041924 300 Jeff's Bucket of Crap

Will the new Game of Thrones book ever come out?? Taylor Swift has made 12 albums since the last one!! Stephen Jones said something very interesting today! More animals may have feelings than we thought!  

Episode Transcript

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Joe cracked. Good day about thedo all right? It is a little

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bit after three o'clock. This isninety seven to one the Freak and you
have got the speakeasy right here.The higher authority, the play by play
voice of the Dallas Basketball Mavericks,Chuck Cooperstein is slated to be with us

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in about an hour or so.Is that correct? Yep? Four o'clock.
Okay, stand by for him rightnow, though, can we find
the bucket you had to give?Is once in our bucket. I'll talk
about the Cowboys for just a second, because every time that A Jones says
something, my eyebrow goes. WhatI'm gonna talk about him in just a

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second, But first I want tobitch about something. Is that okay?
You do what you want on abitch about something? Sure, this is
your bucket of crap. I liketo read books. I read books,
especially nerdy books, fantasy books.So like the Game of Thrones TV show
that everybody you know, it's awonderful show. Everybody loved it, might
have hated the way it ended.Uh. I read those books before it

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was a TV show, So theTV shows coming out was like yeah,
hell yeah, we're ahead of thegame. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
So the TV show measure up tothe books, Yeah, pretty well.
It was a good show. Itwas a really good show till the end.
But the problem is that the booksaren't done. So the show had
to pick how it wanted to endthe show without knowing how it was going
to end in the books, okay, and so they had to whittle it
down. And that's why everybody hatedthe ending. But I just thought of

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this earlier today because the first bookand the Game of Thrown series, which
is technically called a Song of Fireand Ice, not a Game of Thrones.
The first book is called a Gameof Thrones, but the first book
was written in nineteen ninety six.It's a seven book series. Five are
written. First one was written innineteen ninety six, second one nineteen ninety

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nine, three years between books.All right, Now, did you know
about these books when they were beingwritten and probably going on? Probably not
back in ninety six. I don'tknow when I discovered, but before the
TV show, before the TV show. Yes, So we went from ninety
six to ninety nine, three years. Then the next book came out in

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two thousand, one year. Nextone five, Whoopsey took us five years,
next one twenty eleven, Whoopsey tookus six years, and the next
one's not out yet and it's probablynever coming out. Oh no, So
the author, George R. R. Martin, I just like to bitch
at him every once in a while, And so I checked Taylor Swift's history
of making albums. When the lastbook came out, the fifth book,

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Taylor had made three albums total.Since then, if you count re releases,
she has made twelve albums. Eightyfive percent of Taylor Swift's career has
taken place between books in the Gameof Throne series. And I just want
to tell George R. R.Martin to stick it. Write the effort
book. Oh no, that's all. That's all. Why do you think

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do you think he's going to No, I think he would. Oh the
story like hasn't had an ending.I think he overwhelmed himself. I think
he doesn't know because he's written otherstuff, Like he's he's got a he
took breaks from it. He claimedhe was writing the sixth book for a
long time, and he's like,yeah, I've made this much progress.
Now it's this percent done. Nowit's this percent done, and now he
stopped saying that he's working on it, and he releases other stuff. He

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released a cookbook, what the Gameof Thrones prequel House of the Dragon.
He wrote Fire and Ice or whateverthat book's called. He wrote that book.
He's doing other stuff. He's nevergoing to finish it, and I
hate him, that's all. Imean, I would hate him too if
I was really into that. Youhave to know how it is greatest books
here is all. It's not gonnahave an ending. It's gonna caust so
much it's anxiety in people. AndI refuse to think that the way it

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ends in the show is the wayit's gonna end the books, because that's
not the way its supposed to end. Yeah, and people didn't like the
way it ended on the show,right, So writing the dang anyway,
he's hanging with Tailor and see howit's done. Yeah, figure out how
to work, bro. He's gonnadie soon too. He's getting older and
he's not in real good. Youthink when he dies, maybe there's some

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like manuscripts or something somewhere. Ijust hope someone else will do it one
cover. I just hope someone will. Maybe it'll be in the Will Jeff
please finish this? Yeah? AndI'm like all right, and I'll be
like, hey, chat GPT,here's my script. Make it sound better,
make it sound like George R.R. Martin wrote it. Yeah.
I guess you could write your ownending, Jeff. I would love

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to. You might have to closure. I would write the perfect ending.
Who cares? Uh? Stephen Joneswas on one O five to three the
Fan today and I don't care aboutmost of the things he said, but
one of them I found interesting,so I wanted to bring it up.
And the thing he said was aboutwhat's going to be different about the Cowboys

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defense this year now that you havea new man in charge, Mike Zimmer
is your new defensive coordinator. AndSteven said obviously at the day, Now
he said, philosophically, I thinkwe'll have his third big buzzword. Yeah,
Philosophically, I think we'll have moreof a three linebacker system rather than

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a two linebacker and three safety system. I think the other thing is will
probably look to be bigger and strongerin the middle. You guys got that
bigger and stronger, Okay, playingthree linebackers at a time instead of two
three linebackers, bigger and stronger inthe middle. You know the problem with
that, they don't have any linebackersor any big, strong people in the

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middle. I don't know what they'redoing or what they're talking about. Ever,
it's the dumbest off season I canremember. Let's suppose they did,
Okay, have those things? Yeap? Is that really the way the game
is not played in the NFL thesedays? Of course not No, I
don't know, but hey, thatmight be the appeal. Like Jerry thinks,

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the game was right when you handedit to them at one hundred times,
because that was when they were thebest. If nobody plays with three
linebackers, it's not done. Ifyou did, that would mean that you
only have two cornerbacks on the field. Well, teams have three or four
wide receivers and that math don't math. No, so there they don't.
They're so outdated sometimes and they broughtin an old friend at defensive coordinator and

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I don't think they're gonna have thebest year because they're not trying their best
and their words don't work because like, if you wanted to say we're gonna
play with three linebackers, that's cool. You have three on the roster total,
Eric Kendricks, who's a decent playerstill, Damon Clark, who's not
very good, and tomarviy On Overshownwho's never played a snap of real NFL

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football because he got hurt as arookie last year. You have three of
them, you're playing all three ofthem. You're not good there, So
that's a dumb idea to begin with. And teams throw the ball a lot
now and they play at least threewide receivers, so having three linebackers is
dumb too. Nobody does that.Everybody plays with two linebackers, so that's
stupid. So it's dumb, andyou don't have the players. And then
to be bigger and stronger in themiddle, which I agree, that's something

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that Mike Zimmer really likes. Youforgot to sign the players to do it
is the problem. So that's alie because you can't be bigger and stronger
because you don't have bigger and strongerplayers. Your biggest, strongest player you
let walk in free agency for twomillion dollars and you only have one other
guy that plays the big strong positionand he was a rookie last year.
That sucked. That just had shouldersurgery, and you can't use draft picks

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on them because you don't have anoffensive line. So this brings us back
to the question, what are theydoing? Miniature blow up? I think
I think that they are taking everycan they've ever kicked down the road and
saying, we stop it here,we pay for it here, and then

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we can start trying again. Butfor this year, we do not try
our best. We're gonna end upfiring the head coach and the new defensive
coordinator. Quarterback we'll see. Ithink he'll still be here. But they're
trying to reboot. They moved everybody'smoney for so long that they're like,
we're just gonna eat it now.We're gonna stop doing it for a year.
We're gonna eat all this money.We're not going to move more moneies

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around. I don't thought we wereall in. I don't know. I
mean, Jerry stood there that dayand told the leering press, yeah,
we're all in. I'm telling youright now, we're all in. I
mean fake. I know why hesaid it, because he had to bridge
the content gap of talking about theCowboys until the combine, and so that

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was what he went with was we'reall in because that way people would talk
about what will they do in freeagency? Who will they sign? And
then by the time it got hereand they signed no one, that's fine
because you had filled weeks of talkingabout him and so he got his team
talked about. And now Steven getsto say, well, you know,
everybody's got a different interpretation of whatall in mains we're all in on the

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guys we got now. Yeah,so anyway, Yeah, Cowboy of the
day. It's frustrating because knowing everythingthat I know, because I am lucky
enough to get to sit here andhave you tell me everything that you know,
oh every day, Like, knowingeverything that I know about the Cowboys,
it's almost like, and I'm afan, you don't want them to

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succeed when they're not even trying.But it's gonna be weird, Like in
the moment you want them to win. You're gonna be watching the games wanting
them to win, but it's almostlike they need to pay for what they've
done, which is not try inthe off season, you know. Yeah,
So it's gonna be frustrating if theyend up being decent, and they
probably will be, but yeah,and I'd be okay with that. I
would be okay with that if theydidn't tell me we're all in. Yeah,

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yeah, they just lied. Thatone's easy. They just lie.
I know he lied. I knowto your face, Yes, directly into
your eye. He lied. Soyeah, they're not all in. They're
all into clearing their books to seewhat is next, which, okay,
here we go. Fine. Soyeah, But so what will happen is
they'll win eight to ten games becausethey still have a good quarterback, and

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they'll piece together an offensive line that'llbe good enough to survive but not be
good, and they have enough starson defense to cover up for the fact
that they don't have enough functional playersor depth. And so they'll stumble drunk
their way to eight to ten winsand then they'll fire everybody and then hopefully
they'll try their best next offseason.What if they wind up with six to
eight wins, I it's more funfor next year's draft season. It's not

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impossible. I just think it's hardto pull off because you have too many
high, high end players like MicahParsons is gonna sack the other team's quarterback
and Dak's gonna throw touchdowns to CDand Trayvon Diggs and Deron Bland are gonna
make plays like they still have toomany really good players to not be competitive,

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but your fringe competitive, which isthe worst place to be. Which
is why I hated Mark Cuban witha passion. The first two times he
blocked me on Twitter were durn Dirk'stwilight years because I hated it. I
hated everything about it. I loveDirk as much as anybody, but out
of their love for him, MarkCuban sacrificed three years of Mavericks basketball and

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was just like, I'm gonna trymy best to sign decent free agents,
put him around you, and seeif we can make the playoffs. You
had no chance to win a championship, none. But he didn't want Dirk
to finish his career somewhere else orbe sad, so he couldn't do what
was best for the team right.And the Cowboys going into this year are
playing that game where we can't bebad enough to be bad, but we're

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not going to try hard enough tobe good, and it's the worst place
to be and I hate it.Bad place is this bad place. It's
a very bad place. One otherfootball thing that I did think was interesting.
So I've talked to you guys beforeabout before an NFL draft, every
individual team gets to host thirty guysat their facility. Some people call it

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a top thirty visit. I don'tknow where the word top came from because
top has nothing to do with it. It's just you can pick thirty guys.
You get thirty visits. And sowe've gone through, like the Cowboys
list about what their plan is,and their plan is they know that they
really need offensive line and linebackers andrunning backs, and that's what they're looking
at the most Washington on their thirtyvisits. Normally, what you do is

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on Tuesday, this guy comes out, We show him the facility, our
doc takes a look at him,coaches sit him down, you talk about
football and scheme and all the things. Right, So that was Tuesday,
you pat him on the ass,he takes off, and on Wednesday you
bring in the next guy. Okay, good to see you. Come on
on, buddy. You might dotwo or three, but probably staggered because

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you want everybody to get to spendtime with each player to try to figure
out as much you can about theguy. Right. Washington said f that
the Washington commanders brought twenty dudes inat the same time, and they took
him to Top Golf. And Idon't know, are they genius or stupid

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because now it's not against the ruleto take him to someplace like Top Golf,
is it. I don't know.I don't think so. Now Tuesday
is half off day at Top Golf, so that might be why Washington did
it, you know, a discount, right, So yeah, they went
to Top Golf for a casual dinnerslash mixer. They had more than twenty

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guys and instead of having them cometo the facility and visit. I guess
there's value in being like, howdo you interact with your peers? Do
we see a natural leader emerge ofa group of people? Like? I
bet there is a fun social aspectto kind of scouting them. Yeah,
how do you interact with people yourage, your skill, your real self?
A little bit more than if theywere trying to put on like,

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you know, put their best footforward going to the facility, Yes,
sir, yes, or whatever,It's like, let's just go have some
fund see whateverbody's like. And themost fun part is they had five quarterbacks
out there because they picked number two. Yeah, and they're going to pick
a quarterback, so they brought allof them. Not Caleb Williams because he's
gonna go number one. They broughtall the other guys as part of that

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party. So they probably each thought, I'm gonna get to the facility,
I'm gonna meet the coaches, We'regonna talk about football. I'm gonna sell
myself to you. Instead it wasall right, y'all, go hang out
with the mother twenty guys and grabyour pitching wedge. It's pretty random when
the Cowboys bring in guys. Doyou think they take him to a Chicas

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Locust? What's that? Is thata restaurant? No, that's a booby
bar? Uh? Yeah, Ibelieve a hispaniol movie bar hub bar.
I mean I would take the playerwherever they want to go if I really
like them. You know, whatare you into? Man? You want
to go to the movies? Wouldyou like to go to Poncho's? We
could raise the flag? I saw. It's pretty funny. And then people

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started reporting because Jade and Daniels,the LSU quarterback probably I think, probably
going to be the number two pick. Uh somebody reported about how like these
quarterbacks were probably surprised, and somepeople think it might be unprofessional to have
brought them out at the same timewhen they're thinking they are coming for a
visit. And Jade and daniels agentquote tweeted that with the with the emoji

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that has the little one eye monoclelike looking like, yeah, suspicious and
this is where we are in sportsreporting now. Adam Schefter went on to
the Get Up Show on ESPN andreported it didn't seem to go over too
well with Jade and Daniel's agent,who sounded off on social media that he

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didn't seem particularly pleased with the process. Daniels thought it would be a visit
for just him, but Washington essentiallyopened up the process. So he made
that report based on the emoji.Hm, because Jade and daniels agent shared
that video clip and said, fakenews. You just attempted to interpret my

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monicle emoji and extrapolate what it mighthave meant to the listening audience. And
he's like, Nope, it's notwhat I was saying. I can't do
that. We live in emoji newstime. Well, you could just say that
his agent did this sent an emoji. Did the emoji face? That's all
you can really say. It's agentsent an emoji. Yeah. Oh there's

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Washington now in Jeff's bucket of crapcontent. Remember how we were talking about
animals. When was that this week? We're talking about animals because you were
talking about which ones you do ordon't want to eat, that's right,
and I was talking about the biggerthey are, the more likely I think
it is that they have a soul. Yes, And so I don't want
to eat them in their original form, right, or hunt them because I

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look at them and I think,I'm like, do I see sadness in
your face? Yeah? Is thata human emotion you're showing me? And
so I would be like, Ilove you. We just walk away.
Yeah. It made it funny tome that I saw an article today that
there are scientists who are pushing headlinescientists push new paradigm of animal consciousness,

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saying even insects may be sentient,which is a confusing word, but sentience
like an insect in itself, itbasically means able to yeah, lots of
legs like a centipede, Yes,look at all of his sentience. It
basically means you're able to perceive orfeel things like that they can feel hurt,

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or that they can feel scared,or that they're not just instinctually doing
whatever, which is the way wepicture lots of little things. Yeah,
like they're alive, but they're notthinking through every move that they're making,
right yea like us. Yeah.Well, there's a group of scientists that
have been now doing a whole bunchof tests on all sorts of different animals
and they're like, eh, Imean even some fish. They run them

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through this battery of things where afish can recognize what their reflection is and
realize that is me, and solike they have an awareness that goes beyond
I'm swimming and finding food, I'mgoing to where I'm having offspring. I'm
they said. One of the fishthat they did. They have a couple

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of different tests they do. Yeah, and so one of them is they
put a covered mirror into this thing, which obviously they don't react to because
it's just a thing. And whenthey uncovered it, a bunch of the
fish like charged at it because it'slike enemy other fish. And then after
a few days of getting used towhat it was and that, Okay,
it's not other fish, it's somethingother than that. They started seeing the
fish do behaviors they've never done before, like swimming upside down while watching themselves,

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Like, I guess that is me, like just doing really weird stuff.
And so now we're gonna have tothink twice before we step on a
cockroach, because it turns out thatcockroach might be headed home to recite experiment.
Because all these little creatures, theysay a bunch of them, and
they don't say cockroaches specifically, butthere's no way cockroaches have a soul.
They say there are I'm just gonnasquash that right now. I use the

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word to squash on purpose. Iwant to agree with you because it is
the grossest creature and I don't wantto have to think it your feet bad.
There's a lot worse than There's nothingworse than the cockroach. There's a
lot looking like it looks so gross. If someone sees a cockroach in your
house, they have to assume you'reguilty person. There are some unattractive people

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out there in this world too,well, what does that have to do
with anything? I don't understand.They're unattractive animals they're also unattractive people.
Yes, that is true. Thatis true. You know, somebody,
it's equivalent to a cockroach and theirlevel of unattractiveness. I could probably thank
you somebody. That is not true. You're a stallion. You are a

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stylion. They say they've got evidencethat animals, including fish, lobsters occupus.
Bees, occupus, occupus, occupy, occupy. It was just funny.
Octopus octo, octop octopie was reallyfunny when I leave out the tea,

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Did I skip the tea? Yeah? The you maybe I need to
run by one of those clinics teedup, make sure I have enough in
me. Yeah, you got lowT in that word. Yeah. So
next time, whenever you're killing,whenever you're killing, just know that that
thing's probably got a family that it'sgoing to read books to when it gets

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home. And no, it's notprobably singing a song in its head while
it's working. When it gets home. The ants that are going in a
straight line from point A to pointB are probably singing an ant language.
Hi ho, hi ho, it'soff to ark we go. And then
you're just they're not singing that.Why not? I mean, look,

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this song has to have some hands. They're just down there in the grass
when they hear this. Have everseen a fire ant twirk? But just
pop it up a little bit.You think it's stinger comes out when it's

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twarking. All the Ants and Arlingtonwere like so excited there for a bit,
and then all of a sudden they'relike, where's where's the music?
Where's our anthem from New York?God stop? So anyway, all those
creatures shoot me. Just know,next time you kill a mosquito, it's

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family is going to be very sad. No, it's they'll know that it
isn't home before curfew and they'll sendout acuit don't have a family. They
don't, they don't. And Ilike nothing more watching TV get more mosquitoes.
I like nothing more than you're doingthis to a mosquito and get Michael.
Yes. In fact, every timeI do it, I put pictures

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up on it. Coming up next, it's time to go Hollywood Swinging.
Whatever could we be talking about today? Jewels? Oh my gosh. Time
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