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Thursday Thunderdome w/Jason Benetti · The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Favorites, the podcast from the Volume podcast Network.
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  Speaker 1: It's Thursday. That means it's time to enter the Thursday Thunderdome,
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  Speaker 1: and somehow we've we've convinced another real professional outside of
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  Speaker 1: the Action Network to join us. On today's show, our
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  Speaker 1: special guests will compete alongside my co host, my companion,
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  Speaker 1: my BFF professional sports better Simon Hunter, in an epic
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  Speaker 1: test of wagers and wits that's made this show the
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  Speaker 1: most celebrated sports betting adjacent trivia show in podcast history,
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  Speaker 1: and true to form because it's Draft Day at any moment,
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  Speaker 1: Simon Hunter has already warned us that his bat phone
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  Speaker 1: may ring and he may have to step out of
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  Speaker 1: the game to make some very big bets. Hello Simon,
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  Speaker 1: Hello Chad. Yes, it's only one of three days I
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  Speaker 1: consider actual work days for the entire off season, so
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  Speaker 1: I've been getting phone calls I would say since three
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  Speaker 1: in the morning, because that's midnight Vegas. I probably I'm
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  Speaker 1: probably running on four hours of sleep and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of energy drinks, so I'm kind of like losing my mind.
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  Speaker 1: But it's a fun day. When Matt goes number three
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  Speaker 1: the San Francisco to the forty nine. I'm just gonna
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  Speaker 1: walk into the ocean. I cannot wait for this day
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  Speaker 1: to view over my man. Listen, I'm hoping. I'm hoping
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  Speaker 1: you win this bet. Obviously you have a massive bet
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  Speaker 1: on Mac Jones to Napia number three. I'm hoping that
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  Speaker 1: you're right and hoping you win. I think Mac Jones
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  Speaker 1: number three terrible idea. Simon. Today you'll face two guest challengers.
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  Speaker 1: And for our listeners, if you're a baseball fan, of
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  Speaker 1: baseball better a regular old Chicago in you definitely listened
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  Speaker 1: to the dulcet tones of our first guest. He's the
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  Speaker 1: television play by playboys for the Chicago White Sox. You
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  Speaker 1: have heard him on ESPN's MLB Stack Cast, which to me,
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  Speaker 1: the absolute best play by blay experience on the Worldwide Leader.
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  Speaker 1: You've also heard him in various college football basketball games
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  Speaker 1: for ESPN, whereas he he has had the pleasure of
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  Speaker 1: ad libbing alongside Bill Walton, which is the second best
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  Speaker 1: play by play experience on the Worldwide Leader. There is
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  Speaker 1: no offseason for this man. The hardest working man on
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  Speaker 1: the South Side. Jason Bennetti, Jason, how are you man?
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  Speaker 1: I'm great. I'm great. I just wish I had a
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  Speaker 1: bad phone like Simon, but I appreciate that very kind intro,
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  Speaker 1: and I am ready to go. You describe me earlier
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  Speaker 1: as an actual professional joining the show, so I have
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  Speaker 1: no idea what sort of dunk tank I've sat in,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm very excited. I really hope that you continue
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  Speaker 1: to want to communicate with me after this is over,
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  Speaker 1: Honest to god, Like, if anybody hasn't watched the MLB
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  Speaker 1: stadcast on ESPN, it is unbelievable. I will say this.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna sound obnoxiously when I say this. Obviously, I've
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  Speaker 1: been at ESPN for a long time. Jason and I
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  Speaker 1: never interacted at ESPN. I connected with him after watching
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  Speaker 1: him perform so brilliantly in a Bulls prec is in
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  Speaker 1: game with Stacy King. He was so good and it
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  Speaker 1: was such an enjoyable experience. I had to email him
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  Speaker 1: and tell him. Also after the stack cast in two
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  Speaker 1: thousand eight team when he premiered, I emailed the guy
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  Speaker 1: who runs baseball coverage from ESPN and I was like, dude,
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  Speaker 1: this is ridiculous. This should just be what you're doing
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  Speaker 1: every single game. It's amazing. So everyone go listen to
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  Speaker 1: Jason on the stack Cast, or just get MLB dot
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  Speaker 1: tv and listen to the White Sox games. Our second
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  Speaker 1: guest one of our newest members at the Action Network,
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  Speaker 1: arriving from the New York Post, where she ran analytics
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  Speaker 1: and then she was so good at creating content as
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  Speaker 1: a side hustle we hired at full time. She's a
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  Speaker 1: data maven, a celebrated woman of TikTok, an esteemed NFL
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  Speaker 1: fantasy expert. Samantha Prividi, what's going on? I think you
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  Speaker 1: just spoke higher of me than like my own mother would,
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  Speaker 1: So I love that intro. I am a big fan
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  Speaker 1: of everyone at Action Network, and everyone knows that I
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  Speaker 1: usually like people at Action Network more than the people
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  Speaker 1: in my own family. So um, they're near and dear
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  Speaker 1: to my heart. He got a big, big game today.
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  Speaker 1: Here's how the game is played today. You'll answer two
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  Speaker 1: kinds of questions. First, traditional trivia questions about sports, sports, betting,
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  Speaker 1: and the world at large. Second, completely subjective, totally assinine,
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  Speaker 1: open ended questions or prompts that I alone will judge.
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  Speaker 1: And a reminder, as always, because Simon is my best friend,
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  Speaker 1: because I love him dearly. Because I only root for him,
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  Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna try to find a way to make
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  Speaker 1: sure that he wins those questions. Yeah, yeah, you didn't
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  Speaker 1: know that was part of the game, but that is.
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  Speaker 1: I'm hyper competitive and I think the loaded dice and
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  Speaker 1: I don't appreciate it. If I'm gonna play it, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna dry it. Guess what you got a shot? Make
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  Speaker 1: your answers great? Simon has yet to win in the
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  Speaker 1: six weeks we've been in the game. He has yet
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  Speaker 1: to win. How bad at the game. If you're trying
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  Speaker 1: to get him to win any camped let's see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: How dare you? How dare you? How dare I? Listen?
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  Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of yours too. I think you
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  Speaker 1: got a shot to relate points. You must answer the
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  Speaker 1: trivia questions correctly and also convince me that your responses
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  Speaker 1: to those open ended prompts are better than the responses
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  Speaker 1: from your opponents, because, just like sports betting, you can't
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  Speaker 1: get them all. Right, we will begin part one. Let's
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  Speaker 1: get drafting. As every sports fan in America is aware,
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  Speaker 1: tonight is the first round of the NFL. Drafted is Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: but it's only one of the many kind of drafts
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  Speaker 1: worth talking about. To decide who the true draft master
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  Speaker 1: here is, I'll ask each of you two questions, one
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  Speaker 1: about the NFL draft and one about another kind of draft,
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  Speaker 1: any kind of draft. Let's get started, Samantha Europe First,
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  Speaker 1: here's your NFL draft question. In two thousand nine, sports
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  Speaker 1: books offered NFL draft gamblers a juicy first round prop
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  Speaker 1: under three and a half qbs taken in the first
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  Speaker 1: round cashed as a plus two shot. Kyler Murray, Daniel Jones,
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  Speaker 1: and Dwayne Haskins all went in the first round, but
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  Speaker 1: this SEC quarterback slipped to the second round. The same
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  Speaker 1: guy who led the league in interceptions last year. He
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  Speaker 1: was a starter for a team in the a f
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  Speaker 1: C that was one of the most heartbreaking, frustrating teams
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  Speaker 1: to bet on last year. Frustrating team to bet on.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that literally makes me any of the Chargers,
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  Speaker 1: But obviously that's not the answer. I have no idea.
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  Speaker 1: Drew a lock. Every better knows that he was one
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  Speaker 1: of those quarterbacks that would completely break your heart. Simon
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  Speaker 1: and I both one and lost many many dollars, and
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  Speaker 1: it might have kept us out from finishing in the
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  Speaker 1: top twenty in the contest we were in last year. Samantha,
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  Speaker 1: here is your other draft question. A drafty house is
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  Speaker 1: a pain in the ask for many homeowners, and while
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  Speaker 1: most assumed windows or HVAC or the lane, the most
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  Speaker 1: common reason for a draft is this effect, named after
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  Speaker 1: quote a space devoid of matter. It's also the name
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  Speaker 1: of a common household item that you may use to
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  Speaker 1: pick up dirt from your carpets and rugs. Vacuum. Well done. Simon.
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  Speaker 1: ESPN sent to camera to the house of this Oklahoma
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  Speaker 1: State running back and assumed first round pick, but an
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  Speaker 1: old knee injury spooked several interested teams, and ESPN showed
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  Speaker 1: him asleep on his couch shortly before Buffalo drafted him
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of the second round. Don't give me
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  Speaker 1: your bullshit. I was born in I'm not I'm not
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  Speaker 1: hearing it went to Buffalo. No idea, dude, I was
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  Speaker 1: gonna I'm not even giving you clues. You don't deserve
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  Speaker 1: to get this right. Thumman Thomas, Oklahoma State. Come on, Simon,
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  Speaker 1: the most expensive antique book ever sold is just a
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  Speaker 1: first draft. It's not even the final manuscript. It's the
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  Speaker 1: original eighteen thirty printers draft of this religious text, which
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  Speaker 1: shares the title with one of the most successful musicals
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  Speaker 1: in Broadway history, Book of Mormon. Hello, my name is
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  Speaker 1: Elder Smith, and can I leave this book with you
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  Speaker 1: for you to just peruve. I'll just leave it here.
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  Speaker 1: It has a lot of information you can really use.
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  Speaker 1: Bing you got it right, all right, Let's see what
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  Speaker 1: Jason can do. Jason, this question celebrates your status as
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  Speaker 1: a proud Syracuse alone. Since Donovan McNabb went second overall
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  Speaker 1: in the Orange Men have had five players taken in
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  Speaker 1: the first round of the NFL draft. Standing above the
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  Speaker 1: rest are these two defensive stars and Super Bowl champions
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  Speaker 1: who led the league in sacks in two thousand four
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  Speaker 1: and two thousand seventeen, respectively. They are uh Dwight Breeney
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  Speaker 1: is one of them, and I'm going to say I
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  Speaker 1: believe the other one is Chandler Jones. Wow, nailed it.
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  Speaker 1: That was really well done. I will also tell you
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  Speaker 1: that one time I was having a chat with our
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  Speaker 1: head of video. Her name is Christina Ventura, and she
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  Speaker 1: was describing her favorite professor at Syracuse and then when
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  Speaker 1: I said, oh, what's his name? Her answer was Jason Bennetti. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: those bribes do work, they do, they really do well.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see maybe that can help you win the game today, Jason.
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  Speaker 1: Military conscription, more commonly referred to as the draft, has
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  Speaker 1: been employed during six conflicts in American history. They are,
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  Speaker 1: in order, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World War One,
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  Speaker 1: World War Two, and these two other con flicks name them.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I have to assume, based on the timeline
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  Speaker 1: that it's the Vietnam War and the Gulf War. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think the Gulf War involved the draft. It didn't.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you a hint. It was the basis for
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  Speaker 1: an incredibly popular sitcom that ran in the seventies. It's
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  Speaker 1: the Korean War. The Korean War. Jeez, come on, I'm
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  Speaker 1: giving it to you. Thank you. That's how we play
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  Speaker 1: the game here. See, everybody gets everyone gets a little
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  Speaker 1: help sometimes. All right, here's the prompt. During the two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and ten NFL draft, Gerald McCoy bear hugged Commissioner
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  Speaker 1: Roger Goodell on stage after being taken third overall, and
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  Speaker 1: ever since, a bear hug and a private exchange of
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  Speaker 1: words has become Roger Goodell's on stage tradition. With first
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  Speaker 1: round picks. Let's imagine you are a first round pick
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  Speaker 1: this season after the Hug, what would you want to
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  Speaker 1: whisper to Roger Goodell? For example, here, Roger, I know
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  Speaker 1: we're not supposed to bet on NFL games, but how
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  Speaker 1: about just over unders simon Europe First? The first thing
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  Speaker 1: I would whisper into his ear would be, Roger, I
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  Speaker 1: know you have the tapes of the New England Patriots
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  Speaker 1: videotaping the Eagles before the Super Bowl. I need to
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  Speaker 1: see those tapes. That would be the first thing I'd
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  Speaker 1: say to him if I had got to get close
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  Speaker 1: enough to Roger Goodell, because as a kid, my god man,
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  Speaker 1: that was probably my most painful Eagles memory was Donovan
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  Speaker 1: McNatt puking in the huddle and I was just as
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  Speaker 1: a kid, I was just like, Okay, this game is over.
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  Speaker 1: So I would definitely asking if we got cheated, because
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  Speaker 1: I think it was the next year the whole spy
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  Speaker 1: gate thing came out, So as a Bidder's Eagles fan,
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  Speaker 1: that's the first question i'd have to ask. I think
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  Speaker 1: that's totally fair, totally totally fair, and I'd love to
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  Speaker 1: see how he responds and be like in one of
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  Speaker 1: those movies where someone leans in and gives you very
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  Speaker 1: very challenging information that would scare here your death, but
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  Speaker 1: you cannot react other than hey, it's great to see you. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All of a sudden, I think someone just come on
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  Speaker 1: the stage on Blackhood would just go over top my
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  Speaker 1: head and I would just get ushered on what. So
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  Speaker 1: that's how I visioned Rocker Goodell handling it entirely possible. Jason,
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  Speaker 1: you're up next? What is your response? So I'd find
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  Speaker 1: out what Roger Goodell's favorite comedy movie is and try
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  Speaker 1: and get him to break, and like, lean in and
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  Speaker 1: say Mark twice. If you're in Milwaukee, Hello, who's there?
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking you can get him to totally break at
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  Speaker 1: an inappropriate time. I don't mind that either. And I
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  Speaker 1: like that you're bringing comedy into it, and I like
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  Speaker 1: that you're mentioning Milwaukee. It's almost as if you were
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  Speaker 1: pandering to our podcast producer Matt Mitchell, who was in
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  Speaker 1: a basement in Milwaukee. That's his own fault. I would
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  Speaker 1: never I would never pander to a basement in Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have any idea how disrespectful that is? Samantha,
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  Speaker 1: You're up next, I would probably ask why I'm roughing
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  Speaker 1: the past. Their penalties are not reviewable since there were
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  Speaker 1: so many incregious funds last season. So uh yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: like that one too, because it's practical that or something
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  Speaker 1: like what do you think of Mark Davis's haircut? I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. Oh see that. I gotta think for a second,
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  Speaker 1: cause I might have to give you credit for that one,
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  Speaker 1: because I think he would totally break out laughing at that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm giving it to Samantha. Samantha Roger Goodell having to
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  Speaker 1: think about Mark Davis's haircut and then having to respond
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  Speaker 1: without actually having to insult one of his bosses. Big bing,
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  Speaker 1: bing bing bang. You are the winner of the first prompt.
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  Speaker 1: Very nicely done. Way to pull it out. Totally pulled
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  Speaker 1: it out because at first you went way too practical
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  Speaker 1: hard too. Saturday is the one and forty seventh running
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  Speaker 1: of the Kentucky Derby, one of the most celebrated days
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  Speaker 1: of the sports betting calendar ring. So let's see what
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  Speaker 1: you know, Samantha. While the fields are typically dominated by
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  Speaker 1: male horses, three Phillies have won the Kentucky Derby, and
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  Speaker 1: all three Phillies had names Taylor made for gamblers. In
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  Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties it was winning colors and genuine risk,
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  Speaker 1: and in nineteen fifteen it was this horse named after
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  Speaker 1: something any sports better can relate to, defined as a
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  Speaker 1: feeling of sadness, repentance, or disappointment. That would be something
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  Speaker 1: I really I don't know English, sorry, regret okay, and
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  Speaker 1: right now that's exactly what you're feeling. Every gambler knows
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  Speaker 1: that feeling that regret. Jason embarrassed a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: embarrassments here, Jason. Before COVID delayed the Kentucky Derby to
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  Speaker 1: September next year. The Derby had been delayed just once before,
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  Speaker 1: back in ninety in response to World War Two, but
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  Speaker 1: a race still took place in Louisville on Derby Day,
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  Speaker 1: with horses replaced by these leisurely reptiles. As a degenerate
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  Speaker 1: crowd of more than six people bet more than eleven
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars on the proceedings. Leisurely, slow moving reptiles were
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  Speaker 1: the animals that raced. So I would say, uh, slugs, wizards, alligators, kangaroos.
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  Speaker 1: It's turtle, right, it's turtles. How did I not know that?
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  Speaker 1: That's It's like they are the exact thing you think
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  Speaker 1: about when something is slow. Was it reptiles? That that
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  Speaker 1: screwed you up? But I know what screwed me up
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  Speaker 1: is I'm an idiot. Sometimes three days later h V
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  Speaker 1: E Day ended the war in Europe and they ran
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  Speaker 1: an official normal Kentucky Derby four weeks after that. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: That's good trivia, right that? Yeah? Uh Simon. Those attending
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  Speaker 1: the Derby are known to wear ostentatious hats because the
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  Speaker 1: derby's founder wanted to emulate high class European racist like
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  Speaker 1: England's Grand National. The Grand National is the most famous
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  Speaker 1: of this type of horse race, originally run between two churches.
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  Speaker 1: You will never get this, Yeah, no way, the Cambridge
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  Speaker 1: Race a church has what a top? It's building a chapel.
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  Speaker 1: Deep steeple chase steeple. We are going into the prompt
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  Speaker 1: for part two. The Kentucky Derby is known as the
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  Speaker 1: most exciting two minutes in sports. Your task is to
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  Speaker 1: sell me on the least exciting two minutes in sports.
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  Speaker 1: For example, a call to the bullpen in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of an MLB blowout is pretty unexciting. Jason, your first,
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  Speaker 1: but I will tell you this for extra credit, because
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  Speaker 1: I've seen you offer this to people on Twitter. If
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  Speaker 1: you wanted to give your answer as you would call
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  Speaker 1: it in a game, I will give you extra credit.
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  Speaker 1: You want to tell you what it is and then
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  Speaker 1: call it, or just call it, I would say just
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  Speaker 1: call it. Okay. So here's Jones on the Mount Garcia
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  Speaker 1: the plate, thinking about bunting infield, playing in and Jones
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  Speaker 1: throws to first. Anderson didn't even move. It was on
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  Speaker 1: the bag. But Jones is worried about the runner going
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  Speaker 1: because of the bunt. Said, now Jones in the set
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  Speaker 1: and another throat of birds. Anderson was one step off
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  Speaker 1: the bag that time. All right, Jones on all on
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  Speaker 1: one and he's gonna throw it first again. And the
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  Speaker 1: crowd does not like this. So now all right, we're
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  Speaker 1: ready all on one another throat at first, let stemp
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  Speaker 1: off the bag. It's not even about him, it's about
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  Speaker 1: what the bunter is going to do to move him
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  Speaker 1: to say. He didn't even want to throw him out
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  Speaker 1: at first. He just wants to keep him close to
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  Speaker 1: the base. As I was describing it to you, I
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  Speaker 1: was cutting pieces of it out because it was too boring.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my God, that was brilliant, totally totally brilliant. And
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  Speaker 1: by the way, you're right, that was dreadfully, dreadfully boring,
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  Speaker 1: but incredibly entertaining and well done. Samantha. Give me your
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  Speaker 1: least exciting two minutes in sports. I think you should
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  Speaker 1: just give it to Jason. That was epic. But um,
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  Speaker 1: maybe a time out in a game between the Jet
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  Speaker 1: some Giants, which I guess it's called like the Snoop
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  Speaker 1: Peo Bowl, but I'm gonna call it the toilet Bowl
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  Speaker 1: because usually last place teams um time out that they're
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  Speaker 1: forced to call because they were about to get a
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  Speaker 1: delay of game penalty. So very boring two minutes. That
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  Speaker 1: is actually pretty dreadful. A time out in a bad
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  Speaker 1: game because the team is so bad they couldn't get
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  Speaker 1: the play off in time. Now, if you've been able
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  Speaker 1: to call that for two minutes, that would be even better. Simon,
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  Speaker 1: what's yours? This is always good. Yeah, it's never given
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  Speaker 1: me anywhere near as good as Jason's. That was amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I do want to say that the Kentucky Derby we
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  Speaker 1: are one of the biggest shows in the world. Chat
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully these people listen to this show. They have to
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  Speaker 1: move off draft weekend. I love Kentucky Derby as a degenerate,
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  Speaker 1: I love betting it, and I love the whole weekend
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  Speaker 1: of betting the draft and Kentucky Derby, but it's been
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  Speaker 1: lost in the shuffle, Like I just remember always hearing
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  Speaker 1: about it a week or two leading up to it,
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  Speaker 1: and I need them to move to another weekend because
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: I love as a gambler, I love betting Kentucky Derby,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: So please Kentucky, every people, move it another weekend. For
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: my worst or at least exciting two minutes, it has
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: to be when in any sport, when they review a
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: call that we all know the already the outcome of it,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: and then they don't review the calls. We have no idea.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: So the least exciting ever has to be those two
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: to three minutes where they go to that black box
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: the reviewing a play that all the fans already know.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: So I know I'm gonna lose because Jason's was incredible,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: But to me, the least exciting two minutes that has
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: to be yet, Yeah, Jason's is so good that Matt
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Mitchell is updating the scores in real time and he's
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: already given Jason a point, even though I haven't actually
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: awarded Jason the actual point. Of course, Jason is going
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: to get the point. Simon, I feel like you should
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: get a negative half point just for going on a
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: rant about the Kentucky Derby to delay having to give
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: your answer because you didn't want to lose to Jason.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: That's that's how That's how much I think about your answer.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: But I do think the flip side is you're completely
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: right and the Kentucky Derby. I had to do a
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: couple of radio shows this morning and people were asked
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: me about what I thought of the Derby, and I said,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: the Derby could not be less relevant right now because
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: the only thing anyone who's talking about is who's going
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: to go number three? Because that there is an historic
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: amount of money being trafficked in bets on the number
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: three pick right now. So I agree with your premise.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Jason gets the point right now. As we head into
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: part three, Jason uber competitive Jason Bennetti. He has three points,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Samantha has two points. Simon, you're bringing up the room
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: in one point, given given how things are going, Really
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: hope Mac Jones doesn't get drafted a number three. Alright,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: let's go to part three. Let's get motivated. One of
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: the most enduring aspects of sports culture are the insane
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: lengths players and coaches will go to in order to
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: motivate themselves and their teams. As long as it works,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: nothing is too crazy, Simon. To tip off the season,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: the Indiana Hoosiers, my alma mater the year that I graduated,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: law us to Butler as huge favorites. Then at practice,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Whosier's coach, master motivator and certified and sane person, Bobby Knight,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: brought a shotgun to practice. Makes total sense. He lined
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: up all the players and brandishing the weapons, said if
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: they ever played like they did against Butler, quote, I've
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: got a bullet for every one of you. It's a
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: wonder this guy ended up getting fired the way he
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: did threatening to murder all his players proved effective, though.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: In the next game, the Hoosier's upset top ranked Kentucky
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: lead at the time by this famous head coach who
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: would go on to win two n C Double A Championships,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: one at Kentucky one at Louisville that would later be vacated.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: So who was the coach after all? The preamble, who
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: was the coach at Kentucky who eventually won a title
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: there and then one another one at Louisville. Embarrassed because
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: I know I know all about this guy, simply the fact,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: because he cheated on his wife for that woman and
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: was just told disgrace. But that's why I hate Thunderdome.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: I can't think of it. It's like the tip of
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: my tongue and I can't think of it. He's very slick.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Slick rhymes with his first name. No, I'm never I'm
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: never gonna get it, the Thunderdoving. I'm just complete blocked off.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: It's Rick Pattino. Good forgot. I was gonna say Valentine.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: That's all far off, all right, Jason. Every July between
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: two thousand and one and two thousand ten, American League
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: All Stars were treated to one of the most revered
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: and legendary clubhouse spectacles in baseball history. The unhinged, profanity
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: packed motivational pregame speeches of this one hundred and seventy
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: five pound outfielder delivered in perfect English without the use
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: of a translator. Who was this player? Very nicely done? Samantha?
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Nine years ago, Roger Goodell delivered his punishments in the
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: bounty Gate scandal, during which the New Orleans Saints were
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: accused of using cash bounties to motivate players into injuring
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: the opposition. Head coach Sean Payton and GM Mickey Loomis
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: served almost unprecedented suspensions, and the team was fined and
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: forfeited multiple second round picks. Four players named as ringleaders
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: avoided serious punishment after their suspensions were overturned on appeal
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: by this former commissioner. Former NFL commissioner pre Roger Goodell.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: I'm so bad at trivia, Like, I'm so useless that
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: even like team trivia normally I will give extra credit
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: to Simon or Jason, whoever can say it fastest and
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: first ready, one to three go? Simon? Did you not know?
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Are you on the bath phone? I'm trying to stay
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: focused here, Chet, What is happening right now? What are
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: people asking you about? It's not in that I'm getting
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: info that that whole Mac thing is complete bullshit. So
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: I just bet even more on Jaden Max. So again
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: I'm in a hole. Chat two different thing. Well, call
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: me up and tell me that match stops bullshit and
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: they've talked to people that he's not even in their
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: top four. By the way, that would make total sense
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: to me. It makes no sense that a quarterback who
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: had one great year with a team that was so
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: far better than every other team in college football that
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: when everybody knows, if you're drafting quarterbacks, you want the
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: guy who's played games. You want to see more tape.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: It proves itself out every single time Mac Jones Zach Wilson,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: if either of them are drafted in the top three.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Jason can appreciate this there, Mr Trabisky, that's it. Like,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: if you are not drafting justin fields in the top
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: three and you are trying to draft a quarterback, you're
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: making a monumental mistake. Jason, you do college football, you
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: follow the stuff. You gotta take on this. I love
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Zack Wilson. He's my guy in this draft. Seriously, Yeah,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: I love Zach. Spent spent about minutes before a game
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: talking to him this year, watched a lot of tape
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: on him. I think he's going to be a star
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: in the NFL. I really do. I disagree with everything
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: you're saying. I didn't minutes, but how do you know Chad.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: He can, he can be a wonderful guy. Having spent
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: twenty or thirty minutes with him, I am going on
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: the history of quarterbacks and what you get when you
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: get a guy behind an offensive line that is head
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: and shoulders above every other offensive line. You're playing against
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: bad competition, and your guiding guy who had one great
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: year and two years before that that were not so great.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: That's my take. I want to do five year anniversary
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: of this Thunderdome and see where we are on that.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: We will cut a clip, we will save it, we
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: will send it to you. Yes, let's do it all
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: right here we go to motivate. This is the part
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: three prompt to motivate the players. At his alma mater.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Last week, Rob Gronkowski caught a ball dropped from the
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: helicopter hovering six over the Arizona Wildcats football stadium. Now,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: imagine your goal was to demotivate your players. So let
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: the new athlete and create a new stunt. If you
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: wanted to extinguish your favorite teams burning desire to win,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: For example, Texas A and m asking Johnny Menzel to
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: run a training camp of casino two days would have
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: the team losing focus in no time, Samantha your first Mmm,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: So my favorite team is the Panthers. So maybe sam
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Donald trying to get his teammates to learn all the
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: TikTok dances like the Juju like Corvette Corvette like that
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: could definitely demotivate some people. Oh my god, that I
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: have been trying to get my kids do a TikTok
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: dance with me, I'm not gonna happen, but I feel
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: like I feel like if I were to do that
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: for my Action Network colleagues, that would quickly demotivate them
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: from doing anything. Ever, so I can completely appreciate this, Simon,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: can you look up from your phone for two minutes
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: to answer this question while I try to get down
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: massive amount of money on Justin Field to go to
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: the top two. This is from a personal experience. We
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: had a kid who was running for class president. He
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: brought in a wooden board and he could not break
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: the wooden board in front of the whole whole school.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: That is just stuck with me for a life. Where
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: like I'm having a crappy moment where like, you know,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: I'm embarrassing myself in front of people. I'm like, at
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: least I'm not trying to stand there for twenty minutes
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: breaking this wooden board and it's just silent. And I
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: think there'd be nothing funnier than, you know, a coach
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: motivating his team and he's like, we're gonna break through this.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Just like this board. He just keeps punching the board
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: and it's just not breaking. So I would love for
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: that to just let my teammates down with, Oh my god,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: that is fantastic. For some reason, I keep thinking of
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: a karate Kid moment where it completely backfires. Silence is
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: pretty good, Samantha's is pretty good. They're they're gaining on you. Yeah,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: I have no chance with this one, But I do
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: think my first thought was, you bring in Steph Curry.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: So say it's a football team, hockey team, whatever. You
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: bring in Steph Curry and you say, guys, you gotta
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: beat him in a horse or you practice triple the
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: time this week. I mean, that's just nasty. That's mean,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: that's that's completely mean spirited. Yes, and that's the best
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: way to demotivate somebody is being completely mean spirited. By
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: the way, that's also true. Well, I'm gonna say bring
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: a gun and brand ish it at the wall of players.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: But that's already been said somehow, amazingly enough, someone's actually
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: done that in real life, so you cannot use it.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: All right, let me think about this. This is tough.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: I think I gotta go with Simon here because the
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: idea of trying to break the board is just hilariously
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: funny and sitting there for twenty minutes and not working. Simon,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: you win that round. It is time to go on
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: to our grand finale. Right now. Jason has a commanding lead.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: He has five points. Samantha and Simon are tied with two.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: The topic is old time nicknames. How much would you
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: like to risk? Close your eyes? Everyone closed their eyes.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Hold up your fingers with your wager amount? All right?
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: The song Take Me Out to the Ballgame has been
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: played in Major League Baseball stadiums for generations. It was
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: originally released, but wasn't played in a pro baseball stadium
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: until the nine four World Series, which was won by
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: the St. Louis Cardinals as minus one sixty favorites. That year,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: the Cards were led by a loudmouthed pitcher and n
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: L M V P J Dean nicknamed Dizzy Dean. The
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: team's other ace was Dizzy's brother Paul, and together the
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: brothers secured all four of the team's World Series wins.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: The press was eager to give Paul Dean a nickname,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: something to pair up with Dizzy, and so they did.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: And although Paul shares this is the clue, it's very important.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Although Paul shares the nickname with a famous car tune, Waterfowl,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: he earned the Moniker three years before this character first appeared.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: What was Paul Dean's nickname? All right, Jason Bennetti, you
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: are the leader in the clubhouse. You have risked one point,
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: very very strategic. What is your answer? My answer is Daffy. Wow,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: nailed it, Daffy Duck. Simon, you have two points? Yeah,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: because I am again losing my mind, I said tweety
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: after the bird of Twitter, which I know is not
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: the right answer because Twitter wasn't around in the nine.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: You've got Mac Jones on your head. Samantha, you also
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: risked to what was your answer? I said Donald Duck,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: which obviously was not I was in the vicinity. You
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: could only go with Donald or Daffy. Jason Bennetti so
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: dominated this game. And in the beginning he was worried
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: that it was all gonna go Simon's way. Simon didn't
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: get any help. Jason didn't even need any help. Samantha,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: you got destroyed in this game. Jason Bennetti, you have
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: won the Thunderdome and your reward today you get to
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: go call a doubleheader. Yes, thank you. What would the
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: prize have been had the game yesterday not been reined out?
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: You would get to call a single game? And let
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: me ask you a question. Here's the story for you,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: as a member, proud member of the White Sox community.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Years ago. I grew up in outside Chicago. I grew
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: up in a town called Highland Park, which is on
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: the north shore of Chicago. Uh my dad grew up
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: in Rogers Park, which is on the north side of Chicago,
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: not very far from, you know, from Wrigley So we
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: were obviously comes fans growing up. But I didn't hate
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: the White Sox. So many years ago, when I was
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: at ESPN, I was lucky enough to go to the
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: White House when President Barack Obama was doing the brackets.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: And after he does his brackets and we're all gathering
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: around for the picture, I wanted to get like at
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: least a few seconds with him, and so I go
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: up to him and like, Hey, I'm from Chicago. I
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: root for the White Sox. What do you think of
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: the team this year? And so we talked about it
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: for a few minutes. I'm not a massive White Sox fan.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: When I'm growing up, I did go there for Game
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: aimes and like, I would root for them, and I
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: loved it when they won the World Series. Uh, you know,
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: many many years ago. But do you feel that I
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: misled the president? Yes, you did, but it was for
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: a purpose of creating camaraderie and getting you in with
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: a sitting president. I have no problem with it. But
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: I think if you said you weren't deceptive, that would
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: be the only problem I would have. I definitely was deceptive.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: And again, I don't not root for the White Sox.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: I am a fan of the White Sox. I'm a
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: fan of what they are doing this year. I want
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: them to continue to do well. I want the White
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Sox to continue to be the hot team that everybody
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: wants to root for and it talks about I think
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: they are a great futures bet for the World Series.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: But in that moment, it was a little deceptive. You
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: did what you had to do, though, and I like,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: I think it's a great play. I wouldn't have done
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: anything differently if I were you, But you know, I
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: think it's a great story too, Like it's that's fantastic.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Jason Bennetti, this is why you're a class act for
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: coming on our show. And this is why you're a winner.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: You're a winner whether you won the Thunderdome or not.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Samantha and Simon, pack of shit. I don't even know
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: if I can have you working at the Action Network anymore.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: I want to thank Jason Bennetti, the voice of the
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Chicago White Sox, the voice of the ESPN Stack Cast,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: the voice of so many games in so many places
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: that if you're not listening to them, then you're clearly
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: not a sports fan. If you want to thank Samantha Prividi,
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: I do want to thank Simon Hunter, my colleagues at
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: the Action Network. Before we sign off, here's a word
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: from our fearless leader, Action Network CEO, Patrick King. This
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: is pathetic, this is awful. We've all been humiliated, all right.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: This has been the favorites from the Volume Podcast Network. Again,
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: my thanks to Jason Bennetti, Samantha Priviti, Simon Hunter. Reminder,
• 35:47
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• 36:05
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• 36:09
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