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Hour 3 - Vladdy is Your Daddy · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Boom goes the dynamite. And a boom shakalaka to you.
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  Speaker 1: It's our number three. That's baseball, Susan. And the story
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  Speaker 1: everyone's talking about, there are only three players in baseball
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  Speaker 1: that have been given contracts worth $ 500 million or more.
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  Speaker 1: One of those players is in the headlines for the
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  Speaker 1: wrong reasons. Does Vladimir Guerrero Jr. 's explanation of his
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  Speaker 1: $ 500 million Blue Jays contract being for what he has
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  Speaker 1: already done make any sense to anyone? We'll discuss that. Also,
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: thumbs up or thumbs down to former Cincinnati star Joey
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  Speaker 1: Votto publicly airing the Reds clubhouse grievance over Coca-Cola. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: a baseball team upset with Coca-Cola. The players are. And
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  Speaker 1: what stands out about the Hunter Goodman 100 loss Rockies?
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  Speaker 1: They have now gone four straight years losing 100 games.
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  Speaker 1: It hasn't happened since the 1960s. We will give a
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  Speaker 1: great tribute to the Rockies who are not only bad,
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  Speaker 1: they're boring and bad. All of that and more right
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  Speaker 1: about now. Settle in. Release the Kraken. It's our number three. Well, Vladdy,
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  Speaker 1: he is your daddy, apparently. You can do whatever he wants.
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: You can do whatever he wants. Say what? Welcome in
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of another hour of the Ben Maller Show.
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  Speaker 1: we're not. As we dust off the batter. Got to
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  Speaker 1: so good this hour, the hot-button topic, the topic on
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  Speaker 1: the table from Toronto? Oh, Canada, oh, no?
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So the Blue Jays suck. They're playing out the string.
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  Speaker 1: They went from runner-up to chumps. They have been eliminated
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  Speaker 1: from playoff consideration. So just a few more games. And
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  Speaker 1: so why are we talking about the Blue Jays? Well,
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  Speaker 1: Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is feeding the content kitty. So if
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  Speaker 1: you didn't hear about this, perhaps not. Vladimir Guerrero did
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  Speaker 1: an interview on some podcast for friends and family. and
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  Speaker 1: he was ripped apart for his response now he has
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  Speaker 1: addressed the criticism over his pathetic season the high expectations
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  Speaker 1: that come with a i don't know 14 year 500
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  Speaker 1: million dollar contract in the viral clip vladimir guerrero jr
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  Speaker 1: argued that the massive contract which is bigger than the
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  Speaker 1: gross domestic product of some small island countries That that
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  Speaker 1: deal is for what he has done, not what he's
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  Speaker 1: going to do. He said, quote, they did not pay me,
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  Speaker 1: meaning the Blue Jays. They did not pay me because
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to hit 40 home runs every year. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Vladdy insisted, quote, I try, he said. Now, given a
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  Speaker 1: chance to clarify. Every sports writer, every water drinker, or
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  Speaker 1: people that carry the water for these athletes are like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: must have been taken out of context.
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  Speaker 3: No, no.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it must have been. It had to be taken
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  Speaker 1: out of context. So we're going to clean up the
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  Speaker 1: mess is what we're going to do. Okay, clean up
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  Speaker 1: the mess. So they went back to Vladdy, assuming that
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  Speaker 1: he would say, oh, no, I didn't mean that at all.
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  Speaker 1: I would never mean that. Oh, my God. Well, it
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  Speaker 1: turns out, and I will give him credit for this.
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  Speaker 1: I will give Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
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  Speaker 2: Credit.
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  Speaker 1: Because he did not push back and say, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: say that. With a chance to clarify, he doubled down.
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  Speaker 1: He doubled down, saying that he regrets nothing. Nothing! Oh, baby.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so that is a good jumping off point.
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  Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question. Does Vladimir Guerrero Jr. 's explanation...
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  Speaker 1: of his $ 500 million Blue Jay contract being for what
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  Speaker 1: he has already done make any sense to anyone? All right,
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  Speaker 1: so I've got general contractor Jim Nance and bail bonds.
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  Speaker 1: And we will combine all of these things together, and
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  Speaker 1: we are going to stay in the dark. Because we
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  Speaker 1: do the show in the dark. That's how we operate. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I would like to have full darkness, like an Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Rodgers vacation. However, I am told by management we have
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  Speaker 1: to have this bunch of lights around here because of
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  Speaker 1: the YouTube channel. So we have to have a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of lights and stuff. So I've got that going on.
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  Speaker 1: So there is that. So to answer the question, does
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  Speaker 1: Vladimir Guerrero Jr., his explanation of the $ 500 million Blue
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  Speaker 1: Jay contract being for what he's already done, make any sense?
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  Speaker 1: So to lead off here, after a minute-long deliberation over
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  Speaker 1: the available information, we have diagnosed Vladdy Guerrero Jr. from
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  Speaker 1: suffering from a big case of contractitis. Big contractitis. That
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  Speaker 1: is my diagnosis. As Dr. Maller, he made things significantly
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  Speaker 1: worse by opening his mouth, if I'm not mistaken. He
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  Speaker 1: has nine home runs, nine home runs as a $ 500
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  Speaker 1: million player. You could have gone down to a team
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  Speaker 1: in the Mexican league and gotten a guy to hit
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  Speaker 1: nine home runs. You didn't need to give him $ 500 million,
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  Speaker 1: nine home runs. You could have gone down to Tijuana
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  Speaker 1: and somebody would have gladly joined you to hit nine
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  Speaker 1: home runs. So nine home runs. And now he's giving
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  Speaker 1: an economics lecture to the fan base. Spare me. Spare me.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine telling your boss. I just love the hubris of
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  Speaker 1: these guys. Imagine telling your boss, you know, you're actually
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  Speaker 1: paying me for all the great stuff I did before
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  Speaker 1: you gave me that raise. Does that work? Does it?
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  Speaker 1: I guess if you play for the Blue Jays, it does.
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  Speaker 1: You got a guaranteed contract. It doesn't work like that
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  Speaker 1: in my world. I don't know about your world. Imagine
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  Speaker 1: you're a truck driver. You say, oh, man, I hit
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  Speaker 1: every deadline. I on time and all that stuff. I
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  Speaker 1: delivered everything I.
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  Speaker 4: Needed to deliver.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we're going to pay it. Well, no, listen,
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  Speaker 1: that's enough. I don't have to do anything from this
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  Speaker 1: point forward. It's like you don't hire a general contractor
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  Speaker 1: because the kitchen that he remodeled in 2021 look terrific.
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  Speaker 1: You hire the general contractor because you're convinced the kitchen
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  Speaker 1: that they're going to do for you is going to
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  Speaker 1: be great, right? Apparently, Vlad thinks the Blue Jays sent
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  Speaker 1: him a 14-year thank-you card. He's already earned the $ 500 million.
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  Speaker 1: Everything else is extra gravy on the poutine. Everything else
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  Speaker 1: is extra gravy on the poutine. What a retirement gift.
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  Speaker 1: You realize he is one of three Major League Baseball
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  Speaker 1: players in the history of the sport going back to
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  Speaker 1: the 1800s. Obviously, nobody would have gotten this money back then.
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  Speaker 1: But all time, there are three players that have $ 500
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  Speaker 1: million contracts or greater. Do you know who those players are?
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  Speaker 1: You should. They are Juan Soto of the Metropolitans, not
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Shohei Otani, who is slowing down for
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  Speaker 1: the Doyers at this particular moment. And Vladimir Guerrero. So
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  Speaker 1: it's not merely clumsy wording by Vladdy. It reveals something
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  Speaker 1: concerning about how Vladimir Guerrero Jr. views accountability. And remember,
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  Speaker 1: this is a kid that grew up in luxury. His
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  Speaker 1: dad was a MVP player for the Expos, and the
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  Speaker 1: Angels made a lot of money. So his path, much different.
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  Speaker 1: The Apple, in this case, does fall flat. from the
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  Speaker 1: tree because his dad had a much different upbringing than
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  Speaker 1: he did. And so this is the product of that,
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  Speaker 1: I would think, right? Like if you're not a dingleberry,
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  Speaker 1: you know that past performance simply establishes a baseline on
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  Speaker 1: what teams expect you to produce in the future. So, hey, Vlad,
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  Speaker 1: let's do a little mind hack thing here. So let's say,
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  Speaker 1: you know, your mindset is, all right, they're paying, the
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  Speaker 1: Blue Jays are paying you for yesterday. All right, they're
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  Speaker 1: paying you for yesterday. So I'm going to ask you
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  Speaker 1: a question. Can my friends in Toronto and all over
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  Speaker 1: Canada that go to these Blue Jay games, can Blue
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  Speaker 1: Jay fans pay for tickets with yesterday's money? Is that allowed? Because,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, why not?
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  Speaker 5: Why not?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you're able to get paid for what you
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  Speaker 1: have done. Why can't they buy the tickets for what
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  Speaker 1: they used to, you know, the old money?
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  Speaker 6: No?
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  Speaker 5: Hmm. Interesting.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder why. I wonder why, Vlad. That doesn't seem fair.
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  Speaker 1: That doesn't seem fair. All right. Furthermore, to Cincinnati we go,
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  Speaker 1: where Joey Votto has called out the Reds. Another team
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  Speaker 1: not making the playoffs. Votto calling out the Reds in
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  Speaker 1: a now viral social media post. We love the word viral.
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  Speaker 1: And Votto, the argument here is rather specific and it's basic.
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  Speaker 1: It's a basic issue. His complaint, Joey Votto, is that
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  Speaker 1: the Reds have made a mistake because players have to
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  Speaker 1: pay for soda from the clubhouse vending machine instead of
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  Speaker 1: having drinks provided by the organization. Now, Votto, who's done
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  Speaker 1: some broadcasting stuff, He spent 17 seasons, I believe it was,
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  Speaker 1: in Cincinnati playing for the Reds. And he's one of
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  Speaker 1: the most recognizable modern stars in the dark ages of
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  Speaker 1: the Reds. The Reds used to be good. They used
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  Speaker 1: to win. They used to have pride in performance. Not anymore.
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  Speaker 1: They've sucked for a long time. Nice ballpark right on
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  Speaker 1: the shores of the Ohio River. They blow, though. Good ballpark,
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  Speaker 1: bad team. A lot of good ballpark, bad team situations.
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  Speaker 1: All right, question.
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  Speaker 5: Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Thumbs up or thumbs down? Thumbs up or thumbs down
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  Speaker 1: to former Cincinnati star Joey Votto publicly airing the Reds'
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  Speaker 1: clubhouse grievance over Coca-Cola, soda pop. So I'm going to
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: give this a jumbo thumb up, like seven up. which
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  Speaker 1: you have to pay for. It'll cost you $ 3 in
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  Speaker 1: the vending machine in the Cincinnati Reds clubhouse. Now, I
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: love the difference between the teams in baseball. I've talked
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  Speaker 1: about this on various platforms, as the kids like to say.
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  Speaker 1: There are baseball teams that travel across the country 3,000
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  Speaker 1: miles or so, and they fly chartered planes that don't
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: have enough gas to make it across the country. So
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: they have to stop In the Midwest, if they're flying
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  Speaker 1: from the East Coast to the West Coast, they have
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  Speaker 1: to stop somewhere in Kansas City or St. Louis or
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  Speaker 1: Chicago and refuel and keep going. Then you have the Dodgers,
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  Speaker 1: who have two planes. They segregate the rich players from
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  Speaker 1: the unwashed support staff. The Dodgers also have nutritionists. They
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  Speaker 1: have chefs. Every amenity, every creature of comfort you could
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  Speaker 1: possibly want, anything imaginable, And then you have Cincinnati, who
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  Speaker 1: apparently has a vending machine with an out-of-order light. Way
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  Speaker 1: to go, right? You play for the Dodgers, they make
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  Speaker 1: you a doctor. If you play for the Dodgers, they
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  Speaker 1: make you a doctor, or at least you own a
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  Speaker 1: share of a Dr. Pepper factory. You play for the Reds,
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  Speaker 1: you can't even get a Mr. Pibb without pay. So
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  Speaker 1: the Reds clubhouse, it sounds less... major league and more
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  Speaker 1: like a break room at an abandoned radio shack which
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  Speaker 1: closed in 2003 like you want a drink yeah come
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  Speaker 1: on uh now long ago those who are of course
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  Speaker 1: i was never alive when this person was in charge
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  Speaker 1: but there was this this evil wench named marg shot
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: I can say that she's dead. She tried to sell
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  Speaker 1: leftover donuts in one of the more famous stories. She
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: tried to sell leftover donuts to her own employees. She
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  Speaker 1: was that cheap. 35 years later or so, the Reds
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: are shaking down players for a Diet Coke. And somewhere
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: across the pearly gates, Marge Schott is smiling like a
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  Speaker 1: Cheshire cat. So happy. And the Reds, at some point, rebranded.
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  Speaker 1: They used to be known many years ago as the
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: Big Red Machine. Big Red Machine. They've become the Big
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: Red Coin Operated Machine, is what they've become at this point.
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  Speaker 1: And as Jim Nance would say, a tradition unlike any other,
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  Speaker 1: Cincinnati Reds separating their employees from the loose change. And
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  Speaker 1: this is a longtime Reds story. Cheap is baked in
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  Speaker 1: to the DNA of the organization. Cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go. Cheap. Here we go. All right. Last
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  Speaker 1: thing to Denver. That's right. This hour, all about bad teams.
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  Speaker 1: I'm giving you the atomic wedgie of major league baseball.
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  Speaker 1: So to Denver, we go where the Colorado Rockies are
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  Speaker 1: playing out the string and they made some baseball history. Now,
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: we had a guy call up from Colorado a couple
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago who brought up that this was inevitable. It
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  Speaker 1: has now happened, so we will address the snuffleupagus in
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  Speaker 1: the room. The Colorado Rockies have made baseball history. They
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  Speaker 1: have become the first non-expansion franchise. in more than 60
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  Speaker 1: years to have four straight 100-loss seasons. Not one, not two,
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  Speaker 1: not three, four straight 100-loss seasons.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 7: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Only five teams have ever suffered such futility, such incompetence
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  Speaker 1: as the Colorado Rockies. The other four were actually all
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  Speaker 1: expansion teams the last time this happened. It was in
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  Speaker 1: the 1960s, the expansion Mets, the Metropolitans. So the question
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  Speaker 1: is here. What stands out about the Hunter Goodman 100
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  Speaker 1: loss Rockies? Hunter Goodman, I think he's hit about close
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  Speaker 1: to 40 home runs for the Rockies as we're doing
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  Speaker 1: this here. And he's their headliner on a 100 loss team,
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  Speaker 1: the fourth consecutive 100 loss team. So what stands out?
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  Speaker 1: The thing that's obvious... And I'm going to start with
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  Speaker 1: that because it's low-hanging fruit. It's the most delicious. It's
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  Speaker 1: really not a tough code to crack. The Rockies are
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  Speaker 1: not baseball's bad news bears. The bad news bears had characters.
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  Speaker 1: The Rockies need to go out and try to hire
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  Speaker 1: Morris Buttermaker as their manager. That's a character, right? Get
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: a drunk guy that used to play minor league baseball
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  Speaker 1: that's got some crap job. And just hire him. Morris
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  Speaker 1: Buttermaker would have made this team more interesting. And they
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  Speaker 1: still would have lost 100 games. Colorado has somehow achieved
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  Speaker 1: the impossible. Historical ineptitude with the charisma of drywall. How
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  Speaker 1: does that happen? They stink historically without making any history
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  Speaker 1: anybody wants to remember. There are still people, I go
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  Speaker 1: to New York, I get family there and I visit
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: and you talk to some Mets fans and depending how
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  Speaker 1: old they are, they still romanticize the 1962 Mets. They
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: were horrific, right? But at least they were interesting. And
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  Speaker 1: there's a line we use from time to time in sports.
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  Speaker 1: You can be bad, you can lose, but you can't
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  Speaker 1: be boring. You can be good, but And if you win,
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  Speaker 1: you can be boring, but you can't be bad and boring.
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  Speaker 1: The Rockies are not only bad, they're boring. They're just dull.
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  Speaker 1: And Casey Stangle, back in the day, could explain losing,
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  Speaker 1: and you'd want them to lose more so he'd give
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  Speaker 1: you more punchlines, Casey Stangle. And Colorado... They explain it
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  Speaker 1: with another press release about development. We're rebuilding. What are
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: you rebuilding exactly? There's nothing to build. Even their mascot, Dinger,
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  Speaker 1: cannot hold a foam finger to Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Met.
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  Speaker 8: Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Met would destroy Dinger. And you know why nobody really
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: hates the Rockies? Nobody hates the Rockies. Because hate. requires
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  Speaker 1: emotional investment. There's no reason to have an emotional investment
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  Speaker 1: in the Rockies. You can romanticize a lovable loser. People
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: do it all the time. People write books. They make
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: movies about lovable losers. There's nothing at all, nothing at
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  Speaker 1: all that is romantic about an established big league franchise
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  Speaker 1: losing 100 games every year. They don't care. People just
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  Speaker 1: forget that you exist. They're not lovable losers. They're forgettable losers,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: which is much worse. And we hope that in 2027,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: they get a uniform sponsor patch that says Chico's Bail Bonds.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: we need that we need chico's bail bonds as the
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  Speaker 1: official sponsor on the uniform of the 2027 rockies and
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  Speaker 1: they can even put the slogan let freedom ring or
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  Speaker 1: please let us lose just 99 games that would be
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  Speaker 1: good the 99 So what's the slogan? Do the Rockies
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  Speaker 1: have a franchise slogan? Is the slogan like Colorado Rockies baseball?
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  Speaker 1: Come for the views of the mountains and stay because
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  Speaker 1: maybe you'll get drunk and you can avoid watching the team.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, the tickets are non-refundable. That's why
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: you actually came here. You lazy bones. They're non-refundable. It
• 20:26
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  Speaker 1: once wrote the script for 450 consecutive episodes of blank.
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  Speaker 1: That's a long run in television. Jeff Scott, who died recently,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: he once wrote the script for 450 consecutive episodes of Blank.
• 21:42
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• 21:46
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• 21:49
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• 22:55
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• 22:58
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• 23:03
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• 24:19
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• 24:31
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• 24:44
  Speaker 1: for the Malheur Riddle of the Day. The Malheur Riddle
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: of the Day. So here it is. A gentleman named
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Jeff Scott recently died. That's sad. He once wrote the
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  Speaker 1: script for 450 consecutive episodes of blank. Now, we wouldn't
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: be impressed if it was 449 or 451, but we
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  Speaker 1: love 450. We love it. We love it. We love it.
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  Speaker 1: So that is the question. What's the answer? And Josh,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: the Bears fan from Nebraska, is going with the Muppet
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Babies as the answer. Femi says the Ben Maller show script.
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  Speaker 1: We wish. Who else do we have? Page down. Taxi
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Cab Confessions from Milkman Mike. That was a good show.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: That's not a million years. Red Dwarf from King Rory.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Who else do we have? HR Puffin Stuff. From the
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  Speaker 1: OG Art Puffin. I've never watched that one. Alf the
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  Speaker 1: Alien O'Piner going MXC is the answer. I Dream of
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Jeannie from Inca Terror. My earliest television crush was I
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  Speaker 1: Dream of Jeannie. I think mine was like the Gilligan's Island,
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  Speaker 1: I think. Tim says Jeff, a.k.a. Michael Scott, wrote over
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  Speaker 1: 400 episodes of The Simpsons. That's from Timmy. In Busco, Indiana,
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  Speaker 1: JT the Wingman going with the iconic military drama comedy, MASH,
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  Speaker 1: from back in the day. Eight is enough from Kev Atomic.
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  Speaker 1: The Benny Hill Show, guest by Courtesy Flusher. Let's see,
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  Speaker 1: Eek in Roseville, Minnesota, got this right. Obviously cheating. Bad
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  Speaker 1: Train is the answer. The Simpsons guessed by Tattoo Baker
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  Speaker 1: as well. Let's see, what else do we have? Page down.
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  Speaker 1: I can't read that. All right, Lorena, one more time.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Scott recently died. He once wrote the script for
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  Speaker 1: 450 consecutive episodes of blank.
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  Speaker 8: Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 1: All right, survey says... The correct answer would be, let's
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  Speaker 1: see if Lorena knows what this means. Don't play this sound.
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  Speaker 1: What does twib notes mean? What does twib notes mean?
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  Speaker 1: You know what that means?
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 1: This week in baseball. Rest in peace, Jeff Scott. Big
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  Speaker 1: part of my day.
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  Speaker 4: Childhood, I fell in love with baseball in part because
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  Speaker 4: of This Week in Baseball.
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  Speaker 1: And they had Twib notes. And it wasn't until I go,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: I was such a dumb child. I was so stupid.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: I had no idea that Twib meant This Week in
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  Speaker 1: Baseball until I got a little older. And then I said, oh, okay,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: that's what that means. I should have figured that out.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: But that was a very hokey show, a fun show,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: a show that goes back. to a different time before
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: the interweb. Let's go now to the phones at 877-99
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  Speaker 1: on Fox, and we go to Toronto, and we say
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: hello to Justin in Toronto. Welcome, Justin. What's up?
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  Speaker 10: Thanks for having me, Mr. Ben Maller. I just want
• 28:15
  Speaker 10: to give a quick shout-out to you, Koopa Loop, and Lorena.
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: There you go, truck driver.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, look at that. We got the truck right there.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: We got the big horn, the whole thing. Nice.
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  Speaker 10: The wheels are rolling, buddy. Yeah, I was hoping to
• 28:30
  Speaker 10: have a quick comment about that pathetic, ridiculous statement our
• 28:34
  Speaker 10: bum Vladdy Guerrero Jr. made today.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Yes, that's a good way to start. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: give the floor to the Honorable Gentleman from Toronto, Mr.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Justin there. Justin, I will give you now 30 seconds
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: of time allotted to Justin. I would like to give
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: you the time to represent the Blue Jay fan. What
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: do you have to say to Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
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  Speaker 10: uh first off uh the whole reason we missed the
• 29:05
  Speaker 10: playoffs is because of this bum if he had at
• 29:08
  Speaker 10: least doubled his output we would we would have been
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  Speaker 10: in the playoffs i mean we're only what four or
• 29:12
  Speaker 10: five games out i know the season's done but if
• 29:15
  Speaker 10: if injuries aside to all the other players and everything
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  Speaker 10: the team stuck together and uh you know his production
• 29:22
  Speaker 10: really uh faltered our group this year i'm not saying
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  Speaker 10: we would have uh made it to the world series
• 29:27
  Speaker 10: again but um If he had to double this production, yeah,
• 29:31
  Speaker 10: for sure. Even 18 home runs, we would have won
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  Speaker 10: another five games, six games, and been right in there.
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  Speaker 1: So uh can you can you explain i give you
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: 30 can you explain justin to vladimir guerrero jr can
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: you explain to him how contracts work can you explain
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: to him that getting paid a salary is for what
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: you're doing not what you have done can you let
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  Speaker 1: him know.
• 29:52
  Speaker 10: That Yeah, so I'm kind of driving a truck right now,
• 29:55
  Speaker 10: and they're kind of paying me by the load that
• 29:57
  Speaker 10: I'm driving at the time, not for future loads, not
• 30:00
  Speaker 10: for previous loads. So that's kind of the way the
• 30:04
  Speaker 10: world works. I think most of our jobs we get
• 30:06
  Speaker 10: paid for the work that we're going to do as
• 30:08
  Speaker 10: opposed to what we have done. But, I mean, his
• 30:11
  Speaker 10: statement does kind of make sense. If we paid him
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  Speaker 10: $ 500 million for what he has done— I mean, this
• 30:16
  Speaker 10: year was basically on the house, right? We didn't pay
• 30:18
  Speaker 10: him nothing for this year. So we should be very
• 30:21
  Speaker 10: thankful with the nine home runs he gave us, right?
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. Exactly.
• 30:27
  Speaker 10: And we got 13 more seasons on the house, too. So,
• 30:29
  Speaker 10: I mean, all this is basically for free. And I
• 30:35
  Speaker 10: feel pretty sorry for the owners of the Blue Jays,
• 30:38
  Speaker 10: the Rodgers group that put all this money in and
• 30:41
  Speaker 10: then have statements like this being made by their players.
• 30:45
  Speaker 10: and the looks on their faces while they're playing the game. Like,
• 30:47
  Speaker 10: you're making $ 500 million, and you want to run around
• 30:52
  Speaker 10: with a red jacket and a dragon? Like, let's play
• 30:54
  Speaker 10: some baseball here, you know? Look at the real teams,
• 30:57
  Speaker 10: like Tampa Bay. They're playing, like, they're not doing any
• 31:01
  Speaker 10: of that crap, you know? They play the small ball,
• 31:03
  Speaker 10: they play the big ball, they play baseball. And that's...
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  Speaker 10: You know, we've got to.
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  Speaker 1: Get to that. Exactly. All right, listen, tremendous job. Be
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: safe out there on the roads, Justin, hauling your truck
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  Speaker 1: around there. All right, there he goes, Justin from Toronto.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Let's say a little to Mike, who's next up in Lancaster.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: What's going on, Mike? Welcome.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: What up, Steve?
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Hey, what up? Can you go a little further away
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: from the phone? Can you go to the other side
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: of the room?
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: No? I'm here. I'm near. Is that better? I'm fresh
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: out the shower, man. I didn't expect to be on
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: the air so soon.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: I can put you back on hold if you want.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: You want to go back on hold?
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: No, no, no.
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: No, I'm enlightened by that wonderful fellow in Toronto, Justin.
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: I think that he was awesome. He's a very well-spoken gentleman.
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: He knew his baseball. Very dedicated to his Jays, I'm assuming.
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  Speaker 5: But this is Dodgers country out here.
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  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: The D-O-D-G-E-R-S Dodgers.
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  Speaker 5: That's correct. In California, in the high desert. I've already
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: said a prayer for you, Lorena, and Justin, so he
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: can be safe on the road and your safe travels
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: after the show.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate that. Can we get now?
• 32:19
  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: I want to bring back the Lancaster Jet Hawks is
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: what I want to bring back. We need to bring
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: back minor league baseball to the high desert in California.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: That's what we need.
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: That would be fantastic. That was one of my first
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: jobs as a vendor. I did bad stuff, though. Let's
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: not go back to the past.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Well, I would like you to know, Mike, at one
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: point in my life, in my younger days, I threw
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: out the first pitch at a Lancaster-Jedhocks game in the
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Cal League, and I raced the mascot, Kaboom. and got
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: into a shoving match with Kaboom, the mascot. How about that?
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: Okay, that sounds normal. I've seen it before. Kaboom's got
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: an attitude problem.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Yes, exactly. Yes, say that again. Say that again. So
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: we did a minor league baseball bit where I threw
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: out the first pitch, and then the PR person for
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: the team's like, hey, can you come back in, like,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: I don't know, the fifth inning? and race Kaboom the mascot.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: I said, sure, I'll race Kaboom the mascot. No problem.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: So I met. We had a cloak and dagger meeting
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: with Kaboom the mascot. So the PR person's like, listen,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: it's a race. You're going to lead for a little bit.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Then Kaboom's going to lead for a little bit. And
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: then Kaboom's going to let you win. So, okay, fine.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: All right. It's all scripted. That's fine.
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: You were told this.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Yes, I was told this. So I did the race,
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: and that little bastard, Kaboom the mascot, sprinted past me
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: when he was supposed to let me pass him. So
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: I shoved Kaboom the mascot, and then Kaboom shoved me back,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: and it was very ugly. I did beat him.
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: He's very entertaining.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Unpredictable like you. I did not find that entertaining. And
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Kaboom yelled at me in his little mascot costume because
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: I pushed Kaboom, and that annoyed Kaboom, and nobody else
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: could hear it because he was on the field, but
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: I heard Kaboom's voice.
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: What did he say to you? Share it with me.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: Don't do that, jerk! He cursed, actually. I can't say
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: what exactly he said because there was some profanity.
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: Well, I got a bone to pick with Kaboom if
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: I come across him. Don't you worry.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: I think Kaboom's long retired. All right, I got to go, Mike.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: I got to leave some time. I got to leave
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: some time. All right, from Ask Ben. Thank you, though.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Call more often, Mike. Mike there in the high desert there.
• 34:28
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• 34:35
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• 36:01
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• 36:08
  Speaker 8: If I could turn my mic on, that would help.
• 36:09
  Speaker 8: All right. We are going to start off with a
• 36:11
  Speaker 8: question from Nimbot.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: Nimbot. You always remember Nimbot's name. It's a very unique name.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: He's Nimbot.
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: Who is the most famous person you have shared a
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: meal with?
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Well, I guess, well, I don't know if she's got fame.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Lauren Sanchez, who's now married to Jeff Bezos of Amazon.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: She's kind of a big deal. But I've been lucky.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: I've had meals with a lot of fame. For me,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: it was like Tommy Lasorda would be like, or Vin Scully,
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: somebody like that. Those are the, in my life, those
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: are the greatest because they were people I looked up
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: to when I was growing up. So people like that.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: But one of my craziest meals, I sound like Pat
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: O'Brien name dropping here, but Tommy Heinsohn. He was a
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: Celtic legend, and I had a meal with him. He
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: was great. He told all these old Celtic stories. I
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: wasn't a Celtic fan growing up or anything like that,
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: but I love the old NBA stories. Lorena, most famous
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: person you've shared and broken bread with? It's got to
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: be you and Coop.
• 37:12
  Speaker 8: That's it.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: That is a lie. I think that's... Incorrect. I do
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: not believe that at all. All right. Now, Coopaloop's now
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: going to say, well, you know, 8 million Hollywood stars.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, Coop.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: I mean.
• 37:23
  Speaker 8: I guess the obvious answer would have to be Jim Carrey.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: That's pretty good.
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: That's pretty good. That's hard to beat that, for sure.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: Hard to beat that. I saw a bunch of Billy
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: Crystal people. Billy Crystal's kind of a jerk. Hit the
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: clip again.
• 37:37
  Speaker 8: You never met Billy Crystal.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: He was a jerk. I'm sure he was having a
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: bad day. 17 times I ran into him.
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: What's next here? What do we got?
• 37:46
  Speaker 8: Donkey Sausage would like to know.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: Hi, Donkey.
• 37:49
  Speaker 8: Have you ever had braces?
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: Yes, I had braces.
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: I hated them when I was a kid, but my
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: parents did put me in braces, and I had them
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: cutting my gums. I remember multiple times I'd have bloody
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: gums like I got into a fight because my gums
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: were all bloody from the braces.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: What about you, Lorena?
• 38:07
  Speaker 8: That sounds horrible. No, I have a.
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: No.
• 38:13
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: I don't have a bad smile, but you can definitely
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: tell I've never had braces.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: All right. Very good. What about you, Koopaloop? Braces?
• 38:21
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I've had them twice, actually, if you count Invisalign.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Did that work for you?
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  Speaker 8: It did.
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  Speaker 2: I had braces my senior year of high school, and
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: then I never wore my retainer, so I needed... to
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: get Invisalign to fix them again.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, gotcha.
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  Speaker 8: It happens.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: It does happen. It's Ask Ben. Your questions are answers
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: for the rest of the hour. And hashtag Ask Ben.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: What's next?
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  Speaker 8: Kathy would like to know.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, is that Kathy in Madison?
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  Speaker 8: I believe so.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: That's the Hey Mona woman. She's famous. Hey Mona.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: She wants to know, Ginger or Marianne?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, because I brought up, yeah, the Gilligan's Island. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: more of a fan of Ginger. More a fan of Ginger.
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  Speaker 1: What about you, Lorena?
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  Speaker 8: I've never watched it.
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  Speaker 1: You have no idea what that is.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: Coop probably hasn't either. You guys are younger.
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  Speaker 8: No, I've watched Gilligan's Island all the time. That's a
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  Speaker 8: really tough one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they both have good qualities.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I think I'm gonna go Marianne but it's it's just
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  Speaker 2: by it's a toss-up yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah just by some hair or something like that yeah
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  Speaker 1: I got you all right uh what is next it's
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: ask Ben your questions our answers this is good we
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  Speaker 1: got a little more time we get some of these
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: questions in I love this year this is great.
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  Speaker 8: All right um This is a... I'm not sure if
• 39:51
  Speaker 8: I understand this. Okay, so Neil from Fall River.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: Oh, hi, Neil.
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  Speaker 2: And I guess this is a question just for you.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: It says, Ben, are you a fan of westerns? And
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: I get that part. That one makes sense to me.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: And then he says, comma, wagon train, rifleman, bonanza. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: are those different westerns?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So I... When I was a kid, I did like...
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  Speaker 1: I did like Westerns. I feel like when I was
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: a child, I'm old, and there were mostly Westerns, and
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: I'd have to navigate that. And then I reached a
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: point where I was tired of Westerns, and they call
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: them spaghetti Westerns. I hated them. But I guess, what
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: was that? There was a TV show that we used
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: to watch with Michael Landon, who died at a young age.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: I forget the name of it. It's been so long.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: But we used to watch that all the time. It
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: was a drama. It was on TV. It did pretty well.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: And I don't remember the name of it.
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  Speaker 8: Bonanza?
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  Speaker 1: Was that it? Maybe that was it. Bonanza. Okay, there
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  Speaker 1: you go. All right. Lorena, I guess that's just for me.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: What's next?
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  Speaker 5: What do we got?
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  Speaker 1: This is a good one.
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  Speaker 8: I like this. Late night drug tester would like to know. Hi, Mr.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: Drug Tester.
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  Speaker 8: Would you rather have a personal driver or chef?
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: Oh, I don't mind driving. I would like to have
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: a chef. That would be great.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I don't mind cooking either, though. So it's
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: not like I really mind either one. But I guess
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: I'd take a chef because you can make more exotic things.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: What about you, Lorena?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, it's so hard because I really do drive all
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  Speaker 8: the time.
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  Speaker 4: And I feel like if I had someone to drive me,
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: I would be laid back and relaxed so much.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: Oh, oh, take the driver. All right. Coop, driver or chef?
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  Speaker 8: Definitely the chef. Absolutely.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: That's the right answer. You win, Coopaloop. That's it. Lorena,
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  Speaker 1: you lose. Sorry, Lorena.
• 41:32
  Speaker 8: That was a game.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: Bad answer by you. Bad job.