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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maller Show on
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  Speaker 1: I continue to be fascinated by the story, which is
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  Speaker 1: I call it the bark in the trailer park because
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  Speaker 1: it's still barking. Yeah. And again, if you somehow miss this,
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  Speaker 1: what a tale it is, what a torrid tale it is.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll go to San Francisco for the latest revelations
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  Speaker 1: the day after the day after. And 49er coach Kyle Shanahan,
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  Speaker 1: good old Kyle Shanahan, has chimed in. Now, Shanahan had
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  Speaker 1: his own situation where he got into a phantom accident.
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  Speaker 1: They went radio silence for 11 days. They covered up
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  Speaker 1: whatever he did. And very odd that you would. Go
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  Speaker 1: 11 days with a cover-up unless you were trying to
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  Speaker 1: cover something up. I was like, why would you just
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  Speaker 1: not announce it if there was nothing going on? So
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  Speaker 1: there's something going on with Shanahan. We might never know
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  Speaker 1: what exactly happened there because of the cover-up. There was
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  Speaker 1: no cover-up involving the owner, Jed York. Trailer Park Jed,
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  Speaker 1: as we like to call him there. So Kyle Shanahan
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  Speaker 1: commenting on Jed York's arrest. The owner of the team,
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  Speaker 1: if he was an NBA guy, they'd call him a governor.
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  Speaker 1: Because they're dumb. He owns the team. He was born
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  Speaker 1: on third base. Won the genetic lottery. Not athletically. Just
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  Speaker 1: got into the right bloodline. A lot of money there.
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  Speaker 1: And he happens to own... So Jed York arrested, and
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  Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan said, no effect. We have a little audio? Okay, well,
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  Speaker 1: let's go to the audio. If you didn't hear this,
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  Speaker 1: let's hear a little spin, spin, spin from the 49ers
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  Speaker 1: head coach. Here he is, Kyle Shanahan.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, it's a very tough situation. Views for the organization
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  Speaker 3: going forward.
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  Speaker 1: Are the same as usual. There won't be any difference
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  Speaker 1: in that.
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  Speaker 3: But I know it's extremely fresh. I think it's a very,
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  Speaker 3: very personal situation. I got a lot of respect for Jed.
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  Speaker 3: I got a lot of respect for Danielle. Their family
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  Speaker 3: does mean a lot to me. So I'm like, with
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  Speaker 3: it being this personal, I'm trying as hard as I
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  Speaker 3: can to keep.
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  Speaker 4: It that way.
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  Speaker 1: Your message to the guys today, what was that?
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  Speaker 3: I don't need much a message to the guys. I
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  Speaker 3: think that's kind of irrelevant to our guys. Is it
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  Speaker 3: possible that Jed will be away from the team for
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  Speaker 3: a while or just not as much as a presence?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's kind of, it's been like that this
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  Speaker 3: summer anyways, you know, with him being out in Ohio
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  Speaker 3: and things like that. So there'd be no difference right now.
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  Speaker 3: He hasn't been here for training camp.
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  Speaker 1: Well, only the finest equipment. Uh, I don't even know
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  Speaker 1: what to say anymore. I don't know what to say. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: What am I going to do?
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  Speaker 5: I'm like, did my speakers go out?
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  Speaker 1: Was I not talking? Lorena, I was talking. Yes.
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  Speaker 5: I'm looking at you like, Ben, I don't hear you.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I was just making a great point, and
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  Speaker 1: nobody heard me. How does that happen? Like, literally, we
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  Speaker 1: played one sound bite of Kyle Shanahan, and then the
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  Speaker 1: whole freaking thing falls apart. Where was I? All right.
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  Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan. What a dope. There we go. That's the monologue. Bye-bye.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going home, everybody.
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  Speaker 5: See you later, losers.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, yes. So Shanahan, you heard what he said. The
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  Speaker 1: key quote was no effect. And you heard him say
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  Speaker 1: it was a very personal situation. I think most times
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  Speaker 1: you have sex with a prostitute. It's a personal situation.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't know. I have yet to do that
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  Speaker 1: at this point. Anyway, York pleaded no contest to misdemeanor
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  Speaker 1: disorderly conduct. Possessing criminal tools, which is a phone. I've
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  Speaker 1: got one of those. I'm a criminal. I've got a phone.
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  Speaker 1: I'm bad boy, bad boy. What you gonna do? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I have a phone. Criminal tool. And he was originally
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  Speaker 1: arrested on suspicion of prostitution, and then it was knocked down.
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  Speaker 1: He paid some money, and that's it. Fred Warner, one
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  Speaker 1: of the Warner brothers, he plays for the team. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think he's part of the movie studio. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know why. Anyway, Fred Warner said players know about this story,
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  Speaker 1: but they're not discussing it.
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  Speaker 5: So Shanahan.
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  Speaker 1: Said that York's absence has materially not affected team operations.
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  Speaker 1: You heard him talk about that in the soundbite we
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  Speaker 1: played before we were talked. Very rudely by the Gremlins.
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  Speaker 1: Very rudely. All right, so that is a good jumping
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  Speaker 1: off point. Let us discuss. Here is the question. Do
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  Speaker 1: you think that Kyle Shanahan is telling the truth about
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  Speaker 1: the impact of The 49ers owner Jed York's arrest has had.
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  Speaker 1: I think we're getting the real story here from Kyle Shanahan.
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  Speaker 1: So I've got Netflix, Fisher Price, and swine fever. And
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  Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together, and we
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  Speaker 1: are going to exterminate the gremlins. I will kill every
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  Speaker 1: freaking gremlin. That is my life's work. I think what
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  Speaker 1: it is is the cockroaches, the cockroaches are eating the
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  Speaker 1: wires here. I think that's what's going on. Do they
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  Speaker 1: eat wires?
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  Speaker 5: I'm writing it right now into my email.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that they eat wires. I'm just, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going with that. My theory is that we're being attacked
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  Speaker 1: by the gremlins and the cockroaches that are eating the wires.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so to answer the question, do you think...
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  Speaker 1: Do you think Kyle Shanahan is telling the truth about
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  Speaker 1: the impact of the 49ers owner Jed York's arrest? He's
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  Speaker 1: giving you a version of the truth, not the whole truth,
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  Speaker 1: and not nothing but the truth. And look at it
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  Speaker 1: this way. If Shanahan was having a drink, he would
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  Speaker 1: not be having a Mr. Pibb. He would be having
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  Speaker 1: a Mr. Fibb, if you know what I mean here.
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  Speaker 1: And what are the odds that Jed York jokes have circulated?
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  Speaker 1: around the 49er locker room in less than 12 seconds.
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  Speaker 1: How about 1,000%? 1,000% that this is going on here.
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  Speaker 1: Are we really supposed to believe that a 50-plus man
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  Speaker 1: locker room there have not busted Jed York's balls like
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  Speaker 1: he apparently wanted at that Ohio trailer park in that tryst?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, of course it's going on. Please. Kyle Shanahan.
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  Speaker 1: has apparently forgotten the golden rule of the football locker room,
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  Speaker 1: and really any locker room if you ever played sports,
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  Speaker 1: and it starts at a very young age. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have to be a professional athlete if you played high
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  Speaker 1: school or even lower levels than that. You know that
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  Speaker 1: the one common bond that athletes share is that nobody,
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  Speaker 1: nobody is safe playing from getting roasted at a Netflix-style
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  Speaker 1: comedy special. All is fair in love, war, and poking
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  Speaker 1: the owner for the hibbity-dibbity that took place, or I
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  Speaker 1: guess didn't take place, but he wanted it to take
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  Speaker 1: place there. So Shanahan, what he's really doing is insulting,
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  Speaker 1: much like the Cleveland Browns do with their fans. Shanahan,
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  Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan, insulting the 49er fan base there. He's insulting
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  Speaker 1: your intelligence there. By pretending that this has not become
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  Speaker 1: grade A locker room material. When he says that York's
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  Speaker 1: arrest had no effect, that is NFL coach speak for
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  Speaker 1: please stop asking me about my boss. I would appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: So why not acknowledge the obvious? Well... It gets a
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  Speaker 1: little uncomfortable. It gets a little dicey to do that.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's part of the issue here. The players
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  Speaker 1: know about it. They probably cracked every X-rated joke imaginable
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  Speaker 1: at this point. Just think about your job and whoever
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  Speaker 1: your boss is. And it happens, I know, in my
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  Speaker 1: world when one of our bosses F up and we
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  Speaker 1: find out about it. Oh, my God. Open season. And
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  Speaker 1: that's just human nature. It's just human nature. Every X-rated
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  Speaker 1: joke possible being cracked. And really good jokes. Really, really
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  Speaker 1: good jokes. And yet, instead of saying, well, yeah, they're
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  Speaker 1: having some fun with it.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: Instead, Shanahan sounded like an employee protecting the guy who
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  Speaker 1: signs the checks, in theory. So there you go. Pretending
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  Speaker 1: there's zero chatter, no chatter at all. It just makes
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  Speaker 1: it more ridiculous when you say stuff like that. Now, meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: the NFL, believe it or not, they confirmed the NFL
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  Speaker 1: that they are aware of Jed York's trailer park dalliance.
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  Speaker 1: So stupid. So his failed attempt to do the dirty deed.
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  Speaker 1: Although he did get in trouble for attempting to do
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  Speaker 1: the dirty deed there at the trailer park. And he
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  Speaker 1: is currently being reviewed under the personal conduct policy, which
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  Speaker 1: applies to owners as well. So that is where we
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  Speaker 1: are on that. Jed York responding to There's some more information.
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  Speaker 1: I saw the New York Post had a big write-up
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  Speaker 1: on this, where Jed York responded to the hooker's ad
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  Speaker 1: using the alias Joe multiple times over the weekend. Apparently,
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  Speaker 1: really good advertisement. I don't know who wrote the ad.
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  Speaker 1: Solid advertisement. I really like the ad. So there was that,
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  Speaker 1: and that obviously turned out to be an undercover cop,
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  Speaker 1: a sting, and he negotiated the payment, $ 160. So what
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  Speaker 1: is that in California or New York? If it's $ 160
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  Speaker 1: in Ohio, in a town kind of off the beaten
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  Speaker 1: path there where things are not going good, there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of poverty, unfortunately, I understand, in East Palestine, Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: So I guess that would be, what, $ 200, $ 220 in L.A.
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  Speaker 1: or New York? I don't know. I don't know the
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  Speaker 1: going rate on that. So he was interested in one
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  Speaker 1: hour of the full-service boinking. It did not happen. And
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  Speaker 1: we understand the New York Post said he drove a
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  Speaker 1: rental car, Jed York. I believe it was Avis. Shout
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  Speaker 1: out Avis. If you're going to see a woman at
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  Speaker 1: a trailer park, get that Avis rental car. Anyway, that's
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  Speaker 1: where we are. So the question on this, is Jed York,
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  Speaker 1: 49ers owner Jed York, facing serious punishment under the NFL's
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  Speaker 1: personal conduct policy? So after a minutes-long review, a minutes-long
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  Speaker 1: review on this, of the available information, and we have
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  Speaker 1: used our deliberation skills and determined, no. No. No, I'm
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  Speaker 1: shaking my head. No, no, no, no, no, no, no
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  Speaker 1: on this. What are they going to do? This is
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  Speaker 1: always the issue with owners, and it drives people nuts.
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  Speaker 1: What are they going to do? Are they going to
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  Speaker 1: suspend Jed York for four games? Now, that's real punishment.
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  Speaker 1: So you're suspended for four games. You're going to have
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  Speaker 1: to watch the 49ers play on your $ 20, 000 Ralph Lauren sofa.
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  Speaker 1: with your army of butlers and cooks. Well, that's real punishment.
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  Speaker 1: You're really showing Jed York this just in. Owners don't play.
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  Speaker 1: Video at 11. Owners do not play. So the NFL
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  Speaker 1: can manufacture whatever they want, some kind of performative punishment.
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  Speaker 1: And if you look at the map, if you look
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  Speaker 1: at the map here, And the precedent has been set
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  Speaker 1: on the roadmap. Patriots are Robert Kraft, a customer at
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  Speaker 1: the Orchids of Asia Day Spa there in Jupiter, Florida.
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  Speaker 1: And he got popped on a solicitation situation. Remember that?
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  Speaker 1: Way back in 2019. I was a little kid back
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  Speaker 1: in 2019. And so that went down. The charges in
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  Speaker 1: that were eventually dropped because of the fruit of the
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  Speaker 1: poisonous tree, thanks to that old lawyer that called the
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  Speaker 1: show and explained exactly what was going to happen. He
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  Speaker 1: was spot on. Free legal advice from a really good
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  Speaker 1: attorney that we didn't have to pay for. Thank God
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  Speaker 1: for that. Anyway, the NFL, what do they do? They
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  Speaker 1: never disciplined Robert Kraft. He never got punished for that. Nothing. Now,
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  Speaker 1: it's a little different with Jed York, because there was
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  Speaker 1: a plea, and he paid a fine, and that was that.
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  Speaker 1: But it's really nothing. And nor should it be. The
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  Speaker 1: public rebuke is really the punishment on this. But again,
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  Speaker 1: they being the NFL, they want to do some kind
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  Speaker 1: of performative thing here for optics, give out a stern statement.
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  Speaker 1: And perhaps a fine. It's very hard to fine rich
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  Speaker 1: people enough for them to really feel the fine. And
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  Speaker 1: that's it. And if they really want the deluxe punishment,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm talking next level deluxe punishment for this guy,
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  Speaker 1: how about a large charitable tax deductible donation? And they
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  Speaker 1: get the photo op. Get him out in front, take
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  Speaker 1: some video, photo in front of some charity there, and
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  Speaker 1: everyone gets to pretend accountability has arrived. Good luck on that.
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  Speaker 1: Good luck on that. This is going to be Roger
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  Speaker 1: Goodell dropping not exactly Thor's hammer. This will not be
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  Speaker 1: Thor's hammer. This is going to be the Fisher Price
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  Speaker 1: version of Thor's hammer. That's what he'll drop on Jed York.
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  Speaker 1: So the NFL owners are the landlords of the operation.
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  Speaker 1: We've known that for a long time. And the landlords,
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  Speaker 1: I don't recall them evicting themselves. Generally speaking, landlords do
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  Speaker 1: not evict themselves. All right, now, last word to Green Bay.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to use the Packers as an example. The
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  Speaker 1: marketing people for the NFL announced, I think there's eight
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  Speaker 1: teams that have decided to go full Fugazi. with these
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  Speaker 1: alternative uniforms, and they released them. The Packers got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of heat for this. They unveiled the new NFL
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  Speaker 1: Rivalries alternative uniforms. It's always a big date on my calendar.
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  Speaker 1: They're not going to wear them until October 11th, a
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  Speaker 1: Packer Bears game. The Bears! And that's it. The look
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  Speaker 1: features a vintage green jersey, alabaster and gold striping, alabaster
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  Speaker 1: pants and matching helmet, and a green face mask. I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to describe for Inca Terror and Blind Seabass and
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  Speaker 1: the other great blind listeners to the show. So the look,
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  Speaker 1: that's the look. Green Bay saying the alabaster color represents
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  Speaker 1: aged Packers stock certificates. The jersey numbers, the use of
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  Speaker 1: an engraved currency-inspired treatment to the jersey. I mean, there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of bull crap here. A lot of bull
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  Speaker 1: crap on this one. And the social media reaction has
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  Speaker 1: been absolutely brutal to the Green Bay Packers, the stockholders
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  Speaker 1: of the Packers. Not happy with the wardrobe malfunction, as
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  Speaker 1: they're calling it. They're saying it was Timu-like, designed by
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  Speaker 1: a child or AI, all that stuff. So the question
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  Speaker 1: is this. Thumbs up. I'm going to steal the bit
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  Speaker 1: from Eddie. Thumbs up, thumbs down, Eddie. So thumbs up.
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  Speaker 1: or thumbs down, has the NFL officially reached the point
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  Speaker 1: now where there are too many alternative uniforms? So I'm going,
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  Speaker 1: thumbs up on this! Thumbs up on this! Now, whatever happened.
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  Speaker 2: Go King Eddie!
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. No, this is a different... This is the
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  Speaker 1: other Eddie. This is Eddie and Charlotte. Yeah, Eddie. But
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  Speaker 1: we can use the King Eddie drop. That's fine. So
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  Speaker 1: whatever happened to the radical concept... Of the Green Bay
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  Speaker 1: Packers simply wearing, it's going to shock you. I'm a
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  Speaker 1: shock jock. My job is to shock you. The concept
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  Speaker 1: of the Packers wearing Packer uniforms. Oh, Maller! Why you
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  Speaker 1: got to go there, Maller? That's why you're on overnight.
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  Speaker 1: You think the Green Bay Packers should wear the Green
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  Speaker 1: Bay Packers uniform? Have you lost your mind? I know.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 1: You're such a boomer. So the NFL's rivalries concept is
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  Speaker 1: some fresh merchandising dressed up as some kind of new tradition,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, is what they are. You know what I
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  Speaker 1: call it? I call it swine fever. is what I
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  Speaker 1: call it. Because the NFL is putting lipstick on a
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  Speaker 1: merchandising pig, is what they're doing here. And I understand
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  Speaker 1: they have to do it. Nike pays a lot of
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  Speaker 1: money to the NFL, and Nike has to sell new merch.
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  Speaker 1: And there's a certain percentage of knucklehead fans... that will
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  Speaker 1: just buy any piece of crap that they put out.
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  Speaker 1: And I guess they got a lot of money. They
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  Speaker 1: don't know what to do with the money, and they're
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  Speaker 1: all about it here. So that's what this is about.
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  Speaker 1: And the NFL uniform design team at Nike, they're like,
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  Speaker 1: what are we going to do? They have this uncontrollable
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  Speaker 1: urge to doodle on iconic brands like the Green Bay
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  Speaker 1: Packers because, well, we've got to have some fresh merch
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  Speaker 1: to sell, and why not? Okay? And spare me all
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  Speaker 1: the corporate gobbledygook when it comes to community and heritage.
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  Speaker 1: They use all these buzzwords because they all go to
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  Speaker 1: the same webinars. And they're like, well, use these words.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody will push back on this. And just stop selling
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  Speaker 1: this crap. And you don't need to. You don't need
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  Speaker 1: to do it. If your explanation— this is the way I
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  Speaker 1: look at it— if your explanation— For a football uniform requires
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  Speaker 1: a paragraph about aged stock certificates and the spiritual significance
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  Speaker 1: of alabaster. Seek help. Find help. It's not that deep.
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  Speaker 1: It's not. It's just, you know, boys want to go
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  Speaker 1: out on a Sunday, have some beers, watch some football.
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  Speaker 1: They don't need to hear about alabaster and aged stock certificates.
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  Speaker 1: Just please.
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  Speaker 2: And.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a Packer fan. My brother lives there and
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  Speaker 1: not far from Lambeau Field, but he's not a Packer
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  Speaker 1: fan either. But Green Bay already has one of the
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  Speaker 1: most iconic, most recognizable uniforms in the NFL. And so, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you don't need to futz around with it. You found
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  Speaker 1: something that works. McDonald's doesn't say, why don't we redesign
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  Speaker 1: the golden arches? Because, you know, we used it for
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  Speaker 1: a long time. Let's redo that M. No, no. Starbucks
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  Speaker 1: with their logo. Have they done a full redesign? No.
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  Speaker 1: People buy overpriced coffee and overpriced Big Macs and fries.
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  Speaker 1: They know the logo and that's it. So you don't
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  Speaker 1: need to do it. Constantly reinventing iconic uniforms like the
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  Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers. It does not strengthen the brand. It
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  Speaker 1: cheapens the brand. If I know that from my online
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  Speaker 1: From the Twin Cities. where J.J. McCarthy's future is twisting
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: in the wind. At least his future with the Vikings. Now,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: if you have not heard the latest, perhaps not, a
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: little birdie chirping. Chirp, chirp, chirp. Little birdie chirping, saying
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: that McCarthy is fighting for his roster status in Minnesota.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: What? What?
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: Like.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: McCarthy, who was a first-round pick a few years ago,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: is in stranger danger of not being on the 53-man roster. Now,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Minnesota gave Kyler Murray the booster seat, and he's the
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: starting quarterback, fun size. So he's the starting quarterback, Alligator
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Arms Murray. McCarthy, we just assumed that he was going
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: to be the number two quarterback. Well, you know what
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: happens when you assume.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Well, apparently he's not doing good at that either. His
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: job is under siege. He is being threatened. And we
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: talked about this in a previous episode. We thought, well,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: that's not going to happen. Well, here we are. And
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Carson Wentz. Yes, that Carson. Yes, that Carson Wentz is
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: said to be neck and neck. In fact, at practice
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: recently here in the Twin Cities, they split. JJ McCarthy
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: and Carson Wentz split the reps during practice. Not a game.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Not a game. We in here talking about practice. Now,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: the whispers around the NFL, we love our whispers. Without whispers,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: there's no talk radio. So the whispers around the NFL
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: indicate that Minnesota could, that's a weasel word, could trade J.J.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: McCarthy prior to this weekend coming to an end. I
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: guess Sunday is the deadline for the 53-man roster. You
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: have to have your roster in by Sunday. And Max Brosmer,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: who sucks, Max Brosmer, Is the quarterback the Vikings would
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: keep if they trade McCarthy. So they'd have Carson Wentz
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: as the backup. And Max Brosner as the quarterback number three.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: discuss the question. Is J.J. McCarthy officially on the auctioning
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: block as we speak? Whether the Vikings admit it or not.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: So I've got Taco Bell. shrimp cocktail, and fruit basket.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: And we will combine all of these things together for
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: a nice all-you-can-eat buffet. Hope there's a lot of toilet paper.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: All right, so number one.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Number one.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: All right. Here's my answer. To the question, is J.J.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: McCarthy officially on the auctioning block? Whether the Vikings admit
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: it or not. My answer is, let's call Domino's. We'll
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: bring them in here. And I'm going to order a
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: large pizza with extra yep-a-roni. The answer is yep-a-roni.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes. Minnesota is D-O-N-E. With J.J. McCarthy, I
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: don't care what anyone out on Lake Minnetonka says. That's
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: the reality, right? You don't split backup reps with Carson Wentz.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Carson Wentz. If the front office still believes in you.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Is that the most depressing quarterback room for a team
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: that's actually trying to win? The Minnesota Vikings with Kyler Murray.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: And right now it's neck and neck between Carson Wentz
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: and J.J. McCarthy. My God. What have you done? The
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings. They might as well just put Hollering James
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: out there and have him play quarterback. Or Eek in Roseville, Minnesota.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Or Gunner. I think Gunner is working the day shift now.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: He's in northern Minnesota anyway. So J.J. McCarthy. He went
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: from the messiah, the franchise savior, quarterback drafted in the
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: first round, had that Michigan pedigree and all that, national champion.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: And at this moment, and I don't think I'm wrong
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: on this, at this moment, J.J. McCarthy is like shredded
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: iceberg lettuce from Taco Bell covered in parasites. Very similar. Very,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: very similar. And here's the dead giveaway. The dead giveaway.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Look at this. You look at Kyler Murray. Now you
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: gotta look down. Can't look up. Gotta look down. So
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Kyler Murray, a quarterback with alligator arms, he's the size
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: of an Oompa Loompa, a chronic video game addiction, and
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: an aversion to studying the playbook and watching film. So
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: much so, the Cardinals put in his contract, you have
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: to watch film, and then he had, of course, a
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: hissy fit, which anyone would do if they if they
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: obviously don't want to watch film. And so they had
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: to take that out of the contract. And that guy
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: is your quarterback that's starting over McCarthy. And the other guy,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Carson Wentz, hasn't been good in, what, nine years? Nine years,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: the last time Carson Wentz was good, he got hurt.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: I was at the game he got hurt at. It
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: was against the Rams at the old L.A. Coliseum before
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: it was renovated. Eagles and Rams. And he was damaged.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: This stiff named Nick Foles came in there, and I
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: don't remember what happened. Fly, Eagles, fly on the road
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: to victory! Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. So that's a
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: long time ago. That is a long time ago in
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: another world far, far away. That's where they are right now.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: And so what more needs to be said? Well, there's
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: more in the Malibu monologue. So this has J-E-T-S, suck, suck, suck,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: or brownies written. Reclamation project written all over it. Better yet,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: why not send J.J. McCarthy to La La Land? Now,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh was a very loud public advocate for J.J. McCarthy.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: You might remember back in Michigan, McCarthy was known as
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: the coach's pet and just loved the bond there, the
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: kinship between Jim Harbaugh and J.J. McCarthy. So put him
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: in a Charger uniform, capped in clipboard. for the Bolts.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: And the way Justin Herbert's going, he might just retire
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: to be a groupie on the road with his bride
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: to be there. They might just give up football. Problem solved.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: All right, now, page two. To D.C. we go. The Beltway.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Inside the Beltway. Interesting story here. Former Redskins owner Dan Snyder.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: This big write-up on Dan Snyder. He's gone missing. Not
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: literally missing, he's just invisible. I don't know if you
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: saw this or not. It's been bouncing around the pinball machine,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: the echo chamber of sports takes. So the big write-up
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: on what happened to Dan Snyder. He sold the franchise
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: a couple years back for $ 6 billion. And Snyder, who
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: turns 62 in November, he moved to London. Here he's
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: roommates with legally blind Christopher Snyder. In London. And he's
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: there with his wife. And he moved actually before he
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: officially sold the Washington, what they changed the name, what
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: they called the Dopey Commanders, what a dumb name that is.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Holy crap. Anyway, why not? It should be like the
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Cobra Commanders. That would be a better name. They'd have
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: to pay the people at G.I. Joe some money and
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: all that. So anyway, he's pretty much completely left the
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: public life. And there are people complaining about that now.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: And this led to a big write-up. Where has he gone?
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: One former Dan Snyder associate said, quote, talk about a
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: guy that's gone invisible. Another predicted, quote, he'll never be back.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: He'll never be back. Saying Snyder... enjoys being left alone
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: in jolly old London. All right. So high ranking NFL
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: official in this long story that I read the other
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: day said virtually nobody in the NFL remains in contact
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: with the former owner of the Washington football team. So
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: the question is, It's rather obvious, but I'll ask it anyway.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Why is anyone surprised that Dan Snyder has vanished from
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: the public life when the NFL people, the media in
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: the NFL, spent years wishing that he would go away?
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: They did. This whole thing is... Wacky tabacky is what
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: this whole thing is, right? So these are the exact
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: same dopes who could not wait to tar and feather
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Dan Snyder and run him out of the NFL with
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: pitchforks and torches. And so, and I'm not saying he
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: didn't deserve some of it, but Dan Snyder was treated
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: like the skunk at the garden party. Fine. Social pariah,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: douche canoe, all of those things. He was ousted. Endless investigations.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Paid a lot of money to settle legal situations. And
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: now the media, the very media that was chasing him away,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: they're standing around and they're scratching their head a little bit.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: And they're asking, whatever happened to Dan Snyder? Well, I
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: don't know. What could have happened to Dan Snyder? What
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: was he supposed to do after selling the Commanders? Was
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: he supposed to open a souvenir shop outside the stadium
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: there and sell some merch or hang out with the
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: other NFL aristocrats there having a shrimp cocktail at the owners' meetings? Seriously,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: what did you expect him to do? You wanted him
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: to sell the team. You said he was a horrible person.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: He sold the team, and now you're complaining that he's
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: no longer around anymore. Make it make sense. Seriously. Like,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: why on earth does Dan Snyder owe the league his presence?
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: This was the punching bag. This was the pinata for
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: several years. And I would argue, whether you agree with
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: what Dan Snyder has done over the years or not,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter. He has played this perfectly. You
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: think about where he's at in his life right now.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: He's 62 years old. And... He sold the team, pocketed
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: billions of dollars. He still had to pay the capital
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: gains and all that, but he made billions on the
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: sale of what used to be called the Washington Redskins.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: He moves overseas, and he tells every man, woman, and
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: child who had a problem with him to go pound sand.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Just go away. Get out of here. And he's living
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: like the royal family in London, right? Legitimately, I read
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: that he's living in a home, a residence in London
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: that he paid $ 67 million for. $ 67 million mansion. I
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: guess they call it Chateau. Is that France? I guess
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: France they call it Chateau. What do they call big
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: houses in London? Just have big houses, mansions? I don't know.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: I have no idea. Anyway, a manor. Oh, yeah, there
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: you go. The manor. So stupid. And when he's not
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: at his $ 67 million home in London, the family is
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: on their 305-foot yacht sailing around the waters around different
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: European countries. Lady S is the name of the yacht.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: So if you see that in the south of France
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: or somewhere. That's Dan Snyder. And so you've got the
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: media demanding that Dan Snyder disappear. Get out of here, Dan!
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: You're not the man, Dan! Get out of here! So
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: he did, and now they miss him because he's their
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: favorite NFL villain, and it's not as much fun without
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Dan Snyder around. All right, meanwhile, to Chicago we go.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Time for the obligatory mention. of the great political battlefield
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: that is the WNBA. Not about sports. Not about sports.
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: No, no, no, no.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: So a WNBA team called the Sky, they're called the Sky,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: they have banned, outlawed former NBA center Ennis Cantor Freedom
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: from all future home games after he was ejected. From
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: a recent game, we talked about this in a previous
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: episode of the show, a cowardly owner of a WNBA
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: team in Chicago said, freedom will remain barred. How can
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: you bar freedom? How great is that? That's funny. I
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: know why he changed his name, right? The whole story
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: we play in the NBA. But the headline is hilarious.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Chicago WNBA owner says freedom will remain banned. So good.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: They banned freedom in the WNBA. They said unless he
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: can demonstrate that he will follow team rules without being
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: a potential threat. Potential threat. Okay. Okay. Well, standing up for,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: you know, making some noise on the sidelines. He's not
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: part of the team, so why does he have to
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: follow the team rules? Freedom is a former NBA player.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: He's a very tall man, 6'10. He was sitting courtside,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: if you didn't hear about it the other day, and
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: he wore a very offensive shirt defining the dictionary definition
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: of a woman. As an adult human female, this upset
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: a lot of people that don't know that definition or
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: are offended by that definition. All right, so the question,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: was the WNBA, this team in Chicago, banning Ennis Cantor
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: freedom justified, or is this a massive overreaction? The WNBA,
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: after a minutes-long deliberation of the available information, the WNBA
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: fell for another unforced error. Hook, line, and sinker. That
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: is a capital O overreaction. The big O. By banning
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: Ennis Cantor freedom. By banning freedom for wearing a shirt, again,
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: with the very offensive dictionary definition of a woman, the
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: Chicago Sky, which is apparently a WNBA team, have activated
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: the fruit basket. Congratulations. A.K.A. the forbidden fruit effect. I
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: think most of us know what the forbidden fruit effect is.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: It's the sports equivalent of telling some teenagers, whatever you do,
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: do not open that door. Don't do it. What do
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: you think those teenagers are going to do?
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: Ding, ding, ding, ding.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: Exactly. They'll wait till you go away and they're going
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: to open that door and they're going to see what's
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: behind that door. And they're going to find out because
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: it's the forbidden fruit. They can't go there. So they're
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: going to do it. Anyway, so the problem is this.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: It's rather obvious. I don't know why I'm even saying it.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: But instead of using tunnel vision, they should just hire me.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: The WNBA should hire me. The way to handle this
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: is tunnel vision. And just ignore Ennis Cantor freedom. If
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: you have a problem, just ignore. Instead, someone named Natasha Cloud,
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: I'm told that's a WNBA player. I have no idea
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: who that person is. She showed zero self-control. She went
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: on a rampage, confronted Ennis Cantor. She confronted freedom. Confronted freedom. Now,
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: as for the WNBA calling this guy a potential threat, comedy.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: It's comedy. Is it not? The Sky owner admitted that
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: his players are too fragile to to put on blinders.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: They're incapable of ignoring the outside noise. Just focus on
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: the basketball. Can't do it. Not going to do it.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: Cannot do it. So in trying to silence the sideshow,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: and obviously it was a publicity stunt, no one would
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: deny that from Ennis Cantor Freedom. The league, the WNBA,
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: just turned it into the main event. giving him exactly
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: what he wanted and way to go ladies or natasha
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: cloud uh amazing excellent work you just provided jet fuel
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: for what he was looking to do so that's uh
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: i'd like you to put on that cap over there
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: that's right yes that's the one i know you put
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: that it's i know it says dunce just put that
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: on that's your cap Congratulations.
• 38:40
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• 38:45
  Speaker 1: Here we go.
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: Here we go.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Here we go. How about that?
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: To the third degree. This is when Big Ben gets grilled.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Koopa Loop.
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: The Commanders were supposed to have Monday off, but after
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: watching film from Saturday's preseason game, Dan Quinn scheduled another practice.
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: Quinn said he didn't like what he saw from an
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: identity standpoint. Oh, sure. Ben, the Commanders are supposed to
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: be much better this year. How much better do you
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: think they'll be? I don't expect them to be much better.
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: They look like a middling team. They did add Stephon
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: Diggs to the offense. Laramie Tunzel's hurt, so he's out.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: That was their big offensive line pickup. They made a
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: couple other moves. I just think they're going to be
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: in the middle. They're going to be a playoff contender.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: They'll be like a 7-9 win type team. That's just
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: kind of where I look at that team. Next!
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: Jason tatum's dad appeared on a podcast over the weekend
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: where he took a shot at the celtics when asked
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: who he thinks will win the title he said the
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: knicks because boston's roster is um uh.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: Crap let's just say crap yeah sure ben.
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: Do you think the celtics are gonna have a jason
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: tatum problem Well, they have a problem with Jason Tatum's dad,
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: and you've got to think Tatum feels that way, too, right?
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Because it's one thing to trade Jalen Brown because they
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: didn't like each other, per se. They didn't get anything
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: really of value in return. They didn't get enough in return.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: They just kind of gave Jalen Brown away. So it's
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: something to monitor. And he does love the Lakers, Coop.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: Next!
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: A report this week says that if the Warriors get
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: desperate enough to improve the roster that they could offer
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: a package to the Wizards for Anthony Davis.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: Do you think they'll get that desperate? No, what they
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: should do is go on Teemu and buy a life-size
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: Anthony Davis doll and just put it on the bench
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: in street clothes, and that's it. That's all you're going
• 40:19
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• 40:22
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• 41:12
  Speaker 5: It's true.
• 41:13
  Speaker 7: Well, most anyone. Sometimes you can even find it in
• 41:17
  Speaker 7: a trailer park. Or you could get catfished by police.
• 41:21
  Speaker 5: Who knows?
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it could. It happens. It just depends. It's like
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: spinning the roulette wheel. What is it going to be?
• 41:29
  Speaker 5: You know, crazy things happen in trailer parks.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah? You ever been to a trailer park?
• 41:35
  Speaker 7: Only when I was younger. Okay, I actually have a
• 41:37
  Speaker 7: funny story. I will get to it real fast. But
• 41:39
  Speaker 7: I have a friend that I was hanging out with,
• 41:41
  Speaker 7: and one of her best friends lived at a trailer park.
• 41:43
  Speaker 7: So we would go over to her house to go
• 41:44
  Speaker 7: and hang out.
• 41:45
  Speaker 5: Well, her trailer.
• 41:46
  Speaker 7: My dad found out I was there one day. He
• 41:49
  Speaker 7: was there in less than four minutes. He was like, oh,
• 41:52
  Speaker 7: heck no.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: Hell no.
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: He's like, not at that trailer park, you're not.
• 41:56
  Speaker 7: And we used to do fake sex phone calls to
• 41:59
  Speaker 7: guys that we knew.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: Troublemaker.
• 42:01
  Speaker 5: We would pretend to be phone call operators. Yeah, no,
• 42:03
  Speaker 5: it was crazy.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: Well, that was back when these sex lines were very popular.
• 42:05
  Speaker 5: From the trailer parks. From the trailer parks.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 42:09
  Speaker 5: Good stuff.
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: Look at that.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: I always love the hidden trailer parks. There's one in
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: Huntington Beach right near the ocean. It's like, I live
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: in a trailer park. You're right on the freaking ocean.
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: That is the best place to have a trailer park.
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: It's like, okay, yeah, I'm in a trailer park, but
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: I'm in a really nice place. All right, we have questions, Lorraine.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: Lots of questions for the Queen of Hearts here. So
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: many questions. Where do we begin here? Alf says, would
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: a game of backgammon in your boyfriend's mom's basement be
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: a turn-on for a woman? Great question. Hmm.
• 42:42
  Speaker 7: Well, backgammon is a very exciting game. There's a photo of.
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: You, Lorena, and Fergnaug. Oh, yeah. And playing blackgammon.
• 42:54
  Speaker 7: You know, if you got some champagne, anything can be
• 42:58
  Speaker 7: a good time.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: All right. JT the Wingman writes in from Severville, Tennessee, says,
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: because we know every woman loves roses. What other flowers
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: do you think are great? to buy for your special lady,
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: even if for no reason at all.
• 43:13
  Speaker 5: I like lilies and daisies.
• 43:15
  Speaker 7: And orchids are fun, but they require a.
• 43:17
  Speaker 5: Lot of work.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: What about the tulips here? Sunflower?
• 43:20
  Speaker 5: Tulips are good, but tulips have a time of year.
• 43:22
  Speaker 5: Tulips are very Easter-y flowers. You know what I'm saying?
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: I wouldn't expect to get tulips... In the fall.
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: All right. FergDog writes in. He says, Dolly Parton was
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: always going to be my hall pass. Who should it
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: be now? Barbara Eden? That's from FergDog.
• 43:39
  Speaker 5: I don't know who Barbara Eden is.
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: You do not know who... What? Oh, my God. Who's Barbara...
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: Come on.
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: What?
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. All the old guys are like, what
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: the hell is wrong with you?
• 43:50
  Speaker 5: Even Coop is upset. Well, you could show me who
• 43:51
  Speaker 5: she is. Go ahead.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: She was a famous star who... From I Dream of Jeannie.
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: You don't even know what that is.
• 43:57
  Speaker 5: Oh, I do know I Dream of Jeannie.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 44:00
  Speaker 5: I used to want to be for her for Halloween
• 44:01
  Speaker 5: some years.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: Good news for a dog. She's a young woman now.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: She's 95. Still alive. How about that? Barbara Eden's still alive.
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: 95.
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: God bless her.
• 44:08
  Speaker 5: I think she would be a great choice.
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah. She was just recently on Bill Maher's podcast. How's
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: she doing? Good.
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 44:15
  Speaker 7: I would also be a big supporter of Betty White
• 44:17
  Speaker 7: to be your new hall pass.
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: Not available, unfortunately.
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: That's Rob Parker's hall pass.
• 44:23
  Speaker 5: Oh, really?
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: I didn't know. Rob's Mr. Golden Girl. He went on
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: a Golden Girls cruise, Rob Parker.
• 44:30
  Speaker 5: No, he did not.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: You didn't know about that? No. Oh, that was before
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: you worked here. Yeah, he went on a freaking cruise
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: for the Golden Girls.
• 44:36
  Speaker 5: Wow, I had no idea he was such a big fan.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: He's multi-layered, that Rob Parker. Shane in Des Moines writes in.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: He says, Lorena, do you follow any news sites for
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: your social media or on your social media pages? And
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: then you said ABC, CNN, Fox News.
• 44:52
  Speaker 7: No, I follow a bunch of sports ones. So like SportsCenter.
• 44:56
  Speaker 7: And then I also have Welcome to the Culture.
• 45:02
  Speaker 5: I have E!
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: News.
• 45:03
  Speaker 5: I have, you know, a bunch of different things. Different
• 45:07
  Speaker 5: types of news platforms.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: Different types of news.
• 45:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 45:09
  Speaker 7: Coop thinks some of them aren't very trustworthy, but I
• 45:11
  Speaker 7: do my fact checking.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: Oh, you do? Yeah. Okay.
• 45:14
  Speaker 5: Occasionally.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you do a lot of fact.
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: Occasionally.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: A lot of fact checking going on. A lot of
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: fact checking going on for sure.
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: Mike the Leprechaun writes in. He says, what would Lorena do?
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: Not Jesus. Your boyfriend is hot, hot, hot, but he
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: smells bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, meaning the armpits and
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: all that. What's your move on that? Like, this guy's
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: like the super hot guy.
• 45:39
  Speaker 5: I've had this problem.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: Oh, you have? You've had a smelly boyfriend?
• 45:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and it's not good, right?
• 45:45
  Speaker 7: And it's hard because you don't want to be rude,
• 45:49
  Speaker 7: but you want to be, like, supportive.
• 45:51
  Speaker 5: Like, oh, my gosh. So I wouldn't be like, you stink.
• 45:54
  Speaker 5: I would be like, let's go take a shower together. Or,
• 45:57
  Speaker 5: you know, you have bad breath. No, no, no. Let's
• 46:01
  Speaker 5: just go brush.
• 46:02
  Speaker 7: Like, I'd always try to make it a group activity
• 46:04
  Speaker 7: to get cleaner together.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: You want some gum?
• 46:06
  Speaker 5: Let's have some gum. Yeah, let's have some gum.
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: The bad breath thing is tough.
• 46:09
  Speaker 5: Have you heard of floss? What? Sometimes you need to
• 46:14
  Speaker 5: scrub between your toes.
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: Isn't that kind of a curse, though? If you date
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: a really attractive person and their breath smells like ass,
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: it's very difficult, right?
• 46:23
  Speaker 5: Oh, it's so bad.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: This job is not that easy.
• 46:26
  Speaker 5: And sometimes it's what they eat, too.
• 46:27
  Speaker 7: So they can't even just brush their teeth or clean
• 46:30
  Speaker 7: their mouth or brush their tongue. It comes from the
• 46:32
  Speaker 7: depths of their bowels.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's tough. It's not that easy.
• 46:37
  Speaker 4: It does.
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: All right, Rob in the 321 writes in. He says,
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: have you ever been to San Juan, Puerto Rico? I'm
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: headed there in October. I've never been.
• 46:46
  Speaker 5: No, I've never been to Puerto Rico. I didn't do
• 46:48
  Speaker 5: that right.
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: I can't.
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: You gotta say it. Say it! Say it! No?
• 46:54
  Speaker 5: Puerto Rico.
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: I wonder why Rob... I can't get it. Are you
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: on a vacation, Rob? Or what are you doing in
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: Puerto Rico?
• 47:01
  Speaker 5: I do like Puerto Rico. I would love to go.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: Well, you've never been there. How do you know you
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: like it?
• 47:04
  Speaker 5: Isn't that where Rio de Janeiro is?
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
• 47:09
  Speaker 4: Lorena.
• 47:09
  Speaker 5: Isn't that where the macaws are?
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: Lorena.
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: Come on.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: What are we doing here?
• 47:13
  Speaker 5: I'm the queen of hearts, not the queen of geology.
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: Geology? Geology? Geology? Oh, my God.
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific. Attention, everyone.
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: And the password is... Password, you idiot. Password, the word
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: game of the stars. Here's Ben Maller.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: All right, to the game we go. Let's welcome in
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: our contestants for Password, the word game of the stars.
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: We say hello to Jimmy in St.
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: Paul.
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: Who's going to play? Hello, Jimmy.
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: Hey, what's up, Ben?
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: Welcome in, buddy. Good to have you.
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks, man.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: Who do you want to partner up with? You got me, Ben.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: Lorena Koop.
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: I'll go with Cooper.
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: That's a bad decision. Hold on a sec. And who
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: do we have? Let's see here. I'll let Marcel pick. Marcel,
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: pick one, two, three, or four. One.
• 48:11
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: You have picked Mike in Boston. Hello, Mike. Welcome. You're
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: going to play our game. Hello, Mike.
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: Awesome. Marcel picked you. You play with Arena or me?
• 48:21
  Speaker 4: Me.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of ambient noise.
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: I'm going with my boy back.
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: That's right. Come on, Mike.
• 48:27
  Speaker 5: Are you riding a tractor?
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: Yes. What's happening? Don't judge him.
• 48:30
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: We have a list of words, one to ten. Jimmy,
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: you were on the air first. Really? What are you on?
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: Hold on. That's fine. We'll put him on hold for now.
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. Go ahead there, Jimmy. Pick a number
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: one to ten, please.
• 48:45
  Speaker 5: Oh, let's go five.
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: All right, Coop. Should be easy for you.
• 48:51
  Speaker 5: All right, let's go with, let's see.
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: Come on, Coop.
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: Carnivore.
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: Beach. Yeah! All right.
• 49:06
  Speaker 5: I am so shocked.
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: That was not a good clue. All right, Mike in Boston,
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: pick a number one to ten, but not five, Mike. Mike?
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: You have to put it up. I didn't put it
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: in my eyes. Remember? a bad. That's user error. Mike,
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: pick a number one to ten, but not five, please. Seven.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: All right. Easy. Abracadabra. Magic? Yeah, we're tied up. That's
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: how you do it.
• 49:39
  Speaker 5: All right, let's go.
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: All right, pick another number, Jimmy. Pick a number quickly.
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: One.
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: Number one. Hurry up, Coop. Let's go with conference.
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: Meeting.
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah. That was it. Mike, hurry up, Mike. Mike. All right. Three.
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: Number three. Boxers. Boxers.
• 49:59
  Speaker 4: Underwear.
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're tied. We tied it up.
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: Oh, what a game.
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: Call back next week.
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: We match.
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: Call back next week, guys.