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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 1: So I'd made a statement any previous episode, I said,
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  Speaker 1: We're done with the soccer monologue. I'm not doing a
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  Speaker 1: full soccer monologue here. That is not happening. However, have
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  Speaker 1: we have a mantra?
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  Speaker 3: You know?
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  Speaker 1: You never know people, Sai, How do you get do
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  Speaker 1: the same You've been doing sports talk radio since the nineties.
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  Speaker 1: How can you still be doing it?
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god?
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  Speaker 1: The reason you're doing is every day it's different, dummy.
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  Speaker 1: Every day there's something to you to talking about. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know when I go to bed and wake up,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know what's gonna be the thing. For example,
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  Speaker 1: our lead this hour is plausibly from the World Cup,
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  Speaker 1: and everyone's still yapping about a messy situation here even
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  Speaker 1: TB twelve has entered the chat as a hype man. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you were not paying attention because America was eliminated,
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  Speaker 1: so you stopped watching the World Cup, bad job by you.
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  Speaker 1: So if you were not paying attention here, the Round
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  Speaker 1: of sixteen is not done but a game played in
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  Speaker 1: the afternoon hours in Atlanta, Georgia. You had Argentina looking
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  Speaker 1: like they needed last rites here, they needed the clergy
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  Speaker 1: to come in. It was all over, It's about to
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  Speaker 1: be turned out the lodge, the parties over, the reigning
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  Speaker 1: World Cup champions of the last World Cup about to
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  Speaker 1: exit stage left, down to nothing to the Egyptians, and
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  Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, the thing that you didn't
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  Speaker 1: think was gonna happen happen. This is getting kind of
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  Speaker 1: late in the second half of the game and down
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  Speaker 1: to nothing to egypt Lionel Messi conduct a thirteen minute
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  Speaker 1: resurrection for Argentina there and it was so impressive.
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  Speaker 3: How impressive was it?
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  Speaker 1: It was so impressive that Tom Brady, I'm sure completely
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  Speaker 1: organically popped up and he said, I'm over here in
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  Speaker 1: the digital bushes, I'm gonna pop up here like a
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  Speaker 1: whack a mole, and I'd like to enter the chat.
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  Speaker 3: So if you didn't hear about it, maybe not.
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  Speaker 1: Tom Brady said, the comeback by Argentina down two to
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  Speaker 1: zero and then winning three to two against Egypt. He said,
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  Speaker 1: quote might top twenty eight to three, referencing the greatest
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  Speaker 1: moment in Super Bowl history of the Patriots down in
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl fifty one by that score against the pathetic
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons. And we know what happened. Well, those of
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  Speaker 1: you that are old enough to remember, and those of
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  Speaker 1: you that were alive at the time. It's been a
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  Speaker 1: few years. I was in Super Bowl fifty one, which
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  Speaker 1: also happened to be in where the home of Chick
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  Speaker 1: fil A Atlanta, right there in Atlanta. So that is
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  Speaker 1: a good jumping off point led us. Just because obviously
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  Speaker 1: people get carried away with this.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, Tom Brady said that. Why did he
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  Speaker 3: say that. I don't understand.
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  Speaker 1: It's not that deep. Okay, it's not. So let's discuss
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  Speaker 1: the question. How do you classify Tom Brady saying Lionel
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  Speaker 1: Messi's come back for Argentina quote my top his Patriots
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  Speaker 1: and that epic Super Bowl rally back in the day.
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  Speaker 1: So my thoughts on this, I've got Jack in the box,
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  Speaker 1: We've got Granny Smith and dual speed motors, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: combine all of these things together and we are going
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  Speaker 1: to whittle this down to size, is what we're going
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  Speaker 1: to do. So a we begin here. So Lionel Messi,
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  Speaker 1: who seemingly and he didn't do everything, he did a lot.
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  Speaker 1: He assisted on the first goal and then scored the
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  Speaker 1: second of the three goals, able to bend, not like Beckham,
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  Speaker 1: but bend reality to bring Argentina back, adding another layer
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  Speaker 1: to the mythology of his career for those of you
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  Speaker 1: that to soccer people who you get all horny for that.
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  Speaker 1: So congratulations on that. And it was, as we said,
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  Speaker 1: I'll use the word again, resurrection. It was a full
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  Speaker 1: resurrection against the Egyptians. While tom Brady just kind of
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  Speaker 1: what he did here is he bent the structure of
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  Speaker 1: the sentence if you feel me on that right he
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  Speaker 1: put on tom Brady put on his overalls and said
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to go farmer, John, is.
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  Speaker 3: What I'm going to do here.
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  Speaker 1: And when he said the comeback might might top twenty
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  Speaker 1: eight to three, this was not some kind of deep
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  Speaker 1: cutting analysis by Tom Brady. That is not what happened here.
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  Speaker 1: This is what's known. Say with me now, kids, pure
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  Speaker 1: social media engagement. That's what this is. That's the game.
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  Speaker 1: You're engagement farming, and that's how you do it. You
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  Speaker 1: toss it out there, Brady. What he did is he
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  Speaker 1: visited the drive through at Jack in the Box, which
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  Speaker 1: is odd because Tom doesn't eat that kind of food.
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  Speaker 1: And he went through the drive through and he cranked
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  Speaker 1: up the nursery rhyme that often is accompanied by Jack
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  Speaker 1: in the Box, the actual Jack in the Box, and
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  Speaker 1: that would be pop goes Louise all. Yep, the weasel word,
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  Speaker 1: universal ultimate weasel word. Might I might give you ten
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  Speaker 1: million dollars. I might go to Mars. I might go
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  Speaker 1: to the dreaded day Shift.
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  Speaker 3: You never know. I might.
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  Speaker 1: If they pay me enough money, I'll do it. Everyone's
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  Speaker 1: got a price. That's the word, right. Only the goat
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  Speaker 1: could compare a standard soccer comeback. Now, this is a
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  Speaker 1: little not your standard comeback. But this is not the
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  Speaker 1: final game of the World Cup. Obviously, if it was that,
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  Speaker 1: we had a different conversation. This was not that you
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  Speaker 1: still have to win a couple more games and all
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  Speaker 1: that to get the big trophy thing.
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  Speaker 3: They got. When you win the World Cup and.
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  Speaker 1: The NFL the Super Bowl, that was it. You don't
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  Speaker 1: come back from twenty eight to three. It's over. So
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  Speaker 1: the greatest rally in NFL history. Obviously, it's Brady left
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  Speaker 1: himself a little backdoor escape pod hatch thing that he
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  Speaker 1: could go through on this. It's kind of like a
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  Speaker 1: wizard if wizards were true.
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  Speaker 3: We know they're not. Have you seen the Washington Wizards.
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  Speaker 3: They're nothing. No, they're not real. There's no real wizards.
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  Speaker 1: But if you if they were, you know, as it
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  Speaker 1: go full Harry Potter, it's like a wizard whispering that
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  Speaker 1: the spell. Hey, I'm giving you a spell. It could work,
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  Speaker 1: It might work, Okay, okay, great, wonderful. He didn't actually say,
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  Speaker 1: Brady that it topped the Patriots comeback.
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  Speaker 3: He did not.
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  Speaker 1: He just masterfully left a dent in the narrative. So
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  Speaker 1: not a big Bowld sports take. Brady doesn't do that.
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  Speaker 1: That's my game. That's not his game. He doesn't dabble
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  Speaker 1: in our world. He can't handle the dark arts of
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  Speaker 1: the hot take, the proper delivery of the hot take.
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  Speaker 3: Cannot do it. It was calculated, I will tell you.
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  Speaker 1: It's a Hall of fame hedging, hall of fame hedging
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  Speaker 1: maneuver designed to rack up some cheap engagement in impressions
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  Speaker 1: and all that. And it was gymnastics. It would be
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  Speaker 1: elite linguistic gymnastics by tom is how that would go?
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  Speaker 3: All right?
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile to the fallout, to the fallout as yet again
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  Speaker 1: another day, more reaction to Team USA getting into the
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  Speaker 1: fetal position and sucking their thumb in the game the
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  Speaker 1: other day against Belgium, and a number of you said, well.
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  Speaker 3: Why didn't you talk about what they said on the broadcast?
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  Speaker 3: All right, so I didn't bring it up. You guys
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  Speaker 3: are upset apparently think I'm covering for Fox or something.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: They don't know who I am. I am tissue and
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  Speaker 1: their tuckis is what I am. Okay, So forget about that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care.
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  Speaker 3: I don't have much to worry about in that regard.
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  Speaker 1: I will tell you my take is a little different,
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  Speaker 1: I think than others when regarding the story. If you
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  Speaker 1: don't know the story, USA got smushed like a snail
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  Speaker 1: getting crushed on the sidewalk there four to one by Belgium.
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  Speaker 1: They were decommissioned from the World Cup and the number
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  Speaker 1: of you seemed genuinely puzzled on the Fox broadcast when
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  Speaker 1: somebody named John Strong.
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  Speaker 3: That sounds like a fake name. Apparently that's the play
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  Speaker 3: by play guy.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even know who was. I've been watching all
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  Speaker 1: these games. I don't know these people are. I have
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  Speaker 1: no idea. I'm not a soccer person. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: there's some generic people. Okay, what are they saying? Fair
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  Speaker 1: enough anyway, So this guy John Strong had a parting message,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, and this resonated with some In the
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  Speaker 1: final seconds, the clock was winding down, it was, as
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  Speaker 1: the Great Marv Albert would say, extended garbage time, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of garbage time, and so they were just kind
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  Speaker 1: of filling things out there and the game, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: since it was Belgium, you could say it was in
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  Speaker 1: the waffle maker and the waffle maker was closed and
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  Speaker 1: the waffle was made, and it was.
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  Speaker 3: Just that was the way it was.
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  Speaker 1: And so this guy John Strong said, if you've enjoyed
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  Speaker 1: this is the line.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna repeat this. I believe I'm quitting this forbatim.
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  Speaker 1: If you've enjoyed what you're seeing, well support your local team.
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  Speaker 1: This doesn't have to be the last soccer you watch
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  Speaker 1: for the next four years. It's a beautiful sport. And
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  Speaker 1: then he dropped the mic and that was that. So
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  Speaker 1: the question where are you at on the World Cup
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  Speaker 1: announcer saying to the fans of America, this doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: to be the last soccer game you watch for the
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  Speaker 1: next four years. Okay, so we would like to give
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  Speaker 1: an a word. The Bad Timing Award goes to this
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  Speaker 1: guy the sermon, and it really was a bit of
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  Speaker 1: a sermon here. Is kind of like the the pastor
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  Speaker 1: or the rabbi or whatever, begging the mourners to stay
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  Speaker 1: after for some coffee and some doughnuts while the body's
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  Speaker 1: still warm. Well okay, well that's that's doesn't seem like
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  Speaker 1: a good idea. That doesn't seem good. You got to
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  Speaker 1: read the room. You got to read the room here
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  Speaker 1: and you could practically hear, at least I could hear
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  Speaker 1: the crinkle of the pre written index card that was
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  Speaker 1: titled in case Team USA.
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  Speaker 3: Is eliminated, here's what you read is what we read?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, check that box. And I'm sure he had an
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  Speaker 1: index card. If the unthinkable had happened, had beaten Belgium.
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  Speaker 1: You would have heard a much different, obviously much different
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  Speaker 1: line that was prepared. Instead of the beautiful game, which
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  Speaker 1: soccer people love to tell you, it's a beautiful game.
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  Speaker 1: The people that were watching or listening to the World
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  Speaker 1: Cup game the other night, they got a cacophony of
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  Speaker 1: defensive brain farts, atrocious goaltending that would get you benched
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  Speaker 1: in a youth soccer game on a Saturday morning at
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  Speaker 1: the neighborhood park, and just essentially a ninety minute infomercial
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  Speaker 1: as to why you shouldn't watch soccer other than the
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  Speaker 1: World Cup, you shouldn't watch American soccer other than the
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  Speaker 1: World Cup. And there's a JV performance. They got completely
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  Speaker 1: exposed and instead of addressing the elephant in the room,
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  Speaker 1: we got the desperate damage control, prepackaged sales message.
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  Speaker 3: Is what we got.
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  Speaker 1: And every World Cup it reminds me of Looney Tunes
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  Speaker 1: with the Roadrunner. Every World Cup, my friends who are
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  Speaker 1: soccer people are convinced, they're hornswaggle that this is gonna
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  Speaker 1: be the World Cup that everyone goes to and never
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  Speaker 1: happens that people watch.
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  Speaker 3: They do watch.
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  Speaker 1: The ratings have been very good for the World Cup
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  Speaker 1: and everyone's been watching Team USA and it's wonderful for
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  Speaker 1: the people, the Fox and all.
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  Speaker 3: That's great.
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  Speaker 1: However, the reality is these same people will go back
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  Speaker 1: to ignoring soccer the moment.
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  Speaker 3: This thing ends.
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  Speaker 1: It's just the way it is, and the platitudes don't
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  Speaker 1: don't fix the performance and the the fact again, these
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  Speaker 1: audiences are programmed to tune in. People are busy, they
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  Speaker 1: are things going on, and they'll watch the World Cup
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  Speaker 1: because it's a big deal and your standard regular season
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  Speaker 1: MLS game, nobody gives a rats Assabah is utterly buried.
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  Speaker 1: The MLS on something called Apple Plus. I don't even
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  Speaker 1: know what that is. I have like an Apple phone,
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  Speaker 1: I have an iPhone, I have an Apple Watch. I
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  Speaker 1: don't even know what Apple Plus is. I have no idea.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta get a miner's helmet and a canary to
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  Speaker 1: find it. Hell, this is how pathetic the MLS is.
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  Speaker 1: Granny Smith those apples, the Granny Smith apples are more famous,
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  Speaker 1: that bigger reach than the MLS. Think about it. The
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  Speaker 1: Granny Smith apples are in pretty much every grocery store
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  Speaker 1: you go to. You can't find MLS on Apple. Where's Apple?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know Apple plus is anyway right now the
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  Speaker 1: last word, We're gonna pivot away from soccer.
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  Speaker 3: Hallelujah, hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: We go to the NFL and one of my favorite
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  Speaker 1: stories yet again, has popped up here. And we're still
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  Speaker 1: several weeks away from NFL training camp. It's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: here before you know it. And so we were given
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  Speaker 1: another present from the anonymous this NFL coach. Do I
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  Speaker 1: not love the anonymous NFL coach. Don't tell me that
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  Speaker 1: you're not a fan. Everyone gets a little tingly when
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  Speaker 1: they hear the anonymous NFL head coach. So this coordinator
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  Speaker 1: took our shots being packaged as a shot at Sequon Barkley.
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  Speaker 1: The criticism came from the anonymous NFL coordinator said, my criticism,
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  Speaker 1: My only criticism is that he meaning Sequon Barkley. Eagles
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  Speaker 1: doesn't always produce when things aren't completely clean. That's dating
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  Speaker 1: back to the Giants. The anonymous coach said, tends to
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  Speaker 1: need things perfectly set up for him. Close quote all right,
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  Speaker 1: question is this criticism which has some bird brains all upset?
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  Speaker 1: Is this criticism of Eagles running back Saquon Barkley. Is
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  Speaker 1: it mild, medium or hot? Or very hot, mild, medium hot,
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  Speaker 1: or very hot. So we did the taste test. It
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  Speaker 1: is certainly not fire, and brimstone is not that. It
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  Speaker 1: is mild and tangy. Mild and tangy. It is a
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  Speaker 1: reasonable capital art, reasonable criticism, and the facts of the facts.
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  Speaker 1: Barkley has what we call a dual speed motor. He's
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  Speaker 1: got two speeds. He's got oh my god, and then
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  Speaker 1: he's got where'd he go?
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  Speaker 3: Is he?
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  Speaker 4: Is?
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  Speaker 3: He in the huddle? Where'd he go?
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  Speaker 1: And it completely depends on the blocking, and he is
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  Speaker 1: the scheme dependent SuperStar's kind of like an acting You
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  Speaker 1: have the actor that can memorize the script and then
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  Speaker 1: if you ask them to do improv like go on
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  Speaker 1: something you know, like the old show That's not eying
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  Speaker 1: or curb your enthusiasm where you have to improv, they
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  Speaker 1: just couldn't do it because they don't have that ability,
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  Speaker 1: because they just repeat what they're told.
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  Speaker 3: Well.
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  Speaker 1: In many ways, Barkley is that guy. Everything's fine, He'll
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  Speaker 1: u burned through daylight and see you later, goodbye. And
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  Speaker 1: he's like an unstoppable demigod. He did that against the
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  Speaker 1: Rams a couple of years ago. Just unstoppable insane, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, Gasha for eighty yards and you'll be like,
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  Speaker 1: where did that come from? I can't believe it. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if the blocking isn't on point, and there's some gridlock
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  Speaker 1: out there, if the offensive line breaks down and the
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  Speaker 1: defensive front stacks the box, all of a sudden, he
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  Speaker 1: stops running and starts overthinking the universe and not good.
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  Speaker 1: So again, give him the gridlock, and he's a philosophy
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  Speaker 1: major out there and he's contemplating the existential dread of
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  Speaker 1: the two yard loss.
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  Speaker 3: And so that's just that's the formula. It's not really harsh.
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  Speaker 3: Criticism could be much worse, much much worse.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if you saw this or not. I
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  Speaker 1: Enormous egos get into these type of situations.
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  Speaker 3: I freaking love it.
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  Speaker 1: So Mike Francessa, the legend from Mike and the Mad
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  Speaker 1: Dog all those years, and.
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  Speaker 3: He's doing some podcasts nobody listens to other than Funhouse.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, Francessa claimed that the Mets are not just
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  Speaker 1: listening to offers, but are actively trying quote very very
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  Speaker 1: hard to trade the malcontent Francisco Indoor in.
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  Speaker 3: The coming weeks here before the trade deadline.
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  Speaker 1: Now, he claimed was all tied together because Wan's and
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  Speaker 1: Lindor are at loggerheads.
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  Speaker 3: They're not they're not buddies.
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  Speaker 1: They don't like each other, even though Steve Cohen said, yes,
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  Speaker 1: they don't like each other.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: However, they've they've been better this year.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: And Frances Clambathough the Mets are just gonna build around
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Sodo and they'll bring some other guys in.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: They're gonna change it up and all that.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: And Rosenthal shot back on his podcast Nobody Listens To
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: and he condemn Mike Francessa, saying that he's not a
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: beat reporter.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: Oh god, this is so freaking good. God. I love
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: that Rosenthal is dying on this mountain. It is so great.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: It is awesome. I'll tell you in a minute.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: So Rosenthal's claim over Frances is not a beat writer
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: and that he said, I haven't heard anything from the
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: real beat writers. So that is a good jumping off point.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question whose.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: Side are you on in this media.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Brew ha ha over the few future of the Mets
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: star Francisco Lindor. So I've got coma sweet green and kennonball,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: and we'll combine all of these things together, and we
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: are going to make a.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: Juicy Lucy for hollering James. That's what we're gonna do.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: But we always start with number. What what number? What number?
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: What?
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: Fun? It's number all right?
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: So I am siding with the Pope, Mike Francesa, the
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: sports pope. There, gas bag, blowhard, know it all Mike
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Francesa on this one. It's not even close. It's not
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: even close. Ken Rosenthal, the curmudgeon, is out here gatekeeping.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Rosenthal's gatekeeping MLB rumors like it's nineteen ninety five. This
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: is the kind of bull crap I had to deal
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: with these baseball writers when I started years ago. They
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: still control the Hall of Fame vote.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: These holes.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Okay, there is no one in the media that thinks
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: they're more important than the baseball writer.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: It is fascinating.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: And Rosenthal's from the old Country, so he's been around
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: a long time and all that. But there's a bunch
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: of guys like him that are still hanging on here
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: and they act like it's the mid nineties, they clutch
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: their rolodex and they worship their fellow Beat reporter there
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: and that, of course, the newspaper industry died. Apparently, nobody
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: told Rosenthal he hasn't worked at a newspaper in years.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: I know The Athletic was bought by the New York Times,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: but they Athletic is something different.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: Anyway.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: The point of all this is most newspapers have died
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: a very slow, painful death around Rosenthal.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: And when you say he's.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Not a Beat writer, oh you've lost the argument, Bozo,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: you have and you serenaded Mike francessa. So please, somebody
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: let Rosenthal know to wake up from his coma. All right,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: come on, can it's the nineteen nineties. Just called They say, hey,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: you want the information hierarchy back. We'd like to have
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: it back, the Beat reporter. Let's talk about that. These
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: guys at this point are glorified stenographers, right. They rewrite
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: team press releases and memos and techs sent by agents,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: that's what they do.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: And they'll put a nice polite quote in there and
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: get that maybe after the game. Of course, they didn't
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: even do that much anymore.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Their access the Beat writers' access is mostly controlled through leaks.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: They are the useful idiots, the baseball writers, and.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: The small talk in the locker room.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: And that access has even been eliminated and mostly eliminated
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: over the years. Back in the old days, used to
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: hang out in the locker room all the time, and
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: now they limit the time you.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: Can be in there. But the real information flow these
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: days the people that are in the know.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: The radio guy, the connected podcast got the insider, is
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: not the beat writer that is not the insider. And
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: a guy like Francessa who has been around it around
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: the New York sports I know he spends a lot
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: of his time in Florida these days, but nonetheless decades
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: in New York. And is it likely or unlikely that
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: he's got a direct pipeline to Steve cohen Is it
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: likely or unlikely that Steve cohen A met fanboy, loved
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Mike and the mad Dog and couldn't maybe know Mike Francessa.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Could it be true in real life? And could they
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: have had some conversations? And is it possible that Francessa
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: might have something I don't know some beat writer wouldn't have.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: So ridiculous So so ridiculous.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: And it's like Roselli, he's waiting for three Beat writers
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: to confirm a story on Twitter. Well, it's not Twitter anymore,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: it's called X. The game has changed. The game has changed,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: and hiding behind the I haven't heard it from the
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Beat guys is just elitist copium is what that is.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: It's an outdated model that Rosenthal is doing. He's just
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: trying to disrespect and this is what Rosenholt done for years.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: It's not new, but he's trying to disrespect Mike, Francessa
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: and the Beat guys often and even the national writers
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: are often compromised because they're inside.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: They think they're part of the teams. They do these dummies.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: They think they're part of the teams, and you get
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: too close and you don't want to hurt your friend's feelings,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: you know when I do that. So it gets very
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: uncomfortable and there's certain lines that can't be crossed because
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: of that, like, for example, the clear disfunction in the
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Mets clubhouse, and Francessa was like the first guy to
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: report that Lindor and Soto orchestrated behind the scenes. The
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: departure of peterl and Brandon Nimmo and a bunch of
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: these other guys that were popular players of the Mets,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: and the guys that replace them have all either sucked
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: or they blow the guys the Mets bought in. So
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: it's noted like Francesa's some random dude you've never heard
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: of who doesn't know anybody. His nickname is the sports Pope,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: that's it. And he's been right on a lot of
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: these things. So I trust him. Not that I think
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: he's a nice dude either, I think I've heard he's
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: a complete schmuck. Also got schmuck versus schmuck? All right now,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: page duode to New York we go. We're Bob Bashett,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: who's now with the Mets, and he's longtime Blue Jay,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: was in the World Series against the Doyers, that classic
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: World Series and signed with the Mets, and he talked
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: recently if he saw this or not, as his name
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: has popped up in the trade hopper, and there's a
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: lot of chatter that Boba Schet's going to be moved
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: by the Metropolitans roster teardown. If you want to met,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: you can get him met, and will the last New
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: York Met player left, which will be Juan Soto.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: Will they please turn out the lights? Yeah? All right.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Anyway, so he's got a very unique contract because he's
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: got opt out, opt out, opt out, opt out, opt
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: out all over them, hi salary, lots of escape patches.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: He's got a no trade clause, Bobashett, which complicates some things.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Bachhett recently addressed his no trade protection. Here's the quote,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: this is what we call the money quote kids, Bobaschet said, quote,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: I came to New York to win. The no trade
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: clause is there for a reason, and I'm just leaving
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: it at that close.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Quote.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: All right, question, how do you decode? How do you
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: decode New York Mets infielder Bobashett and his vague answer
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: when asked about his no trade clause as we inch
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: closer to the trade deadline, So Bobachhet, his little presser
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: was passive aggressive.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: Theater is what it was. Right. He claims he came
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: to New York to win, which is.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Complete and total hogwash Capital H, complete and total hogwash
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Capital H. The Mets offered him a sweetheart deal. By
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: all accounts, Bobaschett was lined up to go to Philadelphia
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: and choke on a cheese steak. And then at the
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: very final minute, when the Mets lost out on Kyle
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: I Suck Tucker, who's now with the Dodgers, the Mets
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: pivoted to Bobaschet and they said, okay, we got we
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: got caught with.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: Our pants down.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: We don't want to get a full of tomic weggie
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: from the fans, so we're gonna sign you. So they
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: give him a three year contract for one hundred and
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: twenty six million. And that is the reason and the
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: only reason that Boboachhett is a Met. He didn't want
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: to play for the Mets. Nobody wants to play for
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: the Mets. They got to overpay for everybody. Otherwise, you
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: want to play for the Mets, Why we won't play
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: for the Mets. They suck every year. They suck anyway,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: right now, Bobachett, who said, hey, I came to New
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: York to win, he said, the New York Mets are
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: in the sewer. They're hanging out with the teenage mutant
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Ninja Turtles in the sewer of the National League East.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: They're right there in the basement and there's some flooding.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: It sounds like it sounds like there might be something
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: gurgling up, possibly some sulfur, might be some urine, some pooh.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: It's not good. It's not good. So he went there.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: The Mets offer him the deal, and the Mets are
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: gonna be holding a bonfire coming up at the trade deadline.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Not a pennant race, Not a pennant race, a bonfire,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: and Bolberschett clutching his no trade clause like it's his blanky,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: his security blanket, while giving the most obvious wink wink answer,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: I'm just leaving it at that to the media. So
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: let's let's go to the Mallard Dakota Ring. Bolberschet's message.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Here's what it actually means. It's it's a subliminal message
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: to the Mets. The message is trade me, bro. But
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: make it look like it was your idea. Make it
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: look like, well, how does that work? You got to
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: no trade, cliad. Just make it look like it's your idea.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: That's it. He doesn't, He's not, but.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Chet's not go Bobachet's highly unlikely he's gonna stay with
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: the Mets, right, He's pretty much finished. The Mets are terrible,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: and he'll likely opt out because he's not real happy there.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: And if you figured, some other dumb team will give
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: me even more money.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: So he's done.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Ski's there could put for me too, all of that,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: and yet he's two chicken, black block chicken to say outright,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: hiding behind the noble sounding sweet green word salad and winning.
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: No, I'm here to win and all this, and you're like, well,
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: I don't know about that.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: And what he wants is his handpicked team, right you
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: look around who would who would be in the market.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: For Bobachett at the trade deadline. Well, unfortunately for.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: The Mets, two National League's teams, the Atlanta Braves and
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Phillies, who wanted him originally and seemingly would
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: find a way to put him even though they're seemingly stacked.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: They would find a way to put Bashett on the roster.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: And then Toronto. Toronto's like not good. The American League's terrible.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: So no one's really that far out of it in
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: the American League. And so you can see a home
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: coming there, all right. Final point to the round mound
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: of rebound. Charles Barkley filling up the content machine. Sir
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Charles revealed that he was invited to Taylor Swift and
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey's wedding, However, he declined. Barkley chose not to go.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Did he have work? No, Ryan Seacrest was invited for
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: some reason. I don't know what that's about. He he
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: chose not to go out he had he had work anyway. Barkley,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: in a recent sports radio appearance in Philly, explained his reasoning.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: So what was Charles Barkley's reasoning for not going? He said,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: he generally avoids weddings funerals, and he just thought the
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: event would be overwhelming.
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: Now, the wedding thing, I kind of get the funeral thing.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: That's a good mitsch. You should go to funerals. But anyway,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: not that nobody likes going to those things, but it's important.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: So Barkley said, quote, I don't go to weddings or funerals,
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: but I did get an invite and I politely declined.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Barkley said, because I thought it was going to be
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: a crap show. Barkley said, he said, quote, I love
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Travis and Jason, meaning the Kelsey brothers, and I've only
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: met Taylor one time. He's imagine getting invited to that wedding.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: You've only met her one wow. Anyway, But Barkley said,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: that's just too much. I just want to hang out
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: and play golf. I don't want to dress up and
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: all that other stuff. He said, But I appreciate the invitation.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: It was pretty special. Quotes quote all right, So the question,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: did Charles Barkley make a bold move or a boneheaded
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: by skipping the Taylor Swift Travis Kelsey wedding at Madison
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Square Garden.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: So look, we get it. Yeah, I don't know any
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: dude that likes going to weddings. I don't.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: I have yet to meet that person that's like, I
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: want to go to a wedding.
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: The funeral thing.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Also, not many people I want to go to a funeral.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: So I understand, and I love that Barkley's like a
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: ten year old child that doesn't want to get dressed up.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: I think that's great. I think that's just outstanding.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: And you'd rather be out there on the golf course
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: drinking beers and betting and all that. Despite that, though, Charles,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: this was not a wedding. See and you said in
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: your quote there, you said you didn't want to go
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: because you thought it was gonna be a crap show.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: That's the reason you go.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: That's the reason you go to that is because it
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: is and was a crap show. It was a damn circus.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: The clips that I've seen, you missed the greatest show
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: on Earth right there, you turn down a front row
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: seat to the ultimate clown show of twenty twenty six.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: The Taylor Swift Travis Kelsey wedding at Madison Square Garden, Midtown, Manhattan.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: You had the ring master Adam Sandler there officiating. I'm
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: told they raffled off Cardier watches, Chanelle bags were also
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: raffled off the exact Chevelle they wrote in on their
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: first date. All of this stuff, it's insane. This was
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: not a ceremony. This was a freak show. And you
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: had a ticket to the freak show. Charles, And remember
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: what do we always say, Life's all about the stories?
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: It is.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: It's the stories you pick up and the people you meet,
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: the places you go. That's what life's about. Right, Yeah,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: limited time and it's over before you know it. So
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: pick up as many stories as you can't. The stories
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: you would have gotten at this event. You could have
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: been telling these stories for the next fifteen years, absolute go.
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: Do you imagine the story? Oh? Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: So I I was at the wedding and I saw
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: like Stevie Nicks and Paul McCarthy and they were getting
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: pies in the face from clowns and then mahomes and
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: that Simone Biles that I'm still getting middle aged women
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: upset with me because of that Netflix documentary. They dodged
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: the human cannon ball that almost hit them, Like, imagine
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: the stuff that took place there. Instead of hiding from
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: the chaos you got, you gotta lean into it, Charles.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, come on, now, you go there. It's a
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: freaking human zoo. Well New York anyway is a human zoo,
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: but Madison Square Garden. But this is a special kind
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: of zoo. It's an elite at zoo. All these people
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: that think they're special, they're better than you and I,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: the elites of society. They go to this and you
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: could have been there, and you're gonna mock them and
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: all that, and you know, they probably had some trapeze artists,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: some jugglers. How about the people that are complaining they
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: didn't get invited. I laugh at those people too. But
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: if I got invited. I got invited, I would have gone,
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: And how it's so ridigitous, like Barkley, it sounds like
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: he's hung out with Jason Kelcey, like they they're buddies,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: and because Philadelphia and all that, and probably had beers
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: and whatnot. I bet you he didn know Travis Kelcey
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: that well. And he said he's only met Taylor Swift
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: one time, so it's very odd. I'd love to have
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: been a fly in the room when they just said,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: who are we gonna invite to this thing? Oh? I
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: like that Dean Blandino guy on TV. Let's invite Dean Blandino. Yeah,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: we like our former morning guy Steven A.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: Smith.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Let's let's bring him in. Yeah why not sure? Uh, well,
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: it's actually smart because if you get invited to the wedding,
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: you can't really rip the wedding, right, if you're at
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: the wedding, I don't think you're allowed to rip the wedding.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: So you avoid Stephen A. Smith ripping the wedding because
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: he was invited, so he's got to and pretend like
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: it was all great.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Here we go, Ticky Higgins, the guy.
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: To the.
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: Nineteen thirty eight. I think he's dead, gets grail. If
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: he's alive, that's a story all right? Here heere you go, Coobloop.
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: In a report that surface Tuesday, was suggested that Sean
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: Payton considered presenting Bronco's owner Greg Penner a proposal for
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: the Ages hired Belichick as head coach until he reached
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: fifteen wins, enough to break done to his career record
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: of three hundred and forty seven. Yeah, and then after that,
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: you know, Sean Payton, would you know, retake the reins?
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: Ben? Are you buying any of that?
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: Am I buying that? Over beers and chicken wing? Sean
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: Payton thought about it. I'd buy that.
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: Now this would have this would you couldn't do this?
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: This would have been the most fugazy thing in the
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: history of foghaze.
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: You can't.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: I don't imagine the their buddies. They probably talked about it.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: Maybe we should do Actually I don't think they actually
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: went to the owner. I don't buy that.
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: Next, the Sacramento Kings have waived DeMar DeRozan, who will
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: now enter free agency, Ben, what do you think the
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: market will be like for DeRozan.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: Well, he's your standard older, one trick guy that will
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: score a lot of points. Everything I'm hearing is he's
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: gonna go back to the Toronto Raptors and they're gonna
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: form a super team Coop with Kawhi Leonard and Demart Throwback.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well they didn't play together, right, because he's already gone.
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: I think he was gone. I think, yeah, I believe.
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: I don't think they were together when they won the championship.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: I think he had moved on. That's right. Lowry.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Kyle Lowry who retired, by the way, Yeah, this
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: is Kyle Lowry day in Toronto.
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  Speaker 6: Do they own the Salt?
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: Yes? All right.
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: Next, John harbust in a transcript release by the Giants
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: this week that camp Scattyboat is a top tier back
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: and he's planning to play that way.
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  Speaker 3: Ben, Do you think he's top tier?
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: Until he gets hurt in the second half of Week one?
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: Sure? Why not?
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: Never believe what coaches say, coop the first rule of
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: sports media, especially NFL coaches.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: They lie? Why Why how'd we die? You passed? This
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: edition won the game James. I won James.
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• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Exciting new.
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  Speaker 3: Quative.
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  Speaker 1: She wants to talk to you.
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah this milkman, Mike, Yes, it is promise.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: There's some rumors that Jay Scoop's going to enter the Malarala.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: I think he will. I hope he will. He will
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: suld very talented individual. Absolutely.
• 38:41
  Speaker 6: I wonder if anyone's going to make a love song
• 38:43
  Speaker 6: for the Mallard Palooza.
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: Come on this crazy?
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  Speaker 2: That'd be so.
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: I made you a song.
• 38:51
  Speaker 6: It's on the Ben Maller Show later on.
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: Please, all right, let's get to the questions. Please.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: Mike the Leprechaun writes in he says, what is the
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: preferred body that the ladies like to have massage?
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: But that's isn't that changed by the lady?
• 39:05
  Speaker 6: I think it depends on the day.
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: Are you going to speak for all women, Loreno.
• 39:08
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna say it depends on what they do as well.
• 39:10
  Speaker 6: Like if she's on her feet all day, maybe she'd
• 39:12
  Speaker 6: like a foot massage. Maybe she has back issues. And
• 39:15
  Speaker 6: a nice back massage. Sometimes, if you're a really good
• 39:18
  Speaker 6: love maker, you can incorporate massages into your schmoozing technique.
• 39:24
  Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying. Extra little rubby Dobbie gets
• 39:28
  Speaker 6: you more lovey lovey.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: Okay, it's a family show. No, it's not all the
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: kids are sleeping, not really, not that we're in the
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: safe harbor Lorain. Indeed, yes, Doc Dan writes in for Minnesota.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: Not a real doctor, He says, why do almost all
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: females like seafood?
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: Good point Dan, I've never met a woman that didn't
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: enjoy the seafood. I don't get it.
• 39:48
  Speaker 6: I think it's because it's a delicacy and it's expensive
• 39:50
  Speaker 6: and we want to make you pay as much as possible.
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: Aha, there you go.
• 39:54
  Speaker 6: They do say oysters are an afrodisiac, so maybe if
• 39:57
  Speaker 6: they need a little extra help, get.
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: H down, look at you.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Okay, let's say hello to James in Tacoma on the
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: Queen of Hearts with Lorena.
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  Speaker 3: Hello James, Hi, James.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: Hie.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: So my wife keeps yelling me because I forget the
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: lower the poet seat for her.
• 40:14
  Speaker 6: So I started putting his sign up, pop saying reminding me.
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: The lower seat, said, she wants me to sit down
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: twenty four hours a day when I have to go
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: to pee. Oh bye bye, keeping his seat down.
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: You know, I do you know what?
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, I got an answer for this guy.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: You know, we had been buy a urinal, add a
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: urinal to your bathroom.
• 40:36
  Speaker 6: Always pee in the shower.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: My my cousin, one of my relatives in Phoenix, this
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: older guy, he bought a urnal for his home bathroom
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: because his wife used to complain about the toilet seer.
• 40:46
  Speaker 6: Yeah, well, falling in a toilet is never fun, so
• 40:49
  Speaker 6: try and be a little more considerate. Also, she could
• 40:51
  Speaker 6: look before she goes in there.
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: Good point, great question, James, Thank you, all right, go
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: a thank you.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: Legally blind Christopher is across the ocean there, say hello Christopher.
• 41:01
  Speaker 6: I want to go across the ocean. What's up, Christopher?
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: Oh, good morning. I just need to know, since I
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: had a failed US marriage, what are my opportunities here
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: in Europe?
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: I need to know.
• 41:12
  Speaker 6: Oh, oh my gosh. I would go to every fromagerie
• 41:16
  Speaker 6: that I possibly could. I would find someone who also
• 41:19
  Speaker 6: loves cheese. You know what I'm saying.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: Chateau or something would be good good to a winery.
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: Find people who like good culture, good luck like pep
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: Us posted.
• 41:30
  Speaker 6: More romantic over there.
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: We're so right, yeah JT.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: The Wei mess is uh is the fact that I
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: worked in the adult film industry.
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: A deal breaker for dating a preacher's daughter. Na.
• 41:42
  Speaker 6: Usually people who have preachers as parents like to do
• 41:44
  Speaker 6: things that.
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: Are YEA favorite type of brought worst the traditional beer.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: I just bought that today I play additional is that
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: was Michael and Tulsa liked onions.
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: A good brock question.
• 41:58
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• 42:01
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• 42:06
  Speaker 2: and the password is password, you idiot, password the word
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: game of the stars. Here's Ben Meler.
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: Let's do it.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: Let's say hello to Mark on the North End. Hello
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: in Boston, Hello Mark, welcome, Hey, Ben off the here
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: Blind Scott from the North End.
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: I know he retired. That's good.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: We got rid of them. No more blind Scott. He's
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: done with the show. He's moved on other things. It's
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: all you.
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: You're the king, You're the real king of the North End. Mark.
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: Look, you're right, absolutely alright, You're gonna play. Who do
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: you want to partner up with?
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: You?
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: Ben?
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: All right? Very good?
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: Hold I sec and we have Eenie Meenie miney Moe.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: Ted in Cape Coral, Florida. Hello, Ted, Welcome.
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: Ted? Oh I don't hear Ted? Ted? Ted? Ted?
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: Ted?
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: All right, Ted going.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: That means somebody else who didn't hang up gets to
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: play and see pick one one er six?
• 43:07
  Speaker 6: Oh I like number six?
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: All right, you have picked.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: Brandon in Kansas City, Hello, Brandon, come on.
• 43:16
  Speaker 6: All right, number one?
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: Where's I'm punching? The damn lineups happening? I don't know
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: the the phones are dying.
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: This is not good.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: Jim is in Boston, Hello, Jim, Hey, Hello here, Oh
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: look at you, Jim. You're gonna play who? Thank god
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: you're there. You want to play with Cooper Lorena.
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: The lovely vous Lorena. All right.
• 43:37
  Speaker 6: I know you're gonna say Coop after that.
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: Well, depending on how many drinks you have, Coop is
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: very voluptuous. But all right, let's play the game.
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: Here. We have a list of work.
• 43:46
  Speaker 6: What's my partner's name?
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: That would be the great Gym. Jim is in Jimbo.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: That's what his friends call him.
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: Jimbo. Okay, let's play the game. Mark, you were up first.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: Pick a number one to ten, please, Mark.
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: Than I am the number one number.
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: That's right now.
• 44:05
  Speaker 6: I love that word.
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: What's that? Okay, let's go with courageous Errol all right?
• 44:16
  Speaker 6: Uh, fearless be for Jimbo.
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: Our word is going to be fearless? Great? Yes, all right,
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: you have the lead, Jim. Pick a number one to ten, Jim,
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: I'm or two to ten, number seven, number seven? Oh okay,
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: go ahead, Lorena.
• 44:41
  Speaker 6: I'm going to do a Mallard maneuver here.
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: Oh boy, it's not going to work. Go ahead.
• 44:45
  Speaker 6: Maybe it won't work.
• 44:47
  Speaker 7: I don't think man, come on, I just said it's
• 45:01
  Speaker 7: the worst password of all time.
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that is terrible. Not even I could do
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: the mal maneuver.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't even know what to do now, Coop,
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: I feel like there's a maneuver here.
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: Uh what do you think it would be? Yeah, let's
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: see here. I'm trying to think you're running out of
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: time to win. Yeah that's you. All right. Let's go
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: with oh, oh, cheating, Oh I could do this cheating.
• 45:29
  Speaker 6: You're not supposed to give him hands on how to keep.
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: Close Atlanta, Atlanta. What is that I went?
• 45:39
  Speaker 4: Man?
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: I blame the phones,