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  Speaker 1: We didn't have a lot of huge names traded. We
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  Speaker 1: had a lot of trades. There was much like my
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  Speaker 1: diet back in the day when I was going for
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  Speaker 1: it and I I just ate everything. It was quantity
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  Speaker 1: over quality. So it is deadline day, a historic deadline
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  Speaker 1: day for the volume of trades in Major League Baseball,
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  Speaker 1: and we have all night to slice and dice and
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  Speaker 1: go brick by brick and all that stuff. But let's
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  Speaker 1: start with a normal target. The dirty, rotten scoundrels of baseball,
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  Speaker 1: the land of no morals. If you didn't see what
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  Speaker 1: they did, maybe not on brand. The cheating Astros reacquired
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  Speaker 1: disgraced infield. There Carlos Correa and a deal. It some
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  Speaker 1: say is surprising, some say is surprising comes over from
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  Speaker 1: the Minnesota Twins. The Twins, by the way, announced after
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  Speaker 1: the trade deadline they'll be joining the Pacific Coast League
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  Speaker 1: for the rest of the season. But Carlos Correa, he
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  Speaker 1: goes to Houston and the Astro well on, they sent
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  Speaker 1: some minor league player back to Minnesota. Now Korea waived
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  Speaker 1: his no trade clause in order to make that happen.
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  Speaker 1: He has also agreed to change positions as he goes
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  Speaker 1: back to the Cheaters. He'll play third base, so he'll
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  Speaker 1: be on the left side of the infield with the
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  Speaker 1: guy that yousurped him at shortstop, Jeremy Panna for the Cheaters.
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  Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question, what is your perspective
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  Speaker 1: on Carlos Corea, the cheater going back to join the
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  Speaker 1: other cheaters in Houston. So I've got true crime, rubber made,
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  Speaker 1: and four seasons, and we will combine all of these
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  Speaker 1: things together and we're gonna make some movie theater buttered popcorn,
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  Speaker 1: not just your normal buttered popcorn, but it's just a
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  Speaker 1: little bit better. It's a little worse for you. It
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  Speaker 1: fills up when you're to the movie theater, right, not
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  Speaker 1: that many people do anymore, but you go there and
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  Speaker 1: it fills up your gut and your arteries. The Holy
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  Speaker 1: all right. So a, this Carlos Carrea deal is just
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  Speaker 1: dripping with irony capitalize right, the Twins. Now they're paying
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  Speaker 1: thirty three million dollars to make Carlos Korea go away.
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  Speaker 1: Think about that. I would love for someone to pay
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  Speaker 1: me thirty three million dollars to go away. I promise
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  Speaker 1: you I will go away. You will never hear about
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  Speaker 1: me again. You'll never hear me again, You'll never see
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  Speaker 1: me again. But think about that Carlos Correa who signed
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  Speaker 1: the biggest contract in Twins history, and a couple years
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  Speaker 1: later they we got to get rid of this guy.
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  Speaker 1: And on the other side, Korea chose to return to
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  Speaker 1: the place where he cheated his way to a championship.
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  Speaker 1: It's like some kind of twisted redemption tour. So using
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  Speaker 1: some patented overnight sports radio psycho babble, what this is.
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  Speaker 1: After a minutes long deliberation, Korea signing off on the
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  Speaker 1: note trade to go back to Houston is straight up
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  Speaker 1: true crime behavior. If you ever watch those true crime shows,
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  Speaker 1: you've seen this. You've even if you haven't, you've heard
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  Speaker 1: over the years the criminal mind. The way the criminal
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  Speaker 1: mind works, the criminal always returns to the scene of
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  Speaker 1: the crime. Enter Carlos Korea. Right, He's not just going
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  Speaker 1: back to Houston because he liked the weather there. This
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  Speaker 1: is textbook narcissist stuff, right, Korea, who must be emotionally aroused,
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  Speaker 1: I would imagine by the trash can, banging buzzer, wearing
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  Speaker 1: World Series trophies, stealing franchise, And so he wants to
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  Speaker 1: go back there and get some more validation there. He
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  Speaker 1: needs reassurance Korea that all that cheating he was a
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  Speaker 1: part of that it wasn't just okay, was just okay.
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  Speaker 1: It was heroic. And this is a guy who has
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  Speaker 1: built his entire identity, is a big league ballplayer on
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  Speaker 1: being a schmuck, an a hole, someone you cheer against,
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  Speaker 1: and being part of the dirtiest team in baseball history,
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  Speaker 1: the as one thousand and two, one thousand holes. So
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  Speaker 1: it's his happy place. That's the line right the park,
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  Speaker 1: the one place where no one boos him, there's no
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  Speaker 1: moral outrage. The whole fan base has embraced the trash
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  Speaker 1: can mantra. Right, He'll go back in there like a
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  Speaker 1: conquering hero. He might even be wearing a trash can, right,
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  Speaker 1: hugs confetti. They might give him a special golden trash
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  Speaker 1: can as he returns there. But he'll be back in
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  Speaker 1: the warm embraced Korea of the franchise that he helped
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  Speaker 1: become a national laughingstock and embarrassment and the face of
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  Speaker 1: cheating an American sport. Correa never really left mentally, he
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  Speaker 1: did it, you know, probably spent the whole time in Minnesota.
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  Speaker 1: Every time he saw trash Can, he was whispering sweet nothings, right,
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  Speaker 1: just just kind of flirting with the trash can. So,
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  Speaker 1: Korea's back in age town, and the Astros just welcomed
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  Speaker 1: home there for digital punk. He's back in town, right.
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  Speaker 1: They deserve each other now page two on this as
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  Speaker 1: we break it down. So why is the Carlos care
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  Speaker 1: trade the ultimate head scratcher for the cheating Astros? So
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  Speaker 1: the reason's kind of clear here if you follow this
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  Speaker 1: story at all, if you pay any attention, and maybe
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  Speaker 1: you don't, maybe you don't, but if you do, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm about to say. So the team in
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  Speaker 1: Houston let Correa walk four years ago because hello, they
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  Speaker 1: did not think he was going to age well, they
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  Speaker 1: didn't think that the player would be able to live
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  Speaker 1: up to the long term contract. They had somebody else younger.
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  Speaker 1: They could have kept Korea and moved him to another
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  Speaker 1: position if they thought he would be all right. So
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  Speaker 1: by bringing him back, the astros are admitting that they
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  Speaker 1: were wrong to let him go. But here's here's the
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  Speaker 1: shocking thing. They weren't wrong to let him go. He's cooked,
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  Speaker 1: all right. Correa's cooked. It's like they're trying to revive
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  Speaker 1: Blockbuster video. It's not coming back. And while he's listed
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  Speaker 1: at age thirty, he often plays Korea like he's fifty,
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  Speaker 1: at least he did in Minnesota, and watching him run
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  Speaker 1: it's like watching someone try to run through a sprint
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  Speaker 1: in the cements. Kind of wet there and it's just
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  Speaker 1: kind of messed up. He's in the bottom percentile according
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  Speaker 1: to the NERD stats in barrel percentage. He's got no
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  Speaker 1: range defensively, and I'm pretty sure you could plant corn
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  Speaker 1: in the gaps he leaves on defense. Thus they're going
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  Speaker 1: to try to hide him at the hot corner, care
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  Speaker 1: at third base. But what an emasculating move. What an
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  Speaker 1: emasculating move. This isn't just about the analytics and all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. You had to remember. The astro said, we
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  Speaker 1: don't think we can we can bring you back. We
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  Speaker 1: don't think you're gonna live up to the contract we
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  Speaker 1: could give you. The Mets signed him to a deal
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  Speaker 1: or came close backed out, the Giants agreed to a deal.
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  Speaker 1: Both then saw the medical record and ran for the hills.
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  Speaker 1: They said, you know what, we're good, Carlos, We're good here. Thanks,
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  Speaker 1: but no thanks. And he goes to me Minnesota and sucks.
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  Speaker 1: And so he's not just declining this season, he's nose diving.
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  Speaker 1: And now here come the a holes crawling back like
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  Speaker 1: that x who who seems to be convinced that they
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  Speaker 1: can fix him. Oh yeah, I can fix this guy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, what are they gonna dip him in the
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  Speaker 1: holy water of a rubber made trash can somewhere in
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  Speaker 1: the suburbs of Houston and boom, gonna be hitting like
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  Speaker 1: he was in twenty seventeen. Right, all you have to do,
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  Speaker 1: Deck Torrea, get him the buzzer. If that doesn't work,
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  Speaker 1: try a whistle, right, maybe a trash can lid instead
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  Speaker 1: of a hat, right, full service. Hey. In fact, the
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  Speaker 1: equipment guy when he gets back to Houston, Korea, the
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  Speaker 1: equipment Guy's gonna say, hey, Carlos, you want your buzzer
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  Speaker 1: and medium or large? I know you've gained a little way,
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  Speaker 1: it's still a medium or do you need a large buzzer?
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  Speaker 1: So waste management right Houston style? And what do we
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  Speaker 1: always say, what do we always say on the show?
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  Speaker 1: We say, don't let a falling star fall on you.
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  Speaker 1: Well guess what they not only did that, they traded
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  Speaker 1: for a falling star, right, they went out and they
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  Speaker 1: caught a falling star. So they're like, all right, we
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  Speaker 1: want that, all right, Now we must go to the
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  Speaker 1: other part of this trade. We must go to the
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  Speaker 1: other part of the trade. Everyone in baseball is like,
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  Speaker 1: what are they doing when I say they we're going
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  Speaker 1: to the Upper Midwest now the last word, and that
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  Speaker 1: would be the other side of this transaction. Do you
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  Speaker 1: have any advice to those Twins fans on how to
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  Speaker 1: deal with what some are saying is the single most
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  Speaker 1: embarrassing day in baseball history for a franchise giving up
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  Speaker 1: and that's your Minnesota Twins of twenty twenty five. So
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  Speaker 1: do you have anything an advice for the Twins on
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  Speaker 1: how to deal with an epic day of transactions as
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  Speaker 1: they unloaded the big league roster at the trade deadline.
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  Speaker 1: So my advice would be, you know the cover I
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  Speaker 1: think it's like a cover band for the four seasons. Right,
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  Speaker 1: this is the fifth season, we'll call it. And this season,
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  Speaker 1: and this is my advice to you in Minnesota is apathy.
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  Speaker 1: It's apathy season. No more Minnesota and Ice. Don't even
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  Speaker 1: bother getting mad. Don't get worked into a ladder. The
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  Speaker 1: pole Ad family that owns the team, they obviously don't care.
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  Speaker 1: They're not building a winner. They're just clearing debt. And
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  Speaker 1: it's just a line item on a spreadsheet. They're trying
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  Speaker 1: to get rid of debt to sell the team. So
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  Speaker 1: they're trimming the fat like a chef that's got that
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  Speaker 1: big knife there and trying to trim away the fat.
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  Speaker 1: And so they're trying to get the books, right as
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  Speaker 1: I understand it, to sell the team and then they
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  Speaker 1: can buy another yacht with all the money. Do you
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  Speaker 1: think they care about you the fan? You think the
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota Twins care about you the fan? They showed you
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  Speaker 1: they gave you the middle finger with these trays, right,
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  Speaker 1: And so I got no skin in the game, but
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  Speaker 1: I am sick of earing. Well. I mean, look at
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  Speaker 1: the hall they got back. They're smart. They weren't gonna
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  Speaker 1: win anyway. Look at all the minor league players. They
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  Speaker 1: got enough. Tommy, you're a maron. This was a competitive team. Now,
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  Speaker 1: granted they were going in the wrong direction. But everyone's
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  Speaker 1: a fringe playoff contender these days because they keep adding
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  Speaker 1: wild card teams. And I've just not been raised that way.
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  Speaker 1: I know a lot of you are losers and you've
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  Speaker 1: been raised that way. But I was taught not to
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  Speaker 1: just quit, not to give up on purpose. And that's
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  Speaker 1: exactly what I saw from the Minnesota Twins. Oh but
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  Speaker 1: we got prospects. Oh that's great. Why don't you make
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  Speaker 1: out with your prospects, right, wonderful. It's the currency of
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  Speaker 1: the coward. Prospects. Oh, they're gonna be so good. It's
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  Speaker 1: so funny to me how many people are just complete
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  Speaker 1: morons when it comes to prospects. I give you an
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  Speaker 1: example team. I liked the Dodgers. A couple of years ago.
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  Speaker 1: They had a guy named Trevor May who was a
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  Speaker 1: top prospect. Oh, he's a great prospect. The guy sucks.
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  Speaker 1: The Dodgers gave him to the Red Sox. He's terrible.
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  Speaker 1: They had another top prospect a couple years back named
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  Speaker 1: James Outman, who also blows by the way he's going
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  Speaker 1: to the Twins congratulate, But he was a top prospect.
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, look at the prospect all you losers, you guys,
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  Speaker 1: look at these prospect reports. You pull your pants down.
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  Speaker 1: You're so excited. It's embarrassing, right, embarrassing. So I mean
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  Speaker 1: they traded they had a decent to good bullpen. They
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  Speaker 1: traded their bullpen, the entire bullpen, half your roster, and
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  Speaker 1: you got And maybe that'll be good. I mean that
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  Speaker 1: maybe that guy will be good. I don't know. Give
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  Speaker 1: me a break, right anyway, you do what you want.
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  Speaker 1: My advice would be not to spend a dime and
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  Speaker 1: make that stadium like it was COVID in Minnesota, beautiful ballpark,
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  Speaker 1: but maybe like COVID was no one there. Go rent
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  Speaker 1: a boat and enjoy Lake Minnetonka instead. But for the Twins,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, my not one dime, all right, You don't
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  Speaker 1: go to the ballpark. You don't buy a hat, a bobblehead,
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  Speaker 1: you don't even you don't comment on social media because
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  Speaker 1: that means you care. Force them to win your trust
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  Speaker 1: back because they just violated the bubble of trust. So
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  Speaker 1: forced them to earn your trust back because they deserve it.
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  Speaker 1: This is apathy season. That is my advice, pure cold
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  Speaker 1: blooded Minnesota winter weather grade apathy. Right, And you don't yell,
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  Speaker 1: you don't scream, You just kind of walk away, because
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  Speaker 1: it's all about the emotion, and the emotion means you're
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  Speaker 1: still engaged. The emotion means that you still care. You
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  Speaker 1: give a damn. Apathy means you're not a customer anymore.
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  Speaker 1: You don't care about their product. And if they're playing
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  Speaker 1: in front of you, you're not gonna even look. You're
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  Speaker 1: gonna turn your back and go the other way. They've
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  Speaker 1: lost you. And that's the way you have to approach you.
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  Speaker 1: You have to and that's what the Twins earned. Every
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  Speaker 1: action has a reaction, and that should be the reaction
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  Speaker 1: and nothing you get, absolutely nothing. That would be my advice. Now,
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  Speaker 1: is that gonna happen? Do I know? There's always the
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  Speaker 1: fanboys no matter what, all we love the prospects. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm so excited. This is such a great you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's always those losers. Got to hate those people. They're
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  Speaker 1: always out there, right, Oh, this is going to be
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  Speaker 1: great five years from now. It is really the ultimate
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  Speaker 1: hustle for a couple of reason and I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to rant about that. I will rant at some point
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  Speaker 1: in the future about my belief that the Major League
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  Speaker 1: Baseball pipeline is one of the all time great scams
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  Speaker 1: ever put in the world of sports. So I'll do
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  Speaker 1: that another day. I just will sum this up by
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  Speaker 1: pointing out how absurd it is to sell five years
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  Speaker 1: from now? Right does any other business get away with that?
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  Speaker 1: When they have a shareholders meeting an Apple, do they say, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: these iPhones are going to absolutely stink for the next
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  Speaker 1: four years, but in year five, I think we'll have
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  Speaker 1: a good one, right, I think we'll be pretty good
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  Speaker 1: there in year five. Like in the car business, when
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  Speaker 1: they're making automobiles, do the people at Toyota say, well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we don't really have any good and I
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  Speaker 1: don't think we have any for the next couple of years.
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  Speaker 1: But if you check back with us in five or
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  Speaker 1: six years, I think that one of these cars that
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  Speaker 1: were thinking about the prototypes, I think they might be
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  Speaker 1: pretty good. But yet in sports you're able to get
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  Speaker 1: away with it. It's like, why is that? Why are
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  Speaker 1: they allowed to get away with that? I just don't
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand that mindset. I was not raised that
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  Speaker 1: way watching sports, But hey, the East throw and anyway,
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  Speaker 1: if you would like to be part the balance of power.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think the balance of power shifted with any
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  Speaker 1: of these trades. There were a lot of trades. I
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  Speaker 1: just like that we can tell who actually is trying
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  Speaker 1: to win and who's not trying to win. And oh,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, the Dodgers are on that we're not
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  Speaker 1: trying to win. List my Dodgers. I mean, hey, I
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  Speaker 1: thought was Fred Claire back as the GM there? My god,
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was like the eighties take a nap
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  Speaker 1: of the trade deadline. Holy crap.
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  Speaker 1: just adjacent to Capitol Hill where all the lawmakers waste
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  Speaker 1: our money. So we have a plot twist in the
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: contract stalemate in DC. If you have been following along,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: or if not, maybe you've missed it. The star pass
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  Speaker 1: catcher for Washington is not happy. He wants moneymount of money,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: and a lot more moneymunt of money. Don't we all
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  Speaker 1: take a number from the deli counter. So, if you
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  Speaker 1: haven't heard the latest, we have learned now that the
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  Speaker 1: commander's wide receiver, Terry McLaurin, is so frustrated with negotiation.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: How frustrated it is, thanks for asking. He's so frustrated
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: that he is now requesting a trade and there has
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: been no movement, no movement. It's pond water in terms
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: of getting a new deal. So let us discuss the question,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: how do you evaluate the Terry McLaren trade request from Washington?
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: How you evaluate the request of a trade by Terry McLaurin.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: So I've got saber Ikea and mister potato head, and
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together and we
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: are going to make some Baba ganoosh is what we're
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: gonna make. So number wa, I said, number Yeah. Here's
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: my position on the Terry McLaurin trade request. This is
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: the textbook twenty twenty NFL Wide Receiver Handbook on display right.
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  Speaker 1: They all read the same manual. They all follow the
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  Speaker 1: same script. And you do a job like this. Now
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: there's no reason for you to pay attention this closely,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: But I have nothing else to do. So it always
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: starts with the holdout, and then now you're in the
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: hold in. Now you're in the hold in because you
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: can't sit out more than a few days. At fifty
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: thousand dollars a day. It's like a hostage negotiation. Now now,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: based on the economy in the NFL, this is a
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  Speaker 1: ballplayer who in that world has been underpaid in that world.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Now in the real world, not underpaid, but in that
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: world underpaid. And he sat there and watched the other
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: receivers get their paid a whether players better than him,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: like Justin Jefferson or AJ Brown or Christian Kirk have
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: reset the market, even Christian Kirk. So McLaurin is sitting
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: there saying, hey, what about me. I've been a good,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: good scout here, I didn't do any wrong. Well, here's
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: the thing, though, it would appear based at this point
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Washington does not care and they don't really want to
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: give him a new contract. Otherwise, spoiler alert, they would
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: have already given him a new contract. There's no reason
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: to drag this thing out. It's not Jerry Jones and
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys. So you know next, I'm sure we get
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: at some point here the emoji warfare. I call it
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: emoji warfare, the bio change, the retreat, the reposting of
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: stuff on social media. But it's not about the money.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, we know it's about the money, but it's
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: about respect. You know, I need respect and I need
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: to feel valued. You don't value me, right. They want
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: the bag and they want the pat on the back.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: So you not only need the bag, but you need
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: the pat on the back. And for what it's worth,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: the commanders have already said that they are not going
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: to make any kind of a trade with this particular ballplayer.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: They've already turned down some trades allegedly. But every man
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: has a price, every man and has the pressure. And
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: so if a contender loses a wide receiver, whether it
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: be in practice or a game between now and the
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: start of the regular season, and some random team calls
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: up and says, hey, I'll give you a first round
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: pick for mclauren. And they'll say, okay, how fast can
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: we get them to the airport? You know, and you'll
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: get the answer right there. So mclaurin's camp is obviously
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: they're trying to raise the temperature, and you want to
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: apply pressure here, and pressure, pressure, pressure, you leak the
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: trade request check that box. Okay, we've now requested the trade.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: You get the fans all riled up there, you make
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: it uncomfortable for the team. It's all calculated, and you
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: get the saber. The saber rattling is what you get here.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: It's all part of the game. What's in the game.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: It's part of the game. And so call it a
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: bit of an audible, you call the audible. This is
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: the audible right here, and this is the escalation phase,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: is what it is. McLaurin has been through quarterback hell,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: playing with Stiff after Stiff, he carried that offense. And
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: now they finally have their alleged forever quarterback, Jayden Daniels.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see what he does for an encore. And so
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: now he's like, okay, this is my last chance. I'm
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: crossing the rubicon here. Age wise, I got to force
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: their hand. He's making the noise, and the noise ends
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: up getting you paid, or it gets you traded, then
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: you get paid with another team. That's normally how it works,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: all right. Now, Page two, So to Canton, Ohio we go.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Picturesque Canton, Ohio. The Chargers show me your lightning bolt.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: They beat up the Lions in an exhibition lidlifter. Now,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: much of the chatter in that game about two things.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: We'll get to the new setup in the NFL, which
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: did not go very well, by the way, holy crap,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: involving how they will measure the football. But that's a
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: different conversation for later on. We got a lot of
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: time to navigate. The quarterback of the Chargers was not
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: justin Herbert. It was the new backup, old forty nine
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: er trash and cowboy trash, Trey Lance, who had a
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: couple of touchdowns and looked like he actually knew what
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: he was doing. So everyone's yapping, Oh my god, Trey Lance. Oh,
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: the Chargers are gonna be able to trade him and
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: he can be a QB one for the New Orleans
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Saints or somebody else. All right, So question, did quarterback
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Trey Lance may make a statement? That's what Chris Collinsworth
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: said on the broadcast as Collinsworth had the knee pads on.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: So did quarterback Trey Lance make a quote statement close quote,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: as collins were said on the Hall of Fame TV broadcast.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: So my answer is a n absolutely not, absolutely not.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: I come on, you knew this kind of story was
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: gonna be here. Either Trey Lance went out and played terribly.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Is oh, I can't believe the Niners traded all those
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: draft picks to get Trey Lance blows or if he
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: played well, he's back. Baby, Trey Lance is back. So
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: let's not be ridiculous here. As a distant relative of
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Nostradamus and friend of Nostradinas who lives in Seattle, we
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: knew this was coming right. This was a I watched
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: a little bit of it. Don't tell anybody, Please, don't
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: tell anybody. I watched a little bit of at all.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Nothing else on it was that I watched some of
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: the Mariner game playing the Rangers. There's light cart and
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Baseball Hall of Fame game. I watched it. I watched it.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: But this was a glorified walkthrough in Canton, Ohio. And
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: there they were Mike ta Rico and Chris Collinsworth on
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: NBC giving Trey Lance a tongue bath, acting like he
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: was making his football bar mitzvah. This was his coming
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: out party here everyone. He was now a man. I
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: am My name is Trey Lance, and I'm now a
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: man as a quarterback, and I'm watching this and I'm like,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: I know you have to grab onto something. I know
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: that's part of the job. Can everyone just take it
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: a deep breath here? This is the first exhibition game.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: It's a total dummy run, right And oh, by the way,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: he was playing against Yes, a lot of dummies. So
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: he's out there against guys we're trying to make a
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: name for himself. Most of them will be working for Brown,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: but not the Cleveland Browns. They'll be working for Ups
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: in a few weeks, or they'll be pouring concrete on
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: the highway. And what can Brown do for you? How
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: about not get a sack on Trey Lance? Like, that's
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: not rewrite history here. There is a reason that Trey
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Lance is in the position he's in. He was the
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: number three overall pick from twenty twenty one, and here
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: we are years later. The forty nine ers gave a
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: pick after pick for his rights. They backed the Brinks
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: truck up to Miami. They dumped all those draft picks out.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: By the way, that Dolphins haven't won anything with those
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: draft picks, but they traded all those draft picks away
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: in exchange for a guy who is now basically chased
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Daniel without the high football IQ but let's not forget
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: that he got leap fraud, leap frog Trey Lance by
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: mister irrelevant brock Purty, a guy taking last in the draft,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: usurped the number three pick in the draft, and San
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Francisco just gave brock Purdy, who Terry and England would
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: agree as just mediocre, but gave him one hundred and
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: eighty two million. Garon teed. Meanwhile, you juxtapose that with
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Trey Lance, who's now on his third team. I believe
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: he's still trying to figure out how to tie his
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: cleats without help. So, but he's got all the tools.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: He's got the arm talent, he's got the analyticism, he's
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: got the size you look for at the quarterback position.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: And so did the legend, the infamous JaMarcus Russell back
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: in the day. He had all that stuff too. So
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: you need more. I know it sucks, but you need
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: more than just having a nice toolbox. You need more
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: than that. You actually have to know how to use.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Said to. So, I look at Trey Lance as a
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: guy out there who's got two left thumbs and he's
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: trying to assemble a piece of furniture that he bought
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: at Ikea, and he's also eating those meatballs at the
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: same time. So forget the whole change of scenery. All
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: that we're gonna change the narrative, nonsense. You can make
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: no declaration. The only thing Trey Lance could have done
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: is hurt himself if he'd gone out and played bad
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: and rode the vomit common Now, the fact that he
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: played well, had a couple of touchdowns and all that,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: that's fine, But you don't get credit. You don't and
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter that these exhibition games. Trey Lance, until
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: proven otherwise, has a full time residency in the boondocks
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: of Bustville. Noaying, it's on Google Maps. If you just
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: go to Google Maps, you can type in Bustville and
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: he lives right there. So until I see it against real,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: legitimate NFL teams that are scheming this, stop him and
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: number ones and number twos in a game that has
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: some value. Please, I don't need the preseason propaganda. I
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: don't need the exhibition propaganda. And I'm just gonna do
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: every monologue, goofing on all the preseason propaganda. That's just
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: gonna be my life's work for the next month. So
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: buckle up. Buccaroo. All right, now, final point speaking of that,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: we go now to Indianapolis, a basketball state, the Hoosier State.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: They have a football team, not a good one. And
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: there are whispers in this news cycle that say the
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Colts quote won't consider quote won't consider moving on from
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: in battle the quarterback Anthony Richardson this season, yay or
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: nay on? That whisper yay or nay on the Colts
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: not even considering moving on from Anthony Richardson. So I'm
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: gonna give this one side eye, which is a that's
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: a nay. Right now? They have to say this though,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: you think that Shane Steichen and the GM there Chris Ballard,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: are going to sit there and stand at the dayis
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: at the podium there in now we're in August and say, yeah,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: we might be thinking about replacing the guy that we
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: drafted in the top five a couple of years ago.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: We think we might no shot, right. The better question,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: the better question is who would be dumb enough to
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: trade for this guy. You'd need a staff that is
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: involved in NASA, like those NASA engineers, the smartest people
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: in the room to redesign your offense. And you'd also
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: need some kind of trauma surgeon on speed Dobb. Richardson's
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: played fifteen games, and in about half of those fifteen games,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: so seven and a half of the fifteen games, Anthony
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: richard Sin's body has flown apart like he's mister potato
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Head in those games. Now, now Indy as a franchise,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: they love the idea of him, and they love the
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: idea that he's going to turn out to be good,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: just takes time, gotta have patience, all that stuff. They
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: like that idea more than reality because he's another guy.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: We talked about Trey Lance earlier in this monologue, but
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson also the prototype quarterback, another guy that's got
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: all the tools but no toolbox and all that. And
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: in this case, it's the NFL's version of buying a
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Porsche and then realizing you can't drive stick shift, Like
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: that's the move now. Now, Richardson is built like an
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: action figure and he reads defense like he's trying to
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: translate a menu at a restaurant in Paris, and he
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: doesn't speak French. And it's one of those things. He's
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: been so bad since he got to the Colts. People
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: talk about, well, what kind of soap do you use
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: when you you know, an Irish spring person, what kind
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: of But he's he's not using that. In fact, when
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: he goes into the locker room and then leaves for
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: the day, they have to fumigate the locker room with Ortho,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: bed bug, flea and tick killer, not only for Anthony Richardson,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: but also Daniel Jones who's in there. And so again
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: you combine the fact that he can't play with the
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: fact that when he does play, he has the durability,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Richardson of a paper straw. Is there anything that is
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: more annoying than trying to drink a beverage with a
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: paper straw and you know you're on the clock. You
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: know you only have anywhere from five to ten minutes
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: before that fragile paper straw collapses and then you're done.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: You cannot use that straw to drink whatever you're drinking. So,
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: if you're the Colts, if you're the Colts and you're
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: really married, I don't buy this report. But if let's
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: use the Mallard multiverse, and in the Mallard multiverse, you
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: are You're in it, right, You're in it. And also
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: so you're married to this guy, then you better be
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: prepared for a long, disappointing marriage with a lot of
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: therapy bills, and not a therapy, but physical therapy also.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: So the chatter should be how long until they start
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: cheating on him with next year's quarterback draft class? If
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean.
• 34:25
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• 34:31
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• 34:41
  Speaker 6: The other day, Brown's owner Jimmy Haslam dismissed any notion
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: that the team would tank for arch manning Ben. Which
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: teams do you think are most likely to go into
• 34:48
  Speaker 6: tank mode this season?
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: All right, so first of all, you never admit the tank.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: You do the tank, but you do not admit the tank.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: So even if the Brown and they have tanked before,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: you can't admit it. So there's no way Haslm's going
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: to go on the record say yes, we are trying
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: to take but the obvious answer the headless Saints of
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: the Bayou, the New Orleans Saints, who don't have a quarterback,
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: have no coach, They suck that's the team, and you
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: know the famous Manning back in the day who played there.
• 35:16
  Speaker 6: Next, it was reported recently that the Warriors will quote
• 35:20
  Speaker 6: remain in the mix should Lebron James want to finish
• 35:22
  Speaker 6: out his career somewhere other than La Ben, could you
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: see Lebron teaming up with Steph No.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Lebron clearly wants to play for the Clippers. He's sending
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: out Clipper photos on social media. Justin sent me this.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: I guess he's on there promoting the Clipper brand. So
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: I don't have got the Warriors. If he goes anywhere,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: you go back to Cleveland, I only he's going or Dallas,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: but he's not going to the Warriors, so I don't
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: see that happening. Next.
• 35:47
  Speaker 6: Speaking of Dallas, the Mavericks hired a new team president,
• 35:50
  Speaker 6: and he said that his number one priority will be
• 35:52
  Speaker 6: fan outreach to heal the fans. Ben, can anything other
• 35:59
  Speaker 6: than a championship make up for the Luca trade?
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Oh, well, you gotta they gotta fire fire Nico Harrison.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: You gotta get rid of Niko Harrison. Number one. Championship
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: would be nice, but you gotta get rid of Nico
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: Harrison because as long as Nico's there, there's always the threat.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: Whoever the best player on the Mavericks is at any
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: moment could be traded. It's just an unsustainable situation. But uh,
• 36:23
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• 36:26
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  Speaker 1: the weed Man in the house in the hissy there
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  Speaker 1: in Miami? Hello weed Man?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm here there.
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  Speaker 1: I love you? All right? How's life we been? Everything? Okay?
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  Speaker 1: With you? You getting out? You're putting your feet on the
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  Speaker 1: grass a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Damn good.
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  Speaker 1: You don't leave your house at all.
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  Speaker 3: Do you?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Go out tires beauty culoud? Now okay, all right, good,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: all right? So these are actual jokes by well yes,
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  Speaker 1: where you live there. Yeah, and you're not You're not
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: living on Lincoln Road anymore? Correct? Yeah, yeah, you're not
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  Speaker 1: getting arrested every other week. No, thank god, I got it.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well let's have some fun. Why not? Here
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  Speaker 1: we go, and if you want to send jokes in
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  Speaker 1: for a future episode, send them care of Benmathers Show
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  Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. Make sure to put joke in
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  Speaker 1: the headline. That way I can get through all of
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: the spam emails Blind Scott sends me and find your jokes.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Anyway we go? Why did Ozzy Osbourne play baseball? Or
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: why didn't? Why didn't Ozzy Osbourne play baseball? Why? Well,
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: nobody would give him bad? That's from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota?
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  Speaker 1: How isn't home? One from Meek? How bad is it is?
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  Speaker 1: The forest fire? The smoke from that forest fire from
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: Manitoba entering the US? Wow? How bad? It's so bad
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  Speaker 1: that everyone's took us in Minnesota? Smells like Canadian bacon?
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  Speaker 1: All right? That's from Eke again. Here's one from Noah
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  Speaker 1: in Austin. What do Parallel Lines and Blind Scott's next
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: girlfriend have in common? What they'll never meet? Why did?
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: Why did the or not? Why did did you here?
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  Speaker 1: Did you hear the Malard militia had a bagel flavored
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: a bagel flavored band at Panera? A bagel flavor was
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: banned by the Malad militia at Panera? No, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: hear that. Yeah, apparently no one can stand the poppy.
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  Speaker 1: They can't stand it. That's Joe. What would your poppy
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: that was Joe and Virginia Beach? What would your poppy
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  Speaker 1: impersonation be? Weed man?
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  Speaker 3: Fine day?
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  Speaker 1: All right? What do the angels and keg drinking Steve's
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  Speaker 1: nightly blood alcohol level have in common?
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 1: They're both heading the five hundred? They're both heading the
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: five hundred? Eric? Eric in Kansas? This one from Tony
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  Speaker 1: in the Bay Area. Did you hear that David Vass
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: was traded for a bag of crap and some knee pads? No? Yeah,
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: they called it an even trade. That's what they called it.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: There Big Bend's lame jokes a week. What's the difference
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  Speaker 1: between Blind Scott and Marcel from Brooklyn?
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 1: Well, actually nothing. They're both terrible callers. That's Mike the Leprechaun.
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  Speaker 1: What did Blind Scott say when someone told them the
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: Patriots will win the Super Bowl next year. What he said,
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  Speaker 1: I can't see that happening. That's Eric in Kansas. Well
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: some sad news. Did you hear that Shane and the
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: Moine walk into a field of dead snowmen? No, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: apparently just turned out to be a huge carrot field.
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  Speaker 1: But same thing, Hanna, Eric, that was? That was from
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: Noah Red Noah in Austin big Ben's Lame Jokes of
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: the Week. These are actual jokes from actual listeners. Let's
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: see here. What kind of sauce does Eminem get at
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  Speaker 1: Taco Bell?
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  Speaker 2: What kind?
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  Speaker 1: Eight eight mile? He likes? Eight miles? That's the very funny.
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  Speaker 1: Buttermilk cavo? What talent show would Holler and James dominate in?
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  Speaker 1: What the malor Poe snooze? Uh? He said? Buttermilk tavo again?
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: Now we get to the good stuff. Why doesn't weed
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: Man have a problem getting to sleep when he's in jail?
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: Why because he spent a lifetime sleeping behind bars. That's
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: a Serf Todd, very funny man, Server Todd the comedian.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully Server Todd will be able to make the Mallard
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  Speaker 1: Meet and Greek in Vegas. Weed Man, you're invited We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be in Vegas August twenty third week man, make
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  Speaker 1: sure show up. But what did he? What did weed
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  Speaker 1: Man's son say when weed Man told him someday you'll
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: have a son of your own? What he said? So
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: will you? That's Eric Kansas? All right? How is? How is?
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  Speaker 1: How is weed Man? Hippie sex life? It comes and
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: goes in spurts. That's a Surfer Todd topic, Comedian weed Man.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever seen a nurse bird?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 1: Me, neither, but Angry Bill sees nurse birds daily. That's Tony. Now,
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: how do you know? You're at weed Man's birthday party?
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: There's no food, but everyone has the munchies. That's Dan
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: in South in South Carolina. This one's from Tom and Indiana.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: Did you hear that weed Man had a terrifying, terrifying
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: experience with the Obama phone the other day?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 1: What happened? Yeah, apparrel, you actually punched up expresspros dot
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  Speaker 1: com and they tried to give you a job and
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  Speaker 1: you freaked out and you Tom Tom from Indiana, I
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: heard you weed Man found stir fry all over your bed? Wow? Really? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Apparently you were sleep walking, is what you were doing.
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  Speaker 1: You were sleep walking from Buttermilk, Chavo and last One
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: George and Uvalde, Texas. What do weed Man, hippie and
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: Fox Sports radio producer lead A Lap have in common
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  Speaker 1: with The Simpsons? What they all have itchy and scratchy parts.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, weed Man,