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Hour 3 - Polar Express · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Playball. It's our number three. Our number three is ready
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Speaker 1: for you and me. And here in our number three.
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Speaker 1: Give me your reaction to New York Mets star Pete
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Speaker 1: Alonso going after the media for reporting his possible departure
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Speaker 1: in free agency. Talk about that. Alonso's not happy. Also,
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Speaker 1: former Showtime Lakers star Byron Scott says Lebron James still
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Speaker 1: needs to do more to earn one of those dopey
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Speaker 1: statues outside the arena. What is he really saying? Byron
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Speaker 1: Scott will examine that. Also, Titans coach Brian Callahan, of course,
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Speaker 1: disagrees with the perception that his team did not want
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Speaker 1: to play against the Colts. That came from one of
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Speaker 1: the Colts players. What's really going on here? We'll examine
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Speaker 1: the evidence. We'll get to that right now here. It
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Speaker 1: is our number three. It's all about that polar bear.
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Speaker 1: from baseball talking baseball from the Big Apple. We'll get
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Speaker 1: back to football because that's what slight some. But I
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Speaker 1: want to talk some baseball. I don't know. We should talk
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Speaker 1: about the Podres. They made the playoff. It's not a
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Speaker 1: great talk radio story. This is a decent talk radio story.
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Speaker 1: In I think it's actually a little bit above decent.
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Speaker 1: So we go to New York where the Mets are
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Speaker 1: trying to hold on to the playoffs. Here it's the
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Speaker 1: final few days of the regular season, and the New
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Speaker 1: York Metropolitans are in a position where if they stink
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Speaker 1: up to join here the last couple days of the
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Speaker 1: regular season, there's some major problems, a major problem. Then
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Speaker 1: the Mets are technically tied with the Reds for the
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Speaker 1: final playoff spot, so it's neck and neck down the stretch.
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Speaker 1: The Diamondbacks are one game back. So those are the
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Speaker 1: three players the Mets have a chance to miss out
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Speaker 1: on the playoffs. I bring this up. The Mets have
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Speaker 1: the highest payroll in baseball. There's normally a correlation causation
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Speaker 1: situation where you say, well, the Mets have the highest payroll,
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Speaker 1: they're gonna make the playoffs. Why didn't they make the
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Speaker 1: playoffs is because of the payroll. So I bring this
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Speaker 1: up because Met slugger Pete Alonzo, better known as the
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Speaker 1: Polar Bear, well, he was upset. He called out the media.
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Speaker 1: In the Big Apple, Alonzo received a standing ovation from
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Speaker 1: the Met faithful on what will likely be if he
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Speaker 1: does leave his final home game for the second consecutive year,
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Speaker 1: Pete Alonso was given the serenade we love you, don't
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Speaker 1: leave us, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, and
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Speaker 1: so he got upset with the media. So he was like,
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Speaker 1: what are you doing here? And you know, shame on
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Speaker 1: you and all this stuff. The slugger of Pete Alonso
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Speaker 1: calling out the media's fixation with his potential relocation. So
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Speaker 1: if he didn't see this, maybe not the quote from
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Speaker 1: Alonso he said recently, quote, if I had a nickel
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Speaker 1: for how many times everyone in this room, surrounded by
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Speaker 1: baseball scribes and radio dopes. He said, if I had
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Speaker 1: a nickel for every time someone in this room has
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Speaker 1: said that, and I received it every time someone said
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Speaker 1: it regarding his departure, I'd be really, really rich. Close
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Speaker 1: quote from Pete Alonzo. So let us discuss the question.
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Speaker 1: Give me your reaction, Give me your reaction to the
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Speaker 1: Mets star slugger Pete Alonzo going after the media for
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Speaker 1: reporting on his possible departure from the Mets in free agency.
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Speaker 1: So I've got LeVar, Invisible inc. And Doomsday, and we
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Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together and we are
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Speaker 1: going to make the Baba Ganoosh. We're gonna make the
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Speaker 1: Baba Gousta. First of all, my first thought here, this
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Speaker 1: whole thing feels like a deja vu situation here. And
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Speaker 1: last year was the farewell tour, and then Alonzo was
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Speaker 1: going to sign with like Cincinnati or Toronto, and then
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Speaker 1: he ended up going back to the Mets. And so
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Speaker 1: now this year it's the same act, the same ovation,
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Speaker 1: the same drama o rama for Peter Alonzo. So how
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Speaker 1: many final games? How many final games? Is Peter Alonzo. Okay,
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Speaker 1: because the Mets, if they do make the playoffs, they'll
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Speaker 1: have some more games in that ballpark. And you wonder,
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Speaker 1: anytime I see one of these stories, are the New
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Speaker 1: York Mets now trying to copy the Dodgers? Are they
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Speaker 1: going to dig up first base for Peter Alonzo and
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Speaker 1: have a like a mock hero worshiping sappy segment of
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Speaker 1: their you know, like fans, how about everyone? They don't
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Speaker 1: even have a game. They just have the fans come
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Speaker 1: out and we can workshop this. But just have the
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Speaker 1: fans go out and they can all like bow down
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Speaker 1: the Peter Alonzo and they can dig up first base.
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Speaker 1: And yeah, Now I do find it hilarious that Alonso
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Speaker 1: is going after the media for bringing all of this up.
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Speaker 1: I think that's pretty funny. Here's why he said, if
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Speaker 1: I had a nickel every time somebody said I was
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Speaker 1: leaving in the whole line, how he'd be rich. Well,
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Speaker 1: this just into the Fox Sports radio newsroom. Peede Alonzo,
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Speaker 1: You've already made ninety eight million. He's made ninety eight
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Speaker 1: million swinging a baseball bat. So you're not standing online
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Speaker 1: at the soup kitchen, you're not, so spare us the
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Speaker 1: whole rags to riches and all that stuff. He's pretending
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Speaker 1: like he's some blue collar chop shop worker over there
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Speaker 1: in Queens and he's grinding out a paycheck when in reality,
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Speaker 1: when in reality we know the truth is something much
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Speaker 1: different here. And he's hitting dingers there in Flushing and
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Speaker 1: cashing checks that would make some, not all, but some
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Speaker 1: on Wall Street blush a little bit. But here's the thing. Now,
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Speaker 1: here's the thing about Peter Alonzo. The deal he signed
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Speaker 1: practically guarantees he's going to leave the Mets at the
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Speaker 1: very LEAs he's gonna opt out nostalgia the Mets. Steve
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Speaker 1: Carin's a fanboy who owns the team, so maybe he'll
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Speaker 1: keep Peter Alonzo around. But that's not the media. It's like, oh,
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Speaker 1: the media make it a big deal about it. No,
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Speaker 1: you signed a contract that has so much verbiage and
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Speaker 1: language and all the fine print where you're gonna opt out,
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Speaker 1: and so it's not the meaning that's the math.
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Speaker 3: That is it.
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Speaker 1: That is the math. This is a classic case of
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Speaker 1: an athlete trying to tell the media how to do
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Speaker 1: your job. Do your job, to quote LeVar Ball, stay
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Speaker 1: in your light, all right, you're a jock, do the
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Speaker 1: jock stuff. You're the jock. Hit ball, see ball, hit ball,
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Speaker 1: run to first base. There you go. The media they
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Speaker 1: are into a different line of work. They're not hitting
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Speaker 1: the ball. They're into cyber cyber farming, if you will.
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Speaker 1: Farming for clicks is what they're doing here. And that's
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Speaker 1: the game. That's the industry. That's how it works. You
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Speaker 1: don't like it, you take it up with who else
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Speaker 1: but the New York met fancy. That's the part of
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Speaker 1: this that dumb people don't understand when they say, well,
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Speaker 1: you're just doing that for click. Yes, yes, I am.
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Speaker 1: You see, that's how it works, you stupid moron. And
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Speaker 1: if you don't want clickbait, stop clicking on it. Nobody
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Speaker 1: can do it though. You can't help yourself. You cannot.
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Speaker 1: So if Alonzo has a problem, Peter Alonzo with the
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Speaker 1: New York media, he really has a problem with the
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Speaker 1: fans who keep clicking on stories click and eat, click, click,
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Speaker 1: and the fans are feeding the beast. That's what they're doing.
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Speaker 1: They're the ones driving the hole. Is Peter Alonzo leaving
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Speaker 1: the Mets narrative? And if they stop clicking on that,
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Speaker 1: the stories stop getting posted online, they stop getting talked about.
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Speaker 1: But it's supplying to man. It's economics, one on one.
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Speaker 1: It's all that. It's the oldest trick in the book,
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Speaker 1: the oldest trick in the book. You sell hope, and
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Speaker 1: it's really you're balancing and something. You're selling hope and fear.
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Speaker 1: You're balancing hope, you're balancing fear. It's all part of
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Speaker 1: the same package. It's all that and so oh, maybe
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Speaker 1: Peter alan will stay with the Mets, the story will
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Speaker 1: have a happy ending, but maybe he bolts and goes
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Speaker 1: in place for the Red Sox or the Giants or
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Speaker 1: somewhere like that. It's like a bad soap opera and
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Speaker 1: every episode ends with the same cliffhanger developing hot dot
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Speaker 1: dot dot and and for Pete listen, Peter Alonzo has
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Speaker 1: a lot of home runs. He's all time home run
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Speaker 1: king for the Mets and all that congratulations. He's playing
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Speaker 1: right into it, though, cause Alonzo. I've seen the quotes,
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Speaker 1: I've seen the interviews online. Alonzo's acting all indignant as
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Speaker 1: he talks to the media and like he's somehow the victim,
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Speaker 1: Like no, you're not. No, it's it's engagement farming, pure
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Speaker 1: and simple, and Peter Alonzo, you don't even realize you
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Speaker 1: are the crop. You are the crop in the engagement farming. Congratulations.
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Speaker 1: That's the reality when you won't commit. And the Mets
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Speaker 1: offered to Alonzo a big contract couple of years ago.
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Speaker 1: He didn't want to sign. He thought he was worth
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Speaker 1: more money. Fine, he tested himself, he bet on himself.
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Speaker 1: He lost, so he didn't do that. And he's got
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Speaker 1: the opt out hanging over the Mets and all that.
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Speaker 1: So don't yell at the the gas bags and the
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Speaker 1: scribes and all the people that are out there talking
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Speaker 1: about you. You should yell at your agent. You can
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Speaker 1: yell at your agent, or yell at Steve Cohen, the owner,
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Speaker 1: or yell at yourself regardless. Don't come up here and
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Speaker 1: you're suddenly the media critic. Petere Alonzo media critic. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you again, hit baseballs, that's what you do, and the
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Speaker 1: media stirs the pot and you live side by side.
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Speaker 1: You sing kumbaya. There you go say division of labor.
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Speaker 1: That is what it is, all right. Now. Secondly we
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Speaker 1: go to pro bouncy ball, but not really pro bouncy ball.
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Speaker 1: It's about Lebron, all right, so I bring this up
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Speaker 1: because Byron Scott it was kind of a big deal.
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Speaker 1: If you're old, you know who Byron Scott is, because
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Speaker 1: he was a big deal in the nineteen eighties Showtime
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Speaker 1: of the Lakers, which is like forty years ago, my god,
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Speaker 1: Laker Royalty. So he got cornered by TMZ. He forty
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Speaker 1: miles zone, which has a nice compound there in the
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Speaker 1: South Bay. So anyway, Byron Scott was confronted by a
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Speaker 1: paparazzo from TMZ and he said, no statue for Lebron.
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Speaker 1: Paraphrasing what he said. He said that Lebron needs to
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Speaker 1: do more as a Laker. So and then he questions
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Speaker 1: like one title, six or seven years. Byron Scott said,
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Speaker 1: that's not statue worthy. Okay, so let us discuss the
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Speaker 1: question you've got Byron Scott nineteen eighty Showtime Laker. Byron
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Speaker 1: Scott saying Lebron James still needs to do more to
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Speaker 1: earn one of those hokeey little statues they have in
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Speaker 1: that mausoleum outside that arena on skid Row in La.
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Speaker 1: So what is he really saying? What is he really saying?
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Speaker 1: So Byron Scott is holding the line hold that line.
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Speaker 1: He's holding the line right there, and I actually agree
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Speaker 1: with him. He's reminding the slow people that the bronze
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Speaker 1: Statue club outside the crypt arena that they play at
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Speaker 1: there is not for tourists passing through. It's not it's
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Speaker 1: for lifers, right, it's for magic Kareem, Jerry West, Kobe Bryant,
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Speaker 1: people along those lines, and guys who bled the Laker
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Speaker 1: dogma for years and years and years. But there is
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Speaker 1: a hidden message.
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Speaker 3: To me.
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Speaker 1: That's the interesting part of what Byron Scott said. Because
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Speaker 1: there's a hidden message. It's written in invisible ink. It's
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Speaker 1: written in invisible ink, and it's Byron Scott's really saying
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Speaker 1: that Lebron's bubble ring is Mickey Mouse. It's a Mickey
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Speaker 1: Mouse special and it was one at Goofy's Playhouse that
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Speaker 1: you don't get a statue for that. That's not how
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Speaker 1: it works. That's not real. That's phony. That's a phony
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Speaker 1: malooney ring. That's what Byron Scott is saying. And if
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Speaker 1: you want one of those big shiny statues that birds
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Speaker 1: can poop on, you don't win your little trinket at
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Speaker 1: Disney World in Orlando, all right, you win it at
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Speaker 1: an actual basketball arena like the Forum back in the day,
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Speaker 1: or what used to be called Staples is now called
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Speaker 1: the Crypt or whatever it's called, with real human beings,
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Speaker 1: real fans in attendance. That's legit, right, not in some
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Speaker 1: hermantically sealed Orlando lab experiment where they were just throwing
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Speaker 1: everyone in there. And let's not forget Lebron also is
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Speaker 1: he's a Ohio guys from Akron, but he's mister Cleveland
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Speaker 1: Cavalier and all that he oozes Ohio. That's where he's
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Speaker 1: gonna get his statue, and that's it. Maybe Miami because
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Speaker 1: they give a lot of statues. Well, of course Lakers
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Speaker 1: give a ton of statues too. I like that Byron
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Speaker 1: Scott though, is at least keeping it real and saying
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Speaker 1: how ridiculous this is right.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 1: I'm not a statue guy, you know that. I'm not
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Speaker 1: a statue guy. I don't believe in that. But if
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Speaker 1: you give Lebron a statue and front of where the
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Speaker 1: Lakers play, it cheapens all the other people that were
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Speaker 1: legitimately big time as a Laker. It cheapens that by
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Speaker 1: giving Lebron the championship. It's kind of like if you
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Speaker 1: were to go into the Smithsonian Museum there in Washington,
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Speaker 1: all those different museums in the Smithsonian, and you put
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Speaker 1: a Madam Tusseau Wax figure in the middle of it. Well, no,
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Speaker 1: that's just that's not where it belongs. It doesn't belong there,
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Speaker 1: and what are you doing? So Byron Scott, he's really
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Speaker 1: spelling it out that Lebron is a rental not a
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Speaker 1: real Laker legend. And I listen on this one. I agree.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 1: Now, final thought, we go to football to Nashville, Tennessee,
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Speaker 1: where bad is good, where bad is good because the
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Speaker 1: Titans are yet to get whole. They were the worst
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Speaker 1: team in football last year and they're sitting at zero
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Speaker 1: and three. I'm told that's not good. Got crushed by
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Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts in a game that was played this
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Speaker 1: past weekend in a domination situation. How big a blowout.
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Speaker 1: That wasn't the worst blowout of all time. But Indianapolis
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Speaker 1: put up forty one points the Tennessee Titans had just twenty.
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Speaker 1: So that is a plus twenty one for the team
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Speaker 1: from Indianapolis, who put up three hundred and sixty five
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Speaker 1: yards of offense in that particular game. And so I
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Speaker 1: bring this up because after said game, after that particular
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Speaker 1: game ended, one of the participants for the Indianapolis football team,
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Speaker 1: a whiteout named Michael Pittman Junior, said the Titans didn't
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Speaker 1: even want to play. Say what, Yeah, they said they
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Speaker 1: didn't want to play. Do you believe this? He said
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Speaker 1: he could tell before the game that the players were
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Speaker 1: not fired up. They were bouncing around the pregame introductions,
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Speaker 1: and he basically called them out for not giving a
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Speaker 1: damn From Michael Pittman, Junior of the Indianapolis football team.
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Speaker 1: So question, you've got Titans coach Brian Callahan. Now, Brian Callahan,
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Speaker 1: of course disagrees with Michael Pittman. He disagrees with the
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Speaker 1: public perception that his team didn't want to play. He
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Speaker 1: disagrees with that against the Colts. So what's really going
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Speaker 1: on on this one? So based on when I flipped
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Speaker 1: over to the Colts Titans game, based on what I saw,
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Speaker 1: Michael Pittman hit the bullseye because that's the energy that
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Speaker 1: they gave out. And how lucky are the Indianapolis Colts
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Speaker 1: to begin this year? The Indianapolis Colts the first game
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Speaker 1: of the year. They played the Miami Dolphins who didn't
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Speaker 1: want to be there. They just didn't want to be there,
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Speaker 1: and they fell behind thirty to nothing. Then the Colts
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Speaker 1: were gifted because of some special team Shenanigans a win
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Speaker 1: against the Denver Broncos late and now they've played the
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Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans and they Titans weren't that interested. So wow,
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Speaker 1: you talk about living a charmed life. I would say
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Speaker 1: that's pretty pretty good for Indianapolis start the year. But
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Speaker 1: the story here is on the Tennessee side of things,
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Speaker 1: And we mentioned Brian Callahan. He's like, well, of course
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Speaker 1: he disagrees with Michael Pittman and the Colts and all that.
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Speaker 1: I agree with Pittman. He's right. Tennessee looked like they
18:36
Speaker 1: were walking through molasses early in that game and then
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Speaker 1: they fell behind. He just had a loof uncaring approach
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Speaker 1: to the game. And so it's like they'd rather be
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Speaker 1: anywhere other than at their job on Sunday, like they,
18:51
Speaker 1: you know, when they were essentially waving the white flag
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Speaker 1: as the game was getting underway. It's the football equivalent
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Speaker 1: to hitting the snooze button on the old alarm clock
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Speaker 1: and just sleeping all the way through. The Titans rolled
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Speaker 1: over and they pulled a blanket up. They pulled that
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Speaker 1: back up and they said, you know what, We're gonna
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Speaker 1: go back to bed. We're out of here. That's it.
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Speaker 1: And meanwhile, Brian Callahan, he's over there in the corner
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Speaker 1: of the room. He's like, oh, no, no, no, we
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Speaker 1: wanted to play. My guys wanted to play. We wanted
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Speaker 1: to play the game. No you didn't. No, you did not.
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Speaker 1: And if that's you wanting to play, then God help
19:32
Speaker 1: you when your team does not want to play. Holy crap.
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Speaker 1: Right now, the heel a monster in the room. You've
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Speaker 1: got Brian Callahan who's on borrowed time. He's on borrowed
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Speaker 1: time now thin ice ice baby for the coach in Tennessee.
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Speaker 1: You've got a new GM Mike Borganzi. You've got a
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Speaker 1: new head of football ops, this guy, Chad Brinker. Neither
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Speaker 1: one of them were were there when in prominent roles
20:02
Speaker 1: when the coach Callahan was hired, So he's essentially a
20:07
Speaker 1: sub letter Brian Callahan in the building. At this particular point,
20:13
Speaker 1: they're just waiting for the least to run out and
20:15
Speaker 1: then they'll they'll make a change and that's it. But
20:18
Speaker 1: it's the doomsday clock. You can almost hear it straight
20:24
Speaker 1: out of nuclear war talk, like the second hand just
20:27
Speaker 1: ticked a minute closer to midnight, and you can almost
20:33
Speaker 1: vaguely see it off in the distance there on the horizon,
20:35
Speaker 1: like Callahan's sitting there, he's got his head set on,
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Speaker 1: and you know upstairs, upstairs, they're already whispering, who would
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Speaker 1: the next guy be? Do we hire a college coach?
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Speaker 1: Maybe we hired Danny in Nashville. We'll just hire a
20:49
Speaker 1: guy named Danny, and Nashville who moved to Miami will
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Speaker 1: hire him, and then boom, before you know it, it's
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Speaker 1: after that it's midnight. And because you definitely cannot sell apathy,
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Speaker 1: cannot do it. You cannot sell apathy in the NFA.
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Speaker 1: You can sell you can sell a lot of things.
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Speaker 1: You can't sell indifference. You can't sell that. You can't
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Speaker 1: sell apathy. You can con some of the people some
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Speaker 1: of the time, which, as the line goes, is often enough.
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Speaker 1: But in terms of the greatest con of them all rebuilding,
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Speaker 1: where you're gonna put an inferior product on the field.
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Speaker 1: You're not really trying to win, but pay full price
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Speaker 1: to watch a crappy product that's rebuilding. But you cannot,
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Speaker 1: you cannot look like you don't care while you're using
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Speaker 1: the R word capital R rebuild. Once the players give
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Speaker 1: off that vibe, once that energy is out there, the
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Speaker 1: now though the Mallor Riddle of the day. That's right,
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Speaker 1: there's no such thing as lizard people. That's what he said.
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Speaker 1: Know about that? King Rory says there is no ice
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Speaker 1: cream in the locker room. He said, uh, sensible wardrobe
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Speaker 1: for Tom Looney from Late Night Drug Testery, I have
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Speaker 1: nothing to do. Well. We used to have a wardrobe
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Speaker 1: budget at NBC, but we don't have that anymore. So
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Speaker 1: Looney is just going through his closet and wearing whatever's there.
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Speaker 1: Who else we have a page down? Ferg Dog says
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Speaker 1: there's no such thing as a perfect man. I disagree.
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Speaker 1: It's a little creepy for dog, A little creepy. Andy
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Speaker 1: in Lino Lakes, Minnesota says there is no such thing
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Speaker 1: as a friendly Philadelphia fan says alf the Alien Opiner
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Speaker 1: says there is no such thing as a chicken finger.
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Speaker 1: Wash your mouth out with soap and water. How dare
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Speaker 1: you olt? Bill Hoo's Your bill was a yapping about
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Speaker 1: some solar eclipse viewing party at Griffiths Observatory. I have
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Speaker 1: no idea what that is? What else do we have
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Speaker 1: to see? Page that I forty Ian says there's no
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Speaker 1: such thing as momentum, no such thing as a cheese
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Speaker 1: whiz cheese steak. Yeah, that's a tough one, and I
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Speaker 1: always base my cheese steak knowledge. Wait a minute he said.
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Speaker 1: Econ Rosal Messo says, cheese whiz. There's no such thing
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Speaker 1: as cheese wiz on a cheese steak. That's literally what
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Speaker 1: it's like, original cheese. That is incorrect. Tony Bruno, who
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Speaker 1: is mister Philadelphia, Who's is South Philadelphia. Tony was my
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Speaker 1: advisor of our Old Morning Guy, and Tony told me,
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Speaker 1: he said, listen to the authentic cheese steak is prolong.
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Speaker 1: That's the cheese you're supposed to use, Provlo, not the
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Speaker 1: cheese whiz. The problom Anca Terra says a subpar episode
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Speaker 1: of The Mallor Show. Very kind of you to say
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Speaker 1: that there's no such thing as Santa from courtesy Flusher.
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Speaker 1: How dare you? Oh no, don't say that. No such
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Speaker 1: thing as match fixing in the NFL. The mister Irrigation.
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Speaker 1: I love you to death, mister Irrigation, but you're quoting
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Speaker 1: a parody account. You keep sending these stories from a
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Speaker 1: social media account, which is satire. It's not real. But
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Speaker 1: I appreciate you. You're passionate for that. Attillo says, no
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Speaker 1: such thing as good Philly Gabba gool. Jersey Baby, that's
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Speaker 1: where it's at, Jersey Baby, no crying in baseball from
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Speaker 1: Donkey Sausage. That's his answer. Who else? The Smurfs? From
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Speaker 1: JT the Wingman? All right, do you have an answer, Lorraine? Uh? Yes, Ben,
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Speaker 1: he said, there's no such thing as inflation. Well minded
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Speaker 1: of that, every time I go to the store, try
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Speaker 1: to get a raise. No, that is incorrect. The correct
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Speaker 1: answer is Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurt says, there is no
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Speaker 1: such thing as luck. There is no such thing as luck, wisdom.
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Speaker 1: That's very wise words. Well, he's disrespecting Andrew Luck. And also,
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Speaker 1: may I add he's disrespecting the Lucky Streak Cigarette Company's
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Speaker 1: Lady Luck. Of course that that was their thing, Lady Luck. Right,
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Speaker 1: and uh and then Sinatra saying Lady Luck as well,
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Speaker 1: So lady tonight night. There you go. That's the way
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Speaker 1: it works. All right, let's go to the phones, and
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Speaker 1: we still need I need some contestants here. If you
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Speaker 1: guys don't want to play the games anymore, we'll stop
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Speaker 1: doing it. But the Mallards amount of money eight seven
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Speaker 1: seven ninety nine on Foxes, Salo to Moe Joe Rising,
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Speaker 1: Who's up next? Hello, Mojoe Rising?
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Speaker 6: Oh?
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Speaker 4: Break gone through to the Ben Mallor show. How you doing, mister.
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Speaker 1: Benn, mister Moe Joe. Not potato, not potato, just the
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Speaker 1: real authentic mojo hanging out there in the bay. And
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Speaker 1: you got to get up early for work, right, you
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Speaker 1: know you're on a weird schedule.
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Speaker 4: Actually, man, I am my schedules, honestly.
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Speaker 1: I love it.
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Speaker 4: Man, it's sixty two thirty. You know, it sucks that
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Speaker 4: I gotta go to BETTERLANDA. I kind of miss your
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Speaker 4: show half the time I listened to it. In a
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Speaker 4: half time, I'll be awake and you know all that.
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Speaker 4: But yeah, man, it's great to be out at two
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Speaker 4: thirty in the out community and get home do your thing,
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Speaker 4: you know, start watching the sports shows. But you know
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Speaker 4: you have plenty of time for the Monday night game,
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Speaker 4: which is really a good game tonight. Boy, I'll tell
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Speaker 4: you Lions and the Ravens, what a game.
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Speaker 1: That was good. I'm glad you said that because one
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Speaker 1: of our guys are bringing to your generals. Well, wasn't
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Speaker 1: that good a game? I'm like, what do you expect
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Speaker 1: that was? That was back and forth? The Ravens would score,
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Speaker 1: the Lions would score, back and forth, tie game until
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Speaker 1: the late in the second half. That was a good
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Speaker 1: That was his outstanding game? Was tiy I believe going
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Speaker 1: to the fourth quarter?
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Speaker 6: Was it not?
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Speaker 1: I think it was?
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Speaker 4: Yes, Yeah, absolutely, absolutely outstanding game. Really, the Lions kind
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Speaker 4: of surprised me because we know that they don't play
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Speaker 4: that great on the road. But I still say that
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Speaker 4: the Ravens. The Ravens are I don't know what it
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Speaker 4: is that I think they could possibly break through this year,
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Speaker 4: either them or the Bills.
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Speaker 1: What are we talking about? They have the worst defense
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Speaker 1: in football? What are you talking about, Mojo Rising? They're
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Speaker 1: dead last in defense in the entire NFL.
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Speaker 4: I know I'm being facetious. I'm a Raider. Fancy you
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Speaker 4: know how it is. You're just like you think, oh, well, gee,
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Speaker 4: well's think about it. The Raiders. The Raiders probably still
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Speaker 4: couldn't beat the Ravens.
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Speaker 1: No, they actually beat him last year, though, which is
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Speaker 1: very bizarre.
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Speaker 4: Oh that's true, they did, so how weird is it?
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Speaker 1: The Raiders. Gino Smith had this great stat line and
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Speaker 1: if you saw the game, I assume you watched it
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Speaker 1: or heard about the game that Gino Smith had one
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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty five yards and two touchdowns in the
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Speaker 1: fourth quarter The game was thirty four to ten. That
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Speaker 1: is the personification, the epitome of stat Bendito Gino Smith
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Speaker 1: in that particular game.
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Speaker 4: My god, yeah, I mean Gino. I mean he's the
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Speaker 4: middle of the road quarterback. The Raiders are lucky to
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Speaker 4: be in middle of the road team. I called him
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Speaker 4: before about their non home field advantage in Vegas, the worst.
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Speaker 4: It's the worst that ever probably in the history of
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Speaker 4: the NFL team. Now he had the greatest black hole
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Speaker 4: back in you know, the diehard Raider fans here in
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Speaker 4: Oakland and now in Vegas. You could play anybody. You
31:07
Speaker 4: could play the Panthers. As a matter of fact, I
31:09
Speaker 4: think last year when they played the Panthers, they had
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Speaker 4: more blue in the stadium.
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Speaker 1: Well, the test, the test is always the Arizona Cardinals.
31:15
Speaker 1: That's always the test if because they have they have
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Speaker 1: no real fans. So if the if the Cardinals end
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Speaker 1: up with more fans, that's that's the bottom. You've reached
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Speaker 1: the very bottom. All right, Well, Mojo, thank you buddy.
31:25
Speaker 1: Get to get some rest. That's a great motive you guys,
31:28
Speaker 1: thank you for listening. The great Mojo rising where he goes,
31:32
Speaker 1: only he knows there you go. It is the Ben
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Speaker 1: Malor Show. I think we have some contestants here that
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Speaker 1: have answered the call. And let's see who we are.
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Speaker 1: We saylo to Kevin, who's in I believe southern California?
31:48
Speaker 1: What's going on?
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Speaker 4: Kevin?
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Speaker 1: Welcome? Welcome? Hello, Kevin? What's going You want to play
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Speaker 1: the game?
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Speaker 2: Yes?
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Speaker 1: Sure, you know how the game works?
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Speaker 3: I think so I do good?
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Speaker 1: When? Okay? So well, all right, that's all right, that's fine.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure to do find out. Who do you want
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Speaker 1: to partner up with here? Kevin? Yet?
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Speaker 2: Me or me?
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Speaker 1: All right? Well, we're in it to win it? Very good?
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Speaker 1: Hold on a shocker. They always choose you, Ben, if
32:17
Speaker 1: you want, I can have someone choose you. Still working
32:20
Speaker 1: on my sports knowledge, but maybe in like five years,
32:22
Speaker 1: five years, Oh my god. So Kevin's gonna play alongside me.
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Speaker 1: We've got Tyler in Boston. Who's going to play? Hello? Tyler? Welcome?
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Speaker 4: What's going on? Benny?
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Speaker 1: You out working right now? Tyler? On your way? And
32:38
Speaker 1: I got you? All right, Well I've already been picked, Tyler.
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Speaker 1: So who do you want to partner up with here?
32:43
Speaker 1: You want to go with the Rena or coop as.
32:46
Speaker 4: Much as I love Lorena. I'll have to take on
32:48
Speaker 4: that song.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry not picked again? All right, fine, now you
32:52
Speaker 1: know my life in elementary school when I wasn't picked
32:55
Speaker 1: for kickball? All right, now you know what it's like.
32:58
Speaker 1: You see you have that that pretty girl privilege. But
33:01
Speaker 1: right now you don't. You see that that's ugly people.
33:03
Speaker 1: Privilege is what we have here, is all right?
33:06
Speaker 7: Well? Anyway, gentlemen, this is Malard's Mountain of Money, the
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Speaker 7: jone Jet edition. She turned sixty seven years old on Monday,
33:14
Speaker 7: happy birthday. Yes, the categories are you don't know what
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Speaker 7: you've got? Bad reputation. I love rock and roll and
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Speaker 7: everyday people. Kevin, you were on first, Which category.
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Speaker 1: Would you like?
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Speaker 4: I think?
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Speaker 1: All right, man loves rock and roll and Tyler, how
33:33
Speaker 1: about you?
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Speaker 4: Bad reputation, bad reputation?
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Speaker 1: All right, like that might be you, Tyler. All right,
33:38
Speaker 1: A hold on, gentlemen, do not hang up. We will
33:41
Speaker 1: pause for the cause, and then we will have in
33:44
Speaker 1: its entirety, we will have the game. If you're on hold,
33:47
Speaker 1: you're our backup in case one of these two guys
33:50
Speaker 1: hangs up. But we'll have Malard's Mountain of Money. We'll
33:54
Speaker 1: get to that and we will do it next.
33:58
Speaker 3: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Mallor
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Speaker 6: Now, Mailor's Mountain of money? Do you have what it
34:50
Speaker 6: takes to get to the top? Probably not, Oh, let's do.
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Speaker 1: Here we go. We've got Kevin, who's hanging out in
34:57
Speaker 1: a beautiful Joshua tree in southern California. He's matched up
35:02
Speaker 1: with me, and we've got Tyler on his way to
35:04
Speaker 1: work in Boston, and he is matched up with Cooper Loop.
35:08
Speaker 1: But is the Jones, Jededish and Kevin you picked I
35:12
Speaker 1: love rock and roll? Is that correct? Kevin? All right?
35:16
Speaker 1: These athletes have all performed in or with rock bands.
35:20
Speaker 1: We need the first and last name. Do you understand?
35:23
Speaker 4: Yes?
35:24
Speaker 1: All right, forty five seconds on the clock. We're on
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Speaker 1: our way. Go greatest nineteen eighties professional wrestler. He just
35:31
Speaker 1: passed away blonde hair. Yes, Steelers quarterback in the seventies.
35:36
Speaker 1: He's on the NFL on Fox right now on the weekend. Yes,
35:41
Speaker 1: he had a serial named after him. He was a
35:43
Speaker 1: star at Boston College. A little short quarterback hit a
35:47
Speaker 1: Hail Mary pass. He's played with the Patriots. Yes, very angry.
35:52
Speaker 1: Nineteen eighties white guy tennis player yelled at Yes. The
35:57
Speaker 1: Flying Tomato was his nickname. He was snowboarder in the Olympics.
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Speaker 1: What's his name? All right? Pitcher for the White Sox
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Speaker 1: and the Yankees. White guy named black Jack starting pitcher
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Speaker 1: in the in the nineties. Yeah, yeah, that I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you said his first name, I said Blackjack.
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Speaker 1: That's the That's not his name. His name is part
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Speaker 1: of his names in the nickname. That's questionable, right, how
36:26
Speaker 1: many points is that? It should be one hundred? Cheating again?
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Speaker 7: Okay, Kevin, some garlic? Okay, Tyler, Tyler, we have bad reputation. Uh,
36:37
Speaker 7: these sports figures all have a bad reputation.
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Speaker 1: Are you ready? Will Coop's voice maker?
36:43
Speaker 4: Ready?
36:44
Speaker 1: All right?
36:45
Speaker 7: Forty five seconds of the clock. Let's begin. Bill's running
36:48
Speaker 7: back killed two people? Yes, Patriots tight end killed one person.
36:55
Speaker 1: Yes. Uh, this guy was the head coach of Penn State.
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Speaker 1: He'd let some Yes. Uh.
37:02
Speaker 7: This guy was a running back for the Ravens. He
37:05
Speaker 7: beat up his wife in an elevator right. Yes, this
37:08
Speaker 7: was a figure skater. She had her ex husband take
37:10
Speaker 7: a crowbar to the Nancy Kerrigan's knee. Yes, this guy
37:14
Speaker 7: was a wide receiver for the Raiders. He drove like
37:17
Speaker 7: one hundred and ten miles an hour. Yes, this guy
37:21
Speaker 7: was a on the Tampa Bay Rays.
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Speaker 1: He was in a relationship with a fourteen year old
37:26
Speaker 1: in the Dominican Republic. Let's go. So that was so easy? God,
37:34
Speaker 1: it's not easy. That's right, that's right. Good job, that's you.
37:39
Speaker 1: Shut up job, Tylers. Come on, Kevin ran the blood, Kevin,
37:43
Speaker 1: that's what I call domination. Get how about you get
37:45
Speaker 1: a throat laws in? How about that? Get a damn
37:47
Speaker 1: throat log? Do you sound like Doc Rivers over there?
37:50
Speaker 1: All right, Kevin?
37:52
Speaker 4: What do you want?
37:53
Speaker 1: Yeah? You don't know what you got? Or everyday people,
37:58
Speaker 1: you don't know what you got? All right, you don't
37:59
Speaker 1: know what you very good? Forty five seconds on o'clock.
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Speaker 1: These athletes were all traded before they reached superstardom. Are
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Speaker 1: you ready, Kevin? I hope so, yeah, all right, here
38:10
Speaker 1: we go. He was known as the chief of the
38:12
Speaker 1: nineteen eighties Boston Celtics, the center alongside McHale and yes, uh,
38:18
Speaker 1: mister big shot for the Pistons. He was drafted by
38:21
Speaker 1: the Celtics guard. Yes, a closer for the Podres and
38:25
Speaker 1: the nineties where the all time great Hall of Fame closers. Yeah,
38:31
Speaker 1: keep talking, Yes uh. The pitcher for the Reds for
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Speaker 1: the Red Sox and the Expos was traded by the
38:37
Speaker 1: Dodgers for the Lino de Shields. Yes, uh, forty nine
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Speaker 1: ers quarterback after Joe Montana. There was yes, uh, the
38:46
Speaker 1: Bambino for the Yankees. Yes, and the and the beard
38:51
Speaker 1: for the Clippers. Yeah, I get that.
38:56
Speaker 7: We read all right, all right, Tyler, let's go every day, Tyler,
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Speaker 7: let's go. These athletes all got regular jobs after their
39:03
Speaker 7: playing careers. Forty five seconds, let's begin, alright. He was
39:06
Speaker 7: a center for the Milwaukee Bucks and the SuperSonics. He's
39:08
Speaker 7: an assistant coach on the Bucks right now. His last
39:11
Speaker 7: name is like what you do to cookies. Yes, all right,
39:19
Speaker 7: you were a cheater. You were a cheater, Tyler.
39:22
Speaker 1: You would a cook