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Speaker 3: You're already shredded.
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Speaker 1: They're not shredded. Uh, your brain is shredded, yes, oh
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Speaker 4: I sure am alright this December little December wedding, Christmas wedding.
Speaker 4: I think Sannah and Jesus have a problem with that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what happens if she sobers up? Is the wedding off?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3: Probably. Yeah, let's let's hope it doesn't get to that.
Speaker 1: But let's keep let's gay.
Speaker 2: Hey, let's hope her keep her away until y'all get married.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the MRI of the eyeball.
Speaker 2: If they take an MRI of her MRI ball, Yeah,
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Speaker 4: Well as great as smart as that sounds, probably her benefit,
Speaker 4: because I'm sure she'd like to see better. Yeah, let's
Speaker 4: get keep with the contacts because she's always losing those.
Speaker 2: And I don't know where to find whoa wherever?
Speaker 1: I don't be I don't know Austin Montgomery from W
Speaker 1: A M. As we go on the road, I gotta
Speaker 1: I gotta ask him about our buddy. What did you
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Speaker 2: You guys got to.
Speaker 3: See a little Jay Cruse action the other day.
Speaker 1: Ye love.
Speaker 2: J Crew, Yeah, CJ Crews. Other than that, it one great.
Speaker 3: What's on a heck of a performance?
Speaker 2: No, but hey man, this uh this, this guy's pretty good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's uh well, Jay's got several artists down there.
Speaker 4: He's got Chase Matthews, Chases you can see too, Chase McDaniels.
Speaker 2: And it's just no, he's got rock acts too. He's
Speaker 2: got Sammy Hagar, he's got a Motley Cruze, Cheryl Cheryl Crow.
Speaker 3: He's uh well, yeah, he's doing big thing. That's funny.
Speaker 3: When you leave radio you're doing big things.
Speaker 4: All right, all right, alright, No, but like I said that,
Speaker 4: the country you the artist he's dealt with.
Speaker 3: I've talked to him.
Speaker 4: We've had several like or yeah, Garth, we've had like
Speaker 4: acoustic jams one night only that I've got to kind
Speaker 4: of be uh close and talk to these cool dude.
Speaker 1: Now, if I missed something with the Garth Brooks is
Speaker 1: there some sort of story about him or something.
Speaker 3: No, is there.
Speaker 1: I think there's something weird going on.
Speaker 2: I don't talk to him anymore.
Speaker 1: Oh I thought you.
Speaker 2: No, No, we've been on the outs for.
Speaker 1: About You used to detail his car, I know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I sweep him now all the time, probably
Speaker 2: ten years now.
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Speaker 1: Yes, exactly where's the audiobook? I need an audiobook? All right?
Speaker 1: Here are the worst corporate decisions in American history.
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: And what is number one?
Speaker 2: White? Uh, it's gotta be a New Coke.
Speaker 1: New Coke was nineteen eighty five, well before your time, Rston.
Speaker 1: But Coca Cola Pepsi was starting to get too much
Speaker 1: of Coca Cola's market, and and Pepsi everyone knows pepsi
Speaker 1: sweeter than Coca Cola's.
Speaker 2: Like me, I'm the pepsi co.
Speaker 1: There's no there's no doubt about it. That's that's exactly
Speaker 1: right the blind. But people like that the way that
Speaker 1: coke feels, you know, when the burn down your throat.
Speaker 1: So some genius at Coca Cola said, well, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: if we make our Coca Cola's taste like pepsi, then
Speaker 1: more people will buy Coca Cola, and we'll change the
Speaker 1: formula to mimic pepsi. That's the actual voice of the man.
Speaker 2: That's the guy, that's the guy.
Speaker 1: Thank you. So they re formulated it and they called
Speaker 1: it New Coke, rolled it out in nineteen eighty five,
Speaker 1: and it was a complete disaster.
Speaker 3: So like it even said like new Cocla.
Speaker 2: They said, new Cola, change the can, the whole bit. Yes,
Speaker 2: but here's the problem.
Speaker 3: That's unnecessary.
Speaker 2: You know, it's totally unnecessary. And by the way, just
Speaker 2: go ahead and uh it, give us the option. You know,
Speaker 2: do you want the new coke, you want the regular car,
Speaker 2: and let the market play out itself. But they just
Speaker 2: changed the whole product, and at some point they brought
Speaker 2: it back as classic Coke.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's what I got. So what happened was,
Speaker 1: why would you have to call it classic coke? Just
Speaker 1: go back to the regular because classic coke was the
Speaker 1: answer to come back. They eventually got rid of the
Speaker 1: new Coke formula altogether, but that is the worst corporate
Speaker 1: decision in history. I'm not sure if the bud Light
Speaker 1: marketing plan from two years ago does it or three
Speaker 1: years is it new Coke? Trump trumpt that one.
Speaker 2: By a mile. I mean that new Coke. What's kind
Speaker 2: of like it's the same thing with HBO. HBO. Here
Speaker 2: you are your your uh your diet in the wool
Speaker 2: as a brand and they say, you know what, let's
Speaker 2: change our name to Max.
Speaker 3: Gonna be Max what?
Speaker 1: Uh. The second on this list is Blockbuck Blockbuster rejecting Netflix.
Speaker 2: Yeah I found out. I know this story.
Speaker 1: Yes, I tell this story.
Speaker 2: And they could have got in at a bargain.
Speaker 1: Netflix wanted to join forces. Yeah Blockbuster, and Blockbuster said
Speaker 1: I don't think so, mister redbox person. Whatever. Uh, you
Speaker 1: were doing, big, huge mistake. And I know that you
Speaker 1: invested in Blockbuster right at the end, and I apologize.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's before you turned me on to retirement three
Speaker 2: sixty Troy Bolton had I read that Here's what I did.
Speaker 2: I put half my money in Blockbuster Video and the
Speaker 2: other half in Circuit City. Oh yeah, I haven't looked
Speaker 2: at it yet though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So follow his advice.
Speaker 3: Don't keep it that way. Listen your side out of mind.
Speaker 2: You know, Troy Bolton could have used me as a
Speaker 2: cautionary tale and what not.
Speaker 1: To do and what not to do. Do you remember
Speaker 1: Blockbuster at all? Okay, all right? It was the best
Speaker 1: time on a Friday or Saturday night with Mike when
Speaker 1: my kids were little and I can just cut them
Speaker 1: loose and they would go, so go pick out a movie, Maggie.
Speaker 1: You pick up a movie, and I'll pick out a movie.
Speaker 1: It was part of the fun movie night was going
Speaker 1: to Blockbuster and picking out the movie.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then of course the ultimate disappointment when you would
Speaker 1: pick the box up and there were none of the
Speaker 1: nothing behind anything behind it and you're like, oh, it's
Speaker 1: sold out.
Speaker 4: Then you then you would actually go look at like
Speaker 4: the other movies on the road, to see if some
Speaker 4: a knob actually like was messing with didn't put it
Speaker 4: behind Oh yeah, behind.
Speaker 2: You all keep talking because I'm gonna do a little digging.
Speaker 4: Well, I just I just told my mom because it
Speaker 4: is my birthday. The other day, we went out to
Speaker 4: Texas Roadhouse and we went as a family, and I'm
Speaker 4: sitting there thinking, you know, it's been a while since
Speaker 4: we've done this since I was like a young kid,
Speaker 4: and I'm like, usually after this, this is like the
Speaker 4: perfect night where we go to Blockbuster. After this, we
Speaker 4: go pick out a movie still kind of have the
Speaker 4: red boxes.
Speaker 2: I needed to look something up for context. But here
Speaker 2: we go in two thousand, which is only twenty five
Speaker 2: years ago. That's only well, no, but I'm thinking about
Speaker 2: I know, but think about this. When do we start
Speaker 2: streaming stuff, you know with Roku?
Speaker 1: I mean just recently six.
Speaker 2: I'd say twelve, thirteen years ago, I'd say, like I'd say,
Speaker 2: everything really came in like Netflix twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen, Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: ten years rod okay, ten years old. So in two thousand,
Speaker 2: Blockbuster they had the opportunity to acquire Netflix. Okay, they
Speaker 2: turned it down. Netflix co founder Mark Randolph recalls that
Speaker 2: the Blockbuster executives laughed at them. Do you know what
Speaker 2: Netflix was wanting to sell? Themselves.
Speaker 1: Oh no, how much.
Speaker 2: Fifty million dollars? Only fifty million dollars. Now, he says,
Speaker 2: just to put this in context, how much was Blockbucketbuster
Speaker 2: valued at the time?
Speaker 1: How much?
Speaker 2: Three billion?
Speaker 1: Oh and now Netflix dropping the buck only and now
Speaker 1: Netflix makes fifty million in the last five minutes.
Speaker 4: They got billion dollar deals at the NFL, the WW
Speaker 4: Now I.
Speaker 1: Want people to when they say Netflix went up by
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty thousand subscribers this month, times that
Speaker 1: times that's the new subscribers, times that time. Fifteen dollars
Speaker 1: was the average price, right, times that time. Fifteen that's
Speaker 1: the new revenue for them each month. It's crazy how
Speaker 1: much they make. And if you watch some of the movies,
Speaker 1: you're like, how much do they spend it?
Speaker 3: And who do you know that doesn't have a Netflix?
Speaker 2: Everybody does? Okay, So now let's fast forward twenty twenty five,
Speaker 2: June sixth. By the way, Netflix market summary five hundred
Speaker 2: and thirty two billion.
Speaker 3: Jesus, hang on, are we billion with a B billion?
Speaker 2: With a beam?
Speaker 1: My gosh, are we still connected?
Speaker 2: We're here?
Speaker 1: Okay? Good, I'm sorry, I'm getting Gus Allen is trying
Speaker 1: to trick me.
Speaker 2: No, it's just my story.
Speaker 1: He says, did you lose connection? Oh he said that
Speaker 1: about a half hour ago. I think it says ten
Speaker 1: to fourteen.
Speaker 2: No, he's it says, do you miss connections? Yeah, a
Speaker 2: little bit, we do.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you've been there before.
Speaker 1: All right, let's do another one. This one may be
Speaker 1: the worst one on the list. Have you ever heard
Speaker 1: of Decca Records Records? I'd have all right, well, Decca
Speaker 1: Records decline signing the Beatles. Mister EPs, no relation. Mister EPs,
Speaker 1: no relation. Uh was the president of Decca Records at
Speaker 1: the time. Uh. His quote on the Beatles was, we
Speaker 1: don't like your voice and four man guide groups are
Speaker 1: out that's led by guitars, which they were just coming in.
Speaker 1: And he finished his statement not signing the Beatles with
Speaker 1: the Beatles. This is a quote from him, the Beatles
Speaker 1: have no future in show business.
Speaker 2: Here are Okay?
Speaker 3: So was this as they were getting huge or bigger like.
Speaker 2: Obviously before it was before. But here are some of
Speaker 2: the artists that Decca did not miss the boat all
Speaker 2: all right? At one time they signed the Rolling Stones,
Speaker 2: Crossed Paul McCartney, Tom Jones, El Fitzgerald. So they had
Speaker 2: a few, even Buddy Holly. But I gotta tell you
Speaker 2: all of those combined, don't think about the Beatles. Think
Speaker 2: about how much money they make just off the royalties
Speaker 2: every single.
Speaker 4: How much people talk about. Yeah, I'm not a huge
Speaker 4: Beatles guy. Obviously that was way before my time. But
Speaker 4: I guess it worked out for them, ay because they
Speaker 4: became to be the huge stars, and I guess so
Speaker 4: Epstein right, they avoided the Epstein list.
Speaker 1: You know, I always tell the story, and especially when
Speaker 1: we were in the bands and helping bands become who
Speaker 1: they were, I'd always tell them, look, the greatest band ever.
Speaker 1: And a lot of times they would say Beatles. I say,
Speaker 1: you know how long the Beatles were together? Sixty sixty
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty to seventy nineteen seventy. They broken sixty four
Speaker 1: and they were broken up in six years. They were done.
Speaker 1: This isn't going to last forever, and the band might
Speaker 1: the drummer and the bass payer will leave, the lead
Speaker 1: singer will go do his own thing. This doesn't last.
Speaker 1: So you got a five year window. The greatest band
Speaker 1: of all time had a ten year window. That's it.
Speaker 1: That's it. Now. The Rolling Stones are the outlier there
Speaker 1: but for the most part. But they you only have
Speaker 1: a short period of time. Here's another one. When I
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Speaker 2: Can't sign my cast? Come on, we're not doing this
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Speaker 4: So I showed Troy my bank account earlier and he said,
Speaker 4: are you in the right place?
Speaker 2: No, he would never say that, but he will give
Speaker 2: you advice and say, you know what, it was a
Speaker 2: matter of fact that your age Yeah, No, we need
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Speaker 4: His his plan was go off the grid. You need
Speaker 4: to rethink life. Have you ever seen that many negative
Speaker 4: signs account?
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people know this. Next one
Speaker 1: Kodak Kodak waited on the digital age and said, em
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 3: Think so ah, this Internet, it's a fad.
Speaker 1: The once mighty Titan of photography had a gold opportunity
Speaker 1: to lead the digital revolution. They invented here's the irony
Speaker 1: they invented the first digital camera in seventy five, and
Speaker 1: they waited on it. They put it on a shelf.
Speaker 2: He just inspired me. Yeah, I'm taking all my Blockbuster video.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I'm moving it to Photo Hut.
Speaker 1: Fantastic out both which one was Photo Hut, the photo
Speaker 1: the little huts in.
Speaker 2: The middle of life. They had photo booth, which one
Speaker 2: you think would perform.
Speaker 1: If you took questionable pictures. You understand that those are
Speaker 1: Yeah no, no, they didn't just see them.
Speaker 2: They make copies.
Speaker 1: The people in there said, you understand if you take
Speaker 1: a questionable picture of your girlfriend or whatever, are you
Speaker 1: The people that work in the booth that develop them,
Speaker 1: they make four or five copies and hander to their friends.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. So they invented the first digital camera and said, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put it on the fence. The company filed
Speaker 1: for bankruptcy in twenty twelve. I talk about a missed opportunity.
Speaker 1: Well I'll stop there, and I got some other ones,
Speaker 1: including Google. Someone will Google was offered up for You
Speaker 1: won't believe how much. It's less than a million dollars.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh at the time, and they passed on it.
Speaker 1: We'll do that story and more as we broadcast live
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Speaker 1: could be? Okay, we got donuts if you want to
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Speaker 1: Well, the little known secret is that Dwight and I
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Speaker 1: Okay, We'll push it till monday. Dwight and I are
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Speaker 1: the worst decisions.
Speaker 2: In the Yeah, you want to go continue continue that
Speaker 2: next on this list, it's re established it. These are
Speaker 2: the worst decisions.
Speaker 1: In corporate history in the United States. Google a company
Speaker 1: called Excite in nineteen ninety nine. At the time, Excite
Speaker 1: was the leading search engine and they had a chance
Speaker 1: to buy Google for seven and fifty thousand.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, okay, let me just let me add
Speaker 2: just for kicks, see what Google's value is.
Speaker 1: Oh, because, uh, it's larger than some countries GDP.
Speaker 2: I want guarantee it is because.
Speaker 1: It's Look at that is that I don'kay No, No,
Speaker 1: that's two trillion.
Speaker 2: No it's not.
Speaker 1: It's it's uh two thousand billion, So that's two trillion.
Speaker 1: It's worth two trillion dollars. Yeah, two thousand billion is
Speaker 1: a trillion, a billion, a.
Speaker 2: Thousand, a billion billion is a trillion?
Speaker 1: No, No, No, A thousand billion is a trillion, a
Speaker 1: billion billions. Let's ask somebody worse watervise, it's a thousand
Speaker 1: billion trillion, it's a billion billion. Let me ask first.
Speaker 1: You're now confusing her. One thousand billion is a trillion? Yes, right,
Speaker 1: if you have a thousand billion dollars, that's yes, because
Speaker 1: he goes billion two trillion.
Speaker 2: Well, here's my question.
Speaker 1: I am right, here's you're wrong.
Speaker 2: Here's my question. I saw another story yesterday and there
Speaker 2: was a tsunami that killed four hundred and thirty eight Brazilian. No,
Speaker 2: how much is it Brazilian?
Speaker 1: That's the metric system ex metric? Okay, So Excite had
Speaker 1: an opportunity in nineteen ninety ninety but to buy Google.
Speaker 1: It's seven for seven hundred and fifty thousand, and at
Speaker 1: the time they were the leading search engine. And they
Speaker 1: actually balked at the price. They said it's too much,
Speaker 1: and yes, Google is worth I'm swear a thousand billion
Speaker 1: is a trillion.
Speaker 3: I don't know it is. I googled it.
Speaker 1: He's right, thank you, he just googled it a tony even.
Speaker 1: EDI's right, that's what I said.
Speaker 2: I said one thousand billion. It's a trillion. He knew
Speaker 2: it all along. I knew it. You know what that was?
Speaker 2: That was a test. Okay, So you're saying that Google's
Speaker 2: two trillion. Actually it's over too, it's two trillion, one
Speaker 2: hundred and six billion.
Speaker 1: Okay, Google could pay cash for ups uh it probably
Speaker 1: even though Apple has so much cash. They have no debt.
Speaker 1: Apple is a company that has zero debt. I bet
Speaker 1: you Google could buy Apple? Or am I wrong? There?
Speaker 2: Apple is worth three trillion?
Speaker 1: Oh well maybe not. Maybe Apple can buy Google. Boy
Speaker 1: then they do you know the company that is worth
Speaker 1: worth wor worth the most ever in history?
Speaker 2: Yes, Pablo Escobar Corporate.
Speaker 1: No, the East uh whatever trading company? Huh East Indian
Speaker 1: Trading Company. That was the ones in the Caribbean times
Speaker 1: in the seventeen hundreds. They owned all of the waterways
Speaker 1: and trade and they had problems with pirates. See that
Speaker 1: was a pirate age, you see, they would rob them.
Speaker 1: See all right, here's another one for you.
Speaker 2: Well, hang on, I gotta go back to the Apple.
Speaker 2: You said the Apple Apple could purchase Google. Yah, hypothetically
Speaker 2: promise you? Okay, if Apple purchased Google, Guys like me
Speaker 2: that use androids would all of a suddenly be like,
Speaker 2: why was Google not working? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh no, that's right.
Speaker 2: They like to make everything non compatible.
Speaker 1: We almost passed a law in America and they didn't
Speaker 1: do it, which was you had to make all devices
Speaker 1: universal for the power cord. No matter whatever phone you had,
Speaker 1: you had a universal because you need them so much. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can't go without. You can't get into a ball game,
Speaker 1: you can't. You know, you can't do anything without your phone.
Speaker 2: It's crazy the mandated updates. My phone updated without me.
Speaker 2: It just did it, like two weeks ago. Finally just
Speaker 2: did it. Now everything is different, All the settings are different.
Speaker 2: Where you find stuff is different, Like what's the point? Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know how you knew where everything was on your phone?
Speaker 2: Well he changed it to make it just more fun
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: I coincidentally I put Nokia in one of my Facebook
Speaker 1: posts on the first day John was born, when I
Speaker 1: was up all night playing poker in the garage with
Speaker 1: the boys, I drugged myself off to the to the hospital.
Speaker 1: Nokia smartphones, Remember they owned, they owned the phones. Nokia
Speaker 1: was the cell phone in the early two thousands, right.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: They failed to anticipate the smartphone revolution, and they they
Speaker 1: they said, yah, I'll give you one.
Speaker 2: Bet we're good, I'll give you one worse than that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because they were ahead of the game. BlackBerry. BlackBerry was
Speaker 2: the first phone to start using bluetube technology and you
Speaker 2: get emails. You saw everybody walking around with the fang
Speaker 2: in their ear going.
Speaker 1: It became not an adjective. It became we describe people. Oh,
Speaker 1: he's one of those BlackBerry guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you could, but you can get trip, you
Speaker 2: got your email. But BlackBerry they had the market share
Speaker 2: if they just went onto the smartphone.
Speaker 3: It had the little end that roller and the button. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the roller button was like a smart device.
Speaker 1: There are some people that still have them because they
Speaker 1: don't want to give it up, and it's like, are
Speaker 1: you crazy? Uh okay. So Nokia said no, thank you
Speaker 1: to that and passed on on the smartphone revolution, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, did.
Speaker 4: They tried remaking the BlackBerry like a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2: I gotta tell you, if you people were that, that's
Speaker 2: I think that seriously. You know, we talk about phone
Speaker 2: addiction and like social media addiction, but phone addiction is real.
Speaker 3: It's oh dude, my screen.
Speaker 2: The BlackBerry, in my opinion, because they called them crackberries
Speaker 2: because people were constantly on them because yeah, you had
Speaker 2: internet access, but you also had your email, so people
Speaker 2: were constantly checking their email that.
Speaker 1: The balls had one. And he would just stop in
Speaker 1: the in the hallway and pull the BlackBerry out and
Speaker 1: he go, Tony, yeah, seventy six percent of the women
Speaker 1: hate you, right, and then he go do something about it,
Speaker 1: and he put his BlackBerry back on it and walk away,
Speaker 1: and I go, yes, sir, yes, sir, okay. So they
Speaker 1: passed on it. Here's another one, the Ford Etzel. In
Speaker 1: the nineteen fifties, Ford introduced the Etzel, a new car
Speaker 1: name for Henry Ford's son. Despite a massive marketing campaign,
Speaker 1: the Etzel was a commercial flop. I believe they only
Speaker 1: made them for one year. The Ford lost are you
Speaker 1: ready for this? In nineteen fifty dollars two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty million dollars, Oh my gosh in the nineteen fifties.
Speaker 1: In the nineteen fifties, now, they had just come out
Speaker 1: of the Second World War where they produced most of
Speaker 1: our bombers, so they were doing pretty good financially. But
Speaker 1: they lost two hundred and fifty eight thousand or I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: two hundred fifty million dollars on the etzel.
Speaker 2: Okay, what was uh? Because you're talking cars? Was it Nova?
Speaker 2: I think it was Nova they when they expanded into Mexico.
Speaker 2: I could be wrong on this, but Nova means no,
Speaker 2: go no, go no.
Speaker 1: And who can forget the Pinto? All right? We had
Speaker 1: a Pinto matter of fact. All right, So it's about
Speaker 1: time to take a break here, but we're gonna get
Speaker 1: another check for you this.
Speaker 2: I've got a text from a friend of the show,
Speaker 2: Jeff Crawford, and he says to show you this picture
Speaker 2: and the script while laughing. So here you go.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's not funny. It's not funny. It's not funny.
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is going to be the quarterback of my Steelers,
Speaker 1: and it is. It's either going to be feast or famine,
Speaker 1: and everyone knows it's going to be famine. It's going
Speaker 1: to be a soap opera. He's just a weird dude.
Speaker 1: I don't look if you when you get later in
Speaker 1: life and you come a strange from your family. I
Speaker 1: get it. People are older, they don't want to put
Speaker 1: up with whatever. I get that stuff happens over decades
Speaker 1: of families. But when you're a strange from your family
Speaker 1: in your twenties, right when they're not, when they're not
Speaker 1: drug addicts or whatever. I mean, his family's normal, he
Speaker 1: was not. He was a strange from his siblings and
Speaker 1: his parents and be coming out of college. I believe
Speaker 1: that's why he fell in the draft.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a very weird.
Speaker 1: It's a weird thing. It's him. It's him, it's not
Speaker 1: everybody else.
Speaker 3: He's the most self centered.
Speaker 1: It's weird, testical, like he's a more successful j cuber speaking.
Speaker 2: Of Tony very much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's hurt, self centered and self centered.
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