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Hour 3 - Sofi Stadium Voted Worst Venue · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: The beny Men can, the beny Men can. That's baseball, Susan.
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Speaker 1: It's our number three, our number three, ready to go.
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Speaker 1: And a lot of high drama in the Big Apple.
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Speaker 1: They made a managerial change over the weekend. And then
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Speaker 1: there's some comments made Eric Chavez, the former baseball player
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Speaker 1: turned coach. Are Eric Chavez's gripes about the Mets GM
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Speaker 1: David Stearns, They're all over the place? Is this sour
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Speaker 1: grapes or an inconvenient truth on what Eric Chavez had
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Speaker 1: to say about the Mets general manager. Also this obsession
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Speaker 1: with Brewers ace Jacob Mizeroski's velocity someday throwing one hundred
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Speaker 1: and eight miles per hour. Which camp are you on
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Speaker 1: on that end? And the World Cup is Sofi Stadium
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Speaker 1: being voted the worst venue for World Cup fans humiliating
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Speaker 1: or not. We'll take a look at that and more.
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Speaker 1: out in a place where the wrecking ball came through
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Speaker 1: over the weekend. The Friday Friday news dump from the
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Speaker 1: New York Metropolitans as they decommissioned and excommunicated their manager,
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Speaker 1: Carlos Mendoza, Bye bye. Now. A lot of people say
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Speaker 1: he should have been fired. At the end of last year,
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Speaker 1: they brought him back, and a lot of people said
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Speaker 1: they should have fired him. After the first month and
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Speaker 1: a half of the season, they kept him, and finally,
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Speaker 1: when no one was looking, the Mets decided to part ways.
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Speaker 1: They went one direction and Mendoza went the other direction,
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Speaker 1: and bye bye. Now. This brought into the conversation. Eric Chavez,
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Speaker 1: who was a third baseman, played with the Athletics, bounced
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Speaker 1: around baseball a little bit. I remember him with the
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Speaker 1: old day. They shused to be a baseball team in
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Speaker 1: Oakland called the Athletics believe it or not. Yeah, and
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Speaker 1: then Rob Manford said, let's move him to Sacramento for
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Speaker 1: a couple years, then Vegas. Okay, why not? Okay? So anyway,
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Speaker 1: Eric Chavez the third basement and he was a hitting
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Speaker 1: coach for the New York Mets for a couple of seasons,
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Speaker 1: and he worked with David Stearns, the general manager, or
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Speaker 1: they call him the president of baseball ops because it's
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Speaker 1: the meaning to call it general manager general managers, who
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Speaker 1: you have to call it the president of the baseball ops. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: he went on some podcasts for friends and family, who
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Speaker 1: hell listens to this crap And if you didn't hear
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Speaker 1: what he said, maybe not. Eric Chavez claimed that he
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Speaker 1: noticed this is a wild story that I had now heard,
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Speaker 1: so he claims when he was coaching with the Mets,
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Speaker 1: Eric Chavez said, when he was coaching with the Mets,
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Speaker 1: he noticed that Juan Soto his first year with the Mets,
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Speaker 1: was hanging out by the indoor batting cage on the
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Speaker 1: sofa like he'd run off the field and if he
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Speaker 1: wasn't batting anytime soon, he'd go to the indoor batting cage,
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Speaker 1: not to get some swings in. According to Eric Chavez,
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Speaker 1: Soda would go in there to have a nice seat
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Speaker 1: on the sofa like he was in his living room
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Speaker 1: at home. So Chavez brought this up to the Mets
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Speaker 1: general managers said, listen, this seems like problem for the
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Speaker 1: culture of the team. You got the highest paid player
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Speaker 1: in baseball history lounging on a lazy boy between innings.
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Speaker 1: You might want to do something about this. It's a
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Speaker 1: bad look for the younger players. So he brought this up.
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Speaker 1: Eric Chavez brought this up to the general manager again,
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Speaker 1: pointing out it does not seem like this is this
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Speaker 1: is great for the younger players, and Sterns, the general manager, said, well,
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Speaker 1: those players need to learn that they're not one soto A.
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Speaker 1: What a perfect response if you're Bozo the clown anyway,
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Speaker 1: so that was his response. Chavez thinks that Stearns is
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Speaker 1: in over his head, and he also talked about him
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Speaker 1: being locked into his mindset from his Milwaukee days when
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Speaker 1: he was the executive with the Brewers and having a
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Speaker 1: small market mindset despite the fact that you look at
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Speaker 1: it and Eric Javett or Eric Chabbez, the third baseman
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Speaker 1: is pointing out like this is Steve Cohen because you
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Speaker 1: know he rips people off with that hedge fund stuff
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Speaker 1: is worth a fortune, you know, taking money from the
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Speaker 1: poor people, that's the way to do it. Anyway. Chavez
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Speaker 1: has other gripes, a lot of gripes. He criticized the
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Speaker 1: coaching structure, multiple hitting coaches. There's no clear lead hitting coach, right,
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Speaker 1: you know, going through that whole deal, going on and
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Speaker 1: on and on about that, and said he even volunteered
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Speaker 1: to be fired mid season in order to light a
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Speaker 1: fire under the team so I can go on and on,
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Speaker 1: and it's good jumping off points. So let us discuss
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Speaker 1: the question. Are Eric Chavez's many gripes and he's got
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Speaker 1: a lot about the Mets GM David Stearns? Is this
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Speaker 1: sour grapes or is this an inconvenient truth? The former
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Speaker 1: Mets hitting coach blasting the general manager for allowing Juan
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Speaker 1: Soto to sin on the sofa during games in the
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Speaker 1: in the batting cage. All right, So I've got fruity pebbles,
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Speaker 1: historical restoration, and waffle house, and we will combine all
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Speaker 1: all of these things together. We're gonna make out like bandits,
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Speaker 1: is what we're gonna do. Gonna make out like bandits.
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Speaker 1: All right, So, first of all, Eric Schavaz basically said
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Speaker 1: the quiet part out loud. He said that David Stearns
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Speaker 1: is running the Mets like he's clipping coupons somewhere near
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Speaker 1: Sheboygan in Wisconsin. And he's treating an absolute battleship, which
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Speaker 1: is what the Mets payroll is, like it's a canoe
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Speaker 1: or a dinghy. What are you doing, dummy? You got
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Speaker 1: the Mets and this is the fruity pebbles of reality,
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Speaker 1: is what it is. It is you hired good old
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Speaker 1: Ivy League Poindexter who thinks human beings are just variables
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Speaker 1: to toggle with, And that's it. And when your superstar
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Speaker 1: is CouchSurfing between innings of games, that is the inconvenient truth.
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Speaker 1: Sterns is holding the map upside down. The Mets executive
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Speaker 1: is completely wrong. And this is the classic trope, the
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Speaker 1: smartest guy in the room. And this has been an
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Speaker 1: ongoing problem in baseball. It's gotten worse and worse over
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Speaker 1: the last twenty years. Now it's completely out of control.
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Speaker 1: And you just treat the players like data points and
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Speaker 1: coaches like replaceable widgets. Let's get some more widgets. Okay,
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Speaker 1: I'll go to the appstore. I'll get some more widgets.
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Speaker 1: That sounds good. And the team culture is just a
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Speaker 1: rounding error, that's all that is. And Steve Cohen again,
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Speaker 1: he paid for a powerhouse roster. And now we can
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Speaker 1: debate how good the Mets roster is. The pitching doesn't
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Speaker 1: look all that good to me. However, this is the
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Speaker 1: guy he waited to get Stearns from the Brewers. He
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Speaker 1: got him, and he's now the CEO of chaos incorporated
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Speaker 1: the Mets. We're getting a very cold spreadsheet, a very
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Speaker 1: cold spreadsheet. It makes Stearns look completely overmatched. And so
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Speaker 1: I don't think that Eric Chavez missed on this one
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Speaker 1: and he's getting dismissed, But well, he's just a bitter
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Speaker 1: former employee. I think he nailed it all right. Now.
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Speaker 1: Secondly to Milwaukee, we go, We're the miss. The Miz
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Speaker 1: was at it again recently. Jacob Mizeroski, the phenom, the
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Speaker 1: ace of the brew crew. Now he recently unleashed the
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Speaker 1: pitch at one hundred and five point five miles per hour.
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Speaker 1: One hundred and five point five miles per hour. That
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Speaker 1: seems fast. It was against the Cubs. That is tied
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Speaker 1: for the third hardest pitch ever tracked in baseball history.
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Speaker 1: They have been tracking these pitches for that long. There's
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Speaker 1: legends of Nolan Ryan back in the day and how
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Speaker 1: hard he threw, or Bob Gibson. That's all speculation and
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Speaker 1: urban legend. Since the radar gun and the speed became
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Speaker 1: the thing. The Mizz is at a hundred five point
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Speaker 1: five That is the third hardest pitch ever. The only
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Speaker 1: pitches ahead of that are eraald As Chapman in his
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Speaker 1: Salad days at one hundred and five point eight and
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Speaker 1: one hundred and five point seven as a relief pitcher
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Speaker 1: for the various teams he's played for. It's the hardest pitch,
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Speaker 1: the mizpitch, the hardest pitch ever recorded by a starting
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Speaker 1: pitcher in the snat cast era, whatever that means. Miserroski
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Speaker 1: was asked about hitting even higher velocities now. He claimed
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Speaker 1: Jacob Miserowski claimed that science says you can hit one
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Speaker 1: hundred and eight miles per hour. He says, the science
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Speaker 1: claims that that is the fastest you can throw. He said,
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Speaker 1: it would be cool to throw that fast. He said,
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Speaker 1: speed is cool, but if it doesn't win a ballgame,
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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. So the question here, it is this obsession,
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Speaker 1: the need for speed with the Brewers, as Jacob Miseroski,
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Speaker 1: and the idea that someday he's gonna throw a hundred
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Speaker 1: and eight miles per hour. Which camp are you in
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Speaker 1: on this one? Which camp are you in on this one?
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Speaker 1: So the obsession that everyone seems to have these days
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Speaker 1: with the Mizz of the Brewers throwing one hundred and
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Speaker 1: eight miles an hour, to me, it is ridiculous. It
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Speaker 1: is absolutely ridiculous and we've officially reached the point where
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Speaker 1: people care more about the number than the actual out Now,
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Speaker 1: this started a long time ago to there used to
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Speaker 1: be the show and nobody watches it anymore. It used
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Speaker 1: to be popular called Sports Center. And the way that
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Speaker 1: you got on that show back when it mattered, and
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Speaker 1: you know, went woke years ago, but when it mattered,
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Speaker 1: the way that it worked is you had to win
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Speaker 1: a game to get on there. Now you had win
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Speaker 1: a game. And now we've crossed over in the last
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Speaker 1: number of years where it doesn't matter show. First of all,
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Speaker 1: show's irrelevant. Secondly, though, like there are people that have games,
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Speaker 1: they put up great stats, they don't win, and that
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Speaker 1: gets highlighted. And so like Misaroski he threw one hundred
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Speaker 1: and eight miles an hour, the Brewers could lose fifteen
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Speaker 1: to nothing and that would be the lead story. That
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Speaker 1: would be the lead lead story. So it's all about
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Speaker 1: the speed thing and welcome to baseball a math class
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Speaker 1: with grass and the radar gun culture. Not a fan,
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Speaker 1: not a fan of radar gun culture. It has become
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Speaker 1: it's like we've used that line before. It's like CrossFit
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Speaker 1: for baseball nerds. It's loud, it's sweaty, and nobody cares.
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Speaker 1: And we're certainly not speed queens over here, we're not
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Speaker 1: speed queens. And yet the pendulum has swung entirely into
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Speaker 1: the vortex of velocity. That is where this is. And
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Speaker 1: I'm just using Jacob Mazerowski as an example because this
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Speaker 1: came up and it popped up on my radar, so
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Speaker 1: I thought we'd talked about it. Like everybody wants that
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Speaker 1: one hundred and eight, one hundred and nine, one hundred
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Speaker 1: and ten miles an hour. You know what I want, Picasso.
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Speaker 1: I want a pitching Picasso, painting corners like you're doing
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Speaker 1: a historical restoration of the Sistine Chapel. That's what I want.
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Speaker 1: Give me some of that. Like pitching at its core,
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Speaker 1: pitching it score is the art of disruption. They don't
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Speaker 1: pay for that, though they pay for speed that baseball
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Speaker 1: teams don't pay for gile. They don't. And there was
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Speaker 1: a time not that long ago where that mattered. You
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Speaker 1: threw pitches that were of different speeds, and hitters got
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Speaker 1: tossed into a blender, changing speeds, keeping them off balance.
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Speaker 1: With guts and guile and all that, and radar gun addicts,
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Speaker 1: and there are many of you who are addicted to
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Speaker 1: the radar gun. You don't care about that. You don't
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Speaker 1: care about throwing a breaking pitch at the right time
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Speaker 1: and having it drop off the plate and having the
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Speaker 1: hitter swing right through it. No, you don't care about
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Speaker 1: a lollipop curveball anything like that. No, and you don't
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Speaker 1: care if you win or not. You just want that
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Speaker 1: dopamine hit from the radar gun and it flashes up
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Speaker 1: on the scoreboard. Oh man, that guy threw one hundred
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Speaker 1: and seven miles an hour. However, let's face reality. I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna face reality here. You can throw triple digits all day,
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Speaker 1: every single day, twice on Sunday, throw triple digits. However,
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Speaker 1: if you don't hit the zone. What's in the zone
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Speaker 1: the baseball? If you don't get it in the zone,
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Speaker 1: it's useless and honesty, no one cares how fast you
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Speaker 1: pitch ball for who the hell cares? Doesn't matter all
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Speaker 1: right now, final thought in the hood, it ain't a
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Speaker 1: word and up to no good. Sofi Stadium, which has
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Speaker 1: been critically acclaimed by soccer pundits the football media. They
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Speaker 1: can't get enough of Sofi Stadium it is a majestical
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Speaker 1: palace if you've never been there. In SoCal however, bad news,
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Speaker 1: bad news bears for Sofi Stadium. Is it true that
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Speaker 1: of all eleven US World Cup venues, all eleven US
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Speaker 1: World Cup venues, that Sofi Stadium in the hood in
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Speaker 1: Inglewood and up to no good was dead last?
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Speaker 2: Uh?
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah. There was a survey done involving fan experience,
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Speaker 1: fan experience and they voted based on a number of
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Speaker 1: things ranking the analysis of the stadium. The factors included
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Speaker 1: hotel prices, included crime rates, weather, concession, beer costs, even
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Speaker 1: people complaining about mosquitoes. And Sofi Stadium came in dead
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Speaker 1: last at five point eight two out of ten. It's
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Speaker 1: been called a human ailiation for the stadium in terms
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Speaker 1: of the way fans view the stadium. Why was it
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Speaker 1: so low? Well, let's see here the price of a
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Speaker 1: pint of beer, because we're dealing with euros, the price
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Speaker 1: of a pint of beer fourteen dollars, for a water
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Speaker 1: seven dollars seven dollars. The hotel cost an average of
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Speaker 1: three hundred and eighty three dollars per night. Mosquito risk,
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Speaker 1: How about this Sofi Stadium? Highest mosquito risk ten out
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Speaker 1: of ten based on the Orcinman. Well, that's official, it
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Speaker 1: came from the Orcanman. Other factors like high crime also wenting.
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Speaker 1: Well what did you think? All right? Gillette Stadium if
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Speaker 1: you're curious, in Foxborough and Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City
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Speaker 1: ranked one and two each scoring an eight out of ten,
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Speaker 1: and so far was at five point eight. So the
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Speaker 1: question is Sofi Stadium being voted the worst venue in
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Speaker 1: America for the World Cup for the fans a humiliating situation.
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Speaker 1: So no, I would not use the word humiliating. That's
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Speaker 1: the wrong adjective to use. I would use different word.
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Speaker 1: What happened at Sofi Stadium is the most California outcome imaginable.
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Speaker 1: It just is, you have a world class venue and
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Speaker 1: it really is a piece of art. Sofi Stadium just
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Speaker 1: everywhere you look it's pretty cool, world class, and yet
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Speaker 1: the customer who has to go to that stadium is
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Speaker 1: given the royal screwjob. That is not humiliation. Okay, that
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Speaker 1: is not human That is the brand consistency is what
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Speaker 1: it is. Sofi took a line from the Clipper's legend
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Speaker 1: back in the day. Benoit Benjamin who famously said, I
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Speaker 1: don't give a blank about the fans, and that's the
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Speaker 1: business model of SOFI stadium. I don't give a blank
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Speaker 1: about the fans. The motto is, we don't care if
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Speaker 1: you enjoy this or not. All sales or final sucker,
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Speaker 1: that's it. So Far is not a stadium. I'm telling you,
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Speaker 1: it's a laboratory. It is some kind of psychological adventure
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Speaker 1: to find new ways, new ways to separate the consumer
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Speaker 1: from their credit card and their Apple pay and all
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Speaker 1: that stuff. It was a referendum on this little study
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Speaker 1: thing was a referendum on southern California, the cost of living,
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Speaker 1: all of that. Everything is expensive. Stuff that shouldn't be
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Speaker 1: considered a luxury is considered a luxury. It's ridiculous. And
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Speaker 1: there's always a trapdoor. And you want to so cal
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Speaker 1: trifecta for the World Cup. You've got traffic parking, bottlenecks
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Speaker 1: as well. They gouge you and you still it's a nightmare,
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Speaker 1: the mosquito thing, security nightmares, you name it. Now. As
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Speaker 1: for these safety factors, specifically, right, complaining about crime in
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Speaker 1: Inglewood is like complaining about your local waffle house not
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Speaker 1: having a wine Steward, like you, what are you expecting.
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Speaker 1: It's not a great neighborhood. They've made it better than
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Speaker 1: it was in Inglewood. There are still parts of it
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Speaker 1: that you don't necessarily want to go to when the
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Speaker 1: sun's down. That's just the way it is. And so again,
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Speaker 1: but so far listened, it didn't get humiliated, so far
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Speaker 1: got reviewed accurately, is the way I would look at it.
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Speaker 1: And they don't do affordable in southern California or northern
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Speaker 1: California for that matters. In Californa is not affordable like
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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons and their stadium. They shame everybody because
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Speaker 1: they actually charge regular prices for peanuts and nachos and
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Speaker 1: hot dogs and these other stadiums like no, we're gonna
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Speaker 1: gout you right to your face and you're gonna pay,
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Speaker 1: and you're gonna like it. Bend over Bukaroo. Yeah. Dynamic
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Speaker 1: price is a way they describe it, which is just
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Speaker 1: a way to take your money. And it's dynamic. Though
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Speaker 1: it's dynamic financially miserable, which I think is a is
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Speaker 1: your way a little bit later this hour. I love you.
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Speaker 1: Don't anticipate that we'll hear from weed Man hippie from Miami.
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Speaker 1: Well Hollywood, Florida. Who knows he might call her? You
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Speaker 1: never know. I have no idea. In the meantime, be
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Speaker 1: part of the show. Lines are full right now when
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Speaker 1: one opens up, here's somebody hang up call in. Also
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Speaker 1: on X at Ben mallor that's oh that sounds like
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Speaker 1: Mark the full Name Guy. There's a Mark the full
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Speaker 1: name Guy. Update. We'll give you that coming up in
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Speaker 1: a few minutes. Say Mark the full name name guy,
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Speaker 1: update that or two. So anyway, on EX at Ben Maley,
23:04
Speaker 1: you can say hello to Loraina FSR Tech queen, don't
23:08
Speaker 1: talk to me. And Gonzo making his debut on this show.
23:14
Speaker 1: And I saw that he he comes from a five seventy.
23:18
Speaker 1: I saw the backpack, and you can say a lot
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Speaker 1: to him. Mike underscore Gonzo thirty four. Mike underscore Gonzo
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Speaker 1: thirty four. Back to it. So he worked at five seventy?
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Speaker 1: Is that correct? In La here? Yeah? You did? What'd
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Speaker 1: you do over there? So I was with the promotions apartments.
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Speaker 1: Oh Dave Weis, Yeah, I love Dave Weis. Yeah, that's
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Speaker 1: my guy. Dave's awesome.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a small world after all.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, known Dave for a long time. Dave's a great
23:48
Speaker 1: Everyone hits him up for free stuff. They all. He knows.
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Speaker 1: He gets all the free stuff, all the tickets. He knows.
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Speaker 1: You gotta know Dave. I don't bug him very much.
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Speaker 1: Every once in a while hit him up for something.
23:58
Speaker 1: He's the guy hoky up. Anyway, Well I saw the backpack.
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Speaker 1: That's how you know you didn't work on the on
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Speaker 1: air side. You worked on the promotion side because you
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Speaker 1: had a backpack. Yeah, you get the free gear, the
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Speaker 1: free swag. Yeah, yeah, we had swag. We used to
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Speaker 1: back in the old days.
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Speaker 3: I want a backpack, that says Fox Sports writing.
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Speaker 1: Oh man, I used to have a bunch of them.
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Speaker 1: Maybe Rob Parker can make me one. Oh yeah, Rob,
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Speaker 1: Well Rob has odd couple stuff. You can get any
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Speaker 1: odd couple thing you need on that. He'll hook you
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Speaker 1: up for sure. Anyway, we are payoff the mailor Riddle
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Speaker 1: of the day, the Mailler Riddle of the day. The
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Speaker 1: Bear the Bears are joining the Chiefs and the Bills
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Speaker 1: is the only NFL franchises to get blank? That is
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Speaker 1: the question. What is the answer? And let's see does
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Speaker 1: anyone know the answer? Rob the goat Man says the
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Speaker 1: complete series of the Rockford Files on DVD. Well, that
24:51
Speaker 1: would be very impressive. What do we have? Ferg Dog?
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Speaker 1: Got this right? Bad job? Buy you ferg Dog? How
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Speaker 1: dare you an infinity gem? From Asher courtesy Flusher says
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Speaker 1: to vote Frankenberry for president. Okay, alf the alien opiner
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Speaker 1: who would like to take a victory lap for the
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Speaker 1: soccer story that we talked about in the monologue says, hoodwinked, flummixed,
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Speaker 1: and bamboozled. Is that true? Off? No skullduggery? What about
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Speaker 1: the skullduggery? The Ben Mallard chicken fingers delivered to their
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Speaker 1: respective team buffets from Malard prop guy? What else do
25:32
Speaker 1: you have? Econ Roseville, Minnesota said indoor plumbing. That's exciting.
25:37
Speaker 1: Wayne Inn and Duluth said something about the NBA. These
25:41
Speaker 1: guys freak out, man, they're so upset with the NBA. Talk.
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Speaker 1: Timmy from Busco Indiana rites since says a widespread breakout
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Speaker 1: of cold sores. Well, that's exciting. Mike the Leprechaun says
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Speaker 1: they all want a free weekend in the Solfi neighborhood
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Speaker 1: in Inglewood. That's from Michael Crabs. Guess by Johnny q.
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Speaker 1: Pete Sapapa says, a month of free ice cream from
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Speaker 1: Baskin Robbins, naked cheerleaders from Bill. Who's your Bill? That's
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Speaker 1: his answer? Yes, a very very important nine o four.
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Speaker 1: Ray says, a BUCkies next to the new stadium. That
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Speaker 1: would be cool to have a BUCkies right there. Do
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Speaker 1: you have an answer, Lorraine, Yes, I'm gonna go with
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Speaker 1: lice lice. That'd be exciting. You only have three teams
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Speaker 1: that have lice. Every team has lice. Unfortunately, No, that
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Speaker 1: is incorrect. The correct answer. The Chicago Bears are joining
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Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs and the Buffalo Bills. Is the
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Speaker 1: only NFL franchises to get the Hallmark Christmas movie.
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Speaker 3: Love Homemork Christmas Movie.
26:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Chiefs got one in twenty twenty four, the
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Speaker 1: Bill's in twenty twenty five, and now it is the
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Speaker 1: year of the chicag Go Bears getting the love. I'm
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Speaker 1: sure Tree will be there watching and you fee me
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Speaker 1: and all that. Team announced recently that they are partnering
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Speaker 1: with Hallmark Media be in a Touchdown A Bears love
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Speaker 1: story well premiere on the Hallmark Channel seventeenth annual Countdown
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Speaker 1: to Christmas programming event this upcoming holiday season, and so
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Speaker 1: there you go, Ben, Yes, Lorena, Yes, Loraina.
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Speaker 3: What do you think this has to do with the
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Speaker 3: man versus bear challenge?
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Speaker 1: No?
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Speaker 3: Remember when the women had to choose who would you
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Speaker 3: rather be left alone with a bear or a man?
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Speaker 3: And they chose a bear.
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Speaker 1: They chose a bear. I don't that's Hallmark, isn't That's
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Speaker 1: not sappy enough for Hallmark. Sappy enough has to be
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Speaker 1: somebody in their deathbed coming back from it in your
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Speaker 1: desk olge and then having five kids and living happily
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Speaker 1: ever after and all that right. Isn't that right? Yeah? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Would you choose a man or a bear?
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Speaker 3: I would choose a man?
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Speaker 1: You would? Okay, so you're anti bear? So now you're
28:05
Speaker 1: gonna get animal rights activist upset with you because you
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Speaker 1: disrespected the bear.
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Speaker 3: I would. I just feel like I'd have better luck
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Speaker 3: surviving being mauled by a man than being mauled by
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Speaker 3: a bear.
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Speaker 1: I understand what it was a little baby bear about
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Speaker 1: a little baby.
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Speaker 3: I would take a baby, You.
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Speaker 1: Take a baby bear. I got you understand. I just
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Speaker 1: go on with the phones. It is a call in show,
28:22
Speaker 1: and we do have coming up later this hour, the
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Speaker 1: always exciting insta advice line, and I did get an update,
28:29
Speaker 1: by the way, from Mark the full name God. Let
28:30
Speaker 1: me say a loa to hollering James, who's in Minneapolis,
28:35
Speaker 1: minas soul to Hello, hollering James. Welcome James.
28:41
Speaker 3: That might be Sebastian.
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Speaker 1: Oh is that the wrong line? Hold? I'll say now,
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Speaker 1: I'm confused.
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Speaker 3: Put up six?
28:46
Speaker 1: You want to put six up? All right, I'll put
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Speaker 1: six up? Hello six, line six, Hello, line six.
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Speaker 2: It's obvious you would take a man?
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Speaker 1: Why? Why is it obvious? James? You don't don't know that?
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Speaker 1: So thank you? All right, appreciate that, James. Let's go
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Speaker 1: to Okay, we're good on that. He's not that bright.
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Speaker 1: Let's say, hello, dumb, the dumb, dumb dumb. Let's go
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Speaker 1: to Sebastian, though he is online too, Sebastian. I should
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Speaker 1: have gone with you, my instinct I screwed up. I
29:21
Speaker 1: went with that, that schmuck right over there, the one
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Speaker 1: and only hollering Jims. What's going on, Sebastian? Who knows
29:28
Speaker 1: the way to San Jose? What's going on?
29:31
Speaker 2: What's up?
29:31
Speaker 1: Man?
29:32
Speaker 2: What's all the preasudent?
29:33
Speaker 1: What was going on? Just pretend. We're just gonna pretend.
29:37
Speaker 1: We're gonna pretend that didn't happen. We're gonna pretend whatever
29:40
Speaker 1: whatever happened, nobody hurt it anyway, so it didn't happen.
29:44
Speaker 2: I just heard my name. I started listening. It's all
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Speaker 2: like I need to be president, you know.
29:48
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I understand, understand. He was zoning out. I
29:51
Speaker 1: got you, yeah, for.
29:53
Speaker 2: Sure, for sure on the road late night, shaking.
29:57
Speaker 1: Here where you headed, just driving around.
30:01
Speaker 2: I do security. I'm just patrolling, you know, security in
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Speaker 2: the top flight security of the world.
30:05
Speaker 1: That's right. Do you drive a golf cart? No?
30:08
Speaker 2: I drive an actual car.
30:10
Speaker 1: Card What do you think he's like, Paul bart mall cop.
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Speaker 3: I feel like a lot of security guards just drive
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Speaker 3: little golf carts.
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Speaker 1: No, that's not No, I don't know that's true. You're assuming,
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Speaker 1: you're making assumptions. That's true. Yeah, oh right, copp there,
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Speaker 1: Well you're here now, you're here now, Sebastian, that's the
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Speaker 1: most important thing. You're gonna dazzle the masses right now.
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Speaker 1: You're gonna amaze, You're gonna bring the razzle das.
30:40
Speaker 2: This is the I did have like a question earlier
30:43
Speaker 2: because I already talked about the Ad and Lebron scenario
30:47
Speaker 2: going to the Warriors and talk about how they didn't
30:48
Speaker 2: want to championship. So I was just wondering, like, you
30:51
Speaker 2: don't remember like the twenty twenty.
30:52
Speaker 1: Season like this, Oh that doesn't, that doesn't. That doesn't
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Speaker 1: count that as the That is bogus. Ever, one knows
31:00
Speaker 1: that three months off before a tournament with no travel
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Speaker 1: and no fans is not a legitimate championship. It is
31:08
Speaker 1: a mickey mouse championship. It's the most bogus thing. It's embarrassing.
31:11
Speaker 1: It's embarrassing for the NBA. Uh And and remember guys
31:15
Speaker 1: on the team, not just my opinion, it was the
31:18
Speaker 1: guy on the on the Thunder, the bald white guy
31:20
Speaker 1: on the Thunder that what's his name? I forget his name,
31:23
Speaker 1: but he was like, yeah, he's all now he finally
31:26
Speaker 1: got a real ring when when on Oklahoma City went.
31:28
Speaker 1: So I'm just saying, yeah.
31:33
Speaker 2: I'm a Warrior fans. So I'm just over here trying
31:35
Speaker 2: to trying to make my future right. You know. The
31:37
Speaker 2: last I don't know year, year or two I got
31:39
Speaker 2: left with Steph. So yeah, that's dark ages again.
31:44
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, Yeah, the Warriors, they they'll be
31:46
Speaker 1: really bad for is coming. Yeah. The nuclear winter is
31:51
Speaker 1: right around the corner, so I'll watch out.
31:54
Speaker 2: I guess the last thing I got for you? What
31:55
Speaker 2: do you think about Jalen Brown for the words?
31:59
Speaker 1: I like you? I don't know. I hate Jayleenron my
32:01
Speaker 1: favorite player, but he's a good player. If you can
32:03
Speaker 1: get Jalen Brown, he's he's middle aged by NBA standards.
32:07
Speaker 1: That's the guy. You would much rather have Jalen Brown
32:09
Speaker 1: than Lebron James. It's not even close at this point.
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Speaker 2: You take yeah, but no Jalen Brown or Lebron in
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Speaker 2: ad That's what I'm oh.
32:18
Speaker 1: I will laugh every time you pick up Anthony Davis. Now,
32:21
Speaker 1: when you pick him up, make sure you get some
32:23
Speaker 1: hemorrhoid cream when he's sitting on the bench in street
32:25
Speaker 1: clothes by the.
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Speaker 2: Rick Ce team.
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Speaker 1: Oh, there you go, all right, then you'll be good.
32:33
Speaker 1: All right, they's nothing to worry about that, all right,
32:35
Speaker 1: thank you, go away? All right? There he goes where
32:37
Speaker 1: he goes, only he knows. Let's see who else do
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Speaker 1: we have. Let's see page Let's go to enye meanie
32:42
Speaker 1: miney mo uh. Poppy is in San Diego. Hello, Poppy,
32:49
Speaker 1: Welcome Poppy. Do you sleep sleep sleeping? He's got snoring problems. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: this is a blessing. No, no, Bobby, it is. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: this is you. Listen to our live coverage here. We
33:14
Speaker 1: are in the wild and we are observing from San Diego.
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Speaker 1: This is the call. Her name Poppy. And he was
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Speaker 1: going to give soccer bas Trust me, this is more entertaining.
33:29
Speaker 1: This is better. He's dreaming right now of soccer balls,
33:35
Speaker 1: big giant soccer balls. He's thinking of right now. And
33:41
Speaker 1: you know what else he's thinking about. He's thinking about
33:42
Speaker 1: Home Depot is what he's thinking about. He's thinking, well,
33:46
Speaker 1: I should go to home Depot today and Poppy, you
33:49
Speaker 1: need to upgrade your PIFA World Cup twenty twenty six.
33:52
Speaker 1: Set up, Poppy, Okay, listen to me. That's right. Build
33:56
Speaker 1: it like Beckham. Isn't that great? Build it like Beckham?
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Speaker 1: I ain't know. It's exciting from living room to lawn
34:03
Speaker 1: with the home Depot. I'm doing a spoty here, Poppy,
34:07
Speaker 1: and take the fast free delivery Assist the Home Depot.
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Speaker 1: Official FIFA World Cup twenty twenty six Supporter, subject to availability.
34:16
Speaker 1: What do you think of that Poppy. You impressed by that, Poppy, Poppy, Poppy,
34:22
Speaker 1: Poppy talk Poppy. There we go. All right, he's alive,
34:27
Speaker 1: he's breathing. Poppy, you want to make picks today, Poppy,
34:30
Speaker 1: you're on the air. I'm giving you a lot of airtime.
34:32
Speaker 1: You've been on the air for many minutes. Here, no,
34:37
Speaker 1: all THEREA is there he is now. He's not copying
34:42
Speaker 1: hollering James phone calls, Poppy. He's what he's doing. He's
34:46
Speaker 1: not ripping off hollering James's act. That's a bad job
34:48
Speaker 1: with Yeah, all right, thank you, thank you, Poppy. I
34:52
Speaker 1: loved all your picks. They were wonderful. Although now I'm
34:56
Speaker 1: thinking about should we actually do the picks based on
34:58
Speaker 1: if he snores or not?
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Speaker 2: Oh?
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Speaker 1: Yes, let's do it. Let me get the games here,
35:05
Speaker 1: live World Cup. Let me see the schedule.
35:08
Speaker 3: This might be the best Poppy content we've ever had.
35:11
Speaker 1: We're gonna break new ground here, all right, early TV window,
35:16
Speaker 1: you have one o'clock in the east, ten am in
35:19
Speaker 1: the west, Brazil and Japan. If Poppy snores within five seconds,
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Speaker 1: he's going to take Brazil. If he does not. If
35:29
Speaker 1: he does not snore within five to ten seconds, what
35:31
Speaker 1: was it?
35:31
Speaker 2: Ten?
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Speaker 1: We'll do five seconds. I don't have all of that.
35:33
Speaker 1: I like five five seconds. If he doesn't store within
35:35
Speaker 1: five seconds, that means he wants Japan and all right, Poppy,
35:38
Speaker 1: here we go Brazil or Japan. Oh, Brazil, okay, good pick, Poppy,
35:44
Speaker 1: good pick Brazil. Okay. In the four to thirty TV
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Speaker 1: window one thirty in the West, Germany and Paraguay. So Poppy.
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Speaker 1: If you want the Germans, you gotta snore. If you
35:54
Speaker 1: don't want the Germans, then no snore. Here we go
35:57
Speaker 1: all right five.
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Speaker 3: Oh you wants the Germans?
36:03
Speaker 1: All right, that's a good pick, Poppy. Good job by you.
36:07
Speaker 1: All right, what else do we have? We have one
36:09
Speaker 1: more game today? Oh my picking with Poppy. Feeling good
36:12
Speaker 1: about the Netherlands and Morocco. Very competitive game. That's the
36:17
Speaker 1: night game tonight on the World Cup schedule. Night. Calm down,
36:22
Speaker 1: we're not ready to pick you, Poppy, nine pm Eastern,
36:26
Speaker 1: six pm in the West. If you want the Netherlands,
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Speaker 1: you got to snore. If not Morocco, five four three, Oh,
36:36
Speaker 1: good pick Poppy. Netherlands, Germany and Brazil. Picking with Poppy.
36:43
Speaker 1: Amazing job, Poppy. We'll do the If you can promise
36:46
Speaker 1: to give us that content. We'll do it every day,
36:48
Speaker 1: every day, Poppy, All right, straight ahead, We're gonna have
36:53
Speaker 1: a limited time, but we'll have some fun. It is
36:56
Speaker 1: the instant advice line. We'll get to that. We'll do
36:58
Speaker 1: it next. It is the Bain Malor Show. Reminder, you
37:03
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37:06
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37:18
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37:22
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37:25
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37:28
Speaker 1: Also the Fifth Hour podcast We Thank You on the
37:31
Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app. Hey you sports figure guy or girl? Who here?
37:38
Speaker 1: Were you talking to? Songs? Here some interesting advice? Hold
37:42
Speaker 1: that thun no one's paid attention to me for ten
37:44
Speaker 1: whole seconds. And if you don't like it, you man,
37:47
Speaker 1: no way we go. It's the insane advice line. No
37:50
Speaker 1: time for small talk. Let's get right to it. Who
37:53
Speaker 1: needs our advice? How about the New York Mets. They suck,
37:57
Speaker 1: And over the weekend the Mets fired their man, and
38:00
Speaker 1: now there's chatter that Juan Soto's been spending time between
38:04
Speaker 1: innings sitting on the couch in the batting cage, not batting,
38:09
Speaker 1: just kind of chilling out, having a great old time.
38:11
Speaker 1: So advice to the New York Metropolitans, the New York Mets,
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Speaker 1: who have the third worst record in baseball. Only the
38:18
Speaker 1: Royals and Rockies are worse. Advice to the Mets. You're
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Speaker 1: live on the air when you hear my voice. Line one, Hello,
38:23
Speaker 1: Line one, poppy, okay, no no a. Line two, you're
38:29
Speaker 1: on the airline too. Advice to the Mets. Line two.
38:32
Speaker 1: I wondered that cows has candles next to it, like
38:35
Speaker 1: you're finding some women's restaurant. Okay, Line three, you're next.
38:38
Speaker 1: We're giving advice to the New York Mets after they
38:41
Speaker 1: fire their manager over the weekend. Carlos Mendoza, Hello, line three.
38:47
Speaker 1: Line three is not paying attention to the air line.
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Speaker 1: For line four. You're on the airline four.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, morning time. Women who choose bears love carpets, you
38:54
Speaker 2: know what I mean? Hello?
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Speaker 1: All right, calm down ricking morning time. On line five,
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Speaker 1: he Hello, line five.
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Speaker 2: And highest seed from Manhattan.
39:04
Speaker 1: Oh there's Steven Manhattan. He'll call back. I know. Line six,
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Speaker 1: you're on the Airline six, Hello, second only to the
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Speaker 1: blue Marble. Oh no, he's back, Andrew haunting us there
39:13
Speaker 1: in Bakersfield. Line one, your next advice to the Mets.
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Speaker 1: Line one, Hey, I'm thinking alright. Line two you're on
39:21
Speaker 1: the airline too. Hello. Line two is not paying attention.
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Speaker 1: We'll go to line three. Hello. Line three.
39:29
Speaker 2: New York, New York, big city of dreams and everything
39:32
Speaker 2: in New York all would have seen there.
39:34
Speaker 1: You go, Sean the hood guy. Will you one more?
39:35
Speaker 1: Only one more? Guns? So I think you want Line four?
39:38
Speaker 1: Is that correct? Guns? Always saying yes. Line four, you're
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Speaker 1: on the air line for go, No line for you.