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Hour 2 - A Curveball · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Knock, knock, who's there? That's our number to our number two.
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Speaker 1: And someone not getting a lot of knocks this year,
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Speaker 1: that would be Juan Soto. And a evolving position out
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Speaker 1: of Queen's where do you stand on the Mets manager
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Speaker 1: now saying that Juan Soto will be fine because he's
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Speaker 1: Juan Soto, and as long as you won Sodo, you're.
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Speaker 2: Going to be okay. Just show up, you'll be fine.
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Speaker 1: Also, what does Alex Cora and his decision say about
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Speaker 1: his priorities with the Red Sox Cora missing a Red
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Speaker 1: Sox game, not for a graduation, for a graduation dinner.
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Speaker 2: The graduation was in the morning.
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Speaker 1: Also, where does the Pope's fandom rank among celebrity sports allegiances.
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Speaker 1: Is it a bigger deal than President Obama's White Sox support.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk about that. And the White Sox are leaning
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Speaker 1: heavily into Pope Land.
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Speaker 2: We'll go there as well.
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Speaker 1: Right now here, it is our two a curveball in Metland.
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Speaker 2: We're back at it again. If you're still hanging.
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Speaker 1: Out, you're loitering, and you want to yap about the
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Speaker 1: Western Finals, We're not gonna say no to that. However,
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Speaker 1: while that game was not good talk radios, Oklahoma City
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Speaker 1: pulled away in the second half and blew the doors
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Speaker 1: off Minnesota. There is great talk radio fodder coming out
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Speaker 1: of a team with high expectations that had been living
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Speaker 1: up to those expectations lately not so much. And the
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Speaker 1: epicenter of the baseball world not Chavez Ravine, not Dodge
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Speaker 1: a stadium no, no, it's over in Queens in New York.
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Speaker 1: That's where the drama is. The Mets Traveling road Show,
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Speaker 1: still hanging out in Boston at Finnway Park.
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Speaker 2: And another game, another loss.
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Speaker 1: The Red Sox pitcher Walker Bueler got a he left
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Speaker 1: in like the third inning and the Mets still lost
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Speaker 1: the game. That sucks. But the buzz, that's what it
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Speaker 1: sounds like. This actual sound of buzz.
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Speaker 2: Just like that.
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Speaker 1: The buzz continues around the highest paid baseball player of
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Speaker 1: all time. And if you have not been following, we
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Speaker 1: did a Mallard monologue in a previous episode of the show.
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Speaker 1: There are some new developments, so consider this a no
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Speaker 1: sweat situation.
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Speaker 2: We've got you covered. We update the story.
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Speaker 1: Metropolitans manager Carlos Mendoza has provided a status update, status
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Speaker 1: update on one Soto after his lack of effort and
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Speaker 1: poor decisions on and off the field. All right, so
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Speaker 1: what's the latest on this. Mendoza got out a very
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Speaker 1: small violin, a very small violin, and started seeing a
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Speaker 1: song a sob story for Mendoz or mendoz are four Soto?
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Speaker 1: He said, quote, he's human, He's twenty six man. The
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Speaker 1: Mets manager said he's going to be fine. He's one Soto.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: That came just a few days after he was called
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Speaker 1: out by the manager. Juan Soto called out, described by
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Speaker 1: some as being miserable with the Mets that the only
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Speaker 1: time he smiled recently is when he was playing grab
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Speaker 1: ass with Aaron Judge during batting practice and futson around
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Speaker 1: with Aaron Boone during BP. He was also called out
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Speaker 1: for being an absolute dog not hustling and then said
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Speaker 1: he was hustling when there's video of him not hustling
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Speaker 1: and the Mets manager said he's not hustling. So again,
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Speaker 1: just to recap, you have, in the span of a
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Speaker 1: day and a half, the Mets manager calling out the player.
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Speaker 1: You now have the Mets manager massaging the player. So
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Speaker 1: you have both sides of the mouth covered, both sides
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Speaker 1: of the mouth covered. So let us discuss the question
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Speaker 1: where do you stand? Where do you stand on the
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Speaker 1: Mets manager saying that both one Soto is not hustling, right,
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Speaker 1: and they were gonna have little chit chat and now
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Speaker 1: saying one Soto is going to be fine because he's
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Speaker 1: one Sodo all right. So I've got rubber stamping iverson
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Speaker 1: and winery, and we will combine all of these things together,
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Speaker 1: and we're gonna make a dirty water dog, is what
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Speaker 1: we're gonna make. Because the Mets have just been dirty water.
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Speaker 1: They haven't been the dog. But well, I guess wan
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Speaker 1: Soto's been playing like a dog, not hustling. All right,
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Speaker 1: So number, what number? Can I get a number?
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Speaker 2: W alright?
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Speaker 1: So talk about a quick about face? Holy canoi my man?
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Speaker 1: So in the span of a day and a half again,
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Speaker 1: I'd say less than forty eight hours, less than forty
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Speaker 1: eight hours, the Mets manager went from the arsonist to
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Speaker 1: the firefighter.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 1: He had the flamethrower out and he was making sure
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Speaker 1: the flames got everywhere. And then he came back with
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Speaker 1: a fire truck, like a water not even a fire truck.
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Speaker 1: He had a water dropping helicopter throwing water down on
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Speaker 1: the fire. So he went from the gasoline on top
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Speaker 1: to the nice water. And so Soto a day and
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Speaker 1: a half ago was a laggert was floating on an
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Speaker 1: inner tube on the lazy river. And then after that
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Speaker 1: he took out a fire hose to put out the fire.
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Speaker 1: The Mets manager, in the span of a day and
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Speaker 1: a half, I think I got all that right. That's
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Speaker 1: how I understand it anyway, So make it make sense,
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Speaker 1: all right, Carlos Mendoza, It is rather clear to this
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Speaker 1: particular gas bag that the Mets manager was called into
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Speaker 1: the principal's office. It's a coloaqu wheel term. It was
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Speaker 1: a text message, might have been a text message, could
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Speaker 1: have been a tap on the shoulder. And someone who's
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Speaker 1: in a position higher up the food chain there with
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Speaker 1: the Mets said ix nay on the talkie, A no negativity, No,
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Speaker 1: we must put.
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Speaker 2: The kebash on that.
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Speaker 1: And so he went from tough love manager admitting his
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Speaker 1: players lazy, which everyone saw, even our blindlisters realized he
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Speaker 1: was lazy. You went from that, and then all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden you pulled out the rubber stamp and you
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Speaker 1: rubber stamp a love note with little love stickers, those
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Speaker 1: puffy stickers that smell in the love note, and you
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Speaker 1: rubber stamped all that and you sent that out there.
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Speaker 1: And Thoza are saying that Juan Soto cares a lot.
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Speaker 1: He cares a lot amid the criticism and the guy's competing.
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Speaker 1: He's competing, Okay, that is capital o optimistic, capital o
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Speaker 1: optimistic now assuming that because one so has a strong brand,
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Speaker 1: the Mets believe in that brand. They gave him half
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Speaker 1: of Lower Manhattan to get him there, so they believe
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Speaker 1: in the brand. They loved the track record of the
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Speaker 1: player and all that, so they think he's equipped to
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Speaker 1: handle the challenges. Sounds like though he's not equipped with
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Speaker 1: thick skin. If the span of two days, the manager
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Speaker 1: of the Mets must have been called out right, the
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Speaker 1: only reason you would walk back on what you said
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Speaker 1: when everyone saw the player not being, not hustling and
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Speaker 1: being lazy and then you're like trying to unring the bell.
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Speaker 1: You don't do that unless somebody contacted you, and you
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Speaker 1: don't do that at that point unless somebody realizes Juan
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Speaker 1: Soto is a mister softy and he can't handle the criticism.
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Speaker 1: So okay, and now they're all of a sudden giving
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Speaker 1: him the benefit of doubt. The Soto had I believe
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Speaker 1: he had a hit in the game last night at Finway,
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Speaker 1: and he is still on pay for twenty six home
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Speaker 1: runs and sixty six RBIs you could have gotten a
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Speaker 1: guy out of the Mexican League did twenty six home
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Speaker 1: runs and drive in sixty six runs.
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Speaker 2: So I l stinko for Juan Soto. Now page two.
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Speaker 1: So while the Mets are dealing with that hullabaloo, the
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Speaker 1: Red Sox, even though they've won a couple games in
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Speaker 1: a row. Now the Red Sox have their own issues.
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Speaker 1: An interesting story here. The manager of the Boston baseball
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Speaker 1: team has a shovel trying to dig himself out of
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Speaker 1: a hole.
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Speaker 2: Say what, so Alex Cora.
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Speaker 1: Who was one of the masterminds behind the cheating Astros.
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Speaker 1: So Alex Cora standing by his decision? What was his decision?
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Speaker 1: He skipped a work assignment. He skipped a game Alex
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Speaker 1: corap against the New York Mets to attend a celebratory
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Speaker 1: dinner for his daughter's graduation from Boston College. Okay, so this, this,
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Speaker 1: I guess, has been the local. So several of you
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Speaker 1: sent this to me with some of our guys that
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Speaker 1: listened to the Ben Male show on the sports up
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Speaker 1: out of the Boston area. And did you did you
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Speaker 1: see what that's going on here? Okay, so you said it,
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Speaker 1: I mean, okay, that's fine. So Alex Cora said, I quote,
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Speaker 1: I made the best decision for my daughter.
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Speaker 2: We all know what the word best me.
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Speaker 1: So what does here's the question, what does Alex Corra's
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Speaker 1: decision to skip a game to go to a dinner
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Speaker 1: for his daughter, uh talk about his priorities when it
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Speaker 1: comes to the Red Sox, the team that he's plausibly
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Speaker 1: working for. So clearly Cora is a work life balance guy.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 2: That's that's that's his mantra.
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Speaker 1: I guess it's the mantra of the Red Sox as
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Speaker 1: I understand it, though, And and several of you mentioned
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Speaker 1: this to me, Well.
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Speaker 2: Two people, I say several. Two. That's that's not several,
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Speaker 2: that's two.
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Speaker 1: You said that the story is that Cora's daughter graduated
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Speaker 1: in the morning from Boston College and the game was
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Speaker 1: not until nighttime, and he still chose not to show
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Speaker 1: up because they had a dinner.
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Speaker 2: Now, I don't know if that's true or not.
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Speaker 1: That's what you were telling me, that that's what happened.
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Speaker 1: So I'm getting that second hand. I was not there,
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Speaker 1: I was not invited. But we're going to assume that's true.
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Speaker 1: Because two people who I believe were not related. I
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Speaker 1: don't think they don't have the same last name. So
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Speaker 1: unless I'm getting punked, they're not related. So he skipped
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Speaker 1: out on a work thing for.
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Speaker 2: A celebratory feast.
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Speaker 1: And so in my head listening to Alice Korra talk about, well,
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Speaker 1: I made the best decision for my daughter. Right, that's
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Speaker 1: known as playing the kid card from the bottom of
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Speaker 1: the deck. Right, you play the kid card. You can't
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Speaker 1: question that. Well, you can because it wasn't the graduation,
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Speaker 1: it was the dinner. And then in my head I
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Speaker 1: think of al Korra being like Alan Iverson and we're
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Speaker 1: sitting in here. I'm supposed to be the manager of
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Speaker 1: the Red Sox and we in here talking about a
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Speaker 1: family graduation dinner. I mean, listen, We're talking about a
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Speaker 1: family graduation dinner, not an actual graduation, not an actual graduation,
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Speaker 1: not an actual graduation. We're in here talking about a
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Speaker 1: family graduation dinner, not an actual graduation. So okay, uh,
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Speaker 1: Cora makes eight million, and uh, you know, could have
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Speaker 1: done like a brunch. That's kind of cool, like a
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Speaker 1: graduation brunch. That sounds pretty good, right, go ahead and
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Speaker 1: eat all day. And the great thing about being manager
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Speaker 1: is you don't really have to show up to batting practice.
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Speaker 1: You can show up. They'll give you a solid show up, right,
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Speaker 1: before the game, nobody will care. You know, it's not
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Speaker 1: it's not crucial that you're there from batting practice, but
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Speaker 1: the game somewhat important and all that. And that's again
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Speaker 1: it's it's all about mindset, and the mindset is is
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Speaker 1: it important to you to do it?
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Speaker 2: But can you do both?
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Speaker 1: And you show your players they're supposed to be the
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Speaker 1: leader and all that stuff, and you have to make sacrifices. Again,
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Speaker 1: this is I know, I'm dating myself. Oh you're an
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Speaker 1: old boomer.
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Speaker 3: Man.
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Speaker 2: I'm not a boomer, but I'm getting old.
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Speaker 1: Like I was taught, like you have to sacrifice things
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Speaker 1: for the job, and if you really love the job,
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Speaker 1: that's what you.
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Speaker 2: Got to do.
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Speaker 1: And you know, of course done in a long time. So
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Speaker 1: I burned out. You know, it's just like just kind
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Speaker 1: of I've got the contract. I'm making eight million dollars
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Speaker 1: a year. I guess he doesn't get enough time off
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Speaker 1: in the off season when this, you know, the Red
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Speaker 1: Sox I don't normally make the playoffs anymore. So you
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Speaker 1: got October, November, December, and January.
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Speaker 2: It seems pretty good.
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Speaker 1: Four months nothing spring training in February, you lay back
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Speaker 1: there in Florida for a month and then part of March,
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Speaker 1: and then at the end of March you start the baseball.
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Speaker 1: It seems like a pretty good life. But I guess
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Speaker 1: he needs more time off. I got it, and you're
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Speaker 1: getting it. Good for you, Good for you. And that's
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Speaker 1: you know, you're the example. And so when your players
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Speaker 1: do the same thing, you can't complain, know any it's
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Speaker 1: I'm told it was not the graduation.
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Speaker 2: You're telling me that it was the dinner. The graduation
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Speaker 2: was in the morning. The dinner. Was it that?
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Speaker 4: So?
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Speaker 2: Okay? All right?
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Speaker 1: Final point to the Windy City we go where the
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Speaker 1: Chicago White Sox. It's something they don't normally do. They
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Speaker 1: won a game, but we're not going to talk about that,
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Speaker 1: because why on God's green there we talked about the
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Speaker 1: Chicago White Sox. There's no reason I don't. I don't
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Speaker 1: think Tree wants us to talk about the Chicago White Sox.
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Speaker 1: He's driving around Chicago. No, dude, bed No, I won't.
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Speaker 1: But the White Sox have given a rather unique tribute
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Speaker 1: to their most sacred fun boy, the Pope Pope Leo.
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Speaker 1: The team in their corporately named stadium, which used to
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Speaker 1: be called Kmiski Park. The Chicago White Sox put up
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Speaker 1: a like a mural graphic mural type thing with a
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Speaker 1: photo of the Pontiff and they've got the Chicago skyline
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Speaker 1: in the background. It's essentially for Instagram. It's really just
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Speaker 1: for the Internet, like you do this stuff for the Internet,
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Speaker 1: so people take photos.
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Speaker 2: And that's it.
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Speaker 1: And so it's in the section appropriately enough where Pope
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Speaker 1: Leo when he was a civilian before.
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Speaker 2: He became the Pontiff.
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Speaker 1: Pope Leo sat when he was just a mere mortal,
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Speaker 1: and he was at the World Series twenty years ago
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Speaker 1: when the White Sox ended an eighty eight year World
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Speaker 1: Series drive back in five. So give me your reaction
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Speaker 1: to the White Sox fully embracing all immersive the Pope
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Speaker 1: Leo fandom, all right, So I saw this, and this
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Speaker 1: does count as an official blessing for the Chicago White Sox.
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Speaker 2: The product is unwatchable.
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Speaker 1: That the Mariners lost the one the Mariners should That'd
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Speaker 1: be seven losses for the Mariners to lose the White
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Speaker 1: Socks in that game. But this is not about that,
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Speaker 1: all right. Having the Pope, having the Pope support your
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Speaker 1: team is it's like going to the winery and turning
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Speaker 1: water into wine is essentially what is it? It's a
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Speaker 1: PR miracle. It is an absolute PR miracle. Somebody asked
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Speaker 1: the question. I think this was on one of the
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Speaker 1: other social medias, but somebody sent me the questions, what
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Speaker 1: is the more impressive fan for the White Sox? Like
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Speaker 1: where the rankage of the fan here? And you know,
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Speaker 1: is it a bigger deal that the president president? Because
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Speaker 1: Obama claimed to be a White Sox fan, but people
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Speaker 1: question whether it was actually a White Sox fan or not. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: so what's bigger having a president or having the pope?
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Speaker 1: And the answer is clearly the kind of close it's
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Speaker 1: the Pope. Come on, get out the pope wobile right now,
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Speaker 1: it's obviously the Pope. Now America, last I checked, there's
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Speaker 1: about three hundred and forty something million people they they
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Speaker 1: being the powers that we live in the America, the
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Speaker 1: United States, three hundred and forty million. That is split
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Speaker 1: down party lines. So at any time, whoever the president is,
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Speaker 1: half the people don't like the president.
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Speaker 2: In theory, now, most people.
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Speaker 1: Are a political they don't give a crap about politics,
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Speaker 1: and so they don't really have a strong opinion. But
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Speaker 1: for those that are politically engaged. Half the people hate
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Speaker 1: the president at any time the Pope and I am
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Speaker 1: certainly not Catholic, but as I understand it, the Pope
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Speaker 1: that is the leader of one point four billion Catholics worldwide,
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Speaker 1: So it's not even close President on one side Pope
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Speaker 1: on the other. It's obviously the Pope and the White
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Speaker 1: Sox are leaning heavily into this. And you cannot blame
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Speaker 1: the White Sox because there's not a single player on
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Speaker 1: that team that is worthy of your money to watch
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Speaker 1: play baseball. They all suck and the ones that don't
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Speaker 1: suck blow. They're terrible, right, their garbage to White Sox.
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Speaker 1: So the Pope, who's living in the Vatican right that
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Speaker 1: is just that he might maybe watch a game is
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Speaker 1: more interesting than anything in the White Sox are putting
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Speaker 1: on the field here. And they even have set up
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Speaker 1: and this is smart. They figured out what seat. Imagine
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Speaker 1: trying to find out what seat somebody sat in twenty
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Speaker 1: years ago at a baseball game. The White Sox claim
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Speaker 1: that they know the exact seat the Pontiff sat. His
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Speaker 1: Holy tukis on the seat, like they know the seat.
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Speaker 1: It's if you go to the White Sox game. It's
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Speaker 1: Section one, forty row nineteen, seat two. So they're thinking
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Speaker 1: they can get certain percentage of the one point four
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Speaker 1: billion Catholics to make a pilgrimage to the South side
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Speaker 1: of Chicago, the baddest part of town and go to
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Speaker 1: a White Sox game so they can look at the
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Speaker 1: seat the Pope sat in twenty years ago when he
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Speaker 1: wasn't the Pope and probably didn't think he was gonna
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Speaker 1: ever become the Pope, But there you go. I'm also
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Speaker 1: I'm informed via video that on the Pope the first
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Speaker 1: day that Pope Leo got in the popemobile, he always
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Speaker 1: remembers your first time in the popemobile. That must be man,
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Speaker 1: who is the first pope with a popemobile?
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Speaker 2: Do we know?
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Speaker 1: We don't know anyway, So the Pope, Pope Leo got
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Speaker 1: in the popemobile, he's writing at the Vatican, so they're
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Speaker 1: recording this because you know, it's the Pope and the
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Speaker 1: somebody in the crowd. I don't know if you've seen
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Speaker 1: this or not have heard it. So somebody in the
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Speaker 1: crowd while the Pope's going through there, you know, doing
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Speaker 1: his pope things, waving at the people, somebody says, Hey,
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Speaker 1: I'm from Chicago. White Sox go white Sox, like heckling
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Speaker 1: the Pope about the white Sox nigger anyway. All right,
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Speaker 1: so the highest the eleventh, we are told, the first popemobile.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's interesting.
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Speaker 1: Now, William Taft to William Howard Taft, the first president
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Speaker 1: with the presidential car about that, and the last president
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Speaker 1: with the presidential cow.
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Speaker 2: But the Pope the.
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Speaker 1: Eleventh, he said, there was the pope highest, the elefth highest,
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Speaker 1: the eleventh are anyway, sades benz.
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Speaker 2: Oh bens Oh interesting. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I like the thing where they stand up though. It's
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Speaker 1: like a golf cart type thing.
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Speaker 2: You can wave and all that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, anyway, It is the Ben Maler Show. If you'd
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Speaker 2: He says, all right, now, thank you for that.
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Speaker 1: Nature boy says, and now he can watch the Bears
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Speaker 1: from the popemobile.
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Speaker 4: Boom.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, we'll.
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Speaker 1: Go to the phones and let's say hello to Royal Flush,
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Speaker 1: Charlie the Dallas Dumper.
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Speaker 2: Hello, Charlie, hey Ben, that famous hey Ben. It's like
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Speaker 2: hey mona, hey Ben.
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Speaker 4: The thunder boom in the fourth quarter.
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Speaker 1: Just like that, they go boom, and just like that,
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Speaker 1: the Wolves are scared away.
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Speaker 4: They go back from local Oklahoma City all the way
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Speaker 4: back to home Minnesota.
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Speaker 2: They say goodbye, just like that. You think they'll give up.
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Speaker 1: You might. They were so bad in the second half,
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Speaker 1: they might stop playing basketball and get a real job.
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Speaker 2: That's how bad they were.
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Speaker 1: Oh now, Charlie, you do realize they don't actually go
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Speaker 1: back to Minnesota.
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Speaker 2: They have like they have to stay there for another
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Speaker 2: couple of days.
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Speaker 4: Yes, I do, okay, yeah, I.
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Speaker 1: Was just saying you were doing fat for comedic purposes.
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Speaker 1: You were doing that, yes, of course, because you're very
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Speaker 1: entertaining your comedian. Yes, Anthony, hold on a second, hot take?
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Speaker 1: Hot take coming inbound? Hot take? Go ahead, Charlie, what's
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Speaker 1: your hot take?
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Speaker 4: Anthony Edwards shocked.
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Speaker 2: Man, nobody else has that take?
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Speaker 1: Is that your you came up with that, that's your
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Speaker 1: original take, that's your proprietary blend take.
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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, okay, amazing, our minds are blown.
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Speaker 4: That's here and an unexpected five to two a kill
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Speaker 4: by the Panthers over the Hurricanes. I don't know how
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Speaker 4: it happened. I thought that Carolina was supposed to have
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Speaker 4: a good defense as wrong.
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Speaker 2: That's what you get for thinking.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the key to life is to not think. That's
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Speaker 1: the key to life, because once you think, you know,
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Speaker 1: it becomes problematic and wants to think. Lorena she used
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Speaker 1: to think all the time, and then she woke up
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Speaker 1: one morning said I'm no longer thinking, and her life
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Speaker 1: has improved tremendously.
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Speaker 2: So much better.
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Speaker 4: You got to use that brain sometimes, you know.
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Speaker 2: Oh, it's overrated.
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Speaker 1: All right, Charlie, you amazing yet again?
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Speaker 2: You are?
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Speaker 4: Where is Charlie from Minnesota?
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Speaker 2: You're not in Minnesota, Charlie.
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Speaker 1: No, you want to talk to the other Charlie. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he's in Wisconsin. You know that's a different state than Minnesota. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he's near he's near Minnesota, but he's in Wisconsin.
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Speaker 2: But he's not he's not on hold. I can't. What
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Speaker 2: do you want me to do? You want to talk
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Speaker 2: to James. You can talk to James. He's in Minnesota.
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Speaker 1: You don't want to talk to James. It's pretty Oh
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Speaker 1: you think that's fake. You don't think that's real? Wow, Hey, hey, James,
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Speaker 1: this guy Charlie thinks you're a frauds So you're faking?
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Speaker 2: Is that music's listening like, oh, does he stop snoring? No?
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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Well it turns out, Charlie that James
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Speaker 1: is still what he only did it.
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Speaker 4: When he said that it's clearly fake.
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Speaker 1: James is are you Charlie says you're faking mm snore
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Speaker 1: right now? Snore James, If you're faking snore right now,
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Speaker 1: hollering James, go.
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Speaker 2: Ahead, snore. That was cough. Charlie, your thoughts.
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Speaker 4: I think I've just proven my trick case.
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Speaker 1: Are you saying are you saying the prosecution rest? Is
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Speaker 1: that what you're saying? Yes, Okay, go to bed, Charlie, Yah, school,
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Speaker 1: come on, you gotta go to bed. All right, thank you, Charlie.
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Speaker 1: All right, it's Charlie in Dallas, the Dallas Dumper, the
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Speaker 1: Royal Flush. Let's go down to him. Man, he just
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Speaker 1: got out of jail. He was throwing trash at Pacer
27:58
Speaker 1: fans at to the Knicks advance to the conference finals,
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Speaker 1: and now he's back. Eat dog not Joe dog dog?
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Speaker 1: Are Okay?
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Speaker 5: Here's my question. How was one team able to get
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Speaker 5: into a triple play without the defense touching the ball?
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Speaker 1: I don't know how?
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Speaker 5: All right, words on first and second and feel that,
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Speaker 5: and field and field what was in effect? The guy
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Speaker 5: in first pances a game second and then gets hit
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Speaker 5: by the well knowing of the third. Also, you like
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Speaker 5: that one Ben.
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Speaker 2: Dog. That's a non secretary. What are you doing?
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Speaker 5: What's a non secretary?
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Speaker 2: I felt nobody?
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Speaker 1: How come nobody knows what a non sequary is?
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Speaker 2: Nobody?
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Speaker 5: I mean, Eric is the greatest dog. I should say, Oh.
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Speaker 1: You said your night. He said his name. It's like
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Speaker 1: taking Oh my god, it's like seeing Mickey Mouse smoking
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Speaker 1: a cigarette. I'm on the Vegas trip. Oh my god,
29:07
Speaker 1: let me ask you a question. You just revealed your name.
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Speaker 2: No, the the jiggers up.
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Speaker 1: Where have you been? By the way, I thought you'd
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Speaker 1: be calling every night with the Knicks in the conference final?
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Speaker 1: You don't even want to talk about the Knicks. You
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Speaker 1: want to talk about a triple play. No, you don't
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Speaker 1: love the next you're a fake Nick fan.
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Speaker 4: I'll tell you what them in the books.
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Speaker 5: I like the nause.
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Speaker 1: You're a Bulls fan. You're not a Knicks fan. You're
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Speaker 1: a Bulls fan, right, And then I like, no, you can't,
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Speaker 1: you can't. They were they were rivals when you were
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Speaker 1: when you were young. They were rivals.
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Speaker 5: He dog, I know I had to root for both
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Speaker 5: teams because.
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Speaker 1: You can't root for both. That's the worst thing you
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Speaker 1: can You cannot root for both teams.
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Speaker 5: I said, I can't. That's unconstitutional for you to say that.
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Speaker 1: That's a violation of the Fan Code of Conduct. You
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Speaker 1: committed a violation. You're going to fan jail.
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Speaker 5: Listen.
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Speaker 4: I was never in jail.
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Speaker 5: I was in I was in a holding cell for a.
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Speaker 1: Minute, but that was it was that a forty eight
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Speaker 1: hour mental health hold.
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Speaker 5: Mi's ameanor. But I'm healthy now and I don't I
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Speaker 5: don't break the wall. But listen, now, listen when when
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Speaker 5: when the manager schedules a left handed, left handed pitcher
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Speaker 5: to pitch and then at the last minute brings in
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Speaker 5: a right hander? Is that fooling the defense? So are
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Speaker 5: they allowed to do that?
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Speaker 2: Or is it okay? Or is it not?
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Speaker 1: O kids, Vegas, we should study your mind, e dog,
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Speaker 1: I'd like to study your mind.
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Speaker 2: Like what's going on there?
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Speaker 5: There's a guy here who has brain cancer in my house. Yeah,
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Speaker 5: I feel bad for him.
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Speaker 2: Okay, well, how does that? I don't understand, Like, what
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Speaker 2: do you what do you also?
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Speaker 5: You know, Melissa, I gave her a boy? Did I
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Speaker 5: dumb her? Oh?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? Why did? I mean?
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Speaker 1: You're such a catchy dog. I'm sure she's devastated. How's
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Speaker 1: she going to go on with her life without having
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Speaker 1: the dog in her life?
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Speaker 2: That's right, Yeah, exactly. That's what else?
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Speaker 5: Is new Man? What he got for me?
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Speaker 2: No, that's not how the show. No, that's not how
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Speaker 2: the show works. That's what that dope in Houston said yesterday.
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Speaker 2: You know, I got a question with you, Ben.
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Speaker 5: I have a Reggie Miller jersey and have a Knick jersey.
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Speaker 5: What should I wear where every team wins?
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Speaker 2: Right?
31:20
Speaker 1: Yeah, just wait till after the game and then put
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Speaker 1: it on. That's it, you know what. That's called a
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Speaker 1: front runner. And as we used to have this guy,
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Speaker 2: He was a band wagner is what he would say.
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Speaker 2: Band wagner. That is what he was saying.
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Speaker 5: Did you ever have a Peter Rocky?
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Speaker 2: I gotta go thank you all. I'm hanging up on you.
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Speaker 1: Thank you anything going to add James.
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31:58
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Speaker 1: Charlie from BP A lot of love for Charlie, Minnie
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Speaker 1: Minoso from Eke and Rosewelt Minnesota. Do you have an answer,
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Speaker 1: the writer.
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Speaker 2: It's obviously Tony the Tiger, Beck Odie the Tiger prific. No,
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Speaker 2: that is incorrect, the corrected.
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Speaker 1: The correct answer is none other than Mark McGuire, Mark
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Speaker 1: home runs. Here we go anyway, Gat Smeller, how about
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Speaker 2: Gets grill Goodloe.
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Speaker 6: It was reported on Monday that the Browns coaching staff
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Speaker 6: is planning a four way quarterback competition that will give
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Speaker 6: all four quarterbacks Flacco, Picket, Dylan Gabriel, and Shoulder Sanders
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Speaker 6: a fair chance to earn the starting job. Ben, who
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Speaker 6: do you think is under center? Week one?
37:37
Speaker 2: All right?
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Speaker 1: So the good news is this is not the most
37:39
Speaker 1: depressing quarterback room in the NFL. That's the New Orleans States.
37:41
Speaker 1: So you're you're not the worst, all right? The Saints
37:44
Speaker 1: are worse than the Browns. It's going to beat Joe
37:46
Speaker 1: Flacco unless there's owner interference. Unless the meddling owner comes in,
37:52
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco's the safe Choicekenny Pickett blows he can't play.
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Speaker 1: If the owner steps in, it will be Shoulder Sanders.
37:59
Speaker 1: I don't see how Dylan Gabriel fits into this at all.
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Speaker 1: All rightn't Isn't that the guy that complained about cold
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Speaker 1: weather and all? I like, hello, it's Cleveland next.
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Speaker 6: Trevor Lawrence spoke with the media Monday and said that
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Speaker 6: he really likes the direction that the team is headed.
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Speaker 6: He went on to say that he loves the people
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Speaker 6: that they have there now. He loves the staff, the
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Speaker 6: guys that they brought in, and the guys that were
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Speaker 6: already there.
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Speaker 1: Ben.
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Speaker 6: How much of an improvement do you expect for the
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Speaker 6: Jaguars next season.
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Speaker 1: I think they'll be where they have been recently. They'll
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Speaker 1: be mediocre to bad. And if I was making the
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Speaker 1: kind of money that Trevor Lawrence is making, I would
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Speaker 1: say the same exact thing that he is saying. So
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Speaker 1: I don't see they're gonna be much better at all.
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Speaker 1: I think he's got a tour of seventy five million
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Speaker 1: dollar contract next.
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Speaker 6: Ben, where are you on the thought that Julius Randall
38:42
Speaker 6: has successfully rewritten the narrative of his career?
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Speaker 3: No, he has.
38:46
Speaker 2: I mean the game last night's a great example.
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Speaker 1: He played really well in the first half and then
38:50
Speaker 1: he didn't do much in the second half. He's helped it,
38:54
Speaker 1: but he hasn't rewritten it. It's still a work in progress.
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Speaker 1: How do we go?
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Speaker 2: You pass the session?
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Speaker 1: Say way a bar wait, I will the right.
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Speaker 4: I thank you little.
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Speaker 1: She's clapping for me. I appreciate that. You don't need
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Speaker 1: to clap. It's very kind. I appreciate that, very nice
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