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Hour 3 - Dumb Loyalty · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Let's do the Mahler mumbo and a boom shakalaka to you.
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  Speaker 1: It's our number three. And a happy Thursday. Ben Mahler's show.
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  Speaker 1: Here in hour number three, how do you interpret the
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  Speaker 1: message Jim Harbaugh is sending by keeping Mike McDaniel as
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  Speaker 1: the Chargers play caller? Chargers coming off the bye week.
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  Speaker 1: McDaniel will remain the coach, also as the offensive coach.
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  Speaker 1: Thumbs up, thumbs down. Should Liam Cohn's Jaguars trade wide
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  Speaker 1: receiver Brian Thomas Jr. before his value drops faster than
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  Speaker 1: one of those Jacksonville timeshares? It probably already has. And
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  Speaker 1: is Dakota Prescott's profanity-laced football card a legitimate collector's item
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  Speaker 1: or another example of sports memorabilia speculators speculating turning a
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  Speaker 1: quarter into fool's gold. We'll go there as well. Here
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  Speaker 1: it is, our number three. We also have Ask Ben,
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  Speaker 1: and away we go. Well, there's loyalty, and then there's
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  Speaker 1: dumb loyalty. You decide what this is. Welcome in the
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  Speaker 1: we are back at it later on this hour. Ask Ben.
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  Speaker 1: Your questions, our answers. That'll be coming your way in
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. But our lead this hour, not from baseball,
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  Speaker 1: where the Brewers have won the World Series, Milwaukee, on
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  Speaker 1: top of Baseball's Mountain. And will they continue to be
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  Speaker 1: the World Series champions tonight? If there is no World
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  Speaker 1: Series next year, if baseball wipes out the season, then
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  Speaker 1: they'll continue on as the champions of baseball for like
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  Speaker 1: a while until they get back to playing baseball, get
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  Speaker 1: off their asses and get back to playing. But our
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  Speaker 1: lead this hour is from La La Land. And if
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  Speaker 1: you thought that the Chargers, winless Chargers, were going to fire,
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  Speaker 1: going to fire their offensive coordinator and have a big shakeup,
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  Speaker 1: you're a loser. So I don't know if you saw
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  Speaker 1: this or not. Perhaps not. Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh. He's
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  Speaker 1: a football guy, Jim Harbaugh. And he decided, despite much speculation,
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  Speaker 1: the Chargers were going to decommission their offensive coordinator. He's
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  Speaker 1: doubling down, doubling down on Mike McDaniel, the failed Dolphins coach.
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  Speaker 1: Not only is McDaniel going to continue as the OC
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  Speaker 1: in L.A., he will continue as the play caller despite
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  Speaker 1: A ghastly 0-6 record for the Lightning Bulls. Harbaugh defending
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  Speaker 1: the incompetent Mike McDaniels saying, quote, we're very confident in
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  Speaker 1: Mike and his talent, his work ethic, and his ability.
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  Speaker 1: Close quote. Well, that great talent, that wonderful work ethic,
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  Speaker 1: and that ability have helped the Chargers to the 28th
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  Speaker 1: ranked offense in the NFL that continues to sputter. Week
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  Speaker 1: after week, falling short, well short of expectations through six
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  Speaker 1: winless games. Six winless games. So that is a good
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  Speaker 1: jumping off point. Let us discuss the question. How do
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  Speaker 1: you interpret the message that Jim Harbaugh, Coach Jim Harbaugh,
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  Speaker 1: is sending by keeping Mike McDaniel as not only the
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  Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, but the Chargers play caller? So I've got vape.
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  Speaker 1: Two complimentary passes and warm fuzzies. And we will combine
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  Speaker 1: all of these things together, and we are going to
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  Speaker 1: give you the genuine article is what we're going to do.
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  Speaker 1: The genuine article. So to lead off here, I got
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  Speaker 1: to give Mike McDaniel credit. He is the Teflon hipster.
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  Speaker 1: The fact that he kept his job is wild. nothing
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  Speaker 1: seems to stick to him except that hair gel. That's
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  Speaker 1: about it. And Jim Harbaugh is protecting the bohemian offensive guru.
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  Speaker 1: And whether he intends to do this or not, he's
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  Speaker 1: really putting Justin Herbert directly in the crosshairs. Let me
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  Speaker 1: see if you... I'm going to make my elevator pitch.
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  Speaker 1: Let me see if you buy what I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: sell here. So McDaniel was a hired gun. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: do a good job with the Dolphins. He's not some
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  Speaker 1: lifelong Jim Harbaugh loyalist. There's no sentimental obligation here. He's
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  Speaker 1: getting paid still from the Miami Dolphins, so financially he's
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  Speaker 1: not getting that much from the Chargers. McDaniel looks like,
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  Speaker 1: when you see him, he looks like the assistant manager
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  Speaker 1: at a vape shop. And somehow he's able to keep
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  Speaker 1: his job. It's wild. Chargers are 0-6. The results have
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  Speaker 1: been like moldy bread. They're moldy, not sliced bread, moldy bread.
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  Speaker 1: And yet the director... of this mcdaniel keeps his job
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  Speaker 1: right six consecutive box office bombs and no change and
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  Speaker 1: as they say on the job site you don't keep
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  Speaker 1: the architect unless you believe the construction worker is botching
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  Speaker 1: the blueprints ergo the quarterback so who's left holding the
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  Speaker 1: bag the 260 million dollar franchise quarterback justin herbert If
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  Speaker 1: you're not getting rid of McDaniel, you're saying he's not
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  Speaker 1: the problem. The quarterback is the problem. Little lovey-dovey over
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  Speaker 1: there is the problem, and Herbert's not carrying the Chargers.
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  Speaker 1: If anything, he's leading them to the grave is what
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  Speaker 1: he's doing here. He's dragging them through the field of
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  Speaker 1: broken glass, and they are bedraggled.
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  Speaker 2: He is.
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  Speaker 1: Completely out of sorts. We are 35% into the NFL
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  Speaker 1: season for the Chargers. 35%. And Justin, to be fair,
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  Speaker 1: has been a monster. Justin Herbert, the quarterback, has been
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  Speaker 1: a monster. He is a monster, as in a monster
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  Speaker 1: of manure, is what he is. Herbert, on pace. He's
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  Speaker 1: on pace for 14 touchdown passes and 22 interceptions and
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  Speaker 1: 17 fumbles. That's my quarterback! At least he has fur
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  Speaker 1: dog that has his back, no matter what. Our caller, well,
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  Speaker 1: he's not really a caller. He's a social media guy
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  Speaker 1: with a fake avatar. But he loves Justin Herbert.
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  Speaker 3: He does.
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  Speaker 1: All right, furthermore, to Jacksonville we go, where Jaguars wide
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  Speaker 1: receiver Brian Thomas Jr. is twisting in the wind. He
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  Speaker 1: is on the auctioning block at the trade portal as
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  Speaker 1: he continues to be the shrinking man in Jacksonville. He's
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  Speaker 1: 24 years old, and it looks like his days are
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  Speaker 1: limited in Jacksonville. He responded to all of the chatter
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  Speaker 1: that he is going to enter the portal, not by
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  Speaker 1: his choice. He said, quote, everybody's entitled to their opinion,
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  Speaker 1: insisting he's focused on football. Okay. That quote right there,
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  Speaker 1: pure fluff. That is nuke lelouch. That is sportscliché. com is
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  Speaker 1: what that is. When you're asked about trade rumors... You say, well,
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  Speaker 1: you're entitled to your opinion, but I am focused on
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  Speaker 1: my job. Well, that focus is not really going well.
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  Speaker 1: You might want to be distracted. It'll help you play
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  Speaker 1: a little better. Very diplomatic, non-answer. Question. You're going to
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  Speaker 1: go thumbs up or thumbs down? Thumbs up or thumbs down?
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  Speaker 1: Should Coach Liam Cohen's Jags trade wide receiver Brian Thomas Jr.
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  Speaker 1: before his value drops faster than those Jacksonville timeshares? which
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  Speaker 1: it probably already has. So I am going to go
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  Speaker 1: thumbs up. I'm going thumbs up on this. Brian Thomas Jr.,
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  Speaker 1: at this point, until proven otherwise, is Gautier of the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: He's Gautier of the NFL. One hit, and now he's
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  Speaker 1: performing at the Duval County Fair. So Brian Thomas Jr.
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  Speaker 1: is somebody that I used to know, and apparently somebody
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  Speaker 1: traditionally Lawrence used to throw the ball to back in
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  Speaker 1: the day. One smash hit for Gautier of the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: followed by a Houdini, a Houdini disappearing act. In 2026,
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  Speaker 1: this season, the aforementioned Brian Thomas Jr. is on pace
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  Speaker 1: to catch 25 balls for 297 yards total and less
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  Speaker 1: than three touchdowns. That's like investing in Kodak back in
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  Speaker 1: the day and saying, oh, I made it. I just
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  Speaker 1: bought some stock in Kodak. And then watching it become
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  Speaker 1: a penny stock and then not selling it. Like, what
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  Speaker 1: are you doing? And you think about the impact this
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  Speaker 1: guy had a couple years ago. I think he had
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  Speaker 1: 10 touchdowns, 1,200 yards receiving, and looked like he was
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  Speaker 1: possessed by the football gods for greatness. And now, forget
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  Speaker 1: about it, right? So either you're coaching Liam Cohen, you're
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  Speaker 1: coaching him up, which is not going on, you're wasting
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  Speaker 1: his talent, or he's just been exposed. The only way,
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  Speaker 1: the only way to know is if he goes somewhere
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  Speaker 1: else and gets a chance at a career renaissance, gets
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  Speaker 1: a fresh start, whether that's Kansas City or somewhere like that,
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  Speaker 1: that needs help with the wide receiver position. The Patriots
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  Speaker 1: as another example. But Jacksonville needs to trade him brian
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  Speaker 1: thomas jr before the value goes from like i don't
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  Speaker 1: think he's worth a second round pick at this point
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  Speaker 1: at this point you can maybe get two complimentary passes
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  Speaker 1: to the jacksonville zoo and a free medium drink not
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  Speaker 1: a large drink a medium drink you could get that
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  Speaker 1: now the sports media the football elites the football media
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  Speaker 1: elites sold brian thomas jr as the next great receiver
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  Speaker 1: Now they're trying to sell his willingness to block as
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  Speaker 1: some kind of heartwarming redemption story that he's worried about blocking.
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  Speaker 1: To think about where that is right now. This guy
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  Speaker 1: was a 1,200-yard, 10-touchdown guy, and now he's been reduced
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  Speaker 1: to bragging, being braggadocious about blocking. Instead of catching footballs.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of like a celebrity chef bragging that, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I really wash the dishes well. I'm a really good dishwasher. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's great. But you were a celebrity chef. I know
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  Speaker 1: I was a celebrity chef, but I really wash the
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  Speaker 1: dishes good.
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  Speaker 3: By the way.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to know, if you come to the
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  Speaker 1: Mallard Mansion, I'm the dishwasher. I'm a very good dishwasher.
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  Speaker 1: I pre-wash. I rinse the dishes. I put a little
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  Speaker 1: soap on them first. And I realized the dishwasher, a
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: lot of people don't even have dishwashers, but if you
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: have a dishwasher, that's the final step. That is not
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  Speaker 1: the one-stop, do-it-all machine, the dishwasher. All right, last thing.
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  Speaker 1: To the memorabilia world we go. That's right, memorabilia. So
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  Speaker 1: a 2026 Tops football card featuring Dakota Prescott has gone viral.
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  Speaker 1: Did you see this?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 1: You know why the card went viral? What do you
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  Speaker 1: think was on that card? No? No, not that. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: try again. Nope, that's not it. Well, it turns out,
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you the answer. Stop guessing. So Dak Prescott,
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  Speaker 1: this football card, has gone viral because people spotted a
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  Speaker 1: phrase written on some tape that he had on his wrist.
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  Speaker 1: The phrase was F cancer. Now there's some letters after
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  Speaker 1: the F word and they don't spell fun or funky.
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  Speaker 1: They don't. And if it was, you know, it was a,
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  Speaker 1: it was a hockey story. We'd say it was a
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  Speaker 1: puck with a P, but it's not, it's not that.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah. Anyway, the card has apparently skyrocketed. It was
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  Speaker 1: like a quarter to a couple of bucks, and it's
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  Speaker 1: gone up almost 12,000% in the last couple of days here.
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  Speaker 1: There is a rare version of the card that sold
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  Speaker 1: for almost $ 2, 000. This is not a rookie card. This
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  Speaker 1: is not that. The photo comes from a Cowboys game
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  Speaker 1: Dallas played against Arizona in November of 2025, so We
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  Speaker 1: know the history of Dak Prescott. His mom died of
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  Speaker 1: colon cancer when he was a young lad many years ago.
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  Speaker 1: She was in her early 50s at a very young
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  Speaker 1: age to die of that. And she did. And Dak's
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  Speaker 1: been living with that and carrying that. And so... He
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  Speaker 1: had the message on his wristband. The question is Dak Prescott,
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  Speaker 1: Cowboy Quarterback Dak Prescott's profanity-laced football card, a legitimate collector's item,
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  Speaker 1: or just another example of sports memorabilia speculators turning a
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  Speaker 1: quarter into fool's gold. So I'm shaking my head, no way.
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  Speaker 1: To this being some kind of long-term investment. I don't
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  Speaker 1: buy it. Now, I'm out of that game. And when
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  Speaker 1: I was in the game back in the day, you
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  Speaker 1: would say a card like that would be worth money.
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  Speaker 1: I just don't think this is going to be that.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's another case of the people that are
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  Speaker 1: manipulating the sports memorabilia market, trying to turn a couple
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  Speaker 1: of quarters, or in this case, just a quarter, into
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  Speaker 1: some kind of retirement portfolio. Dak Prescott, his profanity-laced football card,
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  Speaker 1: it's a cool thing to look at. It's like a
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  Speaker 1: little novelty thing. It's a nice little novelty. This is
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  Speaker 1: not a blue-chip investment. If it's, should I invest in Apple?
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  Speaker 1: Should I invest in Tesla? No, you invest in that.
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  Speaker 1: Don't invest in this. Go with that stuff. And the
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  Speaker 1: reason why, here's my theory, my elevator pitch, why I
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  Speaker 1: don't think this is going to be a long-term thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's talking about a fad versus a trend because scarcity
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  Speaker 1: is the name of the game. Scarcity is the name
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  Speaker 1: of the game. It's like there's a, you collect fine art.
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  Speaker 1: There's a limited amount of fine art. So scarcity is it.
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  Speaker 1: And from what I understand here, I read a little
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  Speaker 1: bit about the story. The people over at Topps have
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  Speaker 1: no intention of No intention of correcting the photograph that
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  Speaker 1: says F.
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  Speaker 4: Cantor.
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  Speaker 1: The same image, in fact, is expected to be used
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  Speaker 1: in the Chrome football collection, whatever the hell that is. Now,
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  Speaker 1: when you juxtapose this to back in the Stone Age
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  Speaker 1: in the 1980s, you can compare and contrast. Arguably the
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  Speaker 1: most famous error card was a 1989 Baltimore Oriole card
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  Speaker 1: for Billy Ripken. and it said FF at the bottom
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  Speaker 1: of his baseball bat. The first word was the same
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  Speaker 1: word that Dak Prescott had for cancer, but we're not
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  Speaker 1: allowed to say it because you might be traumatized and
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  Speaker 1: we're governed by the Federal Communications Commission, so we're not allowed.
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  Speaker 3: To say it.
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  Speaker 1: I wish I could say it, but we're not allowed
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  Speaker 1: to say it. Anyway, the Billy Ripken card said F
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  Speaker 1: word face, which I guess was his nickname. When that
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  Speaker 1: card came out, In 1989, Fleer, the people that made Picard,
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  Speaker 1: discovered the obscenity. And they panicked. They went to scramble.
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  Speaker 1: This was a big, big quagmire. I remember reading in
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  Speaker 1: the Beckett magazine how big a quagmire it was. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they had to clean up the mess. There's a spill
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  Speaker 1: on aisle seven. It was considered scandalous. It was considered taboo.
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  Speaker 1: And I go back to the point, you juxtapose... 1989,
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  Speaker 1: Billy Ripken, the F word on the bat. Major deal.
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  Speaker 1: Big time deal. We got to clean it up. Today,
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  Speaker 1: what was on Dak's wrist qualifies as something in the
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  Speaker 1: warm and fuzzy category, the warm fuzzies category. And my, my, my, my,
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  Speaker 1: how the moral standards have changed. And since Topps is
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  Speaker 1: not correcting anything from what I read, That means, if
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  Speaker 1: my math is correct, this is not even a legitimate
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  Speaker 1: error card because they're not collecting it. In order to
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  Speaker 1: be an error card, you have to have it corrected.
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  Speaker 1: They're not doing that. It's manufactured hysteria with a price tag. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I am not an active card collector anymore. I just
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  Speaker 1: don't have time for it. And I have a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of old stuff. I don't have anything new. And I
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  Speaker 1: think a lot of guys my age are pretty much
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  Speaker 1: the same. But as a throwback... I'm thinking about actually buying,
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  Speaker 1: just as a lark, buying the Dak Prescott card. Now,
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  Speaker 1: am I going to pay a lot for it? No,
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  Speaker 1: I'll pay a dollar. I'll pay a dollar, absolutely. Am
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  Speaker 1: I going to spend $ 2, 000 on a Dak Prescott card
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  Speaker 1: that has the F word on it? Hell no. I'd
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  Speaker 1: rather invest that. Hell, I think Radio Shack stores, a
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  Speaker 1: chain of Radio Shack stores, would be a better investment
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• 20:45
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• 20:49
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• 22:03
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• 22:28
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• 22:29
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• 22:32
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• 22:35
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• 22:39
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• 22:42
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• 22:46
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• 22:50
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• 22:54
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• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Do you enjoy schadenfreude? Very good. Talking about a potpourri
• 23:04
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• 23:06
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• 23:22
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• 23:31
  Speaker 1: By the way, the Brewers won the World Series last night.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Blake Snell did really well playing some video games on Twitch.
• 23:36
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• 23:38
  Speaker 1: I know the Dodgers are very happy about that. They
• 23:40
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• 23:44
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• 23:54
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• 24:09
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• 24:14
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• 24:17
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• 24:19
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• 24:21
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• 24:55
  Speaker 1: the day. Taylor Swift and Chief Star Travis Kelsey's helpers
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: reportedly ordered blank to be taken in an 11-pack tractor
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: trailer somewhere in Pennsylvania today. To be burned. Burn, burn, burn, burn, burn.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: That is the Mallard riddle of the day. What is
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: the answer? Late Night Drug Tester says napkins from all
• 25:17
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• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Eek also went with the Ben Mallard chicken fingers. A
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: popular answer. Way to go. What else do we have?
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Page down. Travis in Taylor's Helpers reportedly hauled a truckload.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Of her 2010 album, Speak Now, dedicated to ex-boo John Mayer.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: To be burnt to a crisp. That's from OG Art Puffin.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Alf the Alien Alpiner having way too much fun on AI.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Going with her husband's baseball card collection. That's pretty good.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: If Alf and Billy Ripken had a baby, that would
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: be what that is. What else do we have? Page down.
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  Speaker 1: Star Wars holiday specials on laser disc from King Rory.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: All their adult novelty items from Not a Burner. Page down.
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  Speaker 1: Every record that Taylor Swift has ever made from Not
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Blind Austin in Bakersfield, California. Ex-boyfriend's Christmas cards from Fudgie. Oh,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: it's good to see Fudgie in Boston. Haven't heard from
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: him in a while. What else do we have? Every
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: copy of Travis Kelsey's Christmas classics.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: The answer.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Joe the Ghost Hunter from Ohio says Travis Kelsey has
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: under ruse to burn or it's her terrible records.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 26:40
  Speaker 7: Let's see.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Fargo Pete says, is it the 2027 baseball champions, the
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Savannah Bananas, the 2014 playbooks from Courtesy Flusher? That's his answer.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Mike the Leprechaun says they burnt truckloads of Travis Kelsey's
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: collection of Dolly Parton's albums. Well, that's what he said.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: What else do we have? Page down. Let's see here.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey's old black books. Yeah, I got to get
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: those old ladies numbers.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: Out of there.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Dak Prescott cards from Johnny Q. That's his answer. Page down.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Page down. Bill, who's your bill? Says, Ben, do you
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: still have the iconic Rusty Bridges card? I have a
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: contract at Sotheby's. No, I don't know what you're talking about.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: Enough of that.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Enough of that. Enough of that. Do you have an answer, Lorena? Yeah,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: I was going to go with Showgirl Feathers. Showgirl Feathers.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Is that correct? Let's see here. No. No. It turns
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: out Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey's helpers reportedly ordered a
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: garden-inspired setting of wedding items featuring artificial trees, personalized furnishings,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: and other elaborate structures used at the celebrity wedding to
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: be burned. The custom-built wedding decorations were taken in 11-pack
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: tractor trailers somewhere in Pennsylvania where they were incinerated.
• 28:05
  Speaker 7: Wow, that's crazy. I feel like they could have sold
• 28:07
  Speaker 7: all that for a lot of money.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Well, that was the point. They didn't want people to
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: take it and sell it. Like, who cares? Celebrities that
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: get upset that people make money by selling their memorabilia,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: I've never understood that. You're already rich. You're fine. And
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: these guys, they get so protective. And I'll bet you,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: one of those truck drivers or somebody that worked at
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: that place, they were burning all that.
• 28:29
  Speaker 7: Oh, that's definitely a crime I would do.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Don't you think you'd take a couple of things and say, hey,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: you know, let's see. And I'll just sit on this
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: for a few years.
• 28:37
  Speaker 7: Did you see that video of Dan Marino recently?
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: I did. Yeah, Marino got all pissed off at some
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: people signing autographs, right? He got all upset.
• 28:46
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's an example of what I'm talking about. One
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: of my favorite stories as a kid, there used to
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: be this good player for the Royals named George Brett.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: And when I was a kid, I went out and
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: George Brett was a big-time drinker and would go out
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: after games and I would collect autographs. That was what
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: I did was made a little extra money. I was
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: an autograph guy in high school, so I'd follow these
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: guys around and get autographs. So I went to this
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: bar in Anaheim, not far from the Big A. It
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: was late at night. It was a school night. And
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: we went there. One of our buddies had let us
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: know George Brett was there with his brother Ken Brett,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: who's now passed away. But they were there drinking. Ken
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Brett was a broadcaster for the Angels. So us kids,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: we're all like teenagers. We all sat in the parking
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: lot at this bar. And George Brett closed the place down.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: He came out. It was like after two in the morning.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Last call for alcohol. is two in the morning so
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: George Brett comes out and he sees like I think
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: there were six or seven of us that were there
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: all around the same age and he starts screaming profanity
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: at us You kids have school. F you. Blah, blah, blah.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: And he signed every autograph. But he was like, you
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: can't make money. It was the funniest thing. He had
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: a lot to, I believe he had a lot of dreams.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe he just acted that way naturally.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: But it was hilarious. Like this Hall of, he wasn't
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: obviously a Hall of Famer then. He was still playing.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: But George Brett cursing all of us out for being
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: there at 2 in the morning to get his autograph.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: And then he did sign everything. All right, let's go
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: to the folks. La, la, la, la. Let's say hello to,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: who do we have?
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Let's go to Andrea. She is the astrology insider, and
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: she is hanging out in Northern California. She's got the
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: inside scoop right now on the cosmic events of the day. Hello, Andrea.
• 30:37
  Speaker 8: Hello, Ben. How are you?
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: If I was any better, I'd be a Ray, but
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: not a Tampa Bay Ray, because they lost the World Series.
• 30:47
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I looked up that saying, I don't have a
• 30:49
  Speaker 8: dog in the fight, so I didn't have a, you know,
• 30:52
  Speaker 8: like a favorite.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: No, no, that's actually, that phrase came, oh, it didn't
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: come from Michael Vick, because he did have a dog
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: in the fight, so that must have come from someone else.
• 31:03
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it was just kind of an interesting, you know,
• 31:06
  Speaker 8: it was an exciting game, and yesterday was exciting as well.
• 31:10
  Speaker 8: And today was quite interesting. I did the charts. We had,
• 31:16
  Speaker 8: you know, my sports astrology colleague found the birth date
• 31:20
  Speaker 8: of the Milwaukee Brewers, December 1, 1967, 2.17 a.m., Milwaukee.
• 31:23
  Speaker 8: And They're having their second Saturn return. We have the
• 31:35
  Speaker 8: first one at 29, 28 to 30, and then the
• 31:38
  Speaker 8: second one around 58, 59, which is a cycle of
• 31:43
  Speaker 8: success and career accomplishment. And then the MVP... I can't
• 31:52
  Speaker 8: read my own handwriting. The one who won the MVP.
• 31:56
  Speaker 8: You know what we call that?
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: We call that chicken scratch is what we call that.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: We call that chicken scratch.
• 32:04
  Speaker 8: Yeah, there you go. Willie Contreras. 224 in 1997. So
• 32:08
  Speaker 8: he's having his first Saturn return, which is a cycle
• 32:11
  Speaker 8: of career, ambition, and success. And I thought it was
• 32:15
  Speaker 8: really cute that Pat Murphy, the manager, I don't know
• 32:19
  Speaker 8: if you saw the interview afterward, his son was having
• 32:22
  Speaker 8: his eighth birthday. That was like really nice timing on that.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Wow, Pat Murphy, isn't he like 67? He went for
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: it late, man. How about that? Pat Murphy, man. How
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: about that?
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and a.
• 32:35
  Speaker 8: Few young sons that came on the postgame show.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Are those his kids? I turned it off. The postgame
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: guys annoy me. Are they his kids or his grandkids?
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: They're his kids?
• 32:49
  Speaker 8: I can double check, but I think they were his
• 32:50
  Speaker 8: kids because they talked about his son. And David Ortiz
• 32:54
  Speaker 8: gave them t-shirts. So, you know, kind of cute that
• 32:58
  Speaker 8: one of them was actually celebrating their birthday on October 28th. So,
• 33:03
  Speaker 8: you know, the stars did align there, and it's their
• 33:06
  Speaker 8: first World Series ever. So, you know, that says something
• 33:10
  Speaker 8: right there.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: You always remember your first. You always remember your first.
• 33:14
  Speaker 7: Pat Murphy has four children. His oldest is 40, and
• 33:17
  Speaker 7: his youngest is 70.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: Whoa! Whoa, dude! Wow, imagine me and the 40-year-old. How's
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: my brother doing? He's collecting Pokemon cards, you know.
• 33:35
  Speaker 8: Wow, that's amazing.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: That's great.
• 33:39
  Speaker 8: Looking at that up, Coop, that's really... Quite a life path.
• 33:42
  Speaker 8: I don't know how he achieved that.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm going to assume that Pat— Different mother? Yeah.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: If not, we want to interview the mom. Right.
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 33:59
  Speaker 8: It's always cute to see that interview and to see
• 34:04
  Speaker 8: his 8-year-old son, actually, having Scorpio birthday on October 28th.
• 34:09
  Speaker 8: So it truly was kind of a planet-aligned type of experience. So, yeah,
• 34:15
  Speaker 8: I think the parade is Friday we were talking about,
• 34:18
  Speaker 8: so that should be interesting as well. So, yeah, it
• 34:22
  Speaker 8: was Milwaukee Brewers. So that's who won the World Series.
• 34:27
  Speaker 8: So we'll see what ends up happening next season. Hopefully
• 34:32
  Speaker 8: there's baseball.
• 34:33
  Speaker 7: I know.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: There'll be some baseball. It just won't happen tomorrow. The
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: spring training, not going to happen.
• 34:40
  Speaker 7: You don't think the whole season is going to be missed?
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: No, I think they'll play. Because from what I was told,
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: the television contracts, they have to pay back money to
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: TV if they cancel. I think they have to play
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: 100 games or something like that. I forget what the
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: number is, but there's a certain number they have to play. Otherwise,
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: they have to give money back to TV. They don't
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: want to give money back to TV. So they'll figure
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: it out. I believe they'll figure something out, but who knows?
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: If they don't want to play, we'll talk about other things.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: All right, thank you, Andrea. Appreciate that. There you go.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: All right, Virgo in service on X, and we thank
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: her for that. Let's say hello to, quickly, Scotty on
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: the Pike, my guy Scotty, my co-host on the Fifth
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: Hour Mailbag this past weekend. Hello, Scotty.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: Welcome. Hello, Ben. I, too, am anti-ranch, just for the record.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: That's right. That's why I put you on the podcast.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: I will not put anyone on my podcast that is pro-range.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Not allowed on my podcast.
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: Touch base with the Brewers, though. Earlier, when you talked
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: about the salaries and the teams, I don't agree that
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: they will, like you said. But do you think that
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: the way they played this season and what they did,
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: Maybe the grip of the nerds has been loosened. You know,
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: launch angles, spin rate, all that crap. I don't want
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: to say they played small ball, but they just played baseball.
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: And they were fun to watch. And, you know, do
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: you think maybe some teams will, you know, stop just
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: looking at spreadsheets and just let them play?
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: I hope so.
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: Because of what the Brewers did?
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I hope that happens. It's more fun to watch
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: baseball that way. It's pretty boring watching these guys sit
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: around and try to hit home runs.
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: Right, a home run or strikeout, that's all they want.
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: It's either one. It's annoying.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: The problem is, man, your people from those Ivy League schools,
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Scotty on the Pike, they brainwash these rich owners. They
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: get in the room and they're like, look at the
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: Venn diagram. Look at this. Look at the AI. It's
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: the way to go. It's like, stop.
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: I remember Taylor.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Ten years ago, I had a conversation. Why don't you
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: choke up with two strikes? Well, the analytics say you're
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: better off. You have a better chance of hitting a
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: home run. You can't choke up. You're not going to
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: hit a home run if you choke up. I said,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: come on.
• 36:56
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: Scotty, you're the man. Let's say the Angels should do that.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: Some of these other teams that never win. Pittsburgh should
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: play like the Brewers.
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: There he is. Scotty on the pike, the legend. Go
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: back and hear that mailbag. He was on there with
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: Robbie this past week and did a great job. Very fantastic.
• 37:12
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• 37:15
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• 37:17
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  Speaker 1: the coop dalu.
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  Speaker 7: All right ben we're gonna start off with a question
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  Speaker 7: from nimbot.
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  Speaker 1: Hi nimbot he wants to what is it nimbot what is.
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  Speaker 7: It i'm not sure uh wants to know were you
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  Speaker 7: ever hot for teacher.
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  Speaker 1: Did I ever have a hot teacher? Were you ever
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  Speaker 1: hot for teacher?
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  Speaker 7: I mean, that's a reference to the Van Halen song.
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  Speaker 7: Hot for teacher, yeah. Did you ever have a teacher
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  Speaker 7: that you had a crush on that you thought was hot?
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  Speaker 1: No, my teachers were all ugly. There was not one
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  Speaker 1: hot teacher. They were all old women. God love them.
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  Speaker 1: They were nice women, but they were not attractive. They
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  Speaker 1: were fugly. We'll be right back. What about you, Lorena?
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  Speaker 1: Any teachers there back.
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  Speaker 2: In the day?
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  Speaker 7: There was one in high school.
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  Speaker 1: Back in band camp?
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  Speaker 3: What's up, Ms.
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  Speaker 2: Brooks?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, a woman. She was a babe.
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  Speaker 3: Really?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, she was the hottest teacher in the school.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not expecting that. I understand. But I see these
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  Speaker 1: young teachers. Every teacher I had was old. I never
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  Speaker 1: had someone that was a young teacher. What about you, Coop? Yes.
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  Speaker 3: My.
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  Speaker 7: Fifth or sixth? Seventh grade. Sixth or seventh grade language
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  Speaker 7: arts teacher.
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  Speaker 1: High school, man. Come on.
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  Speaker 7: No, that was middle school for me. Yeah, junior high school.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Junior high. Yeah, yeah. Miss Sinclair.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of hormones going on. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: hormones going on. Junior high school. A lot of that.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of that going on.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 1: You ever made the moves on her?
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  Speaker 5: You never.
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  Speaker 1: I.
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  Speaker 7: I did buy her chocolates and a rose for Valentine's Day.
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  Speaker 1: No, you didn't.
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  Speaker 8: I did.
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  Speaker 1: How about that? A little flirtatious Koopa Loop. All right.
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  Speaker 1: What's next? What do we got?
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  Speaker 7: Shannon Des Moines wants to know for everybody. I feel
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  Speaker 7: like I don't know if we've ever asked this before.
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  Speaker 7: It's surprising. Coke or Pepsi?
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  Speaker 1: Pepsi. Yeah, so I drank no water when I was
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  Speaker 1: a kid. My parents loved soda, so we drank soda pop,
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  Speaker 1: and it was usually Coke every once in a while.
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  Speaker 1: My mom would find a coupon for Pepsi, so we'd
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  Speaker 1: get Pepsi, but it was almost always Coke. It was
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  Speaker 1: cherry Coke, regular Coke. Dr. Pepper was part of that mix.
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  Speaker 1: What about you, Lorena? Well, as a child, my dad
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  Speaker 1: had a huge Pepsi collection, so it was Pepsi back
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  Speaker 1: in the day, but now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a Coke girl.
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  Speaker 1: All right, what about you, Coop?
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  Speaker 7: But I prefer root beer. Coke, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: All right, what's next? What do we got?
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  Speaker 3: Aspen.
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  Speaker 7: OGR Puffin wants to know, have you ever caught a
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  Speaker 7: good friend cheating on their partner or vice versa?
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  Speaker 1: No, not really that. But what happens is when guys
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  Speaker 1: break up, I'm like, oh, she's such a terrible woman.
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  Speaker 1: And then they get back together. And it sucks. What
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  Speaker 1: about you, Lorena? Of course.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you have? Look at you.
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  Speaker 7: Unbelievable.
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  Speaker 3: Coop?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Everywhere. I guess, really, everywhere. Open my eyes a
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  Speaker 1: little bit here, I guess.