04-11-24 Hour 1 of Broncos Country Tonight

Episode Transcript

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Welcome to it, Broncos Country tonight. But with all Brian Dick Ferguson,
Grant Smith, their gratulations to UH, to Denver for beating Boston in UH
in overtime. They're in the FrozenFour semi final. What is it about
hockey the Frozen Four every single year? Because it seemed like is the same
four teams every year. It's Boston, it's Michigan, Michigan State, and

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is d you every single Yearnestoa isin there. Sometimes Boston College is in
there a lot of times. Yeah, hockey expert, Grant, yes,
but as usually you see du inMichigan a lot, our very own Dougniemeyer,
who runs the Rockies games most nights, he is there right now celebrating
with them. Well there you go. Look at that. That's an amazing

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accomplishment for those guys. Yeah.Well, I uh, I know,
I don't know anything about hockey.You remember you remember the SNL sketch where
a chance the rapper has to doThat was hilarious, As I said,
hockey, let's do that hockey.I don't even know how to pronounce this
name. It's like thirteen consonants andno vowels. I think there was four
fs a k jay sometimes. Okay, So I remember classic SNL right where

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every skit was a ten. Thenit kind of took a dip. The
one thing I can say every nowand again, they'll give you a good
couple of skits, and that onewas funny. Like one of my favorites
is when Betty White was on SNL. Yeah, and she was doing all
these types of things that you neverwould visualize Betty White being a part of

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budd It was hilarious. Yeah,and she's always she was always funny,
like she was funny and everything shedid what I always thought, it's good
that. But congratulations to do you. They move on. They won in
the semis there and in the Frozenfour Busy Day in peripherals to sports Shotani's
interpreter got charged, and he wascharged with stealing sixteen million dollars from oh

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Tani money betting over the course ofnine thousand something bets uh in excess of
a undred and eighty million dollars,only winning back one hundred and forty,
So he stole sixteen I guess topay the forty million dollar deficit. I'm
not sure how the math works onall that. Still, like, in
reading over this, I don't knowthat I'm buying everything that that guy is

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selling that there may not be acover up, and you know me,
I'm not conspiracy theory guy. Wellit here it feels like, okay,
So here's what usually happens. Someoneis going to end up taking the penalty,
the brunt of the penalty in anysituations. But what happened sometimes and

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if you ever watched the first fortyeight usually that's what happens. Once they
get you in a room, starttalking, someone's gonna start drying the ship.
And depending on how many years thatthey're going to slap on this interpreter,
because I guess he's negotiating somewhat ofa guilty plea. Now, if
it's too many years, he mightcome clean. He might say, Yo,

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whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, Wait a minute, that too
many years for me. It wasn'tjust me. Let me tell you the
truth. Now. I'm not sayingas though that's gonna happen, but just
in case, for the sake ofargument, if he were to say that,
Benjamin Albright, would that now changehow you look at Shoahtani would it
change. I mean, if he'sperpetrating an elaborate cover up to lie about

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this, yeah, Like I'm stillnothing's gonna change. Like knowing that Pete
Rose bet on baseball didn't change myopinion of Pete Rose. He was still
a phenomenal baseball player. But PeteRose bet on his own team to win.
Yeah, I mean, come on, man, but it doesn't change
my opinion. It is a player. Charlie Hustle was awesome. This is
just Calvin Ridley betting on games.Change your opinion of Calvin Ridley as a
player. No, I just wouldsay, well, Calvin, next time

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you think about it, could yoube a little more logical. He's a
fall guy. I don't. Imean, as far as it goes,
my opinion of showing the players notgonna change. Shouldn't tell you the person.
If you're penetrating a massive cover upand blaming your interpreter for hundreds or

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you know, for millions of dollarsin losses, I'm probably gonna have a
different opinion of you in that case. But I can see, okay,
because in this situation, it isreally odd because there's the language barrier that
you feel as though you're dealing withso because he's blaming as his interpreter,
he can always I never really understoodwhat was going on, right. It

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was rest on the shoulders of myinterpreter to break things down, and I
didn't know the workings. And whengret just said that, I was thinking,
if I am a cur know thatyou're betting one hundred and eighty million
dollars over the course of nine thousandbets. I don't know. It got
lost in translations, Shaggy, howabout that it got lost in translations?
Listen, Shaggy. Hey, insteadof saying if you're if you get caught

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cheating, instead of saying it wasn'tme, like Shaggy, just say,
hey, you blame it on yourinterpreter. Yeah right, just blame Chris
Curmison. Everybody's gonna fall out,right, ba interpreter. That guy's gotta
get it, get to get aballoon deposit in his accountant. Hey,
no wonder oh Tiny wanted the moneydefers so they wouldn't gamble it all the
way. Now there there you go, And listen, my interpreter was in

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this elaborate scheme that I knew nothingabout because I couldn't speak the language to
the people that he was betting with. You couldn't speak Hey, I'm missing
forty million dollars out of my bankaccount in any language. Hey man,
it's I just I thought it wasa certain amount one day. I checked
it. On Tuesday, it wasa different account. Now, unless you
have my name and you see mevisually on everything that's associated with it,

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that it's my word against his,and speaking of words, bro speak one
language. So there's never been aninstant in my life where I'm missing forty
cents from my bank account, letalone forty million dollars that I'm not checking
it out. I'm just it waslost in translation. No, now,
they give up money money. Moneyspeaks all languages. It's a universal translator.
No, forty million dollars, fortymillion dollars, it doesn't matter if

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I'm missed, you'll put it.It's still forty dollars. They put the
money into bag, saying, like, you know, if you're missing that
kind of money. So I don'tknow if I believe that one five,
six, six nimes. It wasa text. On Big Show today,
we got Roumy Bean from CBS gonnajoin us at the top of the next
hour, we got Hall of favoriteTorrell Davis. You gonna join us in
the next hour as well. Gotsome ice Cube tickets to give away here

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in just a little bit, andlet's stick around for that other big news
today. O. J. Simpsonpasses away for prostate cancer at the age
of seventy six. Uh. I'msure the Internet handled that with all the
tact and grace that we have cometo expect nuanced and serious intellectual discussions to
have. I saw white White Broncotrending and I immediately called to check on
Riley Moss. Our our our herois safe. Seriously, seriously. That's

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where said if they don't have thewhite bronc taking it to the But in
another one where it was like,uh OJ gets the of on because the
coffin doesn't fit. Yeah, Imean yeah, it's this was a device.
You were like, great, you'reprobably a little too young. I
was I think three when the Broncochase happened. Well, it was a

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verdict, so that you would havebeen it would have been like ninety was
the verdictninety six, ninety seven somethinglike that, So it was five.
Okay, yeah, but you andI you and I probably remember exactly where
we were and what was going onwhen that happened. Yeah, I remember
it, and it was something likeyou have those moments that is really it
would divide the nation. That wasone of those moments because everyone was glued

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to their television one for the BroncoChase. Dude, I was in the
club. Oh see, I wasat the finals, and Bob Costas and
Peter Jennings kept cutting in to UHto talk about the to talk about the
the Bronco Chase. Yes, theyhad the crank caller on at one point.
Yeah, like that was not real, Yes, exactly. So everyone

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was glued to the television watching thisincident unfold. It was the slow is
high speed chase that any of ushad seen at em time. And then
you fast forward to the trial.Everyone was watching. That was on TV
every day too. The chase itselfwasn't that far after the Rodney King riots

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out there in l A and therewas still like an undercurrent I think of
that going on at that point intime throughout the throughout the United States.
I was were you were Florida,right, I was in Uh, Yeah,
I was in Florida at the time. Okay, yeah, because and
I was in I was in Arkansas, so you can imagine U when that
verdict came in. I remember exactlywhere we were were getting ready to go
to lunch. I think it waswe were at Missus King's English class.

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And man, I'll tell you,the reaction was split right down the line.
I mean a man, yes,there was. These were some ninth
graders, were some strong opinions aboutthe oj trial, and you had individuals
who had not experienced I guess lifeas an African American in that moment,

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had passing judgment on what really tookplace and how things unfolded. But it
was really an ugly time for ourcountry because once again division it started.
It was and it separated people.And man, when I say it was
thick, it was definitely thick.And that's why today you probably saw the

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memes and the things like that,and things that people were saying. And
I'll say this, obviously, ifyou were old enough you read about the
story, you saw it. Butfor me, as a football player,
I tried to focus more so onwhat Or went through James accomplished, right,
same person, well, but kindof different in the sense. That's

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the thing because if you don't know, if you didn't know about you know
OJ before all that was naked gunnedand OJ on the sideline, the guy
OJ was the guy who interviewed BoJackson after he had his career ending injury.
Right there, he was the sidelineguy. I was interviewing Bo right
after the injury. They even takehim a locker, he's just talking to
him right there, you know.And then of course Hall of Famer O
J. Simpson and I remembered himbeing a kid growing up, was you

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know isotonis, Yeah, and that'slike every girl like data. I was
like, I know, I didn'trun it up for isotons, but it's
a wildly different reason. Yes,yes, of course. But when you
look at what he did from afootball standpoint with the Buffalo Bills to fourteen
thousand all purpose yards, being oneof eight guys and NFL history to rush

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for two thousand yards, and Ithink that was at a time where the
league was at a fourteen game season, So that was an impeccable accomplishment.
And to hear, you know,my father, who you know, diehard
Dolphins fan, who watched O.J. Simpson run against his Miami dolphins.
That's all he used to talk about. So today is very you know,

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how how do you you look atit? A man, you know,
lost his life, whether you likehim or not, and that's always
difficult. But here's what I gotout of it then, and that I
would like to have people think aboutOJ passed because of cancer. He passed
because of prostate cancer. And mywhole thing when I learned that why he

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passed, I said, well,regardless of whether you are a football fan,
you love OJ as a Bills fan, or you despise him because of
what we learned that he went tohe had the trial for The one thing
I want men to realize is thatprostate cancer is preventable with early detection.

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Every single year, I get testedtwice just to be on the safe side.
And it's become a little neurotic forme to make sure that happens.
So I'll tell guys listening right now, you have a father, you have
a son, brother, whatever,make sure they go get that check up.
I don't care if it's not anand that doctor recommended over forty No,

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go get that check up. Makesure you know where your PSA numbers
are. Yeah, that's something youknow, I do too. Uh.
They you know, they got allkinds of stuff. They don't have to
do the uh, the traditional waywhat you're thinking of that they have to
do. Like I'm gonna be honest, if that tube doesn't fit, you
must have quit. But I toldthe doctor, but it was okay,
Well, I gotta get these jokesoff, man. I got one day.

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I got one day. Look,if that tube doesn't fit, you
did doct you gotta quit. II think you know you're right. And
it was a thing like Vick Lavarditryed to try to post something about that
today. And because OJ is sodivisive, there were people that were and
fix somebody who had prostate cancer.Yeah, you know they like people.
People are still so divisive on thesubject of O. J. Simpson.
And you know, I mean,whatever it is he got acquitted of that,

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he went to jail and did histime for the things he got convicted
of, which was arm robbery andkidnapping. You know, I don't know.
I don't I don't know enough toknow. I know I know that
I don't know. I thought theevidence looked like he did it, but
I you know, again, Iwasn't there. I don't know what I
was. It was funny to mebecause that was my first year in the
South, my first year at Arkansas, and when when all that came down,

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and this was my first experience witha racial divide like that. I
mean, it was a little bitof that when I lived, I guess
on the South side of Chicago,but not much. And the other places
I lived it hadn't really been athing. And so this was my first
experience with that. And that's whatthis, I guess hearkens back to to
me was seeing racial my first hand, the first time young me conceptualizing a
racial divide. It was man becauseit was thick, because you had individuals

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who really didn't understand what was whatwhat was life like for African Americans here
in America and being racially profiled andthings of that particular nature. And this
is why I believe, you know, certain African American people celebrated because like,

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finally one of us, you know, got away with something. You
know, when it happened, Iwas like, oh, snap, that
it just happened. And I waslike, man, see the justice system
strikes again. Well, and youthink how much smaller the world was back
then before you know, everyone wasonline and seeing videos when when stuff did
go down. You know, youthink back to George Floyd and it's like

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everyone saw the video. Yeah,and with Ojay, you know, people
didn't have exposure to different ways oflife when you're down in the sticks of
Arkansas, you know, and youknow, you bring up a very valid
point because that was before this boomof social media. Right, so instead
of gloom being glued to our phones, everyone was glued to television. You

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couldn't drive to any place here inAmerica and did not see the coverage on
television. It was plastered everywhere,man, and I just hated it because
it was just it just divided thiscountry. And it was just like people
who were friends were divided. AndI'm like, oh no, this cannot

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happen. We can't do this.It's a fascinating cross section. I think
there are moments throughout your life whereyou remember exactly where you were. Calendar
explosion, the oj verdict, RoddyKing nine to eleven. There are there
are certain there are certain markers Ithink throughout the last forty years where you
remember where you were, and that'sthat's one of them. I mean,

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everybody I talked to you today,remembers exactly where they were when the OJ
verdict came. Yeah, it's definitelyone of those particular moments that you remember
but you would like to forget.Yeah, you would like to erase that
from history in a way, fromyour memory. But that's why you get
a mixed bag on social media whenit comes to speaking of it. Like

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I think Deon Sanders did this audiobookand as he was kind of talking about
his heroes that he looked up tobased on what they did on the field
and their personalities. I mean,he mentioned Julius Irvin, uh Muhammada Lee
was one of those individuals, buthe also mentioned O. J. Simpson
and he did add a caveat toit obviously, or went through James that

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type that guy, the guy,the player, the guy who was on
Naked Gun, the guys in there, you know that guy, not the
guy that everyone you know hates himfor, and just kind of spoke about
this demeanor and how that spoke tohim as a kid growing up. So
it's just unfortunate things have come tothis point. Uh, But for me,

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the biggest message and I want everyoneto kind of hang on this is
not just the accolades that O.J. Simpson a mass, but it's
look, man, you gotta goget those checkups. That's my biggest thing.
That's why the biggest wild for mewas like, dude, man,
that there's so many ways to preventdying from prostate cancer that we have to

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make sure that we are stay ontop of it and we hold one another
accountable. Ye. And I thinkit's a good point. I think it's
uh that that's something we could alldo more of. It is you know,
is UH bringing these these things tolet let let those those issues be
what they are, but also remindus, say, you know, in
our every while we're sitting here,whether we're cracking jokes, whether we're honoring
a memory, whomever it is.In this particular case, it's probably more

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cracking jokes than anything else. Butwhatever the case may be, that that
whatever positives there are to take fromit, and and whatever lessons there are
to take from it, that weshould. I think that's one of my
I apologize for doing that. Iplay the UH for doing that at dicular
Barty for doing that as well.UH and and and try to put that
out there versus me who's you knowin it for a cheap laugh? And

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you know it was the last timeyou had a prostate check? Uh,
it would have been last July,been right up for the fourth July last
year. Is that something that runsin your family? Cancer I've already had.
I've already had. I mean Ihad skin cancer, Okay, but
yes, cancer runs in my family, like wait, my dad. Not
everybody in my family dies from cancer. So yes, I go once year

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and get a check up. Sowhat what what will it take for you
to make that twice a year?Well, what was the time to do?
The time? Honestly just getting overit because for me, you know,
I gotta go to the v Aand it's a process and and all
that kind of stuff. So Ineed I need to get you to do
that twice twice a year. Twicea year, all right, Well year,
then we'll have h you know,we'll tie this thing, the whole

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thing together. We'll have some kindof we'll figure out we'll put some kind
of funny promo together and and andhave uh and have a thing where where
guys can we can all hold eachother accountable? Yeah, and uh and
make sure we're getting the skip checkout twice. So I wonder those guys
who come on before us, whenwas the last time those guys had their
prostate check? We can call andfind out, Greg, could you you
shout to call big Al and askhim when when last day is? Probably

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just ask him it, right,don't introduce yourself to call. Call from
the Colvis Sparrels hotline over there.Just co call him. Just asked Dave
Logan when the last time he hadthis prostate check was? Dave just probably
swear at you right or right?Dave listening right now, swearing like I
swear to God if I got acall from those leaps, right, I
know you listen, and when wasthe last time you had a prospect check?

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We need, we need like ahole we need to turn to do
with. I probably shouldn't a whole, but we need like, we need
like a thing where we can wecan turn this into a into an event,
like a twice a year event.Right, Yes, So I'll figure
something out. There's gonna be somekind of some kind of marketable kind to
be able to tie it in withcommon spirit. Right, Yeah, there's
gonna be a way to do this. I'll come up with something during the
break. There's gotta be way wecan do this twice a year where we
have a thing, we have anevent and guys can and we can you

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know, we can get some advertisersinvolved, get some prizes for guys got
the got their stuff done. Maybemaybe they got like a mobile kit out
here we can bring out like dothey do they do the do they do
the portable Pride. I'm not talkingabout some fly by night dude down of
Colfax trying to do a process.I'm talking about an actual medical exam here.
I don't even know. Look likeI'm saying right now, yeah,
they should have some mobile mobiles,saying a mobile product check kind of thing.

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What we do is can come onup and you know, get pull
on up. Yeah, get checkedout. I'm just saying we'll figure it
out during the break. Brocos Country, Welcome back to it, Broncos Country
tonight. Benjamin Albright, Nick Ferguson, Grant Smith here with you. I
think we cooked something up over thebreak. THEE one nine says, if
you get your prostate check, youget to cash in on advancement and show
me the money you get. Twicea year, you get more props maybe

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you know that kind of thing,like you're trying to tie it in.
We can we can go during thebreak. I came up with the title
for this thing, and it's it'sit's give cancer the Finger for prostate cancer.
Okay, And I think everybody canunderstand exactly the reference I'm making here.
Well, I said, you know, how about a hole in one
and do you build kind of likea golf event maybe maybe something like that
something, Yeah, prizes if youget a hole in one. Yes,

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exactly. Well, I mean,really you're really hoping it's only one and
not like two or three, becausethat might be a problem. But just
saying, Rubby Bean joins the topof the hour, at least anything transition
from this. Terrell Davis joins usat the bottom of the next hour,
so that'll be fun. We gotsome tickets to give away to ice Cube
coming up here in just a fewminutes. Masters is underway. You guys

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watching that at all. Grant wasin there watching it earlier. I love
the Masters. It always follows nearmy birthday weekend, so I always this
was this was just this was anexcuse for him to say that his birthday's
coming up. So that we haveto get himself. Actually past birthday.
I had no idea your birthday.I don't ever bring it up. Yeah,
I know, I didn't know itwas yesterday. I feel like you
should bring it up. Shout outmy friend Megan for the new BOWLO tie

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from there you go. Yes,Yeah, I'm always tuned in in the
Masters. I remember in college wewould bring in our laptop sack like we're
taking notes, and we'd be watchingthe Masters on there on the website.
See for me watching the Masters,like the first round. I mean,
I'm like, it's like watching thefirst forty games in baseball, right,
you don't need to pay attention untilSunday. That's it. So on Sunday.

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Yeah, I'm glued because I wantto see what happens. He got
Tiger Woods back in it. Heplayed pretty decent today. I think he's
at one under. So yeah,who was the last time I was looked
it was the Chambau was winning.Yeah, he's he's in the lead at
seven under. And then Scotty Scheffler, who is everyone bro? I think
he finished a six. I don'tthink the favorite has won the Masters since

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like in the two thousands and hewon last year. Maybe once, but
well, Cheffer was the betting favorite. I'm saying the betting favorite hasn't won
the Masters. I don't think inthe in the two that maybe once in
the two thousands. This is whyI love the Masters, because it's always
some guy who no one, noone really anticipated, because that first day,

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you know, they they're down acouple of strokes, they're maybe ten,
and all of a sudden, thatsecond day they get hot and they
would start asking himself, well,the guy who started off that first day,
he was on fire? What happenedto him? But I like it
because of surprise and seeing a differentperson win that green jacket. I think

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it's cool. So with that beingsaid, I got a question for you
guys, what what do you thinkis I guess harder to do winning a
gold jacket in football or winning agoal? A green jacket and golf?
Which one? I would say,by the math, the green jacket and

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golf, because think about how manypeople play. You only get one per
year. Where's the Hall of Famebrings in, you know what, five
seventy year something like that. Someyears a little bit more so, I
would say, statistically speaking, itis more difficult to get a gold jacket
green jacket than a goal right thefirst time, You're right, gold.
Yeah, because golf, if youget hot one weekend, the right weekend

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in that year, thank you.But a gold jacket would be great for
ten to fifteen years. You haveto be hot versus a larger field.
That's true. And here's the otherpart of the reason that the gold The
only argument I think for the goldjacket being more difficult is you have to
do it over a career. Youhave to have a Hall of Fame career,
right, versus a Hall of Fameevent. Okay, so I've been
sitting on this before a while,and I think this is kind of ideal

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now that were looking at the Mastersthis past season, I saw Peyton Manning
and we were at the Broncos gameand he was with his kids, and
I asked them this question, likewhich one do you think is harder?
At first, Peyton said the greenjacket, and then he thought for some

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thought and he was like, ohno, no, no gold jacket,
because like Grant was saying, like, you get hot on one specific day,
right, you get one weekend,you get hot, But to win
the gold jacket. Your career numbershave to be elite numbers, the best
of the best to get in thatgroup. And I know every single year
they get like eight or nine peoplein the Hall of Fame. But just

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think about it. Randy Gratishaw,with everything he did in his time with
the Orange Crush, he just gotin. He just got in. So
for me, it may sound biased, like I said, you were right
the first time it's spilled out ofyour mouth. It is the gold jacket.
Green jackets great both Partly, it'smore difficult by the math, it

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is more difficult to get the greenjacket. Yeah, But than that,
I'm just saying, statistically speaking,how you're defining difficult. It depends on
how you're defining, Like, isit more difficult to climb Mount Everest or
win the lottery? Well, statisticallyspeaking, it's more difficult to win the
lottery, But physically speaking, it'smore difficult to climb Mount Everest. Okay,
Well, this says you want tobring physicality into this physicality you have

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it in golf carries the clubs foryou. Exactly exactly. I'm just saying.
Terrell Davis, right, who's onthe show a little bit later.
Yes, only six years in theleague, but what he did in that
six year time period allowed him toget voted into the throw Football Hall of
Fame two thousand yards in the season. There's only seven other guys who've been

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able to do that. Terrell isone of them. Oh j was the
other. So I'm gonna take thegold jacket. I'm gonna take gold jacket.
The field is larger when you thinkabout a gold jacket than you think
about a green jacket. And Iknow you like numbers, is it not?
Don't give me that No many eligibleguys are there. I mean,
I guess if you catch every personin the league, who ever stepped for

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the practice squad, guy who everstepped in the league, man, every
dude who's in the uniform he plays. Not to say that he's going to
end up winning a gold jacket,but I did that. You're playing with
the idea that you could possibly wina gold jacket. I just three.
It's how you define it. Itis a more It is a a harder
thing to earn through action. Thenyou're saying the gold jacket if you're saying

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it by the mask and it's agreen because you only get one, you'll
you'll get one. How many guyseven have a green jacket? How many?
Eighty eight? Okay, well lessthan that, because there's been people
that have won multiple times. It'slike seventeen, dude, not seventeen dude,
I'm telling you masters chance. Wait, come on, no, there's
way this is an eighty eighth tournament. You think only seventeen different people when

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you when you add all the differentmultiple there's seventeen multiple winners. There's man,
what calculators been using right now?Living like how many? Okay,
anyway, but I get your point. Tire Woods is one five right,
one five? Jack Nicholson one?What six? Artie Palmer got four of
them? I did it. Itis difficult the course three. Gary Player
got three, Nick Faldo got three, Phil got three, Jimmy Donneray got

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three. Just think about being arunning back and trying to run through eleven
crazy guys who's trying to tackle you. You don't have to worry about that
in golf. You just have tomake sure you don't hit someone on the
sideline. If fairway right four mmhmm. Well let's see if anybody out
there is hitting anybody on these uhthese highways with their couple. Fifty five

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man, fifty five people. Everybodyknows that fifty five people win a green
jacket. Welcome back to It,Broncos Country Tonight, Benjamin Albrighten, Nick
Ferguson, Grant Smith here with you. I have six six on Zeros a
text line. I'm still I'm trippingout. We kind of glossed over it
a little bit in the UH inthe opening segment. I'm still tripping out
on how much money Ohtadi's interpreter allegedlylost. Is it sixteen million? Right?

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No, it's just like like theentire amount that he lost. He
stole sixteen million apparently to like coverfor it, he lost forty something million
basically, Basically, the Oakland Athleticspayroll for this year is forty three million
dollars and he lost like forty one. He basically lost an entire baseball team
salary for a year. Well,once again, it makes you think,

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how was it that he was ableto lose that much money, because that
means means though he needed to haveaccess, he placed one hundred and eighty
million dollars worth of wagers over likenine thousand different wagers. One hundred and
eighty million dollars worth of wagers justlost in translation? Was lost lost?

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I think yes, because think aboutit anyone in their right mind. I
mean, you have to figure thoughyou are paying attention to your finances to
the point. I know once whenwe get our bank statements, we don't
always comb through to make sure thatwe come through. Okay, we do,
we do, okay, Benjamin allright, combs through getting back.

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I don't think every American is doingit then, not combing through in that
particular way, especially what you feelas though you trust the one. Just
stay about if you had a spouseand your spouse, you and your spouse
had the same bank account, whichwhatever happened that that's an entirely different start.
But you have to figure this though. You trust an individual and you

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hope that they're going to do theright thing all the time, anticipated they
know. It's even better than trustingthat individual, but not trusting him.
Never put yourself in that position tobegin with. And what does that prove?
What is in the world were youdoing giving your interpreter access to your
money? Well you once again,this is not financial advisor, I guess

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it, but your banker it's notyour mom. Okay, so you've never
went mom. I know you're listeningright now on the way here. Oh
so you've never been in a situationwhere you trusted a person enough to give
them access to certain things, likemy mom had power of attorney when I
was deployed to Rackoney, that's theonly person who's ever had access to any
other. So you've never dated somemoney gave and giving them keys to your

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house or your car. The factthat you think and I haven't, I
don't think I have. So you'renot being honest. You're not being to
think that I have. I mean, I listened to draw my car before
I lett want to drive my caronce. So there's that you had to
feel comfortable with them to give themthe keys. Yeah, but the car's
insured. It doesn't make a different. It make a difference because it's insured.

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It literally makes a difference. Thewhole point is that sometimes, right,
and it's happened to us at onepoint or another, either the business
partner, family member, or asignificant other someone you were dating that you
knew them force period of time,and since you were around them all the
time, you lloyd your guard becauseyou didn't think that they would do something.

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Look, there's a friend of minethat I knew for about fifteen twenty
years. Never ever, ever,once did I think that she would try
to dupe me out of money.Never, and yet it happened. I
feel here it happened because I wasreally trusting of her, right because you

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know someone a long time, theyknow stuff about you that no one else
knows, right, And I neverthought that she would do that. And
the person who opened my eyes sawwas my present time wife. And I
was like, man, I guessI would soon trustworthy worthy as a friend.
And I had to go to thebank right then and just try to

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change some things because I had enteredinto someone of a business with this individual.
But I never thought it was goingto happen. So when you think
about Showyatani and his interpreter, maybethere's some things that he knew, but
make some things that he didn't.Yeah, I as soon as you were
telling the stories like I feel abutt coming here, and you know,
speaking of which, get cancel thefinger, gets your prostate checked. I
think at the end of the day, I no, I'm not. I

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trust people to be themselves. That'swhat I trust and what is that when
you say you trust them to beatthemselves when the chips are down, they're
going to think of themselves before anybodyelse. See, maybe I'm a little
naive and optimistic in that way whereI believe in the goodness of people.
Put to you this way. Iwatched a guy who got married right before
we went to a rack and gotmarried, went over there while we were

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there a year and a half,and he ran off, his wife,
ran off with his cousin, tookit for the cat power of attorney,
took it for everything, every pennyyear, and he came back penniless,
holmless, and broke. I watchedit happen. I don't get anybody access
to that stuff. Sorry, no, not even the same bank account.
No, why would I you needmoney, I'll go to the bank and
get it. I feel its grandas looking at me like he has a

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defensive. They got Venmo right here. I'll venmo you the mo. You
don't need access, that can't Iwill venmo you the money. Hey,
I trust my wife one hundred percent. We've got a shared bank account.
There you go, There you go. You guys are just cool to me.
Glasses and why we can ask.Yeah, there you go. We
can ask roll me beans. She'sup next to Roucous Country to night