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Hour 3 - Schedule Change · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Holy cow, it's our name. Birth three, our three talking
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Speaker 1: Bay's ball. Well here in our number three. What is
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Speaker 1: Rob Manford looking to accomplish? He's talked about his plans
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Speaker 1: to move the World Baseball Classic to the month of
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Speaker 1: July and wrap it around the All Star Game. Also
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Speaker 1: in the business of sports, with his business partners skipping
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Speaker 1: the Las Vegas NBA expansion opportunity. Does this end Lebron
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Speaker 1: James dreams of owning a team? We'll talk about that. Also,
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Speaker 1: the Rams have backed out of the aj Brown trade
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Speaker 1: talks with the Eagles over medicals allegedly. How does that
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Speaker 1: strike you? We'll talk about that as well. We have
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Speaker 1: asked Ben a lot going on. We'll get to all
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Speaker 1: of that, and we will get to it right now
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Speaker 1: on this podcast. Here we go. Time for a schedule
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Speaker 1: change that you who did not ask for, but it's
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Speaker 1: gonna apparently happen, whether you want it to happen or not.
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Speaker 1: And with that taking care of the most important part
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Speaker 1: in the broadcast and we have a follow up follow
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Speaker 1: up to the base Ball Talking Bay's Ball, the World
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Speaker 1: Baseball Classic Latest developments. After Team USA was embarrassed, humiliated
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Speaker 1: and shamed, the walk of shame off the field losing
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Speaker 1: to the team from Venezuela as the World Baseball Classic,
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Speaker 1: it's a final. Now it is a final. And so
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Speaker 1: after Venezuela beat the USA in the title game in Miami,
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Speaker 1: some comments made by Commissioner Rob Manford, better known by
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Speaker 1: his nickname Manfraud. So Rob Manford addressing what's next, what's
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Speaker 1: next baseball? This World Baseball Classic, they would say an
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Speaker 1: all time high. I was a skeptic. I had very
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Speaker 1: low expectations. I enjoyed it because of my low expectations.
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Speaker 1: It is an imperfect event. It will always be an
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Speaker 1: imperfect event because of the fact that there are guard
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Speaker 1: rails and rules and all that. Anyway, get to the point.
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Speaker 1: So Rob Manford implied, if you didn't hear about this,
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Speaker 1: perhaps not. Manford implied that Major League Baseball is looking
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Speaker 1: to move the World Baseball Classic to the middle of
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Speaker 1: the season. This has been something that's been talked about.
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Speaker 1: And you know, you adrenaline junkies, Oh this is great.
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Speaker 1: Oh Man played in the middle of the summer on
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Speaker 1: one hundred and ten degrees, So I don't play in
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Speaker 1: the middle of the season instead of spring training in
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Speaker 1: the future. Now, one popular theory by popular people is
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Speaker 1: that Major League Baseball would play the early games, the
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Speaker 1: early games of the World Baseball Classic pool in March,
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Speaker 1: the games nobody really wants to watch, the finn the Herd,
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Speaker 1: and then the quarterfinals, the semi finals, and the finals
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Speaker 1: would be played at whatever the venue is for the
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Speaker 1: All Star Game. This would require baseball to have a
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Speaker 1: elongated All Star break, and it's a good jumping off
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Speaker 1: with so let us discuss as we bandy this about.
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Speaker 1: So the question what is Rob Manford looking to accomplish
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Speaker 1: for Major League Baseball by moving the World Baseball Classic
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Speaker 1: to sometime in July. So my views on this, I've
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Speaker 1: got Walgreens Salem and Bubba Gump Shrimp Company, and we
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Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together and we are
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Speaker 1: going to run like clockwork. Like clockwork, We're gonna do it.
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Speaker 1: We are now, first of all, to answer the question,
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Speaker 1: what is Rob Manford doing moving the World Baseball Classic
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Speaker 1: to July. This is the plan. Official, it's a plan.
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what he's doing. He's bowling, not baseball.
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Speaker 1: He's bowling this old game show, bowling for dollars straight
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Speaker 1: cash homie, as the great Randy Moss would say, with
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Speaker 1: a commissioner's tie on, and he wants to go down
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Speaker 1: to Walgreens and get a booster, a booster shot of money, money, money,
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Speaker 1: get that TV money. The greatest week of Baseball. They
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Speaker 1: say they're gonna have this all map down. I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: have the Futures Game, the Home Run Derby, the All
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Speaker 1: Star Game, and all of these wonderful World Baseball Classic
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Speaker 1: championship games right there in the month of July. And
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Speaker 1: to me, it sounds like a shark tank like elevator pitch.
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Speaker 1: You've got one minute to make your pitch on why
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Speaker 1: this would work, and to that after hearing the pitch
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Speaker 1: by Major League Baseball, I would like to spell something out.
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Speaker 1: Can I get an S? I'll play Wheel of Fortune?
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Speaker 1: Can I get an S, a T, and an O
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Speaker 1: and a P. Yeah, that's a stop stop stop stop,
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Speaker 1: stop stop stop. The month of March works. As we
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Speaker 1: have pointed out in previous episodes of this show. It
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Speaker 1: is the Bermuda Triangle of the sporting calendar. It's the
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Speaker 1: slow zone. Slow for the cone zone. It's the slow zone.
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Speaker 1: You got the super Bowl ends in mid fiber, okay,
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Speaker 1: don You've got the NFL Free agency, the build up
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Speaker 1: to that reaching a crescendo boom okay. Good. So that
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Speaker 1: that's fine, and then after that we need some stabilizers,
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Speaker 1: and that would be this before today, later today, March Madness,
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Speaker 1: the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, which is such a great event.
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Speaker 1: It's a great event where the first two days of
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Speaker 1: the event are wonderful and then it's kind of like,
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Speaker 1: I've done this rant. I'll probably do it at some
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Speaker 1: point over the weekend, either on the podcast or maybe
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Speaker 1: I'll do it tomorrow the NCAA tournament, where it becomes
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Speaker 1: less interesting the further it goes, because once your bracket
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Speaker 1: is busted, you don't really care that much. It's just
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Speaker 1: like the biggest thing. It's I used to pay attention
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Speaker 1: more than NASCAR. Bugget and bugget and bugget and bugget
9:23
Speaker 1: and buggeting, and back in the day with NASCAR, it's
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Speaker 1: like the Daytona five hundred was huge, and then you'd
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Speaker 1: have a bunch of races which people didn't really care about,
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Speaker 1: and then it was kind of like you started with
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Speaker 1: the main event, and the basketball tournament's the same thing.
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Speaker 1: But this is about baseball, so people are this time
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Speaker 1: of the year, they're thirsty, and the World Baseball Classic
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Speaker 1: was a nice jug of gatorade. If you move it
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Speaker 1: to July, and I said, well, there's not much going
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Speaker 1: on in July in the sports calendar. It's kind of
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Speaker 1: a June July. The NBA Finals are in June. Training
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Speaker 1: camp in the NFL starts in July. It's not really
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Speaker 1: that big. Who cares about training camp, you know that
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Speaker 1: kind of people go on vacation. The weather's good, you know,
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Speaker 1: to sit around and watch a bunch of that nonsense
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Speaker 1: in the World Baseball Classic. So the point is this,
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Speaker 1: I said stop, and I'll say it again. This is
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Speaker 1: how good things die. This is how things human beings are,
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Speaker 1: how things get after up. I'll give you like America
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Speaker 1: formed with low taxation, right the Wan, less in taxes
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Speaker 1: and all that, and give it a couple hundred years,
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Speaker 1: for two hundred and fifty years, and it might as
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Speaker 1: well have not moved here from England, just had the
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Speaker 1: same taxes and all that. It's it's insane, but it
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Speaker 1: started with good intentions, the World Baseball Classic good intentions,
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Speaker 1: and now it's at the stage where it's like, how
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Speaker 1: do we make this thing better? And it's like, well, no,
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Speaker 1: it's how do good things die? Not that this is
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Speaker 1: I'm not a huge fan of the World Baseball Classic,
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Speaker 1: but it's the make it better crowd, the make it
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Speaker 1: better crowd. It's never good enough. They show up with
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Speaker 1: the toolbox which is empty. Clue. They start futzing around,
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Speaker 1: they start tinkering and poking, and it's a whole thing.
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Speaker 1: And this is turning out to be a c NBC
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Speaker 1: docu show. American greed, that kind of energy, and I
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Speaker 1: guess you're gonna sell the TV package, whether it's the
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Speaker 1: Fox or NBC or god only knows who, Netflix, Amazon,
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Speaker 1: some streaming service I've never heard of, which is most
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Speaker 1: of them. And that's it. But what you should really
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Speaker 1: be working on, rather than move the World Baseball Classic
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Speaker 1: to July, you should find out a way to stop
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Speaker 1: treating the pictures like nine year olds in Little League. Now, Johnny,
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Speaker 1: you've hit your seventy pitch count. Time for some orange slices, Johnny,
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Speaker 1: but you're pitching a no hitter. It doesn't matters, little Johnny.
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Speaker 1: Your arm might fall off if you throw seventy one pitchers,
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Speaker 1: So you've got to get out of there again. It's
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Speaker 1: the voodoo medicine and all that. I know, a lot
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Speaker 1: of the older generations either dead or leaving us. The
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Speaker 1: old Pitchers. One of my favorite episodes of the podcast
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Speaker 1: I do on the weekends. I don't usually have guests
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Speaker 1: on there because it's all about me. I learned that
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Speaker 1: from Tom Looney, Tommy John, not the clothing Company, the pitcher,
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Speaker 1: Tommy John and Tommy John. He had a lot to
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Speaker 1: say that day. He ranted, and one of the things
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Speaker 1: that we talked about, I think it was on the
12:24
Speaker 1: podcast might have been off the podcast, off the air,
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Speaker 1: because we talked off the air as well. But he's
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Speaker 1: talking about how you're supposed to throw more, not less,
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Speaker 1: and you know all the old guys, and there were injuries.
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Speaker 1: It's always been injuries in baseball, but it's like there's
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Speaker 1: more now than ever and everyone's got a theory on
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Speaker 1: that and it's just annoying. And the pitch limit thing,
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Speaker 1: it's like this, he said, well, this is a hundred
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Speaker 1: pitches is the limit in baseball, but you own the
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Speaker 1: lead up. It's seventy pitches of ridiculous. You want this
12:52
Speaker 1: thing to really matter, right, If you want it to
12:55
Speaker 1: really matter, take the training wheels off. Otherwise it's I
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Speaker 1: get it. It's a register wrap yourself in whatever flag
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Speaker 1: you want to wrap yourself in, and we can sell that.
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Speaker 1: And it was so over the top the pageantry before
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Speaker 1: the World Baseball Classic final game with Team USA coming
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Speaker 1: in in their little hockey jerseys and then see this
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Speaker 1: is the slippery slope because we didn't really mention this yesterday.
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Speaker 1: I'd seen it and I said, well, I didn't want
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Speaker 1: to go down that road. But this became a big
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Speaker 1: talking point where the guys from Venezuela. It was like
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Speaker 1: the opera. They were singing the Venezuela national anthem, and
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Speaker 1: there were a couple guys on Team USA that were
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Speaker 1: mumbling the national anthem, and this became a point of
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Speaker 1: contention for some people. And it's, well, the guys in
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Speaker 1: the US here the national anthem all the time. And
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Speaker 1: I still remember, I've been doing this so long. Before
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Speaker 1: nine to eleven, twenty five years ago or whatever it was,
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Speaker 1: there was a push to get rid of the national
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Speaker 1: anthem before games, and then everyone became very patriotic after
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Speaker 1: nine to eleven, and it it's like, no, we can't
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Speaker 1: do that. There were a bunch of NBA players that
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Speaker 1: were running to the locker room to hide because they
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Speaker 1: didn't want to be out there during the national anthema
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Speaker 1: and because they hated America and all that. So anyway,
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Speaker 1: all right, moving on, So secondly, speaking of the NBA,
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Speaker 1: we have a quote from Lebron James. Lebron James is
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Speaker 1: gonna give you the money quote here from Lebron. But
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Speaker 1: first to the business of basketball. So Lebron James partners
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Speaker 1: at the Finnway Sports Group have decided they're out. They
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Speaker 1: will not be pursuing ownership of the expansion franchise in
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Speaker 1: Las Vegas. They will not be bidding on it. So
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Speaker 1: Lebron was asked in Houston after the Laker Rockets game.
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Speaker 1: Lebron was asked if he's still interested in NBA ownership.
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Speaker 1: This is something Lebron had said was his dream. James
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Speaker 1: said he is no longer interested. He said three words,
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Speaker 1: not at all close quote So Lebron James late on
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Speaker 1: Wednesday night asked if he was still interested in NBA
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Speaker 1: ownership after saying for years that was his dream. He
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Speaker 1: says he is no longer interested, not at all all right.
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Speaker 1: The first question I have is do you believe Lebron?
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Speaker 1: Do you? I don't. I don't believe Labron. I don't
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Speaker 1: believe that he's no longer interested in owning an NBA
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Speaker 1: team at I don't think that's true at all. The
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Speaker 1: other question I have with the business partners skipping the
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Speaker 1: Vegas NBA expansion again, I don't believe Lebron when he
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Speaker 1: says he's not interested. So does that end Lebron's possibility
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Speaker 1: of running an NBA team and getting an ownership stake
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Speaker 1: and running an NBA team? So over, please, this is Lebron,
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Speaker 1: Lebron if he wants, if he truly wants this, and
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Speaker 1: again he said, I'm not interested. I don't believe him,
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Speaker 1: you know, just like when Lebron was asked about The Godfather,
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Speaker 1: his favorite scene the Godfather and he couldn't name it.
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Speaker 1: Now everyone's you know, I've I haven't seen The Godfather
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Speaker 1: more than maybe two times in my life, and I can.
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Speaker 1: I can name three scenes from the Godfather, many of
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Speaker 1: them I quote. It's part of the culture. Lebron's like, oh,
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Speaker 1: I couldn't do it. And all the books Lebron was
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Speaker 1: pretending to read, so it's hard to take him seriously.
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Speaker 1: But he's not running a lemonade stand in Sheboygan. All
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Speaker 1: Lebron needs to do is attend one of those flying conferences,
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Speaker 1: the Sugar Daddy Convention. Lebron is worth one point three billion.
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Speaker 1: The Vegas expansion tab is what seven billion, ten billions,
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Speaker 1: something along those lines. That's not a gap, that's the
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Speaker 1: Grand Canyon and a toll booth out in front of
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Speaker 1: the Grand Canyon. The players are rich. Lebron's richer than most,
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Speaker 1: if not all, the owners are wealthy. Different zip codes
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Speaker 1: different zip codes, so what does he do. My advice
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Speaker 1: to Lebron is to go down to Salem, Salem, mass
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Speaker 1: right there and mix up a little billionaire, which is Brew.
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Speaker 1: You go in there, you call up the hedge fund vampires,
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Speaker 1: the tech bros, the yacht collectors, the jocksniffing aristocrats, the
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Speaker 1: robber barons, and then you front it. You be the
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Speaker 1: front guy, right, you be the front guy. You're not
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Speaker 1: gonna be able to forward the NBA team. Lebron could
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Speaker 1: be the velvet rope guy, the VIP host, the Walmart
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Speaker 1: greedor he can be that guy. Get those rich guys
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Speaker 1: in the room, shake hands, kiss rings. Boom goes Lebron,
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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden he's got a minority stake
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Speaker 1: in some power and he can prove that he's somehow
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Speaker 1: as bad as Michael Jordan at running a basketball team.
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Speaker 1: All right, final thought, quickly to the NFL. We are
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Speaker 1: told the Rams are out, The Rams are no longer
17:48
Speaker 1: in the running for Eagles wide receiver AJ Brown. This
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Speaker 1: would be the obligatory mal monologue about AJ Brown. The
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Speaker 1: story says Los Angeles got scared all off by some
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Speaker 1: of the preliminary medical reviews that took place they decided
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Speaker 1: too much of an investment for a player at this
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Speaker 1: age general wear and tear. We're not gonna do it,
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Speaker 1: that was the report. So it's a sticky situation, they said,
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Speaker 1: no question. Rams reportedly backing out of aj Brown trade
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Speaker 1: talks with the Eagles over the medicals. How does this
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Speaker 1: strike you? All right? So this is the way I
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Speaker 1: will approach this. I'm skeptical if this is one hundred
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Speaker 1: percent true. That said, this is the grown up way
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Speaker 1: to do it, all right, that's the grown up way
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Speaker 1: to do it. You look at the menu outside the
18:41
Speaker 1: Bubba Gump Shrimp Company before you order, and you get
18:45
Speaker 1: a table and you realize, well, wait a minute, I
18:47
Speaker 1: have a shellfish allergy. So it would not be in
18:50
Speaker 1: my best interest to go into the Bubba Gump Shrimp
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Speaker 1: Company because I don't want to get hives. I don't
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Speaker 1: want to get a stuff. He knows I don't need that.
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Speaker 1: So for the RAM, if this is accurate, and again
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Speaker 1: most of this stuff, I don't think it's true, but
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Speaker 1: this is saying this is I was okay, good, that's
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Speaker 1: the way you do it. Unlike Baltimore, which also had
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Speaker 1: the medical charts for MaTx, Crosby. They bought the car,
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Speaker 1: drove it off the lot, knowing the carfax, and tried
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Speaker 1: to return it with the lemon law. Yeah, and they
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Speaker 1: did return it. Bush League, bush League, Baltimore Bush League.
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Speaker 1: Now AJ Brown tremendous player. I would want him on
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Speaker 1: my team. Now, you just come with a lot of baggage.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of turbulence. I'll sit down and read
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Speaker 1: a book on the bench. Middle seat. He's like a
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Speaker 1: middle seat guy. And you got the sumo wrestler on
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Speaker 1: one side, if you know what I mean, and a
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Speaker 1: screaming toddler on the other who's throwing spaghettio's all over
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Speaker 1: the plane. Sounds like fun. Sounds like fun. So but
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Speaker 1: after doing a cost benefit of analysis that the Rams
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Speaker 1: said no. And that's it. And for now we'll see
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Speaker 1: if they revisit this. And until AJ Brown is traded,
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Speaker 1: he's still in play. It is the Ben Mahlord Show.
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Speaker 1: didn't mention we have asked mo we got payf the
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Speaker 1: Riddle of the day though right now here is the
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Speaker 1: Riddle of the Day. At the Christie's Jimmer say, memorabilia
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Speaker 1: auction the Late Colts owner all of his crap that
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Speaker 1: he collected in his life. You don't take anything with you,
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Speaker 1: so it was all sold at auction. The kids don't
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Speaker 1: want any of it, apparently, And they sold a blank
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Speaker 1: that the KGB used to record conversations. Jim Rsey happened
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Speaker 1: to own some stuff from the KGB and they sold
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Speaker 1: this at auction. So that is the question. What is
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Speaker 1: the answer that? See? Does anyone anyone know the answer?
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Speaker 1: Alf the alien opineer went with a shoe phone. King
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Speaker 1: Roy says, a can of billy beer is the a
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Speaker 1: eke and Roseville, Minnesota got it right. Bad job by him.
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Speaker 1: Nick just went within Carnacione used to play that drop
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Speaker 1: a lot and truck stop Fungus says, to two soup
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Speaker 1: cans attached to a string is the answer? A horse
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Speaker 1: horseshoe brooch from JT. The Wingman and Severville, Tennessee. Who
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Speaker 1: else do we have? Let's see page down? Uh, what
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Speaker 1: is vike in from the Baltimore Free Food account? Poker
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Speaker 1: chips guess by Philler up? Phil Elmo after Dark that's
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Speaker 1: Elmo after Dark says it was a plastic big bird
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Speaker 1: toy tim or Timmy from Busco, Indiana says they sold
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Speaker 1: a talking parrot. A Grandma phone from Mike the Leprechaun.
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Speaker 1: That's his answer. Who else do we have? Let's see
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Speaker 1: page down that on the air. Let's see what else
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Speaker 1: do we have? We'll click refresh on this thing. Far
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Speaker 1: out Dave in Ohio says a bing buckshot BlackBerry boomerang,
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Speaker 1: backstreet bubbling booby bong. That's from far out there. Just
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Speaker 1: Josh and Cincinnati says a Sony Walkman tape recorder is
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Speaker 1: the answer. Mallard prop guy going with fishing reels. It's
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Speaker 1: his answer. Who else do we have? To see page down?
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Speaker 1: I saw man went with the electric shoe phone. That
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Speaker 1: was his answer. A box of cherry nuggets from Donkey
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Speaker 1: Sausage that looks like Ai slopped to me, ball of
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Speaker 1: borshe from Ferg Dog, jukebox from Late Night drug tester,
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Speaker 1: micro bikini phone from Stevie meat Balls, A lipstick tube
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Speaker 1: from Keith Osho text to what say you, Lorrena?
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Speaker 4: I gotta go with a telegraph machine.
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Speaker 1: All right, Let's see if you're right at the Christie's,
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Speaker 1: Jim irsay. Memorabilia auction. The former Colts owner they sold.
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Speaker 1: He's dead now, otherwise he's still on the team. But
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Speaker 1: they sold a blank that was used by the KGBT
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Speaker 1: record conversation. That would be a fake pack of Marlborough cigarettes.
25:56
Speaker 1: Here you go. So this so Darren Ravel, who's like
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Speaker 1: a big nerd guy, business guy and a sports business
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Speaker 1: memorabilia guy, and he bought the thing and the cigarette
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Speaker 1: would be moved in a certain way and then you
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Speaker 1: could record conversations. Now, it is interesting to note that
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Speaker 1: ers did not buy this from directly the Russians. Jim
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Speaker 1: Ursay bought this. There was a KGB museum in New
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Speaker 1: York that went out of business during the pandemic, and
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Speaker 1: so all the stuff ended up going to auction, and
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Speaker 1: Ersay bought that at auction. That is so cool.
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Speaker 4: It would be kind of neat, right, that's like some
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Speaker 4: serious like no one would even know you're recording them.
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Speaker 1: One of the greatest I'm a big documentary guy. I
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Speaker 1: forget the name of it. There was a documentary about
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Speaker 1: this is a few years ago. These these guys that
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Speaker 1: bought when they when Russia fell, obviously it's risen back up,
26:57
Speaker 1: but when it fell years ago, these guys bought like
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Speaker 1: a nuclear submarine on the black market, like a literally
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Speaker 1: nuclear submarine. Was wild.
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Speaker 4: Oh that's good to have out there.
27:08
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, just but the guys, the guy that bought
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Speaker 1: it was this great character and the way he told
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Speaker 1: the story it was was awesome. I have to look
27:16
Speaker 1: the name of that. I don't remember the name. Try
27:18
Speaker 1: to remember it by the time I get to the
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Speaker 1: podcast on Friday. Let's go to the phones and we'll
27:22
Speaker 1: say hello to Eny Meenie miney Moe. Let's say hello
27:25
Speaker 1: to Anthony in Louisiana because he's family. Hello, Anthony, welcome,
27:30
Speaker 1: Hey man, how you doing well? Thanks for asking, Anthony.
27:34
Speaker 1: I appreciate that things are, things are moving along, things are,
27:40
Speaker 1: things are going pretty good. Thanks for asking, Anthony. How
27:42
Speaker 1: are you doing, Anthony?
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Speaker 2: Pretty good?
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Speaker 5: Hey the right, Hi Anthony, how you doing it?
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Speaker 2: How you doing it?
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Speaker 1: It's a good day.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I love you.
27:54
Speaker 1: Wow. Well look at that Lorena. My real cousins don't
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Speaker 1: even say they love it. Know this is this is legit.
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Speaker 1: And again, Anthony, if Lorena visits you in Louisiana, then
28:05
Speaker 1: you'll you'll take her to is it apple Bee's. You're
28:07
Speaker 1: gonna take her to where are you gonna take her to?
28:09
Speaker 1: No outback?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, think you take me? Yeah, I think you
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Speaker 2: take me back?
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Speaker 5: He'll come.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I get to drive, that's that's great. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: you can drive. It's a polite thing to do.
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Speaker 2: Loraina, come on, yeah, it's good.
28:25
Speaker 6: You got to go to the humor, so I've been told.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well yeah all right, and and Lorena, all you
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Speaker 1: have to do is go to Greenwood, Louisiana, and then
28:36
Speaker 1: you're you're good.
28:37
Speaker 4: To go, right, just a hop skipping a jump away.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well you were in Now are you up? Anthony?
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Speaker 1: Are you offended because Lorena was down in New Orleans?
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Speaker 1: Was it last year you went to New Orleans? I
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Speaker 1: think it was, yeah, something like that year and a half. Yeah,
28:51
Speaker 1: a year and a half ago. Are you upset that
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Speaker 1: she didn't come visit you, Antony? Yeah, I'm not saying
28:56
Speaker 1: I feel love. Okay, all right.
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Speaker 4: See how unconditional that is?
29:01
Speaker 1: Yeah, well your family and cousins, uh, because you get
29:10
Speaker 1: to the humor Okay, Ben gave it to me. Yeah no,
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Speaker 1: I did not, Thank you, Anthony. I appreciate that's turn
29:18
Speaker 1: this into a dating thing. Let's go to I don't
29:23
Speaker 1: know all right, let's go to SpongeBob, the caller of
29:30
Speaker 1: the year in terms of rookie callers last year. Will
29:34
Speaker 1: he suffer a sophomore slump? Hello, SpongeBob.
29:39
Speaker 5: Well, good morning Ben, Good morning Justin super and good
29:43
Speaker 5: morning well Rena. I love you more so, man, I
29:52
Speaker 5: heard you talking about that submarine thing.
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Speaker 2: I have a question.
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Speaker 5: Okay, where they yellow.
30:02
Speaker 2: Get it?
30:02
Speaker 1: Yeah?
30:02
Speaker 5: Well, sun Marine. That's one of my favorite songs of
30:04
Speaker 5: all time by Ringo Star and the time Mariah was bold. Ah,
30:10
Speaker 5: never mind, you were talking about the World Baseball Classic.
30:14
Speaker 5: I'm actually going to a baseball game on Saturday. I'm yes,
30:19
Speaker 5: I'm going to go see the Bikini Bottle Fans versus
30:22
Speaker 5: the rock Bottom Ramblers.
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Speaker 1: Why that sounds like a great game. I hope you
30:26
Speaker 1: enjoy yourself. That's awesome.
30:28
Speaker 5: Well, what I'll do is I'll try to find you
30:30
Speaker 5: a hack from both teams. I know you have a
30:33
Speaker 5: very large premium.
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Speaker 1: That is right. I have size that's right, size eight, yes, exactly,
30:39
Speaker 1: very big head. Yes, that's correct.
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Speaker 5: Is it eight and three eighths or is it just
30:43
Speaker 5: a size eight?
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Speaker 1: No? No, just a size eight just to size eight.
30:46
Speaker 1: Let's not get crazy. You're a SpongeBob.
30:48
Speaker 5: Please, that's sorry. But what I'll do is I'll try
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Speaker 5: to find you a hack and I'll send it to you.
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Speaker 1: Oh well, thank you SpongeBob, very kind. You don't have
30:56
Speaker 1: to do that, but I appreciate that. I love having
30:58
Speaker 1: my hat collection. Ever since I started losing my hair,
31:01
Speaker 1: I started wearing hats. All right, thank you SpongeBob.
31:04
Speaker 5: All right, gentlemen, genuine ladies.
31:07
Speaker 2: I love you.
31:10
Speaker 1: All right now Anthony is gonna call back. All upset now, Femi.
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Speaker 1: I wanted to mention, so I mentioned the other day, Femi,
31:17
Speaker 1: if you want a Benny Award, if you're one of
31:19
Speaker 1: the people honored to win a Beny Award, Femi has
31:23
Speaker 1: a like a digital certificate thing that he's willing to
31:27
Speaker 1: send out to you for free. Hez a big fan
31:29
Speaker 1: of the show. He's the top uber each driver in Minnesota.
31:32
Speaker 1: So he he sent me an email. I think I'm
31:35
Speaker 1: allowed to give this out. He sent it to me.
31:37
Speaker 1: He said you can give it. He said they can
31:39
Speaker 1: have they can email me. So I'm going to attempt
31:42
Speaker 1: to give this out and it's I don't think this
31:44
Speaker 1: will cause a problem, because he said he emailed me saying, hey,
31:47
Speaker 1: give this out. So it's it's Femmi Vikings at yahoo
31:51
Speaker 1: dot com. If you're one of the Benny Award winners
31:53
Speaker 1: and you want to get that digital certificate, just email
31:56
Speaker 1: Femmi f E. M I Vikings at yahoo dot com.
32:01
Speaker 1: He's a super fan of the show. I met Femi
32:04
Speaker 1: when we were in Minnesota at the mallor meet and
32:06
Speaker 1: greet that we did there a couple of years back,
32:09
Speaker 1: and it was great to meet him. He made some
32:10
Speaker 1: bumper stickers like that was awesome. And the greatest photo
32:14
Speaker 1: I've ever had from a listener was when Femi went
32:17
Speaker 1: back to his home country and all the kids in
32:20
Speaker 1: town were wearing pajamas and they all sat around a
32:25
Speaker 1: poster of me. It was so great. It's my favorite
32:30
Speaker 1: photo that I've had over show. It sounds a little cultish, Ben, No, No,
32:35
Speaker 1: it's awesome. I think I showed it to you. Didn't
32:37
Speaker 1: I show it to you? I think it did. Maybe not.
32:39
Speaker 1: It might have been before you were working on the show.
32:40
Speaker 1: It probably was before you're working on the show. But
32:43
Speaker 1: I'll see how I can find it. Pretty good, pretty
32:45
Speaker 1: good photo. All right, let's let's see you know what
32:49
Speaker 1: why I gotta leave some time for ask Ben. It
32:51
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32:55
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Speaker 6: Well, Ben, We're gonna start off with a question for you,
34:45
Speaker 6: and I know you've you've explained this a few times recently,
34:48
Speaker 6: but monkey Biz Doug, Hi, Doug, He says, as a
34:52
Speaker 6: fairly new listener, please explain the Bill Miller bit. I'm
34:55
Speaker 6: sure there's a backstory.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So years ago, the company updated the website
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Speaker 1: and they sent out a mass email. They were very
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Speaker 1: proud of it. They spent a lot of money to
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Speaker 1: update the company website. And this is in the early
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Speaker 1: days of Fox Sports Radio. So I was very excited.
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Speaker 1: I was like, wow, this is great and I'm very
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35:15
Speaker 1: us all to check out the website and wanted us
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Speaker 1: all the right back, great feedback, how great the website was,
35:20
Speaker 1: And so I clicked on there and it was really beautiful.
35:22
Speaker 1: It was really whoever designed it a hell of a job.
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Speaker 1: And then of course I wanted to find myself on
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Speaker 1: the website because I'm a talk show so I'm an
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Speaker 1: eagle inning. So I clicked on the link too. I
35:32
Speaker 1: was doing a weekend show at the time, and I
35:33
Speaker 1: clicked on the link and there was a photo of
35:37
Speaker 1: Tom Looney. I was doing a show with Looney called
35:40
Speaker 1: The Blitz, very popular show. They canceled it though, so
35:42
Speaker 1: I did show with Looney. He was on one side
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Speaker 1: and then I was on the other and it said
35:46
Speaker 1: Tom Looney and then on my side it said Bill Miller.
35:51
Speaker 1: So I yeah, yeah. So I contacted the coming. I said, well,
35:55
Speaker 1: you know, you screwed my name up, and they said,
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Speaker 1: to I apologize, We're going to fix that. We're gonna
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Speaker 1: to the to the website and then it was it
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Speaker 1: was Ben Miller. So that's but then I started using
36:15
Speaker 1: that when the company whacked Eddie in November of twenty
36:19
Speaker 1: twenty four, because Eddie used to do the ins and outs,
36:21
Speaker 1: and so just as a tribute, that's what I started doing.
36:25
Speaker 1: And I don't think I'm gonna do it forever. We'll
36:27
Speaker 1: see when we might change it up, but we'll do
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Speaker 1: it for a little long while longer. What's next? Let's
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Speaker 1: ask Ben your questions are answers?
36:32
Speaker 6: All right, we have a good one. Hear from Alf
36:34
Speaker 6: the alien opiner. He wants to know for the crew,
36:37
Speaker 6: do you have a fast food napkin stash in your car?
36:40
Speaker 6: If so, what restaurant to the majority of them.
36:42
Speaker 1: From Mostly from raising canes. And that's where I don't
36:47
Speaker 1: eat a lot of fast food anymore, so mostly raising canes.
36:50
Speaker 1: That's pretty much all. I'm the only fast food I'm
36:52
Speaker 1: eating regularly, maybe once once a month, sometimes more, sometimes more.
36:57
Speaker 1: But yeah, all raised and those are not the only
37:01
Speaker 1: I would like to rip raisin canes. They have the
37:04
Speaker 1: worst napkin dispensers of any restaurant I've ever been to.
37:09
Speaker 1: Like the things get the napkins get jammed, you can't
37:12
Speaker 1: get enough out. It sucks. They rip. Can they please
37:17
Speaker 1: change that? What about you, Loraina? Oh, Lorrain is probably
37:19
Speaker 1: oh my god, you probably got stop it.
37:21
Speaker 4: No, I don't keep the napkins in my car, but
37:23
Speaker 4: I do right now. I went to wingstop last time
37:26
Speaker 4: I was in Vegas, and I took the whole role
37:29
Speaker 4: of napkins.
37:30
Speaker 1: That's not polite, that's not you know, that's not good.
37:32
Speaker 4: They didn't give me any so I was like, Oh,
37:34
Speaker 4: I need these.
37:35
Speaker 1: Can anyone explain I walked in the old studio the
37:37
Speaker 1: other day and there was a roll of toilet paper
37:40
Speaker 1: in there. Can anyone explain that to me?
37:41
Speaker 6: Yes, I can explain that to you. Uh, we don't
37:44
Speaker 6: have tissues anywhere at this company, and I think sometimes
37:49
Speaker 6: people are tired of blowing their nose in napkins.
37:52
Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, that's my assumption. I have no idea.
37:56
Speaker 1: But how much money do you think the company saves
37:58
Speaker 1: by by not buying tissue? Like, who at the corporate
38:09
Speaker 1: level says, well, let's save some money here, no tissue.
38:14
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's great. I love it, it's so good,
38:17
Speaker 1: all right? What about your cool?
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Speaker 6: Yes, all of my car napkins are from Western Bagel.
38:22
Speaker 1: Oh gosh. Every morning on the way home.
38:25
Speaker 6: Yep, and because and that's the only thing that I
38:27
Speaker 6: eat in my car. Everything else I'm I'm taking home
38:30
Speaker 6: and eating right.
38:32
Speaker 1: Very good. What's next? Where are we? Abby? Here? Where
38:34
Speaker 1: we got all? Right?
38:34
Speaker 6: JT the Wingman. He wants to know what is your
38:38
Speaker 6: favorite mountain? He says he is a fan. He is
38:41
Speaker 6: a fan of Mount Leconte in the Smoky Mountains.
38:44
Speaker 1: There's a there's a joke there, but no, Well, I
38:48
Speaker 1: lived in la It's not a big mountain or anything
38:50
Speaker 1: like that. There was a mountain kind of there was
38:53
Speaker 1: a little lake. It was in East l a kind
38:56
Speaker 1: of Lincoln Heights above Lincoln Heights, the avenues. I used
38:58
Speaker 1: to walk up there. And not a real mind like
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Speaker 1: Mount Kilimanjaro or something like that, or Mount Rainier in
39:03
Speaker 1: Seattle beautiful, but that that was the one I used
39:06
Speaker 1: to walk up to. It was pretty cool. What about you, Lorena?
39:09
Speaker 4: Probably the mountain in my hometown. It's right on the
39:12
Speaker 4: side of the freeway and every year the senior class
39:16
Speaker 4: goes up and puts like the year on it. So
39:18
Speaker 4: it's a really cool mountain that kind of means something,
39:20
Speaker 4: you know. Climate.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, what about you, Coop, I'm gonna have to go
39:25
Speaker 6: with probably Mount Fuji.
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Speaker 1: Oh, because you were in Japan. Yeah, it's pretty cool
39:30
Speaker 1: to flex. That's a flex by Cooper. What's the next? Quicklie?
39:35
Speaker 6: All right, let me see here. Ferg Dog wants to know.
39:39
Speaker 6: Do you ever think we'll see a that's a sports question?
39:42
Speaker 1: Fer Dog? Why you just should we take a Benny
39:45
Speaker 1: Award away from you dog asking a sports question. You
39:48
Speaker 1: can't ask a sports question on a sports show.