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  Speaker 1: our lead this hour is from Pittsburgh. Play the hits,
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  Speaker 1: my man, Play the hits, all right, well, play the hits.
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  Speaker 1: We have been talking about this particular storyline for months
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  Speaker 1: and months and months and months and months, and here
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  Speaker 1: we are the obligatory Mallard monologue on the life and
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  Speaker 1: times the stylings of mister Rogers. That's right, mister Rogers Neighborhood,
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  Speaker 1: which was produced by public television in Pittsburgh. And now
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  Speaker 1: mister Rogers is going to be playing quarterback for the
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  Speaker 1: hometown team there. Aaron Rodgers arrived. Oh so exciting. I'm emotional.
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  Speaker 1: I'm for clemped, I am verklemped. Rogers arrived there first
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  Speaker 1: day of mandatory mini camp. You always remember your first time.
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  Speaker 1: And he put on that Steeler uniform at the practice
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  Speaker 1: facility right there, and he spoke with the media. He
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  Speaker 1: waxed loquacious and I don't know if you heard what
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  Speaker 1: he had to say, not perhaps not, but Aaron Rodgers
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  Speaker 1: going on and on for the first time as a
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  Speaker 1: member of the Pittsburgh football team. Now, keep in mind,
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  Speaker 1: he did want to play for the Vikings.
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  Speaker 5: They didn't want him.
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  Speaker 1: And he even talked to the Giants. He must have
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  Speaker 1: been on some ayahuasca when he talked to the Giants.
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  Speaker 1: Were you talking to the Giants? You already play with
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  Speaker 1: the Jets. You've experienced suck football in the New York
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  Speaker 1: tri state area. Why would you want to play with
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  Speaker 1: the other suck team. Anyway, he ends up in Pittsburgh,
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  Speaker 1: and so there were discussions with other other teams, but
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  Speaker 1: he ends up going there. Now, we chopped up a
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  Speaker 1: couple of clips for you from Aaron Rodgers. Here he
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  Speaker 1: covered a wide range of topics. It was like fifteen minutes,
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  Speaker 1: so it wasn't that long. You can watch the whole
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  Speaker 1: thing if you want. For this pretty boring, So we'll
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  Speaker 1: just give you the highlights. That's all you need. You
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  Speaker 1: don't need the whole thing. Time is the most valuable
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  Speaker 1: commodity you have, so why waste it listening to that?
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  Speaker 1: So let me a little taste here, little just to taste,
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  Speaker 1: just a little taste there. So airin Roger. Now he
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  Speaker 1: explained why he waited so long the long national nightmare
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  Speaker 1: came doing. Why did he win so long to go
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  Speaker 1: and sign that contract? And now listen closely because this is
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  Speaker 1: a telling answer to a list.
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  Speaker 6: I don't want to short change the guys and be
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  Speaker 6: you know, sign but be elsewhere mentally or physically. So
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  Speaker 6: until I could be here and be all in. You know,
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  Speaker 6: I needed to take care of my business.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, got to take care of my business now. But wait,
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  Speaker 5: there's more.
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  Speaker 1: Rogers says he chose to play for the Steelers after
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  Speaker 1: doing some soul searching.
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  Speaker 5: Take a list.
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  Speaker 6: I don't need it for my ego. I don't need it. No,
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  Speaker 6: keep playing a lot of decisions that I've made over
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  Speaker 6: my career and life, from strictly to ego. Yeah, even
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  Speaker 6: if they turn out well or always unfulfilling, that's right.
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  Speaker 6: Decisions made yes from the soul soul are usually pretty fulfilling.
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  Speaker 6: So this was a decision that was best for my soul.
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  Speaker 6: And I felt like being here with Coach t and
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  Speaker 6: the guys they got here and the opportunity here was
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  Speaker 6: the best for me, and and I'm excited to be here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I do the same thing. When I come in
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  Speaker 1: here and do sports takes, I do it from the soul.
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  Speaker 1: I do my sports takes are from the soul. And
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  Speaker 1: when they're not from the soul, I'm not fulfilled. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not all right. So let us discuss the question. Can
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  Speaker 1: you parse the words we gave you some of them?
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  Speaker 1: Can you parse the words of Aaron Rogers and his
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  Speaker 1: commentary on the first formal media conference by Aaron Rodgers
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  Speaker 1: as a Pittsburgh steer.
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  Speaker 5: So I've got.
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  Speaker 1: Buldurham, dead air, and mausoleum, and we will combine all
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  Speaker 1: of these things together, and we're gonna make a Pittsburgh sandwich,
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  Speaker 1: which is a sandwich. What's the Pittsburgh Salmich. Well, that's
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  Speaker 1: a sandwich. Will you put the fries on top of
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  Speaker 1: the sandwich. That's a Pittsburgh sanwiche. And we're not gonna
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  Speaker 1: make Pittsburgh pizza, which is disgusting. In the greater Pittsburgh area,
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  Speaker 1: they have that pizza where they don't cook the cheese
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  Speaker 1: and the toppings.
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  Speaker 5: Pee ye, what stings?
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, get to the point, please, So, in terms of
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  Speaker 1: parsing the words of Aaron Rodgers, this is rather straightforward.
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  Speaker 5: It's rather straightforward. It's by the book to the letter,
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  Speaker 5: if you will, we'll go that far now.
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  Speaker 1: Rogers, for much of this he went what we call
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  Speaker 1: Bull Durham. That's an old baseball movie. It's a classic
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  Speaker 1: if you haven't seen it. The famous scene where Crashed Davis,
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  Speaker 1: one of the characters in the baseball movie there, gives
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  Speaker 1: advice to new Clalouge and he says, you're gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to learn your cliches, right, I gotta have to learn
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  Speaker 1: your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, and you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have to know them. They're your friends, all right,
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  Speaker 1: that's your friends. And so Rogers's been around. That's not
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  Speaker 1: his first barbecue, and so Rodgers knows a thing or
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  Speaker 1: two about cliches. And he's very mechanical for much of it,
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  Speaker 1: as we anticipated he would be. For the most party
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  Speaker 1: smooched the Steeler history smooth smooch. Smooch gave a big
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  Speaker 1: wet kiss to the Pittsburgh Yinzer crowd there, talked about
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  Speaker 1: all the people that he's worked with who are from
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  Speaker 1: western Pennsylvania and all that stuff, and he he was going.
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  Speaker 1: Now the first SoundBite that we played, though, the first
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  Speaker 1: SoundBite that we played that was telling because Rogers confirmed
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  Speaker 1: what we had been hearing. He said the quiet part
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  Speaker 1: out loud. He said what it sounded like to me.
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  Speaker 1: We don't play that cut one. We even't play that again.
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  Speaker 1: Let's play that cut one. He listened to Rogers here
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  Speaker 1: because I think it's interesting.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't want to short change the guys and be,
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  Speaker 6: you know, sign but be elsewhere mentally or physically. So
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  Speaker 6: until I could be here and be all in, you know,
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  Speaker 6: I needed to take care of.
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  Speaker 5: My business, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So the way I interpreted that using the malo of
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  Speaker 1: Rosetta stone is that Aaron Rodgers is still bitter that
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  Speaker 1: he got ripped when he was with the Jets for
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  Speaker 1: going to the Pyramids in Egypt, and he's still bitter
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  Speaker 1: about that. So he had things planned. We'll get to
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  Speaker 1: that in a second. What he was planning.
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  Speaker 5: But Aaron Rodgers, like hey, I'm not doing it again.
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  Speaker 1: All right, I'll play for you, but I'm gonna wait
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  Speaker 1: until I'm done with all of my itinerary and all
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  Speaker 1: of my travel plans, and then only then i will
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  Speaker 1: sign with your stupid football team.
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  Speaker 5: And if you don't want it, that's fine.
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  Speaker 1: That's what he did. He didn't want to hassle. He
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  Speaker 1: had trips planned around the world, has his passport burning
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  Speaker 1: a hole in his pocket. He wanted to use his passport,
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  Speaker 1: so that's it. He just bounced around and that's what
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  Speaker 1: he did. And he waited and he's done with his travel,
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  Speaker 1: so he's like, okay, I'll now attend the team functions
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  Speaker 1: and the workouts and all that crap. And he confirmed it.
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  Speaker 1: That is confirmation. That is confirmation what you heard from
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  Speaker 1: Rogers's confirmation. Now, as for the soul searching and satisfaction
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  Speaker 1: for your soul, that was mostly a bubble bath for
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  Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin, suck up to your new boss and curry
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  Speaker 1: favor romance between Tomlin and Aaron Rodgers. Now page two.
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  Speaker 1: The other big storyline. The other big storyline here is
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  Speaker 1: that Aaron Rodgers also confirmed that one of the things
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  Speaker 1: that he was busy doing this offseason was getting married.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's a tabloid starts true. Rogers showed
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  Speaker 1: up to the Kentucky Derby with a wedding band, and
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  Speaker 1: some people thought that was like a ssy op. That
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  Speaker 1: was like some kind of weird trick that Rogers was doing.
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  Speaker 1: Now some guys are going out of the pawnshop to
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  Speaker 1: get a wedding band because for some reason, women are
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  Speaker 1: more attracted the men who have a wedding band.
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  Speaker 5: Go figure.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, Rogers actually got married. He confirmed it. He's got
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  Speaker 1: a new wife, offseason wedding. He's been married for at
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  Speaker 1: least a couple of months. And what intrigues you, though, question?
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  Speaker 1: What intrigues you most about the fact that this is
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  Speaker 1: a pretty big development.
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  Speaker 5: Who cares?
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  Speaker 1: It's a tabloid story man, Okay, but it's a kind
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  Speaker 1: of a big So what intrigues you most? So?
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  Speaker 5: For me, it's the dead air. It's the dead air.
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  Speaker 1: I have nightmares about dead air right actually day meares
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  Speaker 1: because I sleep during the day. But I have issues
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  Speaker 1: with the dead air. Radio silence, another problem radio sounds.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about a public figure, a polarizing figure in
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, a man that lives in Malibu. Buu Right
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  Speaker 1: lives in Malibu, the part that didn't burn down, and
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  Speaker 1: they have an infestation in Malibu with paparazzo. They're everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: The paparazzi's all over the place. And there was no leek.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't see TMZ helicopters flying overhead, no ex girlfriend
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  Speaker 1: or ex buddy spilling the beans on the gram.
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  Speaker 5: None of that.
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  Speaker 1: That's unreal to my knowledge as I understand the story.
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  Speaker 1: There were no photos. Still, the tabloids are losing their mind.
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  Speaker 1: There are no photos of his wife. We know her name,
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  Speaker 1: but there's no photos. The Daily Mail and the New
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  Speaker 1: York Post are losing it there. Oh my god, we've
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  Speaker 1: got to fight up photos. Woman me down, I'm cause
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  Speaker 1: you look like no. They got there trying to get
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  Speaker 1: the bottom of it, and everyone everyone's like, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know who.
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  Speaker 5: We know kind of her name, but that's it. We
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  Speaker 5: don't know who she is.
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  Speaker 1: The thing about they've been married for a couple of months.
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  Speaker 1: I assume if you're married, you normally live together, so
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  Speaker 1: they've never gone out in public together. In Malibu, the
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  Speaker 1: paparazzo outside every grocery store and restaurant in Melbourne. There's
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  Speaker 1: no photos of them together, like walking on the beach,
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  Speaker 1: even nothing that's bizarre.
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  Speaker 5: And they said, wow, maybe they eloped. Okay, they eloped.
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  Speaker 5: I eloped. I eloped in Hawaii. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: But even if you elope, there's always somebody at the
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  Speaker 1: courthouse who has to fill out and file the paperwork.
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  Speaker 5: Even if it's done digitally, And.
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  Speaker 1: Those people can call the tip line at Harvey Levin's
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  Speaker 1: office over their TMZ and make ten grand saying, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I got Aaron Rodgers got married to this this broad
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  Speaker 1: over got on her name, but here's her name. You know,
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  Speaker 1: boom done. Ten grand in your pocket could be twenty
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  Speaker 1: five thousand dollar. Nobody did that. So he said he's married,
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  Speaker 1: he's got the wedding. Is he actually designed the paper?
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  Speaker 1: Is this just like a faux wedding?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know. I don't know. So it's it's interesting
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  Speaker 5: to me.
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  Speaker 1: He had another quarterback, Josh Allen, who had a celebrity
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  Speaker 1: wedding and there were helicopters overhead, there were paparazzo outside.
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  Speaker 1: He got married in Santa Barbara and there were a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of people there. Now we know Rogers family likely
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  Speaker 1: was not his wedding. He doesn't like them, so he
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  Speaker 1: wasn't with his family, but to keep everyone on there,
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  Speaker 1: even his friends are claiming I thought they were lying.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe they were lying that ah, they didn't know about it,
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  Speaker 1: like nobody.
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  Speaker 5: Knew about it.
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  Speaker 1: So rogers, he's playing chess. He's playing four D chess
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  Speaker 1: on this one, to keep everyone out of the loop,
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  Speaker 1: dodging the tabloids like would be tacklers running with the
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  Speaker 1: football there, ducking the paparazzi as they try to get
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  Speaker 1: a photo of him living his life off the grid
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  Speaker 1: in a very very public place. So forget audibles. This
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  Speaker 1: is not an audible. This is a misdirection play, is
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  Speaker 1: what this is. Now the last word here we head
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  Speaker 1: to Cleveland, where the football sucks. But the sound bites
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  Speaker 1: are not bad. The sound bites are not bad. So
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  Speaker 1: an amusing quote from defensive and Miles Garrett.
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  Speaker 5: You know who he is.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's the guy that almost killed the Steelers quarterback
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  Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, threw his helmet at him,
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  Speaker 1: went four.
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  Speaker 5: Didn't connect, or Miles Garrett would not be in the
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  Speaker 5: NFL right now.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, Miles Garrett is in the NFL, and he was
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  Speaker 1: asked about Aaron Rodgers being a divisional opponent, which means
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  Speaker 1: you get to play him twice.
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  Speaker 5: And here is.
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  Speaker 1: What Aaron Rodgers' opponent here, Miles Garrett had to say,
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  Speaker 1: takes but.
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  Speaker 5: Not think about it. Yeah, here, I think it's opportunity
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  Speaker 5: to put him in the graveyard. Oh my god, he
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  Speaker 5: wants to kill him. Call the cops.
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  Speaker 3: Miles Garrett wants to murder Aaron Rodgers violence.
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  Speaker 5: I know, so you heard it. The Browns defensive end.
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  Speaker 1: Miles Garrett asked about Aaron Rodgers joining the Steelers, and
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  Speaker 1: he said, I think it's quote, I think it's good
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to put him in the graveyard. Close quote. Do
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  Speaker 1: you see that actually happening ending Rogers' career? Well, not
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  Speaker 1: because of Miles Garrett making a sack on Aaron Rodgers.
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  Speaker 1: We do not see that, all right, We do not
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  Speaker 1: see that at all. Aaron Rodgers joining the Steelers. By
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  Speaker 1: the way, spoiler alert, spoiler alert, Aaron Rodgers did join
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  Speaker 1: the Steelers from the other side, from the other side
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  Speaker 1: of the Pearly gates. He was in a mausoleum. He
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  Speaker 1: played for the Jets. When you play for the Jets,
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  Speaker 1: it's like living in a burial chamber when you're playing
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  Speaker 1: for the Jets. Your career dies when you play there.
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  Speaker 1: It just does. It did for Aaron Rodgers, right, And
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  Speaker 1: so Rogers is looking to be Poltergeist and come back
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  Speaker 1: to haunt Gang Green by turning out to be the
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  Speaker 1: player they thought the Jets were getting. But do it
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  Speaker 1: with the Pittsburgh Steelers and all that and spooky, spooky,
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  Speaker 1: spooky spooky Aaron Rodgers. Now, as for Miles Garrett. As
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  Speaker 1: for Miles Garrett, it's it's a good quip. Guys got
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  Speaker 1: big feet known as Bigfoot, so good good quip by him.
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  Speaker 1: And now Miles Garrett should know a thing or two
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  Speaker 1: about quarterbacks being put into the graveyard. He has witnessed
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  Speaker 1: many of his teammates who played quarterback put in the graveyard,
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  Speaker 1: so he knows what that's like. He knows the visual
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  Speaker 1: on that. And playing for the Browns, boy, there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of bodies buried and they're Brown quarterbacks. There a wasteland,
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  Speaker 1: a wasteland for a quarterback's career.
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  Speaker 5: Did you see that game? Last said?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, what a game, complete lockdown. SGA did
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  Speaker 1: The furlough continues the NBA Finals. So we asked the question,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: now that we've had a little more time. Great game
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: one ending, Indiana came back, they won, Game won, So
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: then Oklahoma City came back in one.
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: Game two.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: The report card is out on game number two of
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: the NBA Finals. So did it get better or did
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: it get worse? Did it get better? Did it get worse?
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Did it stay the same? Did you see this? No,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: you didn't see this?
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: All right?
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Good buckle up, bukaroo. So game two, which was a
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: route or route depending on how you learned how to
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: speak the language. NBA Finals, the Thunder and the Pacers.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: That was back on Sunday night, Big TV night. Remember
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: they waited till Sunday to play that game. They played Thursday,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: took off Friday, could have played on Saturday, but they
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: played on Sunday because this was big television nights.
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: So clearly people wanted to watch.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: And that drew less than nine million people. A couple
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: hundred million people live in the United so three hundred
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: million people live in the United States and they had
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: less than nine million. Wow, lowest for a Game two
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: in the finals in almost twenty years, so almost a
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: generation eighteen years. You got to go back there, and
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: that doesn't count, Like the COVID stuff doesn't count because
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: they were playing As we pointed out, the Laker Championship
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: doesn't count because they were playing games at a at
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Mickey Mouse Land in Orlando, and so that doesn't count.
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: Anyway.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: This year's Game two, the viewership saw a drop of
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: thirty percent thirty percent from last year's matchup between the
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Boston Celtics and the Dallas Mavericks. They lost thirty percent.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: If you're a major business and you lose thirty percent
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: of your customers, there is panic at the disco. You
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: have lost thirty percent of your business. And that happened
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: so let us discuss the question under pacers. NBA Finals
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Game two, lowest TV rating and almost a generation.
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: What does that tell you?
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: So I've got culinary rebellion, double dog dare, and lifeblood,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: we're gonna put them into a cast role and we're
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: gonna glow while the moon is bright.
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: We're gonna glow while the moon is bright.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: As opposed to making hay when the sun's up, because
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: we can't make hay when the sun's up because we're
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: at night.
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: So we have to glow while the moon is bright.
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: So number wa, number wa.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: This is more than a whisper, like a whispers a,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: you know, it's just a whisper. Game one that was
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: not great, But this really is for me. Two words,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: puffy sticker. That is a puffy sticker. We get a
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: puffy sticker. Hot take validation, Hot take validation. Now I
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: ranted and raved like a lunatic because the company pays
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: me to do that, and I was ranting about the
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: NBA Finals. I said, oh, this is terrible, and one
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: was gonna watch blah blah. So I got a couple
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: of emails, both both of them from Oklahoma City related.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: I don't know if they're in Oklahoma City, but they're
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Oklahoma fans. I assume they're in Oklahoma. And both of
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: them were complaining about how this is great for the
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: NBA and you're wrong. You're just a big city guy
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: in LA and you represent the coast, the West coast,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: and you probably represent.
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: The East coast. This is one guy in particular, Mike
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: was his.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Name or is his name? I assume it's still his name.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: I don't think he's changed his name since he sent
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: me the email about ten days ago. And Mike was
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: ranting and he's like.
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, you typical media. You trust me.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: I'm not typical media. I'm on Overnight. We're not in
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: mainstream anyway. I think I was ranting and complaining and
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: he was. I felt when I was. I didn't read
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: the whole thing, because why would I, but I felt
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: it was it was therapeutic for Mike the thunderfan. And
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: it's weird. Kyrie is the only thunder fan that I
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: really knew of until until the finals, and now there's.
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: Like a couple others that are popular.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Anyway, the point is this guy was complaining, like, oh,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: you know you're wrong and people love basketball and it's
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: not just the stars and all that stuff, and this
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: finals will prove it and you're wrong and you'll apologize
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: and okay, well we're two games in. The casual fans
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: have voted with their eyeballs, and they have voted with
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: their remote controls. They have voted with their streaming services,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: and they ain't interested. Okay, they're not the hot take.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: That hot take is aging quite well. That is a
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: solid take. That is not like bread, that is like honey.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: That is a solid take there, and it's it's good discerning.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Customers of pro bouncy ball drive a hard bargain. They
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: don't want this. You're selling a product. They don't want it.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: They're not interested in it. And the NBA for years
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: has had an old family recipe that has been passed
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: down from generations.
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: It's worked for the most part.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: There have been years it doesn't work, but for the
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: most part, it's star power.
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: It's entertainment. You're selling entertainment here.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: And the recipe has always been equal parts big market.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: You can have a small market, but you gotta have
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: one big market, and there's a big market. You got
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: to have a rivalry that really helps the whole rating
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: situation gets people joned up. You gotta have a storyline.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: People love stories. Everyone loves a story, right, We all
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: learn from stories. The stories are important, So you love
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: a storyline. The new recipe that the people over the
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: NBA have cooked up. They changed the salary cap rules
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: a couple years back, which helped facilitate what we're getting
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: right now Pacers and Thunder. I'm convinced without those salary
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: cap regulations, we would not have this matchup in the
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: NBA Finals.
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: That's my hot take on that.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Nonetheless, the new recipe is a class tale of culinary
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: rebellion gone wrong. They changed the recipe. Nobody wanted the
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: recipe change. So the other night they showed the stars.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: They love to show stars at NBA games because for
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: years that's what they've done. There have been big stars
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: from entertainment that had been in these games. And so
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: NBA Finals Game one they showed Adam Silver, he was
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: the big star. And I think in game two they
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: had Chris Paul because he used to play in Oklahoma
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: City and those are the biggest celebrities in Oklahoma. You
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: talk about glitz and clamor lizard person Adam Silver sitting
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: at your game. So listen, the NBA rolled the dice.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: They rolled the dice, two small market teams and propping
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: up Tyrese Halliburton and SGA and these guys. And guess
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: what the numbers came up. Snake guys. They got snake
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: guys in this. And when it comes to National Appeal,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: two games in crickets and not Jiminy crickets, just crickets.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: The league banking on that Tyrese hallap Burton game winner
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: in game one, his eroics to put some juice into
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: this NBA Finals. You get the ratings up for the
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: NBA Finals, but instead Game two dropped. How low can
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: you go? The ratings went down. That is very rare
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: that that happens, very rare that a game to game
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: gets worse in the NBA, especially with a close game,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: buzzer beater, all that stuff. Now listen, obviously had the
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: blowout factor in Game two. Normally, though, you build up
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: it's kind of like doing a radio show, and not
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: to let you know how we make the hot dogs
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: around here, but you you start out with a smaller
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: audience and then you grow the audience. And it's also
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: like a relay race, right, every show's passing the audience
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: on to the next show. And that's kind of how
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: that that all works. But the Thunder they ran away
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: with that game Game two. It was a blowout city
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: and America checked out, not that they ever tuned in,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: but those that did tune in said, bye bye, no drama,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: you had no intrigue, You had a glorified scrimmage and
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: a major vote of no confidence to Tyreese Halliburton and
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Shay Jugis Alexander and their star power. And so Oklahoma
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: and Indiana got together, they barely cracked nine million. Actually
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: was less than that. I was eight The actual number
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: was eight point seven million, so less.
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: Than nine million.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: And that one of the least watched finals games in
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: modern history.
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: And so there we are now turning the page.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: As for the basketball, which Mike from Oklahoma and several
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: other of you said, it's really about the basketball. As
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: we found out in the NBA Finals, there really aren't
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: that many pure basketball fans that love the way that
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: thunderplay and the Pacers, there's not that many of them.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: People don't tune in for that. That's just the way
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: it is anyway, let's get the point please, So you
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: break it down, go point by point of this. But
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: as for the basketball, you've got SGA and the Thunder
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: who are listed as a five and a half point
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: betting favorite on the road for Game three, which is
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: on Wednesday night. So how do you process that Oklahoma
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: City as a road favorite by over five five and
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: a half. So Shay Juggas, Alexander is playing like he's possessed, right,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: That's the first thing. He's playing very well former Clipper.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: That's what former Clippers do. They play very well in
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: the finals. He's averaging thirty six points a game in
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: the first two on average, and Oklahoma City getting close
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: to a touchdown touchdown six points, so you're getting almost
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: a touchdown head start and.
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: You got to win by that.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: In Indiana they are oher to three this postseason. In
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: the third game of playoff series, they're ower and two
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: at home. So that doesn't bode well if you play
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: trends now the gambling market. What the gambling market is
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: doing here is they are issuing to Joe Schmoe the better.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: They are issuing a double dog. Dare I double dog?
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Dare you to take the Indiana Pacers at home to
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: throw some shekels on Indiana. Now, there is one trend
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: if you're someone that plays trends, I like trends, but
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: I know that tells you what has happened, not what's
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: going to happen. But if you play trends here, there's
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: one trend that does say that Tyrese Haliburton and friends
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: are at least worth a shot.
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: What is it?
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: So? Oklahoma City has had absolute futility in one area
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: on area against the spread, they've had futility here and
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: that is away from home. The Thunder have started the playoffs,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: they played seven road games as they are in the
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: NBA Finals now, seven road games and they are oh
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: in seven against the spread. So that means if you
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: blindly bet on whoever was playing the under when the
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Thunder were on the road, you would have won all
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: seven of your bets against the spread. Now, it is
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: also interesting to node that despite that, owen seven against
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: the number, which means you're not living up to expectations.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: The Thunder have a winning record straight up, so they've
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: won four of those games straight up. But the gambling
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: market's a little different, and they were the first team
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: to lose. Oklahoma said, this is a fun fact. By
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: the way, I got to mix in a fun factor.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: So the Thunder were the first team to lose six
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: consecutive playoff road games against the spread since the Doc
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Rivers coach Boston Celtics of eight man. When you're in
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: the same class as a Doc Rivers coach team, that
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: is not good.
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: You've done something wrong. You've done something right.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: That team, that Boston team with Paul Pierce and Garnett
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: and those guys, that Celtic team was owen six against.
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: The spread on the road to start the playoffs that year.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: They then went five and one against the number the
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: rest of that playoff run, and they ended up winning
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: a ring championship. Ring all right, Now, final point, we
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: pivot to the experience. It's all about the experience. I
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: don't know if you've ever been to an NBA game,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you've ever been no sporting it.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Maybe you have, maybe you haven't. A few back in
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: the day, maybe you went to a few. So on
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: the latest episode of Shack's Fledgling podcast, that's not the
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: name of it, but I don't know the name, but
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: it's a Shack doesn't podcast.
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: Everyone's got one. I've got one. You probably have two podcasts.
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: Blian Emma's got a podcast. Everyone's got to.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: So anyway, on Shack's podcast, his subordinate someone named Adam Lefko.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: We're not sure who that is, but apparently he's, you know,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: like somebody that massages shacked shoulders.
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: So this guy, Adam Lefko is the name.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: And this cat suggested that the NBA needs to say
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: bye bye to cell phones. They need to ban fans
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: from using cell phones at games. That he wants all
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: eyes on the court. This was the hot talk on
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: the Shack podcast. So he wants it to be like
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: you're in Augusta, Georgia. If you've ever watched The Masters,
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: they give you cheap food. You are not allowed to
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: have a.
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: Phone at the Masters.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: You cannot do it right, cell phone free territory and
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: all that stuff. And so he said, when the Masters
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: is coming to an end, the crowd there is all
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: engaged and they're going nuts and they're paying attention. It's
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: not like that at the NBA. So he wants a
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: strict no phone policy. So we'll use that as a
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: jumping off point. And the question Shack's podcast, his Shaquille
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: and you know his sidekick there suggesting a cell phone
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: ban ban ban ban for NBA crowds. Is this forward
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: thing thinking or totally off the rails? That's the question.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Is it forward thinking or totally off the rails? So
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: this is a full classic steam engine locomotive.
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: True.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Kaboom off the tracks derailment, derailment. Now, I will admit
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: it is rather annoying when you see a big moment
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: at a sporting event and what do you see the
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: crowd doing. Do you remember when Lebron James past best
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: Kareem Abdul Jabbar for the all time points record in
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: the NBA and they had a shot of behind the
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: basket the other basket and Lebron making the shot, and
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: what was ninety nine point nine percent of the crowd doing. I'll, i'll,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: I know it's radio, but I'll show you here. What
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: they did is they were doing that. They did the
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: statue of liberty.
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: They were doing that.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: They did this at your Liberty had the phone out
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: and they were like, lady Liberty and they were holding
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: their arm up, give me liberty, or give me this
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: clip that no one will ever watch but I'm going
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: to record it rather than watch it with my balls.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: And I remember that photo was an iconic photo because
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: everyone had their phone out. The only one that didn't
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: was the guy Phil Knight from Nike and whoever he
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: was with. Other than that, everyone had their phone out.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: They wanted to not watch it with their own eyes.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: They wanted to record it on their phone so they
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: could go viral because there's nineteen thousand people recording it
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: on the phone. So I don't like it, but I
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: also realized that we live in the modern world, and
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: this is the world that we're in, and you cannot
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: the NBA is impossible. It is an impossible situation. You're
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: not at a comedy club, chuckles, comedy club, no phones,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: you can't record because you're recording, you're actually practicing for
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: some HBO special.
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: It's not that you're not at a concert.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: It's not that it's not some kind of court position
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: where you can't have your phone.
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: It's good luck, all right, good luck.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: And by the way, the fans not being into the game,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: if that's the complaint because they're on the phone, will
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: make your product more compelling, make your product better. How
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: about load management?
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: Goes away.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: How about not nineteen instant replay reviews every quarter? And
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: a guy complained about that earlier and the other issue,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: and I don't know how you get around this one,
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: even if you wanted to get rid of the phone thing.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: The NBA is a product designed for the phone. They
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: have built the modern business model on the phone. The
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: lifeblood the Am I wrong on this? The lifeblood of
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: the NBA. And the reason that they think they matter
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: is because of the phone. It's video clips on the TikTok,
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: it's court side selfies with celebrities, it's sizzle reels.
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: On the ground. I am like, it's all that stuff.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: That's why they can't possibly get rid of the phone.
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: Right, You're gonna take all that stuff away and it's
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: not gonna change now.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: I had an idea a couple of years ago, and
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: I said, well, why don't they just put those blockers
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: up so nobody has cell reception?
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: But that wouldn't matter.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: There's a beach I go to here in southern California
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: and during the day they'll I don't know how they
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: do it, but they put something up they can't use
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: your cell phone. It like blocks cell reception. So you
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: just have to enjoy the beach. And my wife loves
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: going there. I hate it because I can't be on
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: my phone and she loves it because I can't be
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: on my phone. But we go there a lot, and
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: I don't know how they do it, but then at
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: night they turn whatever device they use off. It's probably
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: not that complicated, and then you can use your phone
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: because the sun's down and can't really see much at
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: the beach at night, and so that's that. So there
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: are always do it, but it doesn't matter because people
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: just want to record the video, so they'll upload it later.
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: They'll put it on social media later.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: So even if you block the if you block the
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: cell and then and so they couldn't get on this,
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  Speaker 1: they still do it later. So it's like big deal,
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  Speaker 1: you're not going to stop that problem. And the other
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: thing is enforcement, like how do you enforce it? Like
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: most teams now they don't use paper tickets. You have
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: to actually use your phone to get in. So they're
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  Speaker 1: begging for.
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  Speaker 5: Attention from young people who all the young people do
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: is on your phone. I hold people on the phone too.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: So they want to go to the old I guess
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: they say homage but it's really the old order Mennonite.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: The Mennonites are the ones that don't use the technology, right,
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: the real Mennonites, they're the ones.
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  Speaker 5: And so bring back the horse and buggy.
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  Speaker 2: While you're at it, be sure to catch live editions
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  Speaker 2: of The Ben Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern
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  Speaker 5: How about that to this third degree, this is one
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  Speaker 5: big event. Gets grilled all right? Coolo.
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  Speaker 7: It was supported this week that Travis Hunter has the
• 36:53
  Speaker 7: third best odds for both defensive and offensive Rookie of
• 36:56
  Speaker 7: the Year.
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: And which one would you put your money on?
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Okay, So Trevor Lawren. This is his quarterback, and Lawrence
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: has been a boss. He's not as good as he
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: was supposed to be. He's just a mid level quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go defense. I'm gonna go defense. Travis
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: Hunter defensive stalwart. He wants to play offense more, but
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: I would bet on him being the defensive Rookie of
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: the Year as opposed to the offensive rookie year. Is
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: more competition for offensive Rookie of the Year, so I
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: think it's easier for him to stand out with some
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: big interceptions on defense.
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  Speaker 5: Next.
• 37:24
  Speaker 7: In the latest episode of Draymond Green's podcast, Draymond made
• 37:26
  Speaker 7: the argument that Alex Caruso is the thunders third most
• 37:29
  Speaker 7: important player behind Shay Gilgis, Alexander and Jalen Williams.
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  Speaker 5: Ben, Is he right? What's a nice.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Argument by Draymond Grant's good engagement farming.
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  Speaker 5: On his podcast?
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  Speaker 1: But No, Alex Caruso is a valuable reserve for Oklahoma City.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: But I'm going with Skeletor as my guy as my
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: number three option. Half man, half skeleton all right next.
• 37:52
  Speaker 7: Writer turned podcaster Bill Simmons said recently that he wouldn't
• 37:55
  Speaker 7: be surprised if Durant to the Spurs is already a
• 37:58
  Speaker 7: done deal that just hasn't been announced yet. Ben, Are
• 38:00
  Speaker 7: you buying Katie to San Antonio? Yeah?
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: So, I do agree with Bill Simmons that most of
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: these things are done way in advance before they end
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: up in the public, and they time these things out.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: It wouldn't shock me Durant, He's just skill go anywhere
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: as long as they are. I don't know the weed
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  Speaker 1: laws in Texas. As long as you can smoke the
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  Speaker 1: weed enjoy himself, I think.
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  Speaker 5: We'll go to have no property how do we know
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: that's the way. Put it on the board. Put it
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: on the board, blind, Scott.
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  Speaker 1: I won.
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  Speaker 5: I'm a winner.
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  Speaker 8: It's town for love here on the Ben Malars Show
• 39:01
  Speaker 8: and Summer's coming. Are you excited to go on trips
• 39:05
  Speaker 8: with your loved one?
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: I don't know. I'm really having really.
• 39:10
  Speaker 8: Playing Catalina, maybe going on the meat right, maybe the Catalantic.
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: Are you going to Catalina? Have you been to Catalina?
• 39:17
  Speaker 9: Yes?
• 39:18
  Speaker 7: I have.
• 39:18
  Speaker 5: I really like it. It's beautiful. Yeah, it's gorgeous over there.
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: There's not much to do. You can look at bison, yeah,
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: and then that's an hour and then and then you
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: can take the boat back. Yeah, I got you. These
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: are actual questions by actual.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Members of the mal Or Militia and.
• 39:39
  Speaker 8: First Cats in the Club.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: Ferg Dog writes it and says, this is I think
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: appropriate question concerning what's going on in some cities around
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: the country. He says, our riot's a good place to
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: meet attractive women. That's from ferg Dog.
• 39:52
  Speaker 8: Well, it's kind of hard to tell if they're attractive.
• 39:54
  Speaker 8: A lot of them are wearing gas masks or sunglasses
• 39:57
  Speaker 8: to make sure that their faces are protected a long wearing.
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  Speaker 1: Mask because they're committing criminal acts and they don't want
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: to get caught.
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  Speaker 8: Well, it's not legal to protest. It's legal to commit.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: That's right to break and do a yes, an apple store,
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: and that's not necessarily.
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  Speaker 8: The protesters, but you might be able to find someone
• 40:15
  Speaker 8: who would.
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  Speaker 5: I would argue it is. But there's also.
• 40:17
  Speaker 8: People who might have the same ideologies as you that
• 40:20
  Speaker 8: you could find at these protests. So go and support
• 40:23
  Speaker 8: your local.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: Protest or just pretend like you're into it fer Dog
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: and then you know good luck works for you.
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: JT.
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  Speaker 1: The Wingman writes in from Knoxville, says, when it comes
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: to the bedroom, so women prefer quantity or quality, I'm
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: asking for a friend.
• 40:40
  Speaker 8: We want both.
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  Speaker 5: I mean that's too much.
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  Speaker 8: No, that's like lebar Arrington says, I want to have
• 40:46
  Speaker 8: my cake and eat it too.
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah. So you want well, it's not.
• 40:51
  Speaker 8: I want quality, quantity, all.
• 40:54
  Speaker 5: Of the you want all of all of the ball.
• 40:57
  Speaker 8: Yes, and if you know, if you pick a a
• 41:00
  Speaker 8: nice lady you know, might be worth it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's good, all right.
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: Mike the Leprechaun writes and says, what would Lorena do if,
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: by accident, she hastily accepted a friend's request on Facebook
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: from someone she barely knows or likes.
• 41:18
  Speaker 8: Okay, so I actually did go, and I was going
• 41:19
  Speaker 8: to delete him, and then I saw how sad his
• 41:23
  Speaker 8: page was, and I was like, you know what, maybe
• 41:25
  Speaker 8: he needs more friends. So then I decided not to
• 41:27
  Speaker 8: delete him, all right.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: Hollering James, Hello, hollering James, what's up?
• 41:32
  Speaker 7: James?
• 41:34
  Speaker 6: Man, Lorena, what's up?
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: I'm kind of bummed out because I getting a rough
• 41:42
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah.
• 41:42
  Speaker 8: It's hard when you're lonely.
• 41:43
  Speaker 5: Huh, thank you, James.
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: Super Marcus Steve says, what is it with women liking
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: men wearing wedding rings? I never got approached by any
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: women until I got married. Just explain this, Lorena. Women
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: dudes with wedding rings?
• 41:58
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I would I would love to explain that, because
• 42:01
  Speaker 8: women when they see a man with a wedding ring on,
• 42:03
  Speaker 8: They're like, oh, not only can I not have this,
• 42:05
  Speaker 8: this must be a good man. And I love the
• 42:08
  Speaker 8: idea of a good man. Maybe this good man could
• 42:11
  Speaker 8: be my good man. But then you just turn that
• 42:13
  Speaker 8: good man into a bad man, and then the cycle
• 42:16
  Speaker 8: continues and you got a cheater on your hands.
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: Bad, bad, bad.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: I wish I'd known that when I was single back
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: in that I would have bought one of those wings
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: at a pawn shop or something like that.
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mellor
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  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Attention everyone,
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: and the password is password, you idiot, password the word
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: Game of the Stars. Here's Ben Meller.
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: Right to where we go. We have the Holy Roller
• 42:49
  Speaker 5: in Hawaii? And what time is it in Hawaii? Right now?
• 42:52
  Speaker 5: Holy Roller?
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  Speaker 9: Hello, we're gonna break twelve or three hours.
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  Speaker 2: Different bout eleven.
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  Speaker 9: Let's go baby win.
• 43:01
  Speaker 5: So it's almost midnight alright in Hawaii. Very exciting.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: Okay, you're gonna play with me and Sean is in
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: North Dakota teamed up with Lorraina. We have a list
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: of words one to ten one to ten, and please
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  Speaker 1: pick a number.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: I'll pick number one, number one?
• 43:23
  Speaker 5: All right? How about let's go with erase a ray
• 43:31
  Speaker 5: erase e r a s e erase queen.
• 43:39
  Speaker 8: Uh, all right, I'm gonna go with the.
• 43:45
  Speaker 5: Word is rash. The word is track? What what?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 8: No?
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  Speaker 5: How about eliminate? Gone? Alright, this is going very well
• 44:06
  Speaker 5: as I imagined it would. Back to Lorraina.
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  Speaker 8: I'm gonna go with backspace ben.
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  Speaker 7: Leak.
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  Speaker 5: Oh my god, you can't. How are you doing, dude?
• 44:22
  Speaker 5: I know you're drunk, but you can't. I would How
• 44:25
  Speaker 5: many points was that?
• 44:26
  Speaker 8: I just lost my point because my guy, well that
• 44:28
  Speaker 8: was my guy.
• 44:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that was neative seven.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you are up, Sean, pick a number one to ten.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: Please keep your mouth clean. I'll wash it out with
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: soap and water if you don't.
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  Speaker 5: Number eight.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: That's easy, easy?
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: Is that? Oh?
• 44:46
  Speaker 8: I go first? Oh gosh, restrictions.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: Sean held, Hell alright, holy roll, starvation, starvation start.
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  Speaker 9: That's the opposite of Okay, I was I was doing.
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  Speaker 5: That's right, I was doing the malle maneuver. Didn't work.
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  Speaker 8: Oh okay, I'll try the maneuver.
• 45:26
  Speaker 5: No, I already did. It didn't work.
• 45:28
  Speaker 8: Okay, So I'm gonna leave a blank spot and then
• 45:30
  Speaker 8: we're gonna go into the word.
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: Okay, are you ready Jesus, I'm Readycola what oh my god?
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: Wow?
• 45:42
  Speaker 5: Know exacts? Why you know you don't know how to
• 45:44
  Speaker 5: do it? I did? He already did. I did the mall.
• 45:48
  Speaker 5: This guy's so hammered. You know I can't do the malim.
• 45:51
  Speaker 5: I know he's drunk. The guy's drunk. Let's try famine famine.
• 46:01
  Speaker 5: I only use the word start fation.
• 46:06
  Speaker 8: I mean, you know what, you have a new herd.
• 46:08
  Speaker 7: No.
• 46:09
  Speaker 5: No, the game is no.
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: The word is The word is come on, I mean,
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: come on, you don't have another beer?
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: Your word?
• 46:17
  Speaker 5: The word is no. You didn't win. Everyone's a loser.
• 46:19
  Speaker 5: Everyone had to hear that. We're all losers.