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  Speaker 1: of that for you. Now, the main course here in
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  Speaker 1: our number, I said our number. Yes, the main course
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  Speaker 1: here is our lead in the dust bowl. That's where
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  Speaker 1: we go here. And that was the stage four. A
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  Speaker 1: island game. An island game, there is a standalone event,
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  Speaker 1: a standalone event, the lid lifter on the Conference finals.
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  Speaker 1: The curtain goes up. And I would not say much anticipated.
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  Speaker 1: I do not believe that's true. I believe that would
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  Speaker 1: be fake to say it is much anticipated. But Anthony
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  Speaker 1: Edwards in the well rested timber Wolves visiting Sga and
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  Speaker 1: Okase in Game one of the Western Finals. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you watched it or not. Maybe you were
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  Speaker 1: doing something else and you didn't get to watch it.
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  Speaker 1: Not your cup of tea. I watched it either, mute button.
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  Speaker 1: You know certain broadcasters. I just can't. I can't do it.
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  Speaker 1: I try, I can't do it. So no words. We
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  Speaker 1: watched so you would not have to. It is our
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  Speaker 1: good mitzvah of the day, and good news. You did
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  Speaker 1: not miss anything that game. It was a dud dud
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  Speaker 1: dud dud. Shake jigis Alexander, who did not play particularly
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  Speaker 1: well through the first twenty four minutes of the game,
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  Speaker 1: and his team was trailing at halftime in a very
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  Speaker 1: unentertaining first half of basketball, and then in the second
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  Speaker 1: half he scored twenty of his thirty one points. I'm
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  Speaker 1: told that's good. I didn't play in the NBA, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm told that's good. And the top seed there, Oklahoma City,
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  Speaker 1: took out the butcher knife and butchered off some wolf
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  Speaker 1: and they had that for dinner as they win going
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  Speaker 1: away one fourteen to eighty eight in Game one of
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  Speaker 1: the Western Finals. So jogis Alexander eight of fourteen in
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  Speaker 1: the second half from the floor. I think that's good.
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  Speaker 1: And Julius Randall did all of his damage mostly in
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  Speaker 1: the first half. He had twenty eight points, just eight
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  Speaker 1: points in the second half when it was blow out City. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Game two is on Thursday, Thursday Thursday, as the Eastern
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  Speaker 1: Conference will take the center stage in the game coming
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  Speaker 1: up here on a Wednesday night. But let's discuss Game
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  Speaker 1: one of the Western Conference Finals and the question who
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  Speaker 1: wears the Dunce cap of shame for the Minnesota Timberwolves
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  Speaker 1: getting smoked in the second half of this game run
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  Speaker 1: off the court. So my thoughts on this I've got
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  Speaker 1: Mickey Gambler's Fallacy and Pink Floyd, and we will combine
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  Speaker 1: all of these things together and we are going to
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  Speaker 1: make some amazing, amazing Baba Ganoosh is what we're gonna make.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna make the babaganuse Shirley. We normally make the
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  Speaker 1: Baba goose later, We're gonna make the babag Ganu Shirley.
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  Speaker 1: So my first thought on this a nothing has changed
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  Speaker 1: more in my lifetime than halftime adjustments. Now, this is
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  Speaker 1: a line one of my old radio friends, part of
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  Speaker 1: the Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association. I used to do
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  Speaker 1: a very popular Sunday show until the company canceled it.
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  Speaker 1: And we used to screw around with all the cliches
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  Speaker 1: and sports and we love the halftime adjustments and how
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  Speaker 1: dumb fans oh halftime adjustments, Oh my god, like you
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  Speaker 1: wait till halftime to make some kind of amazing adjustments.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, Minnesota's up by four. Good halftime. I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to stay awake, right, I got an overnight show to do.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to I mean, this was not entertained. Was
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  Speaker 1: anyone entertained?
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  Speaker 4: You know?
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  Speaker 1: Were you not entertained? I don't know anyone that was
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  Speaker 1: entertained with the first half, but it it was within
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  Speaker 1: the margins. They're like, okay, so it's not a great game. However,
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  Speaker 1: if it's close with five minutes to go or four
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  Speaker 1: minutes to go, there's something there. There's something there. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I can deal with that. I can navigate that. But
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  Speaker 1: to answer the question, who wears the Dunce cap of
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  Speaker 1: shame for the Minnesota Timberwolves, let's go to the very
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  Speaker 1: top here. The CEO, as Anthony Edwards, did the thing
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  Speaker 1: you can't do at the time, you can't do it.
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  Speaker 1: He decided to go surfing. Anthony Edwards. Now, if you've
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  Speaker 1: ever been to Oklahoma, that is mission impossible to go
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  Speaker 1: surfing in Oklahoma. Cow ubunga dude, as Anthony Edwards went
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  Speaker 1: out there as a surfer and wiped out. That was
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  Speaker 1: a total wipeout in the second half, blown off the map.
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  Speaker 1: How bad was it? Thanks for asking? How bad was it? Was?
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  Speaker 1: So bad? Okay? Ant man went Mickey and I'm not
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  Speaker 1: talking Mickey Mouse. I think somebody might have slipped him
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  Speaker 1: a Mickey at halftime there. Oh Mickey, you're so fine,
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  Speaker 1: unless you're not Holy crap. Did he suck in the
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  Speaker 1: second half? Did he need a nap? Maybe he needed
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  Speaker 1: a nap the way he played two of six in
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  Speaker 1: the second half. Five point. I mean to give you
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  Speaker 1: have numbers. The numbers. I don't think you have had
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  Speaker 1: to have seen it. The numbers are bad. His his
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  Speaker 1: performance was actually worse.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: He ended up with five points in the second half,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of assists, a couple of fouls. And keep in mind,
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  Speaker 1: going to the fourth quarter, the Wolves were down by ten,
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  Speaker 1: So ten is not an insurmountable at least five possessions
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  Speaker 1: five to two point baskets. But the NBA now is
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  Speaker 1: Papa Shot and so it's just shoots may three pointers.
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  Speaker 1: So that's that's like three and and a half possessions
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  Speaker 1: and you and you have the lead in the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: And he in the fourth quarter down ten. Going to
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, Anthony Edwards the face of the franchise,
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  Speaker 1: well face on this night, certainly not. He pitched a shutout,
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  Speaker 1: very rare to see a shutout these days, and did
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  Speaker 1: not even need to go to the bullpen. As Anthony
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  Speaker 1: Edwards the final twelve minutes, as the joker would say,
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  Speaker 1: he got zero zip zilch nada And as my grandfather
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  Speaker 1: would say, buppkis is what he got in the fourth
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  Speaker 1: quarter of that game as Minnesota got run off the
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  Speaker 1: court there by Oklahoma City. So the question as we
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  Speaker 1: turn the page here, the next question to address was
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  Speaker 1: the Oklahoma City domination situation with schae Jogis Alexander. Was
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma City so good, so amazing that this series is
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  Speaker 1: now over after one game? Is this Western Conference Finals?
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  Speaker 1: Can you now start to write the eulogy for Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: and the concession speech for Minnesota to give to Oklahoma City?
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  Speaker 1: Was it that bad a performance by the Wolves that
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  Speaker 1: this is a futile effort by Minnesota. So I'm shaking
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  Speaker 1: my head. No here, I don't believe that. And as
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  Speaker 1: pat Riley taught me when I was a little boy,
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs, they don't start until the home team loses
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  Speaker 1: at home. So last I checked, Oklahoma City was favored.
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  Speaker 1: They won the game at home. Okay, so they they
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  Speaker 1: did what they were supposed to do. Congratulations, what be
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  Speaker 1: damn do? But I would also advise you to not
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  Speaker 1: be a prisoner of the moment. And one of the
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  Speaker 1: reasons that the sportsbooks do so well is the gambler's
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  Speaker 1: fallacy that the low information fan believes that whatever they
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  Speaker 1: just saw is going to continue forever and effort and
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  Speaker 1: effort and effort, and well, Minnesota's just not very good
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  Speaker 1: and they don't match up well with Oklahoma City, and
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  Speaker 1: so this is just gonna the way it's going to go,
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  Speaker 1: and the series will be over maybe five games. It'll
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  Speaker 1: be a gentleman's sweep. And that's that's that. I have
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  Speaker 1: learned that life generally does not work that way. Assuming
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota doesn't doesn't quit, some of these NBA teams have
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  Speaker 1: a propensity to quit. As we learn from Aaron Gordon
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  Speaker 1: to the Nuggets, the players are very tired and they
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  Speaker 1: need a lot of time. Didn't Aaron Gordon tell us
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  Speaker 1: the Nuggets genius, the mensa there for the Nuggets. Didn't
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  Speaker 1: he tell us that if the NBA wanted to prevent blowouts,
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  Speaker 1: they need more time off between games. Well, Minnesota had
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  Speaker 1: more time off. They got run off the court in
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  Speaker 1: the second half. So I guess that kills that hypothesis
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  Speaker 1: from Aaron Gordon. Anyway back to this, So, one of
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  Speaker 1: the reasons that many people seem to enjoy the pro
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  Speaker 1: bouncy ball is the chess match, right that that's the
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  Speaker 1: selling point. It's a chess match on hardwood, and we've
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  Speaker 1: all heard that, and you make your move and then
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  Speaker 1: there's a counter move, and so that is where we are, right,
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  Speaker 1: that is where we are at this point. For Minnesota,
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  Speaker 1: they got embarrassed in the second half and Chris Finch
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  Speaker 1: and the Wolves half, so I'm explaining to do. I
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  Speaker 1: would recommend getting out the mop and the bucket and
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  Speaker 1: do it with a little scrub, a dub dub, and
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  Speaker 1: that's what I recommend there. Minnesota. They also lost their
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  Speaker 1: marbles a bit as they were doing what all NBA
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  Speaker 1: players do and their things are not going well. They
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  Speaker 1: bitch and complained to the officials that's what always happens.
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  Speaker 1: Always we're not getting the whistles. They seemed very upset
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  Speaker 1: that that Shae juggas Alexander was being able to bait
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  Speaker 1: players into fouls early in the game. And I think
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  Speaker 1: you would expect that. That's how the NBA has been
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  Speaker 1: my entire life. I'm getting old and it's always been
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  Speaker 1: this way, like the star player is able to bait
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  Speaker 1: get the officials to call fouls. Here's Chris Finch the
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota coach, commenting on that hullabaloo, take a listen, because
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  Speaker 1: you sent some of the frustrations that some of your
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  Speaker 1: players had with some of the calls that Shaye was
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  Speaker 1: able to drive.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there was a lot of frustration out there. But
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  Speaker 4: we got to we know, we talked about that before
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  Speaker 4: the series started, and you know, we got we have
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  Speaker 4: to be able to uh to put that aside and
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  Speaker 4: get on with the next play mentality.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well they didn't do that, coach, they you might
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  Speaker 1: have told them to do that. They're not listening. You
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  Speaker 1: might want to get them a QTE tip and clean
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  Speaker 1: out their ears because there's some orange goo in their ears.
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  Speaker 1: I would say either. I mean the scouting guide, which
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  Speaker 1: tells you what has happened now is going to happen
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  Speaker 1: coming into this game. The argument was that this is
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  Speaker 1: a mismatch because Minnesota is a reckless team with the basketball.
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  Speaker 1: They are not someone that protects the ball. They turn
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  Speaker 1: the ball over a lot, They make a lot of
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  Speaker 1: self inflicted mistakes, and you combine that with a team
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  Speaker 1: that does force mistakes and you take advantage of that,
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  Speaker 1: and that's a huge problem. And so that was a
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  Speaker 1: problem in this game, as Oklahoma City was plus twenty
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  Speaker 1: one on points off turnovers, they outscored Minnesota by twenty
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  Speaker 1: one points on points off turnovers. So that is I
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  Speaker 1: didn't play in the amba. Not a coach. I think
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  Speaker 1: that's an issue. You know, you're so hard on the
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota team. But give him a break, Okay, all right,
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  Speaker 1: I'll give him break, give him a rick and go out.
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  Speaker 1: I think you can get this on Amazon. Buy some
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  Speaker 1: smelling salts and at halftime and whatever Anthony Edwards was doing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we made a joke about a mickey. But
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  Speaker 1: give him some smelling salts, wake him up a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: give him some caffeine or something to get him going
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  Speaker 1: there at halftime. That would help, and remind joyous Randall
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  Speaker 1: that he does need to play the full game. Not
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  Speaker 1: part of the game. Now, the story within the story though,
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  Speaker 1: happened on the TV broadcast I mentioned I have the
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  Speaker 1: sound down. There's a certain broadcaster that I always mute
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  Speaker 1: when I hear their voice. I just like nails on
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  Speaker 1: a truck board. So but the other stuff, which is
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  Speaker 1: also terrible by it, But God is TNT so much
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  Speaker 1: better than the ESPN. My guy, Well, you just work
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  Speaker 1: at Fox. No, I work at iHeart Fox. Whatever it is,
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  Speaker 1: it just sucks. I mean they are so bad, Holy crap,
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  Speaker 1: are they bad? Do they try to be bad? Do
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  Speaker 1: they have like production meetings saying how bad can we
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  Speaker 1: be at television? I might, Oh my god, it is unwatchable,
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  Speaker 1: but it's so bad they bring in random guest commentaries.
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  Speaker 1: Did Michael Malone and the former Nuggets coach, popped up
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  Speaker 1: on TV in the conference finals and he ended up
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  Speaker 1: actually making some news? Now, how on God's Green Earth
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  Speaker 1: could Michael Malone, the old Nuggets coach, makes some news.
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  Speaker 1: Let me let me explain here. So I think we
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  Speaker 1: do we have the audio on this, and we we
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  Speaker 1: have this all I think we have both. No, we
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  Speaker 1: don't have it. Oh okay, I sent you to Actually
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  Speaker 1: I sent you to two clips. All right, Well, I
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  Speaker 1: guess we don't have it. But Malone two months ago
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  Speaker 1: as coach of the Denver Nuggets, was waxing loquacious about
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  Speaker 1: about his guy at the time, Nicola Jokicic, and he
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  Speaker 1: was laying it on thick Take a listen, we have
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  Speaker 1: it our two months ago. Here is Michael Malone, as
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  Speaker 1: Denver Nuggets head coach, talking about the MVP race, and
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  Speaker 1: at that time he was talking mostly about a guy
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  Speaker 1: named the Joker. Take a Liz, My thing is this.
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  Speaker 5: You know, if you didn't know that Nicola won three MVPs,
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  Speaker 5: and I put player A and player B on paper,
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  Speaker 5: and you had no idea that the guy who's averaging
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  Speaker 5: a triple double, the guy who's top three in the
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  Speaker 5: three major statistical categories, things that no one's ever done,
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  Speaker 5: he wins the MVP ten times out of ten.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so boom perfect, that's your MVP. Well, here's Michael
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  Speaker 1: Malone on television on ESPN ABC a few hours ago.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen and then shake gilgis Alexander. He showed
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  Speaker 1: he's the MVP. All right, So there you go, Michael Malone.
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  Speaker 1: In the span of a short period of time, Shade
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  Speaker 1: Jogis Alexander showed why he's the MVP. Do you find
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  Speaker 1: that meaningful? Yes? To infinity and beyond yes, I find
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  Speaker 1: it meaningful. The plot thickens, The plot thickens. Okay. Malone
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  Speaker 1: was on the campaign trail. We played some of it
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  Speaker 1: when he was in Denver there and he was essentially
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  Speaker 1: wearing knee pads for Nikola Jokic as the MVP. Keep
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  Speaker 1: in mind, they haven't even named the MVP. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: it's not like SGA won the award on Monday. They
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  Speaker 1: haven't even announced who the MVP is. But this is
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  Speaker 1: what's known as say it with me now, kids, a
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  Speaker 1: dead give way. It is a dead give way. It
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  Speaker 1: is a dead giveaway because it's rather obvious. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you could see this from outer space, right it's I
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  Speaker 1: don't even know, I mean it was. It's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like in sometimes in music there'll be a subliminal message.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how subliminable this is. Sometimes there's messages
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  Speaker 1: hidden deep in songs. A lot of you have. You're
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  Speaker 1: an old timer. Remember back in the day, Pink Floyd
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  Speaker 1: famously had a backward saying in empty spaces in the
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  Speaker 1: saying was congratulations, you have just discovered the secret message.
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  Speaker 1: So Michael Malone is telling you without telling you, that
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  Speaker 1: Nicole Kch is a coach killer. That Nicolekch is why
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  Speaker 1: Michael Malone is not the coach of the Denver Noggiates.
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  Speaker 1: And it's rather obvious, like unless you're just a country bumpkin,
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  Speaker 1: it's right there, it's right there. Michael Malone TV. Michael
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  Speaker 1: Malone is announcing, Hey, this guy is by saying SGAMBB
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  Speaker 1: the way he said it, that is a tail. It
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  Speaker 1: is an absolute teal. And Malone's been around long enough.
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  Speaker 1: We know how this. When you're the star player, franchise player,
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  Speaker 1: all right, franchise play. If you want the coach, the
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  Speaker 1: coach stays. If you don't want the coach, or you
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  Speaker 1: don't give an opinion on it, coach, the coach goes,
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  Speaker 1: So to me, this is there's no debate. Like it's over.
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  Speaker 1: Nikola Jokic is a coach killer. He did not advocate
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  Speaker 1: for Michael Malone. And that is why Michael Malone's not
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  Speaker 1: doing bad television right there.
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  Speaker 1: about the Western Finals, We're not gonna say no to that. However,
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  Speaker 1: while that game was not good talk radios, Oklahoma City
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  Speaker 1: pulled away in the second half and blew the doors
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  Speaker 1: of a team with high expectations that had been living
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  Speaker 1: up to those expectations lately. Not so much in the
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  Speaker 1: epicenter of the baseball world. Not Chavez Ravine, not Dodger Stadium.
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  Speaker 1: No No, it's over in Queens, New York. That's where
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  Speaker 1: the drama is the Mets Traveling road Show, still hanging
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  Speaker 1: out in Boston at Finnway Park and another game, another loss.
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  Speaker 1: The Red Sox pitcher Walker Bueler got ejected. He left
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  Speaker 1: in like the third inning and the Mets still lost
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  Speaker 1: the game. That sucks. But the buzz, that's what it
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  Speaker 1: sounds like. This actual sound of buzz. Just like that.
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  Speaker 1: The buzz continues around the highest paid baseball player of
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  Speaker 1: all time. And if you have not been following, we
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  Speaker 1: did a Mallard monologue in a previous episode of the show.
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  Speaker 1: There are some new developments, so consider this a no
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  Speaker 1: Metropolitans manager Carlos Mendoza has provided a status update, status
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  Speaker 1: update on one Soto after his lack of effort and
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  Speaker 1: poor decisions on and off the field. All right, so
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  Speaker 1: what's the latest on this. Mendoza got out a very
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  Speaker 1: small violin, a very small violin, and started singing a song,
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  Speaker 1: a sob story for Mendoz or Mendoza four Soto. He said, quote,
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  Speaker 1: he's human, he's twenty six man. The Mets manager said,
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  Speaker 1: He's going to be fine. He's one Soto. Yeah, now,
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  Speaker 1: that came just a few days after he was called
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  Speaker 1: out by the manager. Juan Soto called out, described by
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  Speaker 1: some as being miserable with the Mets that the only
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  Speaker 1: time he smiled recently is when he was playing grab
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  Speaker 1: ass with Aaron Judge during batting practice and futson around
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  Speaker 1: with Aaron Boone during BP. He was also called out
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  Speaker 1: for being an absolute dog not hustling and then said
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  Speaker 1: he was hustling when there's video of him not hustling,
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  Speaker 1: and the Mets manager said he's not hustling. So again,
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  Speaker 1: just to recap, you have, in the span of a
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  Speaker 1: day and a half, the Mets manager calling out the player.
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  Speaker 1: You now have the Mets manager massaging the player. So
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  Speaker 1: you have both sides of the mouth covered, both sides
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  Speaker 1: of the mouth covered. So let us discuss the question
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  Speaker 1: where do you stand? Where do you stand on the
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  Speaker 1: Mets manager saying that both one Soto is not hustling, right,
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  Speaker 1: and they were gonna have little chit chat, and now
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  Speaker 1: saying one Soto is going to be fine because he's
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  Speaker 1: one Sodo all right. So I've got rubber stamping, iverson
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  Speaker 1: and winery, and we will combine all of these things
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  Speaker 1: together and we are gonna make a dirty water dog.
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  Speaker 1: What we're gonna make because the Mets have just been
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  Speaker 1: dirty water. They haven't been the dog part. Well, I
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  Speaker 1: guess Juan Soto's been playing like a dog, not hustled.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So number W number, Then I get a
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  Speaker 1: number W. Alright, So talk about a quick about face.
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  Speaker 1: Holy Canoli, my man. So in the span of a
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  Speaker 1: day and a half again, I'd say less than forty
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  Speaker 1: eight hours, less than forty eight hours, the Mets manager
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  Speaker 1: went from the arsonist to the firefighter.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: He had the flamethrower out and he was making sure
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  Speaker 1: the flames got everywhere. And then he came back with
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  Speaker 1: a fire truck, like a water not even a fire truck.
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  Speaker 1: He had a water dropping helicopter throwing water down on
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  Speaker 1: the fire. So he went from the gasoline on top
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  Speaker 1: to the nice water. And so Soto a day and
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  Speaker 1: a half ago was a laggert, was floating on an
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  Speaker 1: inner tube on the lazy river. And then after that
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  Speaker 1: he took out a fire hose to put out the fire.
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  Speaker 1: The Mets manager in the span of a day and
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  Speaker 1: a half, I think I got all that right. That's
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  Speaker 1: how I understand it. Anyway, So make it make sense,
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  Speaker 1: all right, Carlos Mendoza, It is rather clear to this
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  Speaker 1: particular gas bag that the Mets manager was called into
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  Speaker 1: the principal's office, say colloquial term, it was a text message,
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  Speaker 1: might have been a text message, could have been a
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  Speaker 1: tap on the shoulder, and someone who's in a position
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  Speaker 1: higher up the food chain there with the Mets said
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  Speaker 1: its nay on the talkie, a no negativity, No, we
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  Speaker 1: must put the kebash on that. And so he went
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  Speaker 1: from tough love manager admitting his players lazy, which everyone saw,
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  Speaker 1: even our blindlisters realized he was lazy. You went from that,
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  Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden you pulled out the
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  Speaker 1: rubber stamp and you wrote, rubber stamp a love note
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  Speaker 1: with little love stickers, those huffy stickers that smell in
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  Speaker 1: the love note, and you rubber stamped all that, and
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  Speaker 1: you sent that out there, and Mendoza saying that Juan
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  Speaker 1: Soto cares a lot. He cares a lot amid the
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  Speaker 1: criticism and the guy's competing. He's competing, Okay, that is
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  Speaker 1: capital o optimistic, capital o optimistic. Now, assuming that because
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  Speaker 1: Juan Soto has a strong brand, the Mets believe in
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  Speaker 1: that brand. They gave him half of Lower Manhattan to
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  Speaker 1: get him there, so they believe in the brand. They
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  Speaker 1: love the track record of the player and all that,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: so they think he's equipped to handle the challenges. Sounds
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  Speaker 1: like though he's not equipped with thick skin. If the
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  Speaker 1: span of two days, the manager of the Mets must
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  Speaker 1: have been called out right. The only reason you would
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  Speaker 1: walk back on what you said when everyone saw the
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  Speaker 1: player not being, not hustling and being lazy, and then
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  Speaker 1: you're like trying to unring the bell. You don't do
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  Speaker 1: that unless somebody contacted you, and you don't do that
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  Speaker 1: at that point unless somebody realizes Juan Soto is a
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  Speaker 1: mister softy and he can't handle the criticism. So okay,
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  Speaker 1: and now they're all of a sudden giving him the
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  Speaker 1: benefit of doubt the Soto had I believe he had
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  Speaker 1: a hit in the game last night at Finway, and
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  Speaker 1: he is still on pace for twenty six home runs
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  Speaker 1: and sixty six RBIs. You could have gotten a guy
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  Speaker 1: out of the Mexican League did twenty six home runs
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  Speaker 1: and drive in sixty six runs. So I l stinko
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  Speaker 1: for Juan Soto. Now page two. So while the Mets
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  Speaker 1: are dealing with that hullabaloo, the Red Sox, even though
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  Speaker 1: they've won a couple games in a row. Now the
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  Speaker 1: Red Sox have their own issues. An interesting story here.
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  Speaker 1: The manager of the Boston baseball team has a shovel
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  Speaker 1: trying to dig himself out of a hole. Say what
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: so Alex Cora, who was one of the masterminds behind
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  Speaker 1: the cheating Astros. So Alex Cora standing by his decision?
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  Speaker 1: What was this decision? He skipped a work assignment. He
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  Speaker 1: skipped a game Alex Cora against the New York Mets
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  Speaker 1: to attend a celebratory dinner for his daughter's graduation from
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  Speaker 1: Boston College. Okay, so this, this, I guess, has been
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  Speaker 1: the local. So several of you sent this to me,
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  Speaker 1: some of you guys that listened to the Ben Maler
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  Speaker 1: show on the sports up out of the Boston area,
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  Speaker 1: and did you see what's going on here? Okay, so
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  Speaker 1: you said it, I mean, okay, that's fine. So Alex
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  Speaker 1: Cora said, I quote, I made the best decision for
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  Speaker 1: my daughter. We all know what the word best me.
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  Speaker 1: So what does here's the question, what does Alex Corra's
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  Speaker 1: decision to skip a game to go to a dinner
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  Speaker 1: for his daughter about his priorities when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: the Red Sox, the team that he's plausibly working for.
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  Speaker 1: So clearly Cora is a work life balance guy. You
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  Speaker 1: know that's that's his mantra. I guess it's the mantra
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  Speaker 1: of the Red Sox as I understand it, though, And
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  Speaker 1: several of you mentioned this to me, Well two people,
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  Speaker 1: I say several. Two's that's not several, that's two. You
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  Speaker 1: said that The story is that Cora's daughter graduated in
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  Speaker 1: the morning from Boston College and the game was not
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  Speaker 1: until nighttime, and he still chose not to show up
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  Speaker 1: because they had a dinner. Now I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: that's true or not. That's what you were telling me
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  Speaker 1: that that's that's what happened. So I'm getting that secondhand.
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  Speaker 1: I was not there. I was not invited. But we're
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  Speaker 1: going to assume that's true because two people who I
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  Speaker 1: believe were not related. I don't think they don't have
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  Speaker 1: the same last name. So unless I'm getting punked, they're
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  Speaker 1: not related. So he skipped out on a a work
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  Speaker 1: thing for a celebratory feast, and so in my head
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  Speaker 1: listening to Alic Korra talk about well I made the
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  Speaker 1: best decision for my daughter rights. That's known as playing
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  Speaker 1: the kid card from the bottom of the deck. Right,
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  Speaker 1: you play the kid card. You can't question that. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you can because it wasn't the graduation, it was the dinner.
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  Speaker 1: And then in my head I think of Alec Kora
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  Speaker 1: being like Alan Iverson and we're sitting in here. I'm
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be the manager of the Red Sox and
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  Speaker 1: we in here talking about a family graduation dinner. I mean, listen,
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about a family graduation dinner, not an actual graduation,
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  Speaker 1: not an actual graduation, not an actual graduation. We're in
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: here talking about a family graduation dinner, not an actual graduation. So, okay,
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  Speaker 1: Cora makes eight million, and you could have done like
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  Speaker 1: a brunch. That's kind of cool, like a graduation brunch.
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  Speaker 1: That sounds pretty good, right, go ahead and eat all day.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: And the great thing about being manager is you don't
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  Speaker 1: really have to show up to batting practice. You can
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  Speaker 1: show up. They'll give you a solid show up right
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  Speaker 1: before the game. Nobody will care. You know, it's not
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  Speaker 1: it's not crucial that you're there. From batting practice, but
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: the game somewhat important and all that. And that's again
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: it's it's all about mindset and the mindset is is
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  Speaker 1: it important to you to do it? Can you do both?
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: And you show your players you're supposed to be the
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  Speaker 1: leader and all that stuff, and you have to make sacrifices. Again,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: this is I know, I'm dating myself. Oh you're an
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: old boomer.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: I'm not a boomer, but I'm getting old. Like I
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: was taught, like you have to sacrifice things for the job,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: and if you really love the job, that's what you
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  Speaker 1: gotta do. And you know, of course done a long time,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: so I burned out. You know, it's like just kind
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  Speaker 1: of I've got the contract. I'm making eight million dollars
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  Speaker 1: a year. I guess he doesn't get enough time off
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: in the off season when this, you know, the Red
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Sox I don't normally make the playoffs anymore. So you
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  Speaker 1: got October, November, December, in January, it seemed pretty good,
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  Speaker 1: four months nothing spring training. In February, you lay back
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  Speaker 1: there in Florida for a month and then part of March,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: and then at the end of March you start the
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  Speaker 1: baseball scene. It seems like a pretty good life, but
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: I guess he needs more time off. I got it,
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  Speaker 1: and you're getting it. Good for you, Good for you,
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  Speaker 1: And that's you know, you're the example. And so when
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  Speaker 1: your players do the same thing, you can't complain, you know,
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  Speaker 1: an it's I'm told it was not the graduation. You're
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  Speaker 1: telling me that it was the dinner. The graduation was
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  Speaker 1: in the morning, the dinner was it night. So okay,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: all right, final point to the Windy City we go
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  Speaker 1: where the Chicago White Sox. It's something they don't normally do.
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  Speaker 1: They won a game, but we're not going to talk
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: about that, because why on God's green Earth we talked
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: about the Chicago White Sox. There's no reason. I don't.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: I don't think Tree wants us to talk about the
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Chicago White Sox. He's driving around Chicago, right, don't, dude,
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  Speaker 1: bead No, I won't. But the White Sox have given
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  Speaker 1: a rather unique tribute to their most sacred fun boy,
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  Speaker 1: the Pope Pope Leo the team in their corporately named stadium,
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  Speaker 1: which used to be called Kmisky Park, the Chicago White
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  Speaker 1: Sox put up a like a mural graphic mural type
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  Speaker 1: thing with a photo of the Pontiff and they've got
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: the Chicago skyline in the background. It's essentially for Instagram.
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  Speaker 1: It's really just for the Internet, like you do this
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  Speaker 1: stuff for the Internet. So people take photos and that's it.
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  Speaker 1: And so it's in the section appropriately enough where Pope
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  Speaker 1: Leo when he was a civilian before he became the Pontiff.
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  Speaker 1: Pope Leo sat when he was just a mere mortal,
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  Speaker 1: and he was at the World Series twenty years ago
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: when the White Sox ended an eighty eight year World
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: Series drive back in five. So give me your reaction
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  Speaker 1: to the White Sox fully embracing all immersive the Pope
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  Speaker 1: Leo fandom. All right, So I saw this, and this
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  Speaker 1: does count as an official blessing for the Chicago White Sox.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: The product is unwatchable. That the Mariners lost the Mariner
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  Speaker 1: should That'd be seven losses for the Mariners to lose
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  Speaker 1: the White Socks in that game. But this is not
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  Speaker 1: about that, all right. Having the Pope, having the Pope
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  Speaker 1: support your team is It's like going to the winery
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  Speaker 1: and turning water into wine is essentially what is It's
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: it's a pr miracle. It is an absolute pr miracle.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody asked the question. I think this was on one
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: of the other social medias, but somebody sent me the questions,
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: what is the more impressive fan for the White Sox?
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Like where the rankage of the fan here? And you know,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: is it a bigger deal that the president president? Because
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: Obama claimed to be a White Sox fan, but people
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: question whether it was actually a White Sox fan or not.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: But anyway, so what's bigger having a president or having
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: the Pope? And the answer is clearly the k even close,
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: it's the Pope. Come on, get out the Pope mobile
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: right now, it's obviously the Pope. Now America, last I checked,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: there's about three hundred and forty something million people they
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: claim they being the powers that we live in the America,
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: United States. Three hundred and forty million. That is split
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: down party lines. So at any time, whoever the president is,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: half the people don't like the president. In theory, now,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: most people are a political they don't give a crap
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: about politics, and so they don't really have a strong opinion.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: But for those that are politically engaged, half the people
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: hate the president at any time the pope, and I
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: am certainly not Catholic, but as I understand it, the
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: Pope that is the leader of one point four billion
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  Speaker 1: Catholics worldwide, so that it's not even close President on
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  Speaker 1: one side Pope on the other. It's obviously the Pope
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: and the White Sox are leaning heavily into this. And
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: you cannot blame the White Sox because there's not a
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: single player on that team that is worthy of your
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: money to watch play baseball. They all sucked, and the
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: ones that don't suck blow They're terrible, right, they're garbage.
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  Speaker 1: The White Sox. So the Pope who's living in the Vatican,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: all right, that is more just that he might maybe
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: watch a game is more interesting than anything in the
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: White Sox are putting on the field here. And they
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: even have set up and this is smart. They figured
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: out what seat. Imagine trying to find out what seat
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: somebody sat in twenty years ago at a baseball game.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: The White Sox claim that they know the exact seat
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: the Pontiff sat. His Holy tukis on the seat, like
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: they know the seat. It's if you go to the
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: White Sox game, it's Section one, forty row nineteen, seat two.
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  Speaker 1: So they're thinking they can get certain percentage of the
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  Speaker 1: one point four billion Catholics to make a pilgrimage to
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  Speaker 1: the South side of Chicago, the baddest part of town
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  Speaker 1: and go to a White Sox game so they can
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  Speaker 1: look at the seat the Pope sat in twenty years
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  Speaker 1: ago when he wasn't the Pope and probably didn't think
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: he was gonna ever become the Pope. And but there
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  Speaker 1: you go. I'm also I'm informed via video that on
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: the Pope the first day that Pope Leo got in
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: the popemobile, he always remembers your first time in the popemobile.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: That must be man, who is the first pope with
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: a popemobile? Do we know? We don't know anyway, So
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  Speaker 1: the Pope pop Leo got in the popemobile. He's riding
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  Speaker 1: at THEA so they're recording this because you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: the Pope and the somebody in the crowd. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you've seen this or not have heard it.
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  Speaker 1: So somebody in the crowd while the Pope's going through there,
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  Speaker 1: you know, doing his pope things, waving at the people,
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  Speaker 1: somebody says, hey, I'm from Chicago. White Sox go. White
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: Sox like heckling the Pope about the white side.
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  Speaker 6: It was reported on Monday that the Browns coaching staff
• 38:41
  Speaker 6: is planning a four way quarterback competition that will give
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: all four quarterbacks Flaco Picket, Dylan Gabriel, and Sadur Sander
• 38:49
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• 38:51
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• 38:52
  Speaker 1: Week one? All right? So the good news is this
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: is not the most depressing quarterback room in the NFL.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: That's the New Orleans States, So you're you're not the worst,
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: all right? The Saints are worse than the Browns. It's
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: going to beat Joe Flacco unless there's owner interference. Unless
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: the meddling owner comes in. Joe Flacco's the safe choice.
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  Speaker 1: Kenny Pickett blows he can't play. If the owner steps in,
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  Speaker 1: it will be Shudhara Sanders. I don't see how Dylan
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: Gabriel fits into this at all? Rightn't isn't that the
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  Speaker 1: guy that complained about cold weather and all that like, Hello,
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  Speaker 1: it's Cleveland. Next.
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  Speaker 6: Trevor Lawrence spoke with the media Monday and said that
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  Speaker 6: he really likes the direction that the team is headed.
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  Speaker 6: He went on to say that he loves the people
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  Speaker 6: that they have there now. He loves the staff, the
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  Speaker 6: guys that they brought in, and the guys that were
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  Speaker 6: already there. Ben, how much of an improvement do you
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  Speaker 6: expect for the Jaguars next season.
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  Speaker 1: I think they'll be where they have been recently. They'll
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  Speaker 1: be mediocre to bad. And if I was making the
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: kind of money that Trevor Lawrence is making, I would
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: say the same exact thing that he is saying. So
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna be much better at all.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: I think he's got a tour a seventy five million dollar contract.
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  Speaker 6: Next, Ben, where are you on the thought that Julius
• 39:57
  Speaker 6: Randall has successfully rewritten the narrative of his career?
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  Speaker 1: No, he has. I mean the game last night's a
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: great example. He played really well in the first half
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: and then you didn't do much in the second half.
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  Speaker 1: He's helped it, but he hasn't rewritten it. It's still
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: a work in progress. How do we do you pass? Say? Way?
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: Put her on the bar. I will right, thank you, Lid.
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  Speaker 1: She's clapping for me. I appreciate that. You don't need
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  Speaker 1: to clap. It's very kind. I appreciate that, very nice
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  Speaker 1: of you.
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  Speaker 7: Gear Rye, gear Rye to night, gear right to night.
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  Speaker 5: Dear ry.
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  Speaker 7: You heard the man.
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  Speaker 8: It's time for love here on the Ben Malae Show.
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  Speaker 8: We've had some really good questions lately. I want to
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  Speaker 8: make sure we keep that momentum up.
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  Speaker 1: There's no such thing as momentum, Lorena. But you know
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  Speaker 1: there's not, not in not in sports, and not in
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  Speaker 1: a radio bit. But I think this is a great
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  Speaker 1: love question. We've never gotten this one before, and it's
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  Speaker 1: from a woman, So yeah, it's here for the ladies.
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  Speaker 7: Women. Okay, what is it?
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: Eileen writes in, says Lorena, what is your favorite ride
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  Speaker 1: at Disneyland?
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  Speaker 7: Oh gosh, that's a hard one, Ileen.
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  Speaker 1: Hardest question you've ever been asked.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, it's not as easy as love. It's probably
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  Speaker 8: Winny the Pooh.
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  Speaker 1: That's a terrible answer. Yeah, it's the og.
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  Speaker 7: It's so good.
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  Speaker 1: It's the Pirates life for me. It's a Pirates life
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  Speaker 1: for me.
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  Speaker 7: Pirates is good.
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  Speaker 3: Caribbean.
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  Speaker 1: Come.
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  Speaker 7: I like the smell.
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  Speaker 1: The smells good, relaxing.
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  Speaker 7: You can sleep in there.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly only a couple drops. It's classic.
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  Speaker 7: That's a good one.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: All right, let's see King Roy writes in says, is
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: it wise to have a adult relationship with my wife?
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: Wal She is taking care of business each month, Lorraine,
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: I guess it's a thing that happens to.
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  Speaker 7: Oh yeah, no.
• 42:14
  Speaker 8: If you guys are down and chilling, you know, it's
• 42:16
  Speaker 8: it's your life. Do as you please, man, whatever works
• 42:19
  Speaker 8: for you.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: He says, keep it clean. He had some other suggestions there.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: Ferg Dog says, do you know a better way to
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: get out of paying alimony besides faking my own death?
• 42:37
  Speaker 8: Oh my gosh, Well, maybe don't get.
• 42:43
  Speaker 7: No, maybe maybe don't get married.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: I thought Ferg Dog was married to a stuffed animal.
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: How can how do you have to pay alimony to
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: a stuffed animal? Yeah, a stuffy you know.
• 42:53
  Speaker 7: Sometimes you get yourself in a really bad situation.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: Well, here's a great question, Deacon from he you're listen
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  Speaker 1: to our live coverage, by the way, live coverage. You
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• 43:07
  Speaker 1: the Queen of Hearts with Loreina. Deacon writes, it is
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: this the guy from Houston says, how do I confess
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: my love of pantyhose to my partner and not freaker out.
• 43:18
  Speaker 7: Send her a whole box of pantyhose?
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: Does he wear them on his head? Or like, is
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: he like Oscar de la Joya with the fishnet stocking pantyhose?
• 43:25
  Speaker 8: Maybe he just likes to rip them, you know, like
• 43:27
  Speaker 8: get all aggressive and tear the pantyhose off.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: Very aggressive panty hose. Where our pantyhose still popular? I
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: feel like that's a dated thing.
• 43:37
  Speaker 7: I feel like that's a they are kind of dated.
• 43:40
  Speaker 7: I wear pantyhose.
• 43:41
  Speaker 8: I know that sounds crazy, but like it protects your
• 43:44
  Speaker 8: legs for one, okay, for two. It also makes it
• 43:48
  Speaker 8: to where like if you do get out of a car,
• 43:49
  Speaker 8: you don't have a Lindsay lowhand moment.
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  Speaker 1: Hello. Yeah, Now, I remember when I was a kid.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: I feel like they're popular, but I don't.
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  Speaker 5: I don't.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not really out think there.
• 43:57
  Speaker 7: I think they're just classier.
• 43:58
  Speaker 8: And then you don't see all the marks and blemishes
• 44:01
  Speaker 8: on your legs either if you have bruises or whatever.
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: More deception by women.
• 44:04
  Speaker 7: Yeah, we'd love to deceive, yes, Shane.
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: In ne mooin right, since says I have talked to Kelly.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: That's his lady friend who he met from the show
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: The Great Kelly Donut Kelly. I've talked to Kelly's dad,
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: sister in law, and step mom. Should I now wait
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: for family to reach out to me, to meet and talk,
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: to make the first contact with the rest of the family,
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: all right?
• 44:27
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't know. I'm not good with meeting families
• 44:30
  Speaker 8: in this situation. You guys have been together for a while,
• 44:33
  Speaker 8: so definitely meeting everyone is good, But I don't know
• 44:35
  Speaker 8: how much family time is necessary at this point.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: Mike the Leprechaun writes in Your Friends, besides separate beds
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: TVs because of hollering James story, what other precautions should
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: his girlfriend take before becoming more attached to him?
• 44:50
  Speaker 7: You mean, before she murders you.
• 44:56
  Speaker 9: Oh gosh, yeah, getting attached is really hard to especially
• 45:00
  Speaker 9: if you guys are spending a lot of quality time
• 45:02
  Speaker 9: together and making intimate connections as well.
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  Speaker 7: So make sure if you're.
• 45:09
  Speaker 8: Not wanting to have her be too attached, you're making
• 45:12
  Speaker 8: sure that you are communicating that to her.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: Super Marcus Steve says, is there something that used to
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: annoy you about one of your former partners that now
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: you no longer have? Have it in your life? You
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: miss it?
• 45:26
  Speaker 8: You know, I was thinking about one of my exes.
• 45:27
  Speaker 8: His laugh used to irritate me.
• 45:29
  Speaker 7: Beyond belief, like absolutely killed me.
• 45:33
  Speaker 8: And I do not miss it at all, to be
• 45:34
  Speaker 8: honest with you, I was thinking about that the other day.
• 45:36
  Speaker 7: I think, oh, yeah, no, but I.
• 45:40
  Speaker 9: That is, and I'm glad I got rid of it.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: But that's the opposite of what he had. You answered
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: the opposite.
• 45:46
  Speaker 7: Sometimes if it bugs you, you just gotta let it go.
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: Ben, right, man, that's not what he asked, He didn't.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: Super Marios Stephen asked that
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