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  Speaker 1: So I got an email from a I don't fan
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  Speaker 1: listener person out in the Cosmos who sent me a
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  Speaker 1: message wondering why I continue to talk about the Mike
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  Speaker 1: Rabel Diana Russini story, why I am fascinated by the story,
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  Speaker 1: and well, I did not write back because I'm a schmuck.
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  Speaker 1: I will just point this out that I don't have
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  Speaker 1: a set agenda when I when I wake up, I'm like.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know whatever. I'm just whatever's out there.
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  Speaker 1: I'm searching around and trying to think what's interesting. What
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  Speaker 1: am I interested in? What do I think you'll be
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  Speaker 1: interested in? As we like to say around these parts,
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  Speaker 1: it's called broadcasting, not narrow casting. So if there's nothing interesting,
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  Speaker 1: I will not talk about it, I'll just move on
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  Speaker 1: to something else and if there's still something there, there's
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  Speaker 1: meat on the bone, I'm gonna continue to gnaw at
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  Speaker 1: the meat on the bone. That's always been my model
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  Speaker 1: and it's worked pretty well, so I'm not gonna stop.
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  Speaker 3: And with that being said, our lead this hour.
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  Speaker 1: Upheoval up, people, Your NFL scandal of the week continues, continues.
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  Speaker 1: It has not yet hit a sour note. NFL insider
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  Speaker 1: cut canoodling canoodling with NFL head coach the Diana Russini
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  Speaker 1: insider reporting with Mike Vrabel. Oh what a kerfluffle, Oh
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  Speaker 1: ducker fluffle. So if you've not heard the latest on this,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps not. It's good, pretty good. So is it true
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  Speaker 1: that another another photo has surfaced? Another photo has now
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  Speaker 1: surfaced all Patriots coach Mike Vrabel and NFL insider Diana
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  Speaker 1: Russini not not at the boutique hotel in Sedona, Arizona,
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  Speaker 1: but instead at a different location in a different state,
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  Speaker 1: thousands of miles away, having beers with each other in
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  Speaker 1: Indianapolis around the NFL scouting combine. All right, so that's
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  Speaker 1: a good jumping off, boy. Yeah, there's a photo of
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  Speaker 1: Rabel and Russini sitting there at some bar. It would
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  Speaker 1: appear in Indianapolis. So let's discuss the question the new
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  Speaker 1: photo of the NFL coach Mike Rabel and the insider
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  Speaker 1: Diana Russini at a bar having some bruskies at the combine,
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  Speaker 1: which is bouncing all over the place.
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  Speaker 3: This thing's gone viral. So why here's the question, why.
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  Speaker 1: Are we turning a bar photo into another layer of
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  Speaker 1: the conspiracy theory?
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  Speaker 3: Cake? So I've got.
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  Speaker 1: Signpost, Marlboroughman and Pentagon, and we will combine all of
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  Speaker 1: these things together and we are going to create a
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  Speaker 1: monster things that go bumpity bump in the night. So
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  Speaker 1: a let's start with us, Mike Rabel and Diana Russini
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  Speaker 1: having beers at what it looked like to me a
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  Speaker 1: dive bar somewhere in the Indianapolis area, yucking it up.
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  Speaker 1: That's not as incriminating, that's not at an adult's only
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  Speaker 1: a hotel in Sedona, Arizona, in a pool and at
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  Speaker 1: sunset holding hands like that's you know, okay, They're at
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  Speaker 1: the bar.
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  Speaker 3: Fine.
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  Speaker 1: As a standalone event, I would say this is bupkus.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's nothing, it's zero, it's zilch, a reporter having
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  Speaker 1: ice cold beers with a source. That's how the sausage
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  Speaker 1: gets made in the NFL gossip factory. That's baseline behavior.
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  Speaker 1: That's what people call it Tuesday. But and you know
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  Speaker 1: what that means. You know what the word butt means.
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  Speaker 1: You know what the word butt means.
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  Speaker 3: Bundle.
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  Speaker 1: If you bundle that together with the other puzzle pieces,
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  Speaker 1: what wall, as Scooby Doo said, what wall? Now we
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  Speaker 1: have and now we're traveling through another dimension. Okay, we're
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  Speaker 1: traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight
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  Speaker 1: and sound, but of mind, a journey into the wonder
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  Speaker 1: land whose boundaries are that of imagination. If you look
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  Speaker 1: at that signpost up ahead your next stop, the patternicity.
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  Speaker 3: Zone, do do do Do Do Do Do Do Do
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  Speaker 3: Do do do do.
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  Speaker 1: Your brain starts connecting dots like a toddler with a
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  Speaker 1: crayon and a lot of confidence. And one photo, one
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  Speaker 1: single photo is a mosquito. A series becomes a swarm patternicity.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of like bleach and ammonia harmless when they
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  Speaker 1: were not harmless, but harmless apart from each other in
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  Speaker 1: this context, but they both serve a purpose. They help
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  Speaker 1: you out bleach and ammonia. However, when you mix together
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  Speaker 1: bleach and ammonia, you get a cloud of poisonous vapor.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's this is obviously it's clickbaits, clickbait cuisine.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a there there? What's up for determination? It
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  Speaker 1: is feeding though the industrial scandal complex. So we like
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  Speaker 1: that the scandal economy is certainly being fed now. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: the other part of this based on the latest wrinkle,
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  Speaker 1: sunny side up here, the latest wrinkle. The question, does
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  Speaker 1: the photo that we've discussed you, this latest addition, this
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  Speaker 1: latest edition, does it tickle your fancy? Does it cause
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  Speaker 1: you to reevaluate? Reevaluate your position on the Diana Russini
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  Speaker 1: Mike Rabel story, NFL insider, NFL head coach.
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  Speaker 3: So I am going to go first year. I'm nodding
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  Speaker 3: my head. Yes, I am nodding my head. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: If the evidence evolves, so does the netch That is
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  Speaker 1: not hedging.
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  Speaker 3: That's keeping it real, baby, keeping it real.
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  Speaker 1: The first batch of photographs, based on a minut long deliberation,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh right, fine, you want to tell
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  Speaker 1: me that some random JABEBRONI happened to be at that
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  Speaker 1: hotel in Sedona, Arizona, and just poolside got lucky with
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  Speaker 1: the cell phone, ran off and sold it to Page
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  Speaker 1: six for a couple of bucks. Okay, fine, I'll give
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  Speaker 1: you the benefit of the doubt. Now the latest picture
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  Speaker 1: that changes things feels more choreographed.
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  Speaker 3: Look at the timing. Look at the timing. They waited
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  Speaker 3: a few days.
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  Speaker 1: Let the story the Patriots coach Mike Rabel and the Insider,
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  Speaker 1: let the story simmer for a little bit. It started
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  Speaker 1: to cool down, and then boom goes to dynamite. The
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  Speaker 1: next leak drops. So it reminded me of the John
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  Speaker 1: Gruden story in twenty twenty one when there were some
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  Speaker 1: emails that were leaked. Believe it was to the Wall
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  Speaker 1: Street Journal or the New York Times, one or the other.
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  Speaker 1: The emails were leaked on like a Thursday or a Friday. Well,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people don't remember it. Gruden coached the
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  Speaker 1: Raiders in a game against the Bears that Sunday. But
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  Speaker 1: there was a second drop of emails that came down.
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  Speaker 1: I believe during the Raiders game, if I remember correctly,
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  Speaker 1: he's right around the time of the game, a second
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  Speaker 1: batch of emails was dropped, and at that point that
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  Speaker 1: was the kill shot, and that got Gruden out as
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  Speaker 1: coach of the Raiders and is going to cost the
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  Speaker 1: NFL apparent. We talk more about this later, but he's
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  Speaker 1: kicking their ass in court and they're really screwed, like
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  Speaker 1: big time, like, oh my god, what have we done?
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  Speaker 3: We should have just kept him as coach of the Raiders. Screwed.
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  Speaker 1: So that's a different conversation, but it's similar in that
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  Speaker 1: he had the initial drop, you waited a couple of days,
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  Speaker 1: and then another drop. So this isn't oops, I caught
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  Speaker 1: a celebrity pool side at a boutique hotel.
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  Speaker 3: In Sedona, Arizona.
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  Speaker 1: This now we pivot to the private investigator theory that
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  Speaker 1: this is more of a professional situation that we're talking
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  Speaker 1: about some gum shoe.
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  Speaker 3: A rugged world, the weary.
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  Speaker 1: Guy in a trench coat with the fedora smoking SIGs,
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  Speaker 1: chain smoking like he's the Marlborough Man with a hidden
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  Speaker 1: camera in one of his buttons on his jacket. State
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  Speaker 1: of the art espionage. Do you think there's a wire tap?
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  Speaker 1: Do you think somebody got wire tap? You think they
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  Speaker 1: were bugged?
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  Speaker 3: Professional surveillance? Who knows? Who knows? All right?
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  Speaker 1: Now, last word here so twisting over and over and
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  Speaker 1: over and over, Diana Russini made her return, or at
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  Speaker 1: least attempted return to social media.
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  Speaker 3: Say world you have to be in.
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  Speaker 1: If you are an NFL insider, you have to play
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  Speaker 1: in that world. And so she attempted to resume activities
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  Speaker 1: on that playground. How do you think that went? How
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  Speaker 1: do you think that went?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Worse than that, Actually, worse than that. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it was bad. It was bad.
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  Speaker 1: So she said, I'll go back to my job and
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  Speaker 1: send out a story about something something, And of course
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  Speaker 1: it was rather a nine posts about replacement officials. There
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  Speaker 1: was a link to the website that pays her to
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  Speaker 1: be an insider and boy, she getting inside it pays her.
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  Speaker 1: And then it was behind a paywall. It's behind a paywall.
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  Speaker 1: So this, of course was met with fire and brimstone
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  Speaker 1: in the social media world. MG OMG. Yeah. So question,
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  Speaker 1: did Diana Russin, the NFL insider, caught in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the bullseye here, underestimate the power of the social
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  Speaker 1: media mob or did she want.
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  Speaker 3: The smoke hmm things that make you go hmmm. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So I have a theory on this, and my hypothesis
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  Speaker 1: is that this was not an accident. I don't believe
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  Speaker 1: this was an accident. I think this was intentional. And
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  Speaker 1: here's why I don't think Diana Roussini. She's a smart
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  Speaker 1: woman in some ways and dumb and others. But she
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  Speaker 1: didn't underestimate the Twitter mob, if you will, her ex mob.
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  Speaker 1: She summoned it. This is not a miscalculation. This was
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  Speaker 1: calculated combustion, a digital detonation kubboom. She dipped her toe
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  Speaker 1: in the social media swamp and found out that that
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  Speaker 1: swamp was hotter than a Popeye's Deep Friar on double overtime,
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  Speaker 1: double over time. As my old friend Alex used to say,
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  Speaker 1: But this was elite level ball busting. It was funnier
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  Speaker 1: than any comedy club you've ever been to. It was
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  Speaker 1: a night at the Improv and it was right there.
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  Speaker 1: It was a comedic cruise missile dressed up as commentary.
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  Speaker 1: And so how did it go? Let's see, Well, she
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  Speaker 1: she got what the Pentagon would say, shock and awe.
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  Speaker 1: The shock and Awe campaign directed her way. The online
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  Speaker 1: outrage orchestra played a perfect tune, did not miss any lyrics,
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  Speaker 1: did not miss any of the beats of the song,
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  Speaker 1: they got fired up. The mob was mobilized. The keyboard
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  Speaker 1: commandos went to battle like they were marching in formation.
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  Speaker 1: They were ready, they were ready, those keyboard warriors. And
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  Speaker 1: so she tossed out that piece of blubber, the blubber guts,
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  Speaker 1: right into the polar bear pit and said dinnertime and
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  Speaker 1: the feeding frenzy and just tore apart the blubber guts.
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  Speaker 3: Right there was a coun of Hall of Chaos, and
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  Speaker 3: it was very funny.
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  Speaker 1: All of this, though, all of this is temporary. We
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  Speaker 1: do know that even though for now, and we'll see
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  Speaker 1: how long this lasts, the publicity is high and there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of attention and all that the bots have
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  Speaker 1: been activated. The algorithm is alive and well, so there
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  Speaker 1: is a feeding frenzy on the Conival of Chaos and
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  Speaker 1: all that. However, as we said, it's temporary, the mob
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  Speaker 1: will move on. Today's target becomes just a distant memory,
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  Speaker 1: just a distant memory down the line, and the outrage
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  Speaker 1: carousel continues to spin. Right now, she's right there in
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  Speaker 1: the middle, but you know it's always going to go
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  Speaker 1: on and always be somebody else that is in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the outrage machine.
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  Speaker 3: Are there more photos?
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  Speaker 1: Are other players going to enter the stage from stage left?
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  Speaker 1: Or are we going to get some other actors here
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  Speaker 1: to jump out on stage and start singing. Inquiring minds
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  Speaker 1: Early this hour is from baseball and pretty good story.
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  Speaker 3: This is spicy meatball. It's a spicy meatball kind of
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  Speaker 3: a story. Uh yeah, it is. So if you have not.
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  Speaker 1: Heard here, the Dodgers star player is in the cross
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  Speaker 1: hears and Dave Roberts, I really liked him in that spot.
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  Speaker 1: Dave Roberts running to the rescue. Dave Roberts not happy
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  Speaker 1: with Toronto blue Jay George Springer, a notorious shady figure
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  Speaker 1: in baseball history, just a bad dude, George Springer. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Roberts is unhappy with the Blue Jays outfield, that George Springer,
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  Speaker 1: because Springer had the hutzpah to take a shot at
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  Speaker 1: shoh Otani.
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  Speaker 3: Say what, yeah, did you see this? No?
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  Speaker 1: All right, let me give you the details. So the
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  Speaker 1: other day Dodgers were in Toronto. They took two or
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  Speaker 1: three from the Blue Jays. The game that Toronto won,
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers gave it away. So a punch to the
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  Speaker 1: gut there, George Springer, that little weasel. George Springer questioned
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  Speaker 1: the amount of time the umpires gave Otani to warm up. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the World Series losers, who choked away the World Series
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  Speaker 1: at home in Game seven. We're grumbling about essentially the
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  Speaker 1: Otani time zone, if you will. Now, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: whose hair brand idea this was, but man alive, what
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  Speaker 1: are we doing?
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  Speaker 2: So?
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  Speaker 1: Dave Roberts running to defend the unicorn said quote, there's
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  Speaker 1: got to be some grace for Sho hal Tani. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he said, talking about the fact he's a two way player.
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  Speaker 1: Asked about him getting extended time between innings to warm up,
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  Speaker 1: Roberts said, the truth is he's different, and that was
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  Speaker 1: the end of that quote. So that's a good jumping
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  Speaker 1: off point. Let us discuss the question for the esteem panel.
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  Speaker 1: How does Toronto outfielder George Springer Toronto's George Springer think
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  Speaker 1: he has the right to question show hal Tani's warm
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  Speaker 1: up routine, and how the umpires handle that. So my
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  Speaker 1: observations here, I've got off Broadway show speak easy and
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  Speaker 1: Gordon Gecko and we'll combine all of these things together.
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  Speaker 1: And the flag is up. So number W.
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  Speaker 3: This one is extra extra rich. It's really, really, really sugary.
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  Speaker 3: So let me get this straight.
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  Speaker 1: The same guy who has a permanent asterisk tattooed to
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  Speaker 1: his ass, all right from Houston, is chirping at Otani.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've got online one.
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  Speaker 1: It says tone deaf on line one. On line two
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  Speaker 1: it says obtuse. So George Springer, who is starring in
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  Speaker 1: a one man off Broadway show, called wine time, and
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  Speaker 1: my reaction boooooo.
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  Speaker 3: Look at the source.
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  Speaker 1: Look at the source, This dirty, dirty dog, our our
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  Speaker 1: lifetime membership in the cheating a.
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  Speaker 3: One thousand whole club.
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  Speaker 1: And now that guy is the etiquette police. That guy
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  Speaker 1: is the one that decides what's allowed and what's not
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  Speaker 1: allowed in baseball. Hey, George, let's bring back some memories.
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  Speaker 1: George Springer, bang bang whistle whistle chay up. Checked them
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  Speaker 1: for the buzzer, because I remember all that, George. I
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  Speaker 1: know other people are just move on, boomer. Oh, I
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  Speaker 1: remember you, cheating dog, George Springer. I remember you got
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  Speaker 1: the cooties. Yeah, somebody go out and buy George Springer
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  Speaker 1: some Irish spring because he reeks of hypocrisy. Now here's
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  Speaker 1: the real issue. All right, let's let's get down. This
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  Speaker 1: Otani is too good. All right, he's too good, and he.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't last I checked. He's not just another player.
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  Speaker 1: He's the pillar of baseball. And if you thought a
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  Speaker 1: couple of years ago he was like even with Aaron Judge,
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  Speaker 1: he is zoom passed Aaron Judge, like zoom zoom right
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  Speaker 1: past Aaron Judge is by himself in a different stratosphere
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  Speaker 1: than anyone else in baseball, and you're gonna be shocked
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  Speaker 1: by this, but Major League Baseball bends the rules for stars,
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  Speaker 1: always has, always will. Every sports league does it. The
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  Speaker 1: NBA famously had the Jordan Rules. It was well known
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  Speaker 1: that Sam Smith, a writer from Chicago, wrote a book
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  Speaker 1: about it, the Jordan Rules, and it was an open
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  Speaker 1: secret that that's out went. The NBA has always done
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  Speaker 1: that for a certain percentage of the top players. Well,
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  Speaker 1: baseball's got the Otani guidelines, if you will, and that's
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  Speaker 1: the business.
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  Speaker 3: And it's really not doubt outrageous.
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  Speaker 1: If you're old enough to remember back before the designated
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  Speaker 1: hitter was in the Nation League and they had the
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  Speaker 1: DH in only the American League in the Nation League,
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  Speaker 1: and I covered baseball a lot back in those days,
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  Speaker 1: went to a ton of games, and I would recall
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  Speaker 1: every once in a while, didn't happen very often, believe
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  Speaker 1: it or not. A pitcher would get a hit or
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  Speaker 1: would walk or get on base, and the umpire, as
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  Speaker 1: a courtesy, a professional courtesy, would give that picture a
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  Speaker 1: little extra time to kind of get himself right and
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  Speaker 1: go out and warm up.
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  Speaker 3: So it's not outrageous. That is just the standard practice.
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  Speaker 1: Otani's the only one that is impacted like that in
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  Speaker 1: the modern game today.
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  Speaker 3: But it's just good business.
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  Speaker 1: Otani is the economy of baseball, not just in the
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  Speaker 1: United States, but obviously domination in Japan and all that.
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  Speaker 1: And George Springer, he's like that one play toilet paper,
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  Speaker 1: who cares flush it down the toilet. He's replaceable. You
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  Speaker 1: know that he's been kicked out of the US. He's
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  Speaker 1: in Canada, stuck on the on the Blue Jays and all.
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  Speaker 3: That, and he's just he's a dirty, rotten scoundrel.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't get talked about that much like al Boobe
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: and that dirty dog Bregman of the cheating Astro's famous
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: now with the Cubs, or Carlo's career, that punk and
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: then you talked about like those guys because he's in
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Toronto and that's it all right now, Paystu to Augusta.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: We go.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Now, I have learned over the years. One thing I've
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: learned from doing the talk radio show over the years
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: is to never do a monologue about the first round
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: of the Masters. It's irrelevant, So I don't do that.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: I used to do it when Tiger Woods would be
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: leading or whatever. I don't do that anymore. I did
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: see a story that caught my attention. I had it
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: on in the background some of the coverage I was monitoring.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: You know, of course, they don't put everything out there.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Very elitist over there at the Masters. So there were
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: fans who are attending this week in Augusta, the twenty
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: twenty six Masters Tournament, and they are expected to throw
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: down millions and millions of dollars immerch Now, remember the
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: golf tournament goes a few days. It ends on Sunday,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: began on Thursday. I know there's some other events leading
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: up to that. At Augusta National Masters is expected Did
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: you hear this? Expected to make how much money in
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: merchandise sales?
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: You got a number? All right?
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: All right, don't change your answer. Don't know the correct answer.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: The Masters is projected to rake up seventy million dollars
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: in merch sales. Yeah, that's one million dollars per hour
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: at the event. It's ten million dollars a day of
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: the event only goes you know, ten hours whatever, million
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: dollars an hour, sixteen thousand dollars a minute, two hundred
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: and seventy seven dollars a second, so I would like
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: to work just about I don't know, five minutes.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: I'll be good. Just I'll work five minutes. I'll pay
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: me that for five minutes. I'm good. So here's the question.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: Is one million.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Dollars per hour in merch sales at the Masters a
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: sign of an unbelievable tradition or a full blown case
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: of gall fans losing their frickin marbles? So it is
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: a combination plate all of the above, all of the above.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: I don't jump up and down too much. There is
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: a perfect storm. As our friend Andrea the astrology inside,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: I would say, the planets have lined up here because
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: this is not.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: Just a gift shop.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: It is a merchandising cartel dressed up in their little
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: green jackets with their sweet tea and all that. Now,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: one of our listeners who's a super fan of the show,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: he reached out to me a couple of years ago
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: on the Fifth Hour podcast. He lives near Augusta, and
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: he invited me to go to Augusta, myself and Danny
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: g before he quit the podcast, and we were gonna
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: go down there and hang out and have a fine,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: fine time. It didn't work out logistically, I don't think
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: the offer stands anymore. I can promise you I would
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: not be spending that much money on the merch if
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: I do. It's one of those things you kind of
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: want to go to it because you've been around sports
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: and you've seen it your entire life.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: And I've had some people I.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Know that have been down there, and a friend of
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: the show, the Great Ted Sobel, I believe he won
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: a media contest and played the course if I remember correctly,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: years ago, and he talks about it very fondly, very fondly.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: But Augusta National is running.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: A speak easy flea market where scarcity is the password.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: And the reason they're selling so much stuff is not
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: that this is great merchandise. It's that you cannot buy
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: this junk on Amazon or anywhere else online. In terms
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: of like the Master's website. They don't have Master's Shop
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: like MLB's got their shop.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: No no, no, no no no no no no.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: You got to take your fat ass on a pilgrimage
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: like you're going to Mecca, to the Mecca for khakis
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: and other crap. So that's how you get sixteen thousand
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: dollars a minute, Tick tick tic tic tick chutchaying yeah,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: and people buying knickknacks for Grandpa and Uncle Harvey. And
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: they've created a myth that logo is perceived to be luxury.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: You slap that Master's logo on a garden hose, a spatula,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: you can put it on a paper clip, and Teta
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: People like the trained you know what they are. They
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: buy They'll.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Buy seven of them. It's like toilet paper and water
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: during a pandemic.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: Load up. Now, if you don't believe me, the.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Master's Gnome is hotter than an armpit full of chili peppers.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: That's the hottest product. They sell that thing out within
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: an hour. They have a Master's Gnome that you can get.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: That's wacky. Tobacci's what that is, all right?
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: Final point.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Now, we had a caller a couple of weeks back,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: call her and SoCal who called up to bitch and
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: complain about the Olympic ticket situation. And we talked about
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: that for a little bit and I didn't give it
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: too much time. And so I've been reading some stories
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: about it and this guy was ahead of his time here,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Good job by him. So there's a new story out
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: that my eyes got really my eyeballs got really large.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: And we learned that the LA Olympic tickets include.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: A twenty four percent service fee.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: That seems kind of high, right, Is that on par
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: with the Parie Olympics of twenty twenty four?
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: Is that similar similar service fee?
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Well, it turns out the service fee for the Paris
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Olympics was one point five percent. Yeah, so do the
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: math on that. So one point five percent twenty four
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: percent was at like sixteen times higher. So the LA
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: twenty eight committee told the media that it in. A
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: reporter said, why are you doing this? This doesn't seem
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: very fair to the people of California, the people in
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: the United States, the people of the world that you're
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: screwing them over with this this service fee bull crap,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: which is like a resort fee in Vegas, And they
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: claimed the Olympic people, they said, well, it accounts for
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: processing and delivering tickets in a manner that will align
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: with standard industry practices for ticketing live events in the US. Wow,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: you can almost smell through the speaker the bull crap.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a lot of bull crap.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: All right, So the question how does a supposedly civic
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: minded Olympic Committee justify a twenty four percent price gouge
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: and call.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: It it's great. I wanna get it.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Right, industry standard, standard, industry practice.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: And how do they do that with a straight face?
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: So it turns out that the word processing and I
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: like words, the word processing is a euphanism for we
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: think you're too stupid to notice, and you're such a
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: dumb dumb you won't even care. This is legalized activity,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: to legalize shakedown, dressed up as an industry standard.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: What exactly, let me ask, I get I'm not that smart.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: I do the Overnight show. Explain to me like I'm
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: a child. Explain to me like I'm a child that
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: what processing takes twenty four percent? Are they literally hand
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: carving the tickets out of marble? Is that what they're doing? Like, okay,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: here's your ticket. It's a block of marble that we
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: hand carved for you.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: Enjoy. Okay, I'm in.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Isn't everything digital? At what point do we admit that
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: the Olympics It's been this way for sporting event. They're
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: a surcharge delivery system and the athletics are sprinkled on top.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Just a little'll sprinkle, just a little sprinkle on top.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: It's a three card Monty game for suckers who buy
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: these tickets. And Gordon Gecko from that famous Wall Street
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: movie right there, he must be running the Olympic ticketing thing.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: He's like, well read for a lack of a better word,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: is good, Creed is right, greed works, It's the way
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: to go. You talk about having no shame in your game, though,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: from one point five percent to twenty four percent, well,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: no one I'll notice. It'll be fine. Those dumb Americans,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: they'll pay it. Who cares about them? They are a
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: bunch of idiots, and they appear to be correct, as
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: the tickets are all pretty much sold and the claim
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: to have cheap twenty eight dollars tickets.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: I've gotten some emails.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: We mentioned the caller who pointed out how ridiculous those weren't.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: Really available and all that.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: So they're just apparently testing how much nonsense Americans will
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: tolerate before they revolt, and it doesn't appear that they're
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: at that point yet, And so as they stay, they
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: stay there on the stock market. Get that dumb money, baby,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: get that dumb money to change cha chan cha ching,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: And everyone's trying to figure out how much you will
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: pay for what you used to get for free or
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: for a lot less, and they're finding out.
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: That is a lot. It is a lot. It is
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: a lot. It is a lot.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: Here we go, Here we go. It's mallard.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: How about that to the third degree, This is one
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: big Ben gets grilled.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: Provalo.
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: Ravens Titan Mark Andrews says he quote sees a lot
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: of opportunities in this new Ravens offense. Then, last year
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: Andrews had the lowest yardage total of his career. Do
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: you think he's set to bounce back?
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: No, No, I don't.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: It's very odd that the Ravens shows to keep him around.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: I know he'd been the good soldier and all that.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: He's the textbook definition of a declining asset.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: You look at the age, you look at the.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Wear and tear, and it's a little lopsided against him.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: I would expect rather erratic play from Andrews the rest
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: of the White Next.
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: Terre's Halliburton played five on five Wednesday for the first
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: time since last June. Now, without Haliburton, the Pacers have
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: gone from the finals to the second worst record in
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: the NBA. Do you think it's going to be a
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: quick return to the top of the East when Halliburton
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: returns next year.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Well, they'll actually try to win, which is a step
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: in the right direction. It has been. It's just a
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: disaster this year. It's a piecemeal effort. They've tried to
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: they're copying what the Spurs did back in the day
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: when they had David Robinson get hurt and then they
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: got Tim Duncan. So it's a similar trying to win
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: the lottery. So they can help Halliburton out, so as
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: if they're trying to win, Yes, they'll bounce back next.
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: The UFL is in the midst of its third season
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: and on Wednesday of the Annunce they'll be exped into
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: ten teams. League's reported on track to expand the sixteen
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: by twenty thirty two.
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: But are you.
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: Surprised by the UFL's success.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: I don't know what your definition of success. Are people
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: getting great ratings on TV? No, the attendance is at
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: great No, I mean they're scunding.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: There doesn't mean they're that doesn't mean they're good, and
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: then they're just adding they're getting other.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: People who spend money. I I don't. I'm not thinking
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: it's a great product. I don't think they're doing that great.
• 32:23
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• 32:29
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• 32:47
  Speaker 2: Blame week too, It's Big Ben's lame joke of the week.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: And where we go it's Big Bens lame jokes a week?
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: Is weed man there in Miamia.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: I'm here me laugh all right?
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: Now, did you hear the news here? Billy? Did you
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: hear the news?
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: So Matthew k he's listening right now. He's in the Commonwealth.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: He won the bracket challenge. He claims he wants to
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: have you come to Boston and be part of that. No,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: I know that, but would you actually do it? That's
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: the problem. I'm worried that you're gonna get cold feet
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: and not want.
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: To leave Miami because it's it's Miami. Living in the
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: Miami area. I don't really want to go to Boston.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: I knew it.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: I knew it.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: You see that, Coop, I knew it.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Lrena, I know, said Ben, you don't want to meet
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: the show and be part of the man and have
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: everyone to hang out.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: It's getting swowing up and.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: I need I need Cravey Care to get there.
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: No, I know, I don't have time. Matthew, thank you
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: for your offer.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Matthew, the pears weed Man is turning down your offer
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: to send you to Boston.
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: Uh so he's not interested. Okay, to pay for my FI,
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: I'll go. That's what I was saying, all right. Anyway,
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: these are actual jos.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: These are actual jokes by actual listeners, And here we go,
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: and you can send them in care of venmallor show
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. What is the best thing about
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: weedman having no teeth?
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: What?
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: No more cavity searches?
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: That's frommedi And why was weed man Hippie a terrible picture?
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: Why everything he threw was always high and outside? That's
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: George and Yuvalde, Texas. What do tiger woods and Weedman
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Hippie have in common? What they both like to roll
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: large things. That's John and Youngstown, Ohio. This guy John
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: loves to bust your balls.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: Here's another one. What is the difference between Tiger Woods
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: and Man Hippie?
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: What? Well, it turns out Tiger has been irrelevant for
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: about a decade, whereas weed Man.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: Has been irrelevant his whole life.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: That said John in Youngstown, Ohio. Why does Weedman Hippie
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: want to be the cover boy for April in Lorena's
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: Men of Malar calendar?
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: Why? Why two numbers for twenty? That's Daryl of the Ozars.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: I sent that one in there you go, all right?
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: Who is Weedman Hippy's favorite band crew, the Outlaws with
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: their twenty plus minute live version of Green Grass and
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: High Tides. Yes, and Michael the Great Michael and Tulsa
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: also says, you want four hundred and twenty encores after that?
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: All right?
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: Why is Marcel so jealous of weed Man?
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Why? Well, it turns out Weedman always takes the high road.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: That's from Mike the Lea.
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: All right, Well, uh let's see.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know if I could send this one
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: in Mike the lepercunt.
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: I think I'll pass it with that one.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: What does a hot air Balloon and weed Man have
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: in common?
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: What no visible signs of support? None?
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: That's again, if you come to the Boston area, Mike,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: the Leprecaunts and Mike in New Hampshire are hosting this
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: event weed Man.
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: So I really do want to go?
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: All right?
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: Should I talk to Lisa? I think we should talk
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: to Lisa, not you. I think Lisa is the adult.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: Would she meet you there? Would Lisa meets you?
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: Lisa? Lisa? Would you meet weed Man there? Yes? All right,
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: I'll put you guys on hold. When I'm done here, Coop,
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: I'll talk to you.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Shania Twain's hometown just named a new building after her. Yeah,
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: it's the Twain Station. Lisa approves with that joke. Uh
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: uh Kooby guy joke.
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, somebody actually gave me an offensive Joe, all right?
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: Uh?
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: What do you call a hooker with a running nose.
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: Full? Oh?
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: Come on, Rich in Minnesota?
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: Damn you Rich.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: How do you know that Ben Maller is straight?
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: Because Dick from Dayton wants nothing to do with him.
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: That's Noah in Austin yet.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: So the other night I offered to pay for Dick
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: and Dayton to go to a Reds game when I'm
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: in Ohio and.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: He said no taking beer and the whole big all right. Uh,
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: this is from Gordon in Tacoma. Why do Mike Rabel
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: and Diana Russini have so uh make such a good couple.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: Why because Russini can really wrap her head around a
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: hard news story and very Will knows his way around
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: the meadow land the.
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: Big big deal there.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: Away.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: I think we'll leave it there.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: Uh, thank you Big Bain's lame jokes off the week.
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: Hold on weed man, coop to take that off the
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: ear