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Hour 3 - Tuckered Out · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: It is a marvel to behold. It is our number
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Speaker 1: three talk and Bay's ball. My goodness me. So the
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Speaker 1: Dodgers won again. They win most of the time. They
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Speaker 1: beat up the Pirates. However, one of the big additions
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Speaker 1: this offseason for the Dodgers has been terrible sucking at
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Speaker 1: a time he cannot suck. So why would Dave Roberts
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Speaker 1: avoid calling Kyle Tucker a Dodger disappointment even though that's
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Speaker 1: exactly what he is? Also in Arizona, does manager Tory
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Speaker 1: Lavello's vote of confidence put this Katel Marte drama to
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Speaker 1: rest in the Valley of the sun as he apparently
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Speaker 1: decided he didn't want to play against Joeotani because Otani
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Speaker 1: was too good? And where does the in the NFL?
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Speaker 1: What does the Joe Burrow restructured Bengals contract land with you?
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Speaker 1: We'll wrap all of that around. We're gonna walk on
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Speaker 1: sunshine right now here. It is our number three, chuckered out,
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Speaker 1: and talk about baseball this hour to begin the hour, anyway,
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Speaker 1: in our lead from the Big Leagues where the Doyers
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Speaker 1: beat up the Pirates. Now, actually the Pirates hadn't ear lead.
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Speaker 1: Paul Skeins was on the mound, and then Pittsburgh they
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Speaker 1: went to the bullpen, and if I'm not mistaken, I
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Speaker 1: forget what any it was. Dodgers scored like a ton
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Speaker 1: of runs in the seventh or the eighth inning and
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Speaker 1: the Pirates' pitching staff used sixty eight pitches to get
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Speaker 1: out of one half an inning against the Dodgers. That
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Speaker 1: sucks anyway, Dodgers won that game. They remained the team
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Speaker 1: to beat in baseball. They are the gold standard back
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Speaker 1: to back champs, trying to go three in a row,
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Speaker 1: and they've done that this great start to the season,
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Speaker 1: all these wins neck and neck with the Atlanta Braves
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Speaker 1: for the top record in sports. So the Dodgers have
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Speaker 1: done all this and they have not gotten consistent middle
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Speaker 1: of the order production that they anticipated with free agent
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Speaker 1: Kyle Tucker. By the way, Mookie Betts looks washed up
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Speaker 1: all Also, he's just a he's a slap hitting defensive shortstop.
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Speaker 1: I guess at this, but I think he's like good defensively.
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Speaker 1: That Mookie Betts is terrible. And Kyle Tucker, Now, if
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Speaker 1: you've not been following the Tucker story in particular, this
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Speaker 1: would be a massive deal if some butts were candy
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Speaker 1: and nuts that Dodgers are not. They're not getting much
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Speaker 1: of anything out of Kyle Tucker. He's had a couple
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Speaker 1: of games with most party sucks, and it's not talked
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Speaker 1: about the contract he got and the return on investment.
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Speaker 1: The ROI is terrible. So, if you've not been paying attention.
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Speaker 1: When asked about Kyle Tucker and how bad he's been recently,
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Speaker 1: what do you think Dave Roberts said. Do you think
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Speaker 1: he said, well, I like him in that spot, be
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Speaker 1: no comment or see, oh he's good? What was a
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Speaker 1: form of see now? Roberts did acknowledge. He said it's
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Speaker 1: been up and down, which is very polite. You have
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Speaker 1: real choppy, Real Choppy said he's working hard. Dave Roberts said,
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Speaker 1: of Kyle Tucker. You just hope he can find something
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Speaker 1: that sticks. And then Roberts summarized his view with a
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Speaker 1: foreword message. A four word message from Dave Roberts. Dave
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Speaker 1: Roberts said, when asked about Kyle Tucker's performance, I wouldn't
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Speaker 1: say disappointed. I wouldn't say disappointed. That's the money quote.
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Speaker 1: You know how the rules are. Money quote. You play
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Speaker 1: off the money quote. So that's a good jumping off point.
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Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question why why would Dave Roberts
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Speaker 1: avoid calling Kyle Tucker a Dodger disappointment when it's obvious
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Speaker 1: that's exactly what he is? All right? So I've got
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Speaker 1: Dole whip public square because you know why not. And
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Speaker 1: if that was not enough, we also have the came over.
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Speaker 1: So we'll combine all of these things together, and you
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Speaker 1: and I are going to have all the fixings. All
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Speaker 1: the fixes is what we're gonna have. So first of all,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you why to answer the question why
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Speaker 1: would Dave Roberts avoid calling Kyle Tucker a Dodger disappointment?
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you why because this is the most predictable,
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Speaker 1: most Dodger coded, most front office approved blowney that you
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Speaker 1: could possibly serve up. Kyle Tucker has been a spectacular failure,
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Speaker 1: all right, relative to the contract and the expectations that
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Speaker 1: he had. And yet Dave Roberts will not touch the
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Speaker 1: D word in terms of disappointment, not going there, not
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Speaker 1: gonna happen, not gonna do it. He won't touch it
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Speaker 1: with a ten foot fung goal bat, not gonna happen. Now,
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Speaker 1: you've heard of dull Whip, very popular Disneyland, Pineapple and all.
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Speaker 1: That's some other flavors. Well, this is a spinoff of
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Speaker 1: doll Whip. This is La Dodger Whip. More soft serve
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Speaker 1: from the Dodgers calling out a superstar. That's a third
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Speaker 1: rail ami in third rale. Mom, man, don't touch the
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Speaker 1: third rail. And so Dave Roberts knows that. And if
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Speaker 1: you touch that, now, you don't die in Dodger Land.
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Speaker 1: If you do that, If you dare publicly criticize one
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Speaker 1: of the Dodger players, you get zapped by the nerd Brigade.
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Speaker 1: Their sound. Yeah, the nerd Brigade in the front office.
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Speaker 1: They come and tack you. They do. It's not good.
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Speaker 1: So corporate optimism is mandatory, absolute mandatory. And I'm from
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Speaker 1: the old country. I like when somebody sucks, it's pretty simple.
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Speaker 1: Just call them out. They're not doing their job. It's
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Speaker 1: not high school, it's not youth sports. It's professional baseball.
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Speaker 1: It's the industrial complex of sport. And yet they don't
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Speaker 1: do that. And this guy has been l floppo, not
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Speaker 1: l choppo. L floppo is what he has been. And
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Speaker 1: I guess they're worried about hurting his feelings. I know
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Speaker 1: this is all the rage in all of sports, and
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Speaker 1: it drives me nuts. And I admit that, and I've
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Speaker 1: talked about it a lot. And we go on. The
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Speaker 1: Dodgers gave Kyle Tucker a two hundred and forty million
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Speaker 1: dollar contract. They paid him plausibly to be elite, plausibly
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Speaker 1: to be elite, and he's given them a couple of
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Speaker 1: really good games and a lot of black a lot
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Speaker 1: of black games. In fact, you could argue, instead of
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Speaker 1: being a Dodger, he's actually a jag, not a Jacksonville jag.
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Speaker 1: He's just a guy, a jag. That's it, that's it.
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Speaker 1: And then how about Dave Roberts, oh Man, Dave Roberts
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Speaker 1: saying he's working hard, Okay, well that's worth sixty million
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Speaker 1: dollars a year. He's working hard. He's not hitting, but
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Speaker 1: he's working on. Kyle Tucker And I know my guys
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Speaker 1: in Chicago. Treeses driving around right now, the Windy City,
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Speaker 1: and you got your feme. All my cub guys in Chicago,
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Speaker 1: they're laughing. We talked about this last year. Kyle Tucker
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Speaker 1: was so bad after the All Star break in Chicago
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Speaker 1: that they benched his ass. And the Dodger Hubris They're like,
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Speaker 1: oh no, we have all the answers. Okay, well, now
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Speaker 1: we're into June. The guy still blows. If you go
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Speaker 1: back to last year, Kyle Tucker should be playing for
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Speaker 1: the Toledo mud Hens or my favorite Triple A team,
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Speaker 1: the WU Socks in Worcester. That's where he should be.
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Speaker 1: Secondly to Arizona, we go Arizona. We love baseball drama
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Speaker 1: and another dramatic story in the Valley of the Sun.
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Speaker 1: There are factions of the Diamondbacks organization on who are
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Speaker 1: not happy with All Star second basement could tell Marte
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Speaker 1: and his lack of days ago approach. Now, Mart's played
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Speaker 1: in most of the games, although the boiling point was
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Speaker 1: Apparently the other day the Diamondbacks were playing the Doyers
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Speaker 1: and this guy named Otani was on the mat. Apparently
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Speaker 1: it's pretty good, and Marte took himself out of the lineup.
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Speaker 1: He was originally going to be in the lineup and
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Speaker 1: then he was pulled from the lineup. He wasn't hurt.
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Speaker 1: He just didn't want his statistics to go down from
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Speaker 1: facing a top level major league pitcher, and this became problematic.
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Speaker 1: This is apparently not the first time he's done it.
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Speaker 1: Marte has been accused of setting a bad example for
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Speaker 1: younger players and even the veterans, a poor example for
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Speaker 1: the veterans on the Arizona Diamondbacks. And so if a
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Speaker 1: star like Marte could tell Marte can sit out against
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Speaker 1: the elite pitchers in baseball and just take unannounced time
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Speaker 1: off at the last minute, it in theory undermines discipline. Well,
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Speaker 1: why is he allowed to do it? I mean, I
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Speaker 1: want to do what's over that's not right, you know
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Speaker 1: that whole thing. And he's also been accused Marte of
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Speaker 1: not running out ground balls, which is i'd say ninety
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Speaker 1: five percent of the big leagues. It's a different conversation.
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Speaker 1: It's been that way for at least forty years. The
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Speaker 1: big league jog is a real thing, not big league true,
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Speaker 1: the big league jog. So Arizona manager Tory Leavello has
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Speaker 1: entered the chat, and he's now addressed the Komodo dragon
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Speaker 1: in the room, Tory Levello, who must have photos of
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Speaker 1: someone in ownership. He continues to have that job. It's
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Speaker 1: pretty wild anyway, Leavello said, I can wholeheartedly tell you
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Speaker 1: that Ktel has been an unbelievable player for the Diamondbacks
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Speaker 1: for a long time. He said, there are days off
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Speaker 1: that are needed. Tell that to Cal Ripken, there are
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Speaker 1: days off that are needed. They are fairly scripted, Levello said,
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Speaker 1: in a long winding rant. And he said, though that
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Speaker 1: this underlying theme that he's not a good teammate, that
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Speaker 1: he's pulling the fabric of the clubhouse chemistry, it's all
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Speaker 1: not true, not true at all, he said. And then
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Speaker 1: Lovello put on his knee pads and said, of katl Marte,
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Speaker 1: he's been a great teammate, a great human being, really,
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Speaker 1: a great human being, a great husband. How does he
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Speaker 1: know that? Great father? How does he know that? And
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Speaker 1: he appears to be one of the best players as
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Speaker 1: good as all the rest in the National League. And
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Speaker 1: that's what I'm going to focus on. Close quote. So
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Speaker 1: this has become an issue the trade deadlines in early August,
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Speaker 1: and this story popped up recently, leading to speculation that
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Speaker 1: could tell Marte is in play for a relocation situation
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Speaker 1: inside the portal. So the question does manager Tory Lovello's
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Speaker 1: vote of confidence put this ka tell Marte drama to
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Speaker 1: rest in Arizona? So come on, give me a break,
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Speaker 1: put it the rest. In professional sports, a vote of
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Speaker 1: confidence is what it is, just a polite corporate way
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Speaker 1: of saying, we've got a massive problem. This is not good,
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Speaker 1: not good at all. And if you keep it real,
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Speaker 1: when when things are going good, if everything is hunky dory,
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Speaker 1: a word that doesn't get used much, two words, hunky dorry.
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Speaker 1: If everything's good, everything's kosher. Why is Tory Lavello out
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Speaker 1: here running a pr cleanup crew like he's the White
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Speaker 1: House press secretary. The math is pretty simple on this.
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Speaker 1: Someone and we don't know who, someone within the Diamondbacks
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Speaker 1: clubhouse clearly has had enough of Coutell Marte's act. And
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Speaker 1: that is the only reason that Bob Nightingale got the leak.
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Speaker 1: Somebody leaked the story to Nightingale from inside the building,
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Speaker 1: a radioactive leak, mind you. And this doesn't happen by accident.
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Speaker 1: So there's two theories. It's a player on the team's
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Speaker 1: annoyed because they have to play against the top pitchers
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Speaker 1: and Marte can skip games, so they're upset about that.
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Speaker 1: So you've got that. The other option is the Diamondbacks
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Speaker 1: are doing this intentionally to try to light a fire
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Speaker 1: under kateel Marte. I think that's very unlikely. Scenario A
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Speaker 1: is the much more likely scenario that is going on,
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Speaker 1: and so it's radioactive and all that doesn't happen by mistake.
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Speaker 1: Someone intentionally wanted the dirty laundry to be hung out
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Speaker 1: in the public square, and so they hung it outside
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Speaker 1: in the public square and friendly fire, which is what
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Speaker 1: this is. Somebody within the team or in the locker
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Speaker 1: room who had access to this, who knew about it,
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Speaker 1: and so that means the room is fractured, there's a chasm,
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Speaker 1: and this is the reaction is the classic Hey, I'm
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Speaker 1: a player's manager, Tory Lavello, I like all my guys,
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Speaker 1: and I would argue Levello is too close, too soft
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Speaker 1: and way too protect I don't like it. At this point.
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Speaker 1: He's not managing, he's babysitting. You're talking about a great parent,
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Speaker 1: what a great father, what a great person. Martell is
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Speaker 1: a little too much, a little too much frosting on
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Speaker 1: the cake. I'm just saying, it's a little too much,
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Speaker 1: a little too much. It's a little sponge bath, a
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Speaker 1: car wash, kid glove treatment. Pick your metaphor, whatever you
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Speaker 1: want to use the pick your metaphor. It all fits
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Speaker 1: the circus under the big top, under the big top.
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Speaker 1: And if your star player needs constant coddling, then he's
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Speaker 1: not a high level star. He's not a bona fide star.
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Speaker 1: He needs to be baby. And it's like a science
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Speaker 1: project and all that. Don't say anything, you might upset him.
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Speaker 1: How do you live life like that? Seriously? If no
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Speaker 1: thick skin at all? So Lavello, he's got that soft
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Speaker 1: touch approach and good luck and for some it seems admirable.
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Speaker 1: Oh he's a player's manager, they say, And how great
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Speaker 1: is that? I call it enebly, highly enabling, highly enabling.
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Speaker 1: And this public display was not it was not reassurance
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Speaker 1: by the Diamondbacks manager. It was damage control. DC a
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Speaker 1: little damage control there. You simply cannot run a big
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Speaker 1: league team like it's a daycare. You can't do it.
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Speaker 1: And so this story, trust me, trust me, bro, This
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Speaker 1: story is not over. There'll be more leaks to come
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Speaker 1: out and they might want to call roto Ruter because
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of leaks and the trade deadlines coming up.
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Speaker 1: Keep an eye on that could tell Marte is he
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Speaker 1: heading out of Arizona? Where's he going? Where does he
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Speaker 1: end up?
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Speaker 2: All right?
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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, we go to the NFL and we have a
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Speaker 1: developing story out of since sad Nati where the Bengals
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Speaker 1: have restructured Joe Burrow's contract and they created ten million
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Speaker 1: dollars just like that in cap space. They converted some
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Speaker 1: of Joe Burrow's base salary into a signing bonus. They
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Speaker 1: lowered his cap hit this year, and they have more
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Speaker 1: financial flexibility. The question where does this Joe Burrow restructured
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Speaker 1: Bengals contract land with you? So this is red meats
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Speaker 1: and red meat in the lions Den for me, it's
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Speaker 1: on the surface, say, well, it's bookkeeping with a little
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Speaker 1: bit of a twist, a little bit of a twist.
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Speaker 1: Cincinnati essentially has turned Joe Burrow's contract into circ du
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Speaker 1: so let, the same routine we see all the time.
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Speaker 1: And I have long died on this mountain, on this
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Speaker 1: hot take mountain. It's not a restructure. It's a financial
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Speaker 1: hocus pocus, abracadabra presto magic trick with a smoke machine.
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Speaker 1: NFL teams, at least the good ones, not the Bengals, are,
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Speaker 1: but the NFL teams in general have mastered Bernie made
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Speaker 1: Off and Enron level finagling. If you know who they are,
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Speaker 1: if not, just Google or a item. The NFL cap
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Speaker 1: is basically a legal Ponzi scheme, is what it is.
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Speaker 1: And it's the perfect fall guy. You gotta have a
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Speaker 1: fall guy. The only system, the salary cap, where you
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Speaker 1: can at the same time be broke and rich at
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Speaker 1: the same time. So I have long said the cap
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Speaker 1: is crap. Let's stop pretending the cap is real. Stop
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Speaker 1: defending the cap is real. It is a suggestion, not
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Speaker 1: a rule. And as the saying goes, Okay, as the
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Speaker 1: saying goes, there are lies, damned lies, and the NFL
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Speaker 1: salary cap. That's that's what I'm talking about. And they,
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Speaker 1: the Bengles here, did not save money. They just moved
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Speaker 1: the furniture to the other side of the room. So
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Speaker 1: you had the sofa when you come in the front door.
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Speaker 1: Off to the right was the sofa, and then you
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Speaker 1: had the tables on the side, and you had a
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Speaker 1: little little table in front. Well, you just moved it
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Speaker 1: to the other side of the room, and you move
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Speaker 1: the TV over a little bit, and that's it. You
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Speaker 1: just move things around. In this case, you kick the
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Speaker 1: bill down the street. Now some are calling this a
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Speaker 1: trip to the barber shop for a haircut. It is
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Speaker 1: not for Joe Burrow. Spiler alert, spoiler alert. Joe Burrow
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Speaker 1: did not lose any money. It looks a little different.
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Speaker 1: It's a comb over. It is what it is, right,
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Speaker 1: it's the same underneath, and he did cut any hair
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Speaker 1: anything like that. Joe Burrow is getting the same money
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Speaker 1: he would have gotten before this. It's just being reclassified.
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Speaker 1: So again, Abra cadabra, and there you go. You move
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Speaker 1: a couple of decimal points around and you push the
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Speaker 1: costs down the line. You get more cash. Now. It's
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Speaker 1: Is I Bill Miller. You're locked in on the Bane
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Speaker 1: The calling number at Ban mahlor on AX. If you
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Speaker 1: want to answer the Mallar Riddle of the day, Lorraine, Now,
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Speaker 1: Who's got her own segment Queen of Hearts hashtag Queen
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Speaker 1: of Hearts with Lorena and yes, uh coop a loop
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Speaker 1: a Bronco fan. That's all Bronco fan. Back to it.
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Speaker 1: Here's the Mallard riddle of the day. While eating a
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Speaker 1: SpongeBob SquarePants popsicle, Cardi B planned a blank for Nick
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Speaker 1: fans prior to Game four of the NBA Finals, which
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Speaker 1: will be later today. So that's the riddle of the day.
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Speaker 1: Let's see, does anyone know late night drug Tester says,
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Speaker 1: planning to have a cat show Late night Dug Tester said,
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Speaker 1: a Phil Collins concert from Rob the goat Man. Who
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Speaker 1: else we have page doan uh Andy and Lionel Lakes
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Speaker 1: says Carly B. Not Cardi B planning on doing the
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Speaker 1: hokey pokey with the Stefan digs. I don't think they're
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Speaker 1: together anymore. What else do we have? Krabby Patties? They're
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Speaker 1: gonna they're stealing the secret formula of Krabby Patty from
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Speaker 1: Ferg Dog a booty call movie from Alf the Alien opiner?
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Speaker 1: What else do we have? A page down? I can't
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Speaker 1: read that pregnancy test being handed out from King Rory,
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Speaker 1: We'll skip over that. What else do we have to see?
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Speaker 1: Page down? Let's see here. She planned to have a
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Speaker 1: jump rope line with a bunch of strippers from Milkman Mike.
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Speaker 1: Now that sounds good, Milkman Mike. Yes, what else? We
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Speaker 1: have something involving bananas from Elmo after Dark, a happy
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Speaker 1: dance party from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. She according to
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Speaker 1: Timmy and Busco Indiana, she planned a cornhole tournament from
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Speaker 1: our buddy Timmy, a riot from Donkey Sauce. You don't
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Speaker 1: need to plan a riot. Those things happen anyway. Those
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Speaker 1: riots pop up, Loraina, Do you have an answer, Lorena?
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Speaker 5: Ah, yes, I was thinking a barbecue cookout.
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Speaker 1: A barbecue cookout? Is that correct?
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Speaker 4: No?
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Speaker 1: That is incorrect? The correct answer, Cardi B. While eating
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Speaker 1: a SpongeBob SquarePants popsicle. Cardi B planned a social media
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Speaker 1: prayer circle for Nick fans. Yeah, oh, you can pray
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Speaker 1: with Cardi B. Sure that'll help out. Let's say hello
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Speaker 1: to here. He is Mason, the Millennial? Is he there?
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Speaker 1: Masonly be left us for the dation. Don't better bet
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Speaker 1: your bottom doll. Mason the Millennial is back. Come on
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Speaker 1: talk to me talk. I'm here, I'm here, I'm here.
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Speaker 2: Your body really like that Tony Lavello's story. But you know,
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Speaker 2: can I do you one better? Ben, mister Mallard, mister Mallick,
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Speaker 2: can I do you one better? How about? How about
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Speaker 2: in the Bay Area where I reside? How about college manager?
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Speaker 2: College results?
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Speaker 6: Do you like?
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Speaker 1: Tell me college college roster? Now? I was told by
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Speaker 1: Danny and Nashville that this guy is the greatest manager
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Speaker 1: of all time Tony by Tello. Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, all.
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Speaker 2: Those Knoxville fellas and stuff.
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Speaker 1: Right are we?
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Speaker 7: Now?
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Speaker 1: Are we hitting the sauce Mason, the millennial? I feel
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Speaker 1: like there's a happy hour here.
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Speaker 2: Well yeah, well there's a wedding tomorrow. I'm actually in
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Speaker 2: the wedding.
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Speaker 1: You're in the wedding. Your congratulations, you're in the wedding.
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Speaker 2: Yes, it's a celebratory week. And you know, wouldn't you
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Speaker 2: believe it? It's on Wednesday.
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Speaker 1: The wedding is Well, you saved money. It's very inconvenient
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Speaker 1: if you have a wedding on a Wednesday for the
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Speaker 1: people that attend the wedding, and you will save money
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Speaker 1: when you have a wedding on a Wednesday, I know
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Speaker 1: that's why they booked it. Yeah, I know they put
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Speaker 1: very cheap. They're saving some cash. Are you're still driving
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Speaker 1: a bus last week? Talked to you would become a
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Speaker 1: bus driver? All right, you don't need to catch.
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Speaker 2: Up too much.
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Speaker 7: But in the other other stuff, you know, what does
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Speaker 7: that mean?
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Speaker 1: Oh? You're everyone wants to do contact creation coding? Coding?
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Speaker 1: Isn't that all going to be AI?
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Speaker 3: Though?
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Speaker 1: Coding?
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Speaker 4: Right?
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Speaker 1: Is now going to AI? The coding.
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Speaker 2: I created a Matt Chapman tracker the other day. It
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Speaker 2: was very interesting because Matt Chapman obviously went like orah,
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Speaker 2: like what fifty seven in his loss at baths and
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Speaker 2: he had to hit a home run in like over
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Speaker 2: one hundred at bats. I mean that was crazy.
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Speaker 1: Well he does that every year, So that's the Matt
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Speaker 1: Chapman experience. Yeah, all right, well Mason, I love that
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Speaker 1: you're back on. Hopefully you can call us every once
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Speaker 1: in a while. Yes, don't be a stranger. Is that correct? Yes? Yes? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: all right, go back to the go back to the sauce.
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Speaker 1: All right, please, thank you. There's Mason the millennial. Now
26:51
Speaker 1: here's a guy that vanished as well. I think he
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Speaker 1: just got out of jail right there. Let's say hello
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Speaker 1: to eat Dog. Hello, Eat Dog in New York.
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Speaker 7: Thank you very much, mister Ben.
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Speaker 1: Congratulations on your release. Rikers Island treated you well. Yes, no,
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Speaker 1: that was never in jail.
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Speaker 7: Now where have you been.
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Speaker 1: You've been away for most of the year. You were
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Speaker 1: very active at the end of last year and then
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Speaker 1: you disappeared.
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Speaker 7: Well ever since they said they did say I was
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Speaker 7: was recalled. They did say are you hanging.
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Speaker 1: Out with Mason the Millennial? What is going on here?
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Speaker 7: My goodness, listen, they said that was one of the
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Speaker 7: worst calls there ever was turned me off?
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Speaker 1: Oh, you were offended by that. Yes, you're a delicate person.
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Speaker 1: You do not want to be criticized. Well, you'll be
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Speaker 1: happy to know that Dorko has passed you by, so
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Speaker 1: you are no longer the worst caller. Dorko is in
27:48
Speaker 1: Hawaii and he is worse than you. Poppy is also
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Speaker 1: worse than you, So you're you should be very happy.
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Speaker 7: Okay. Also, how about Fernando that s he's out of
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Speaker 7: a slump, but it's when he hit the ball to second.
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Speaker 1: Mas Yes, I think tatis is he was he have
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Speaker 1: to He's on pace now for three home runs. He's
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Speaker 1: he's doing very well.
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Speaker 7: He's going to rise to the occasion.
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Speaker 1: Yes, if he gets traded. Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Also, I want to say hello once again to the
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Speaker 7: Late Night to his sister.
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Speaker 1: Big fan of your work, Late Night Drug Tester. He
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Speaker 1: loves your work.
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Speaker 7: He's one of my he's one of my favorite callers.
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Speaker 1: He doesn't he doesn't call the show.
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Speaker 7: Well, you know he's on podcasts.
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Speaker 1: Right, Well, his name gets mentioned a lot. Uh. And
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Speaker 1: and Tatis. You said he's back. Tatisa is on paste
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Speaker 1: at two home runs and forty seven RBIs.
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Speaker 7: Well, he's going to start to go in a roll
28:41
Speaker 7: that much about the Knicks.
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Speaker 1: Okay, now you're not a Knicks fan. Now for those
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Speaker 1: that you think this guy, uh, he dog's a New
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Speaker 1: York guys, he's not a Knicks fan. Though he is
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Speaker 1: not a Knicks fan.
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Speaker 4: You are.
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Speaker 1: What team do you like? You like the Orlando Magic?
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Speaker 7: Yeah? I do?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, nice hat. You didn't think I know everything about you?
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Speaker 1: Where where the ladies at? You haven't give us an
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Speaker 1: update on the ladies. You're still with Melissa? I thought
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Speaker 1: you broke up with Melissa.
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Speaker 7: Well, I say, next things are about doing her boyfriend
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Speaker 7: and ecuse me food.
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Speaker 5: You gotta keep her around.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, she's a keeper. Okay, relax, all right, Well, don't
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Speaker 1: be a stranger. We we love when you call. I'm
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Speaker 1: the only one that likes you, but we love you.
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Speaker 1: All right. Well, oh there's more. You're not done, but wait,
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Speaker 1: there's more, right, okay, thank you? All right, there's there's
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Speaker 1: a great dog. What a great return man, back to back,
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Speaker 1: Mason the Millennial and he dog that's getting me in
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Speaker 1: the mood. That's getting me in the mood for a
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Speaker 1: game show, is what it is. We've endured too many
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Speaker 1: of these? Is it too much or not enough enough? Already?
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Speaker 1: Don't forget We need your questions. Hashtag Queen of Hearts
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Speaker 1: with the Queen of Hearts. It's a heartbreaker right over there,
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Speaker 1: lorraina coming up hashtag Queen of Hearts. Hello to hollering James,
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Speaker 1: Hello James.
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Speaker 7: And made the games show.
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Speaker 1: Don't make us regret this, James.
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Speaker 7: And if I win, you need two golden tickets.
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Speaker 1: If you get every question right, I'll give you two
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Speaker 1: golden tickets. Now, didn't we We already gave you a
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Speaker 1: golden ticket right.
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Speaker 7: Well for another one? Come on, come on, man.
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Speaker 1: You're just why are you hoarding analogy? I want to
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Speaker 1: pre analogy, you brand. I'm not weed man, You're hoarding
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Speaker 1: these golden tickets. Mom Matt, I had a special gift
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Speaker 1: for what's her name because I want to ask her
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Speaker 1: for a purple jersey. Okay, right, all right? Question number
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Speaker 1: one for hollering James in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Too much or
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Speaker 1: not enough? There are eight players with more than five
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Speaker 1: three pointers in these NBA finals of twenty twenty six
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Speaker 1: so far. Is that too much or not enough? Too much?
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Speaker 1: Let's find out that is correct? There are only six
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Speaker 1: good basketball knowledge Hollering James. Question number two, there are
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Speaker 1: only four players in the American League with seventy plus
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Speaker 1: hits and ten plus home runs? Is that too much
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Speaker 1: or not enough?
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Speaker 7: Not enough?
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Speaker 1: You sure about that?
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Speaker 6: Oh?
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Speaker 7: Oh nine?
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Speaker 1: Well what's your final answer?
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Speaker 7: Too much?
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Speaker 1: All right? That is correct? What are you doing? Man?
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Speaker 1: You're two for two? There are only two YONDI Diez
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Speaker 1: and your Don Alvarez. Question number three, Otto Lopez, you
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Speaker 1: know who that is. You're a jill, yes, he details cars.
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Speaker 1: Otto Lopez of the Marlins leads the league in two
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Speaker 1: hit games this season with twenty. Is that too much
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Speaker 1: or not enough?
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Speaker 7: That's too much.
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Speaker 1: Let's find out not enough, not enough? He leads the
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Speaker 1: league with twenty six two hit games. So all right,
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Speaker 1: you're not gonna get two gold and takes. You could
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Speaker 1: get another one. You gotta get one more. Question? Right, James?
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Speaker 1: Are you ready?
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Speaker 7: You could be breathed.
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Speaker 1: I know that.
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Speaker 7: Having a baby.
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Speaker 1: What what a all right? There are only three players
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Speaker 1: in NBA history to average thirty or more field goal
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Speaker 1: attempts in the NBA finals. All right? Is that too
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Speaker 1: much or not enough?
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Speaker 7: Not enough?
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Speaker 1: All right, let's find out now too much? Yaomi, Allen
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Speaker 1: Iverson and Rick Barry have averaged more attempts in the finals.
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Speaker 1: So there you go, the thirty or more field goal
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Speaker 1: attempts in the finals. Question. So, James, he comes out
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Speaker 1: of this this is game seven or this guy's game five?
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Speaker 1: You win, you get a golden ticket, you lose, and
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Speaker 1: it's all over. Are you ready? I hope? So got
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Speaker 1: Hobey Scott's very concerned about who wins an overnight radio
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Speaker 1: game show. Very important for God. Question number five, here
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Speaker 1: we go. This was the seventh season in a row. Now,
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Speaker 1: Coop's very nervous over here. Coop's very concerned. You're gonna
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Speaker 1: get this right. This will be the seventh season in
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Speaker 1: a row with a different NBA champion. Is that too
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Speaker 1: much or not enough? Hollering? James?
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Speaker 7: Too much?
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Speaker 1: You sure about that?
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Speaker 4: Oh?
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Speaker 7: Got again?
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Speaker 5: Not enough?
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Speaker 1: No, I'm not trying to sway your but I'm just asking.
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Speaker 1: I'm just asking, what's your final answer?
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Speaker 7: Too much?
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Speaker 1: All right? Let's find out now that's wrong? The answer
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Speaker 1: is not enough? This will be well you didn't believe
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Speaker 1: in me, this will be the eight I know I
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Speaker 1: did not chicks you what? Yeah? Coop? Yeah, Coop actually
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Speaker 1: did have a he had a lucky rabbits thing here
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Speaker 1: in a foot and yeah he had fuzzy dice out.
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Speaker 1: He had a voodoo doll he poked. James, stop your complaint. Well, James,
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Speaker 1: the bad news is you didn't win a golden ticket.
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Speaker 1: The good news is you did win, congratulations, a lifetime
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Speaker 1: supply of nothing and a trip to nowhere. So if
34:46
Speaker 1: you if you want nothing, James, just think of the
34:49
Speaker 1: Ben Mather Show. We will send you nothing. You already
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Speaker 1: have a golden ticket.
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Speaker 2: Wause.
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Speaker 1: Ok, is he really doing that? Other jit? That's gotta
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Speaker 1: be stick right, this is James, You're not really crying
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Speaker 1: are you James, I'm crying. No, you're not. You're fake.
35:10
Speaker 1: You're a faker. All right, we're gonna have the Queen
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Speaker 1: of Hearts with Loreina. We need your questions. All do
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Speaker 1: you want to call? There's a line open you want
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Speaker 1: to ask if you have the balls, big balls, Bob
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Speaker 1: to ask her a question on the air eight seven,
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Speaker 8: Are exciting new Queen of hat she wants to.
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Speaker 1: Talk to you. Great promise love caravan.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I am loving that new intro. Thank you, thank you,
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Speaker 6: and shoutouts a milkman Mike and his amazing vocals on there.
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Speaker 1: That's right, milkman Mike, who knew he could sing? He's
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Speaker 1: more than just a milkman, everyone's favorite milkman in Colorado. There,
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Speaker 1: Milkman Mike.
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Speaker 5: Milk you're cow in your ears look.
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Speaker 1: At that job and Milkman Mike with the vocals and
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Speaker 1: produced by Jay Scoop. But thanks of those guys for
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Speaker 1: putting the song together. I appreciate that. Are you ready, Lorraina?
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Speaker 5: Yes?
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Speaker 1: All right? These are actual questions by actual listeners. Ferk
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Speaker 1: Dog writes, and he says, I have a crush on
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Speaker 1: this girl who's really funny. How can I find out
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Speaker 1: where she got her sense of humor from? Yeah, you flustered,
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Speaker 1: Firg Dog. You flustered, Loraina on the first question. You've flustered.
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Speaker 5: Such an odd question.
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Speaker 1: All right, Lady Sideburns rites and says, what is the
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Speaker 1: best way to gently address the partner I have? Let's
37:41
Speaker 1: just say there's a kind of a smell situation he's discussing.
37:47
Speaker 1: But these questions are great.
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Speaker 9: Aren't they depend what kind of smell you're talking about,
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Speaker 9: because if it's like flatulence, or if it's regular body odor.
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Speaker 5: He mentioned carriage areas that could smell.
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Speaker 6: He mentioned what he me, that's just what he Well,
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Speaker 6: you got to take good care.
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Speaker 1: Of your aquarium, you know, Yeah.
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Speaker 5: You gotta have a filter. You don't want algae build No.
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Speaker 1: You definitely don't want that. You don't want mold. Definitely
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Speaker 1: not mold down there, you don't want that. A lot
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Speaker 1: of soap.
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Speaker 5: Where do you keep your query?
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Speaker 1: A lot of soap, a lot of.
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Speaker 5: Water, Yeah, definitely keep the fish clean.
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Speaker 1: Possibly a bath?
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Speaker 9: Uh yeah, yeah, okay maybe you know, yes, never mind, okay.
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Speaker 1: Not going there. Shane in the mon writes and he says, Loraina,
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Speaker 1: do you have a favorite bad caller?
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Speaker 9: Oh, oh, it's it's gotta be between blind Scott weed Man, hippie.
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Speaker 1: Blind Scott weed Man, hippie. Who else?
38:49
Speaker 9: And obviously Anthony Anthony.
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Speaker 1: You just now Anthony's very happy, right now, Calm down, Anthony,
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Speaker 1: put your pants back.
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Speaker 5: And Marcel's on a my favorite callers of.
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Speaker 1: All time, really, Marcella, he's really it was a legend.
39:05
Speaker 1: All the greats come out of Brooklyn. All the greats
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Speaker 1: come out of Brooklyn, for sure. Rob in Coco Beach
39:11
Speaker 1: rights in and says, what is the perfect ice cream
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Speaker 1: Sunday in your eyes?
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Speaker 9: Oh, my gosh, I have had so much ice cream lately, so.
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Speaker 1: Much ice cream?
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Speaker 5: You so much?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, my gosh, between ice cream and pizza. Like, I'm
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Speaker 9: shocked I haven't turned into.
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Speaker 1: Did you enjoy the twenty five dollars ice cream cone
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Speaker 1: in Vegas that they have? Did you enjoy that? I
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Speaker 1: did not know?
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Speaker 5: Did even I didn't even know that existed?
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Speaker 1: Well on the strip they prices are the price gouge
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Speaker 1: you there?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, no, twenty five dollars ice cream.
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Speaker 1: There's a twenty dollars slice of pizza, I think.
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Speaker 9: But on the drive back I did stop and get
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Speaker 9: Dairy Queen this time, which is always a big deal.
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Speaker 1: I did you stop at the You didn't stop at
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Speaker 1: the Mad Greek in Baker, Bad job by you.
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Speaker 5: I stopped right next to the big thermometer.
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Speaker 1: Well that's in Baker. That's the world's biggest thermometer.
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Speaker 5: That is where I stop at. I was gonna get
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Speaker 5: pulled over.
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Speaker 1: Well, no, they have. The Mad Greek has great shakes
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Speaker 1: and Greek food because it's called the mad Greek. But
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Speaker 1: there is a dairy queen there, so you went there.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I have a thing for blizzards.
40:11
Speaker 1: Okay, I got you. Michael from Tulsa writes and he
40:14
Speaker 1: says a simple question. Here, mountains or the beach.
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Speaker 5: I'm more of a beach girl. I have lots of
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Speaker 5: bikinis and I prefer sitting on the beach.
40:25
Speaker 1: Or you could use those in the snow. You know,
40:27
Speaker 1: there's people that do that. They go skiing, and it's.
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Speaker 5: Very sensitive to cold weather.
40:31
Speaker 1: Now you you're from Oregon, Lorena, you're living in La.
40:34
Speaker 1: Have you done the ultimate La thing, the surf and
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Speaker 1: the turf where you surf in the morning and then
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Speaker 1: go and like ski in.
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Speaker 5: The No, but you know I should do that.
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Speaker 1: Might at free time? Yeah, you do really have time?
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Speaker 5: No, not really, because I don't have anything, Not really