. Part of adulthood is themed parties.

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Speaker 6: I swear, man, no excuse to get dressed up and just going out and dancing and have friends.

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Speaker 1: So shout out to the people that put those.

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Speaker 2: Onto the next theme party that we should attend.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, or throw.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, or throw take matters in her own hands and step up.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, just have a party at the shop.

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Speaker 5: That would be That would actually be so fun.

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Speaker 3: What did I always think it's kind of funny, Like when you showed Daddy's parents the shop. What was the reaction because so many times Dad's especially like, so this is where y'all work?

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Speaker 1: Huh, I wish.

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Speaker 5: So her family, her mom was in town. It was her dad and her sister. So her sister got a job in Nashville, grads to her she's moving here soon. So we went and looked at like where she's working, and I did all that, but I showed them here and uh yeah, it's always hard to give a tour this place because it's like you walk in and like you like look like her dad's all about it. So it was fun and you know, like showed him the bus and but it is funny we walk in, uh like have a basketball hoop and a keg, just like trying to explain like, yeah, like we do have a meeting room though this is our meeting room. Yeah, where's the buzz. Oh it's on the other side of like where we do all our shows. But it was fun. I always enjoy being like a little tour guy and showing people's shop because it's such.

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Speaker 6: A different world that people get to experience so normalized. You kind of see like, oh wow, yeah, like this.

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Speaker 5: Is it is a few weeks or months ago. I don't even know how long it's been. Addie has a friend who her and her husband are like big fans of of Bust and they watch all the shows and so they're they're in Mississippi and they you know, they came to Tennessee and showed them around, and it was awesome to show them around, Like they're hitting Will's po's in front of the bus and.

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Speaker 3: Every every just marquee spot of the shop.

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Speaker 5: They're just like getting a picture of like Delaney's jersey and stuff because they're a big Titans fans.

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Speaker 1: It's awesome.

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Speaker 5: But like like nights like that or whenever I'm showing some of the office and they're like about it. It is so cool because I'm just like, yeah, I'm like, oh yeah, this is like the the locker room set, but they're like, oh, this is like Clay and like Clay all the all the NFL gear that's like in the lockers. I'm like Oh yeah, that's like a that's a Pro Bowl jersey, and I don't think about right, like if you're a football fan and you're ye going to see how cool that.

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Speaker 4: I did that one time with like my yeah, there's Taylor, Taylor's helmet, this is his Titans one is Michigan one. And they're like, whoa, this is so sick. It's like we do getting like numb to it all. Like it's kind of cool to like see other people happy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's always my favorite part that it does adds that this he like consumed podcasts.

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Speaker 5: I don't know the extent of parting. I don't think so. I think I mean he's like obviously aware of ours, And.

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Speaker 3: Has he ever asked you the question, so, how do podcast make money? No, dude, that's like one but.

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Speaker 5: I have been asked, like yeah, when I first got the shop, when I was explaining to like family friends, like in the summer, like out at the lake, I go and you know, like answer all the questions. Yeah, I'm just like I don't even not explain this. I know they're just kind of like oh cool, cool, like, oh you do graphic, you do what?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Like ah, so it's hard to It's always so hard to explain.

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Speaker 3: Sit and sparents are like a little bit older too, they're in their seventies and you know, still to this day, I don't think they fully understand like the concept of the podcast basically being run like a local TV or a radio station where we make money the same way through advertisements.

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Speaker 1: And I've had.

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Speaker 3: To explain it to the so many times, and I'm just I always laugh inside because i know inside his head, mister Ferman said, he's probably like, what, there's no shot that anything he's saying is actually real.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm along this last.

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Speaker 5: I'm lucky because I know Addie explains it to her family far better than I could. So, but that's the thing is, I don't have to explain like they know, like they're in the She's done the work. Yeah, she's she's better with words. So it's like I'm just I'm just showing they're like there to know.

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Speaker 4: Have you had to try to explain it to Shannon's parents experience?

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Speaker 2: I will in a month. They're coming so opportunity. I'm pretty sure her parents are more traditional too, but he parents before. Yeah, Yeah, I'm excited.

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Speaker 3: She does graphic designs. So I feel like they're a little bit aware.

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Speaker 6: Of understanding because she does you have very similar lane that I do, like I understand. Like when I'm trying to explain my job with somebody, a lot of times I'll end up just being like, I'm a producer on the show, try to get the weeds of it.

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Speaker 2: And they're like, okay, cool. Yeah, but yeah, I am a little nervous.

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Speaker 4: So I will watch and parents bro it is so it's scary to meet. Like somebody's dad is not.

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Speaker 2: A fan of tattoos and he knows, but I'm like, man, it's like, hopefully it's.

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Speaker 3: One of those it's gonna beside to.

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Speaker 6: Sweatshirts, jackets all like back when I'm in college my tattoos from my parents.

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Speaker 2: But it'll be cool.

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Speaker 6: He's he kind of like keeps tabs, like from a farm, Like I think he enjoys kind of what we do, and which kind of makes me nervous because I know the stuff we talk about.

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Speaker 1: A good stream on that last post check.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, well, I'm anxious.

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Speaker 1: To Jack's Instagram tomorrow. It's everything's been archive.

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Speaker 5: You got you gotta borrow Jared's meadowglasses honestly.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna bring back.

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Speaker 6: Here because I'll definitely have to bring them to the shop and they're probably gonna have the same reaction.

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Speaker 5: And honestly, and it helps, like I mean, I've already like had met her dad and her sister and like the people that I brought here been hanging out before that. But it helps like loosen up, so like any awkwardness when you can kind of just walk.

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Speaker 1: Around, yeah, kind of just be like you have things to explain, a little.

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Speaker 5: Biteah, things to talk about. It's just it'll make it easier to.

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Speaker 3: Look at this clip that I had from last week where Cube dominates the Jack and JP talk about their Twitter career earnings in the back corner, shout out elon uh the next topic unless something happening. Yeah, Well, unfortunately Coop had to experience a little bit of heartbreak this path. I guess yesterday when Kyler Murray k one and it sucks and you know it's coming to what was it like when you get when you got that news, Well.

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Speaker 5: I I want to I'll I'll dig into Kyler, but I want to go last because I you know that comes with the story that's like you're right, that's like I.

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Speaker 2: Just can't see him in any other jersey too.

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Speaker 5: And also like for me, that's always one read. Yeah, that's a journey that I feel like I've been on since middle school.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'll get to see the Texas guy too.

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Speaker 5: I'm sure I'll get in that I got. I'll start with a few other ones from when I was younger, because these are just kind of funny, like big Rangers fan, as you'll know, a big baseball fan, and when you're ten to fourteen, it just matters more, like I can live a little bit more with Kyle, Like I understand.

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Speaker 1: You know what's going on in the business, right You're you've grown up.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I'm not thirteen anymore. Even though I'm still heartbroken. It it hits different. Yeah, but Ian Kinsler was my favorite player on the Rangers and they traded him for Prince Fielder, great player, and but he was my favorite player, and I just remember the breakup being so bad, Like Ian Kinsler publicly said, I hope the Rangers go oh in one sixty two, and I was.

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Speaker 1: Like, damn, what do I do I've done for you?

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Speaker 5: I'm like, dude, I was your biggest fan. My cousin called, you pop out Kinsler every time you're up to the bat, and I almost through hands. So that one was tough. And then uh, and then Prince Fielder, you know, the new guy, and then you start to like him. I you know, I start to warm up to him. He's a good player, Like he he's good. I I get his jersey, I kid you not. The next day surprise retirement.

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Speaker 4: Did he like break his neck or something?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he had like neck issues and it was like a like an unscheduled like just pop up press conference. I'm done. Just bought his jersey the day before, just fully like had bought in. And when you're thirteen years from you feel responsible, like this is a jersey curse. We all have jersey curses.

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Speaker 2: This.

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Speaker 4: How did you feel about when like Josh Hamilton everything happened because he went from Rangers to Angels.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, the Hamilton stuff is like is is so different because I mean he was so good. He wasn't even like a niche player like Kinsler was good, Like those teams were good. Kinsler was like like my my hero. Take like Josh Hamilton was MVP. And then you know you like all the off the field stuff, and he just like felt different and like when he left it, you know, like I still understood allose stuff that it was still sad, but I was like third time, I'm like, oh, he must be a bad person because but you know what it's funny about Josh Hamilton though, was a he's not a bad person. Yeah, stay with me.

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Speaker 3: From North Carolina too, by the way, stay with me.

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Speaker 5: My sister played softball in the same like league as his daughter, as Hamilton's daughter, and he would always just be at the park like just playing football with like the boys, just catching like before the game, like when the softball player when all them warmed up, like he was just like yeah, he was just like a dad and he would he was were cool, Like it was just like all these all these little kids are obviously fans. I think I learned was around him when he did that once, like throwing the football, but like he would do I didn't go to all the all the games, but he would he would throw the football. Und he was cool. And then all the problems like so you know, shout out Josh Hamilton, shout out Hamilton, but those all hurt and then y'all do y'all want me to get into Kyler. I feel like you need some time y'all do some of yours because I got me and Kyler go back match.

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Speaker 4: You said you had yeah for I mean for as the Chiefs guy. Well to talk about baseball first, I was a Mets fan strictly because of Jose rays and David Wright and then everything that happened with them, Like I was like once they got shipped out or I think Jose Rayce got busted for drugs or something, so it's like, that's.

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Speaker 5: Such a good pool. I haven't heard of Jose years and he he was like the cover of I think it was two kay seven, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: It was like eight.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, But like that that those where my baseball But then football wise, like being a Chiefs fan, the three guys that I can think of the most are Jamal Charles, Larry Johnson, and Eric Berry. And like the Eric Berry story, arc Jack obviously you know from him being a ball but like him getting cancer and then missing an entire year then coming back for the season opener, did he have a pick six? Yeah? Where it's like this is this was like going to happen all along kind of like how after the Demorrow Hamlin stuff that the Bills were going to take the opening kickoff for a touchdown.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 4: That's one of those things where it's like it was written already kind of thing. Those two. Those are three guys where like I have a Larry Johnson jersey, I have a Jamal Charles jersey. It's like when me and my brother were playing football in the sideyard, Like I'm wearing those jerseys and I'm like acting like Jamal Charles is trying to be super faster, Larry Johnson like trying to truck my brother kind of thing. Those are players where it's like, oh, I'm Larry Johnson right now. Oh, I'm like as everybody kind of has when they're playing like their backyard sports. But those three guys were it's like, damn that one. Those one's hurt.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I can go mind's quick because I'm not a massive pro sports guy, but I do have one.

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Speaker 1: And it's a little true.

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Speaker 5: I am a Titan, like socks you go hard.

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Speaker 1: I would like to be a Titans fan. I just hate that.

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Speaker 3: I'm I mean, I'm pretty close yeah by Low, but I still feel like the low is I still haven't put in that that pain so you gotta earn it.

00:23:37
Speaker 1: You got to put in the pain.

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Speaker 6: I think just associating your brand and identity with Titans is enough pain that you're in.

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Speaker 1: So I'm a Titans fan.

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Speaker 5: Hey, just wait till the Falcons get Kyler Murray. You'll be back on board.

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Speaker 4: True.

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Speaker 3: And that's It's like, you know, I never left the Falcons, but if I had to give an athlete, he didn't retire anything but Michael Vick. And I was, you know, one of them, Michael Vick's number one fan. The black jersey was my first NFL jersey I ever owned. And when you're in the front yard, everybody's Michael Vick.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I went to the.

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Speaker 3: Lengths of after he got arrested. I was still I'm in the court case looking like, are we sure this is what happened?

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Speaker 5: And him and Josh Hamilton, man, who are we looking up to?

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Speaker 1: I know, I'm like, and you know, are there pieces that you know? Maybe the media is not telling us? So I'm learning.

00:24:25
Speaker 3: You know, hey, Michael Vick, he was never in attendance of the dog fights that just happened on his property. Then I'm here and you know, maybe he went to jail for tax evasion, not the dog fighting. So I'm looking for all these excuses so I can still argue for him at the lunch table. And maybe that wasn't the greatest look on me, but I.

00:24:42
Speaker 4: Promise you he's not a bad guy.

00:24:44
Speaker 1: It was his cousins, man, it was all of them.

00:24:47
Speaker 5: It wasn't locked up for life. I mean he came back and played, so there's something there. There's something there.

00:24:51
Speaker 1: Which was which was awesome, but it hurt me when he left the NFL.

00:24:55
Speaker 4: I remember when, like obviously being like outside of Philly, everybody around his Philly fans, Like I remember watching like the local news and there were people like picketing at like the Eagles facility, pissed that they that they signed Vic, and they were literally saying hide your beagle, vixen eagle like and it was all over like local Pennsylvania news stations, wasn't I think there was there was a year in between. I think it was like Kevin Cobb or something.

00:25:26
Speaker 1: Yea, I'm pretty sure.

00:25:29
Speaker 4: But then then Vic came in and it was like Vic and then Foles and it was kind of back and forth a little bit.

00:25:34
Speaker 3: Because I'm still I had on, Uh, they did like a documentary series on Norfolk State where he's coaching right now, and it's on B E T. And when I'm watching all the behind the scenes of Michael Vick's life, I'm just like, God, I love this guy so much. Man Like he just needed love his life, and Uh, I could have given it, could have given it.

00:25:56
Speaker 1: I would have known him back then I was eleven. Uh but uh yeah, so I would say him and then other just paying ones.

00:26:03
Speaker 3: My number one pain, I guess would probably be an injury taking away Mark Slattimore from my game Cocks that one stings, or Tray Smith another injury that happened to a South Carolina receiver.

00:26:17
Speaker 1: But that that's kind of my extent.

00:26:19
Speaker 4: Jack, What about you?

00:26:22
Speaker 6: I hate this question because not only as being a Titans fan me and you're subjected to a life misery. We've also had a handful of great players leave, and starting back at the beginning.

00:26:34
Speaker 2: With Steve McNair, he went played for the Ravens and his career there.

00:26:38
Speaker 6: People forget a George in his career in Dallas, and those were two of our franchise guys that really staple like what the team was and gave it identity, and.

00:26:47
Speaker 2: Then you obviously can talk about Derrick, Henry A. J.

00:26:50
Speaker 6: Brown, Kevin Byer, Drew, Casey Logan, Ryan, Johnny Smith.

00:26:56
Speaker 2: I mean I would even throw Tannel in there because he just retired. Earn A.

00:27:00
Speaker 1: Jones.

00:27:00
Speaker 4: Yeah, Mariota, Mariota, I mean there's so many.

00:27:04
Speaker 6: In fact, the pin point one that hurt the most, it's probably A J. Brown just because of the platform that it happened on at the at the draft, I'll never forget where I was. I was in Knox in a hotel with Thomas, another friend of the show, and I was taking the ship. And because I worked for my job here, I always have push notifications on. I just see my phone shark blowing up.

00:27:25
Speaker 2: And the jersey curse. I just got an AJ Brown jersey.

00:27:29
Speaker 5: It's real, dude.

00:27:31
Speaker 2: And then I get another jersey for the Titans and Nate Bane. Shout of Nate Bain, Homie, when you get Nate on the.

00:27:37
Speaker 1: Show, Yeah you want to go.

00:27:39
Speaker 6: But he gave us all custom and Whilers jerseys. And this is right before we signed h drafted Will Levis. I my favorite number is eight, and I chose a only for Will Levis to.

00:27:51
Speaker 2: Be number eight. And it's like says Mac on the back, and so many people like my friends.

00:27:55
Speaker 6: Will fuck with me and they're like, damn, like we're wearing that Legis jersey again and I'm likely stop not to like tape like a one on it.

00:28:01
Speaker 1: And the jersey's so fired too, it's wearing.

00:28:04
Speaker 6: All the times and whatever. But yeah, the Titans have been littered with a bunch of guys that have left an unfortunate circumstances. But I mean that's why we love.

00:28:12
Speaker 5: This game, you know, because it's the beautiful game.

00:28:14
Speaker 3: Julio Jones be hup, Adrian Peters Cardinals Legend two Cardinals.

00:28:21
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's it's good to talk about this stuff.

00:28:23
Speaker 6: Guys need an outlook for this kind of thing about you know, your feelings and really what goes on in your head when when your favorite athlete it's most likely younger than you now your current age.

00:28:35
Speaker 2: But that's life.

00:28:37
Speaker 3: That is.

00:28:38
Speaker 1: Should I get into it? You got to get into it, man.

00:28:40
Speaker 5: I'm ready. Also, I didn't even mention this one, and I'm I'm not going to get into this one. It'll actually get me mad, oh Luca. Yeah, but I feel like everybody knows how how just stupid that I'm not getting into it.

00:28:53
Speaker 2: So I'm not getting upset to that. Yeah, I'm not getting upset today.

00:28:56
Speaker 5: It only about Kyler. The sucky part you gotta realize about Arizona Cardinals is they've had one good quarterback in their franchise history before Kyler, and it was Kurt Warner for a couple of years. And like obviously you saw the like they went to the Super Bowl as a wildcard, like came that close. I was still really young when that game happened. It doesn't hurt as much. So all I've really known is like one playoff run and then despair. And for Kyler. When I'm growing up in DFW, like in middle school, all you hear about is Alan High School Kyler Murray. This is the best high school football player ever. Like he doesn't lose he Alan, Yeah, not far. It's all DFW. So they would play state championships in state playoffs at Cowboy Stadium now the dude at the Star and people would go just to watch Kyler Murray play. He's a Texas high school legend. You know, he's you got all these offers, He's number one recruit all that you know, he goes crazy like we're in middle school. Like the high schoolers feel older than high schoolers. So Kyler Murray in my mind when I'm in middle school, is just some legend. Grow up a little bit.

00:30:12
Speaker 4: You know.

00:30:12
Speaker 5: He goes to A and M kind of is an afterthought. You don't really think about Kyler Murray at A and M. He played a few snaps there, you know, kind of like, you know, I'm not thinking about Kyler murr anymore. I'm I'm about to go to college. I get to college. First year of college, all of a sudden, Kyler's at OU he had backed up Baker the year before. He's I'm I went to Oklahoma State. So I'm not rooting for Kyler Murray my freshman year of college. Yeah, yeah, it's I'm not rooting for him. I don't like him. That's I feel like that's pretty fair and natural. But I'm watching the Cardinals just stink it up with Josh Rosen. So freshman year of college, I'm watching the Cardinals stink up with Rosen. We stink We're back. I mean, we're right back to where you know we never left. Yeah, fast forward to the draft, Kyler Murray comes in he's gonna be the savior of Arizona. And what sucks so bad is I'm back on Kyler Murray Like I'm like, okay, I've been following his career, like I'm I'm I'm Ryan for Kyler Murray. And he wins Rookie of the Year. He shows all this, all these flashes, all these flashes. His second year is even better. He's pro bowler. He's shown all these like he looks like an MVP candidate at the beginning of the year. And then you know, the second year, you know they're still rebuilding, They're not as good. They fallo up the second half the year. It can be kind of written off. Third year, they start eight to no, like they look unstoppable. Kyler opened with like one of the greatest opening week performances by quarterback ever statistically in Tennessee against the Titans, Like he just went off that game and I was.

00:31:48
Speaker 1: Like, we are damn Like it's a Taylor game now, yeah, no, it was.

00:31:54
Speaker 5: It was, yes, yeah. So the Cardinals looked like world beaters the verse eight weeks of the season, and Kyler kind of gets hurt at the end of the Packers game. They lose on Thursday night, first lost, really good Packers team A J. Green for out to turn around, he's an idiot, honestly, that might have been the downfall of the Cardinals. So the Cardinals kind of spiral out of control after that and it's just like never the same. And Kyler this past season, you know, like takes a bullet off the head and the Titans game never comes back in for the rest of the season. People are talking about how good Jacoby Brissette is and even though they didn't win a single game with them the year before, you know, Kyler was first half of year really good, and then they fell up second half of the year. It was another coaching change, so you can kind of write out like, Okay, they're showing progress and then it gets hurt this year and you just kind of know like this was the year and I knew that going in, and I know I said that before the season, like this is like a this is like it has to happened this year, and then it just does. And out of all the people, it's easy to ride for Larry Fitz growing up because there's proof, like there's nobody's refuting Larry Fitz or dark Novinski Kyler's the first one, Laura, I legit have to argue for him. No one's arguing against all these other players that I've grown up loving. And so I just I really wanted it to work out, not even for and I'm wherever he goes, I will be rooting for that team. I like, if he goes to Minnesota, I kind of want to go to Minnesota. And I just wanted to win like twelve games and go to playout and like then I have to win a Super Bowl. Yeah, I need I need people to see what I saw. I know y'all get that, I get that, But it just that the Cardinals releasing him, it just sucks because like I just felt so right and then and then you're just wrong.

00:33:47
Speaker 1: It sucks.

00:33:49
Speaker 5: I was writing for him for seven years and I was just wrong at the end of the day. And I still don't feel like it's wrong, but I have to like kind of admit it, Like, no, it just didn't work out.

00:33:57
Speaker 1: Didn't work out. But this story's not over.

00:34:00
Speaker 4: All of the pauses and stuff and that, like you can just feel Coop working through his thoughts and just feeling all of.

00:34:06
Speaker 3: This when he started saying this was the year. I think as a sports fan, the most stressful time of your life is the preseason. Before you know what is the year?

00:34:16
Speaker 5: I put out so many tweets saying this is it. That's like I had a lemon for him. Literally, I could have getten the lemon in Week four.

00:34:24
Speaker 1: That's how. That's how South it went preseason of the year?

00:34:28
Speaker 2: Man, oh yeah, ahead of the Titans of the draft, which I still know the Titans.

00:34:33
Speaker 5: Are the fourth pick, but that's because I mean, can't Ward effect Maybe that that watch party of the Cardinals Titans Cardinals were like twenty one to three. Mean, Naddie left, like, we'll watch the rest of the game at home like Zion Nasuckers. And then we get home and it just starts crumbling. The Tyler Lockett touchdown, if you want to call it, you want to call Tyler touched out, I don't even know. The Amari deMercado probably cost Kyler Murray his career. It's honestly, like, there's so much that happen in that game that is just ridiculous. But anyways, I gotta move on. And what sucks is we're about to get Malik Willis and it's like that's like the we have Kyler at home, Malik to Marvin someone called Malik to Mike Willie.

00:35:24
Speaker 4: True.

00:35:26
Speaker 5: Yeah, but you see Cardinals Twitter like we're we're leading the leak Willis sweepstakes. Sweepstakes.

00:35:33
Speaker 1: He can get Willis for two years, but you got to ride for him, you know that?

00:35:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, well.

00:35:46
Speaker 3: You do. There's a different kinds of fans in the world. I feel like you are definitely a fan that like the player does have to work for it.

00:35:52
Speaker 5: Yeah, and that's what people didn't see with Kyler Man. They thought he just didn't work for it. All these card graphics which were hilarious. But you'll see Kyler.

00:36:00
Speaker 3: You'll see him.

00:36:01
Speaker 2: Where would you like to see him?

00:36:03
Speaker 5: I want either Minnesota because I like they're they're Jersey doesn't.

00:36:09
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:36:11
Speaker 5: The thing is what's funny is he grew up a Vikings fan, kind of on some bandwagon stuff because he he said he didn't grow up in well he said he said he didn't grow up a Cowoys fan.

00:36:19
Speaker 3: Because they were asked that was Oklahoma State coop talking right there, crept out a little bit.

00:36:25
Speaker 5: It just is this what it feels like to have an X This sucks especially and I'm gonna go see him for Minnesota. I want him to go to Minnesota. I would. I kind of want to say Steelers, but I.

00:36:35
Speaker 1: Just I don't know, you don't want.

00:36:37
Speaker 5: I want him to have weapons.

00:36:38
Speaker 2: Like, do you think he ever changes his number?

00:36:41
Speaker 1: No, he's K one, man, it's either K one or K nine.

00:36:46
Speaker 5: Yeah, but there's already K nine. He's been he's been number one. I was talking about Kennith Walkers Walker. Yeah, but like he's been one since wherever. But since K one, I don't know, Like I don't even care what his number is.

00:37:02
Speaker 1: Just go ball out.

00:37:03
Speaker 5: I don't know where else you would go another interesting one and it would kill me, but I would. It would be just poetic justice for the Cardinals organization, which I support. Is if he went to the Rams Stafford, Like, dude.

00:37:16
Speaker 1: I was thinking about that.

00:37:17
Speaker 5: There's people that that think he could go to the Rams and take over for Stafford. Saf's done. Watch Kyler whoop the Cardinals ass twice here? I mean we already lose to the Rams twice here anyway.

00:37:27
Speaker 1: Because whoever them is getting him on the minimum.

00:37:30
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:37:30
Speaker 5: The Cardinals owing money, yeah, which good for him. Fuck the Cardinals feel good?

00:37:37
Speaker 6: Yeah.

00:37:37
Speaker 1: Well man was in such a toxic relationship.

00:37:40
Speaker 5: But I just started talking about just Rand but the stories that suck.

00:37:47
Speaker 4: You'll be all right, You'll make it through. I hope.

00:37:49
Speaker 5: So I just I don't even care if I make it through. I want Kyler to make it through.

00:37:53
Speaker 1: Damn well said Higher Purpose. It's a good deal.

00:37:58
Speaker 5: What are we at?

00:38:00
Speaker 4: Thirty seven thirty eight, Episode thirty eight minute. I think that is a good song.

00:38:06
Speaker 1: See you guys next week.

00:38:08
Speaker 3: We'll have more to talk about next week, even though this was a great therapeutic podcast therapy.

00:38:12
Speaker 2: More than any your homies about their NFL.

00:38:16
Speaker 3: Yeah, stay tuned for Jack's blog meeting Sharon Shannon's parents. That will be fire, and we'll see you guys next week. I shoe get way to work.