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  Speaker 1: by request multiple listeners.
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  Speaker 4: You know who you are. You idiots reached out to me.
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  Speaker 5: You better start with that. You're not gonna talk about it.
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  Speaker 5: You're gonna hide from I'm not. First of all, I
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  Speaker 5: don't work for the team. They don't even want me
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  Speaker 5: the games anymore. I'm not a spokesman for the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not so. But I will start with that.
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  Speaker 1: That's the story you seem to want, based on the
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  Speaker 1: customer feedback that we're getting here as we just begin
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  Speaker 1: the red eye flight. So we'll start out in the
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  Speaker 1: cream City, hardball heaven right now. Oh man, they are
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  Speaker 1: flying high. The beard tastes better than ever. The sky
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  Speaker 1: is falling in La Laland, the sky is falling. The
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  Speaker 1: top record in baseball six games ago and not anymore.
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  Speaker 1: So if you have not been paying attention, perhaps not, because,
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  Speaker 1: as one of my friends likes to say, why do
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  Speaker 1: you watch baseball? They play one hundred and sixty two games.
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  Speaker 1: Ye reminds me of a caller used to have. Judgmental
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  Speaker 1: John from Michigan used to call me up every every
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  Speaker 1: weekend and complain there's too many baseball games. Well, listen,
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to watch every game. Number one, Number two.
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  Speaker 1: Those of us that like to watch shit most of
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  Speaker 1: the games and check them out, scan them, we enjoy it.
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  Speaker 4: So stay in your lane.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, In Milwaukee, a Mattinee Jackson Churio singling home the
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  Speaker 1: winning run. The Brewers came back to tie it late,
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  Speaker 1: they win it in the tenth inning, and the brew
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  Speaker 1: crew get the win over LA three to two, and
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  Speaker 1: they complete the first ever home sweep of the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: in franchise history. Holy Bernie Brewer, Batman Race the Sausages
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  Speaker 1: So Milwaukee. The only other times they swept the Dodgers,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta go back to the year twenty seventeen in
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  Speaker 1: August of that year, and then back in twenty twelve
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  Speaker 1: as well.
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  Speaker 4: But the better story here, the better story is that's right,
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  Speaker 4: you pay attention, job by you.
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  Speaker 1: So the better story is in the losing locker room,
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  Speaker 1: the NL West leading.
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  Speaker 4: They still lead the NS.
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  Speaker 1: The Doyers have lost not one, not two, not three,
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  Speaker 1: not four, not five, six consecutive baseball games. So let
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  Speaker 1: us discuss the formerly known Big Blue wrecking crew with
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  Speaker 1: all these losses getting swept by the Brewers. So what
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  Speaker 1: do you make of the current state of the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 1: So my thoughts on this, I've got Oiji board, Jeff Bezos,
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  Speaker 1: and family feud, and we will combine all of these
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  Speaker 1: things together and we are going to make some peanut eminem's,
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  Speaker 1: which I think have more power at this point, more
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  Speaker 1: crunch than the current Dodger lineup. So my first thought
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  Speaker 1: on this, the word that pops in my head the
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  Speaker 1: current state of the Dodgers is the d word disheartening. Now,
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  Speaker 1: we we have a mantra, and it's been the mantoe
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  Speaker 1: we've had for many, many years around these parts that
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  Speaker 1: we don't worry about too far into the future or
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  Speaker 1: too far into the past.
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  Speaker 4: We have to worry about today.
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  Speaker 1: Right, we are assigned by the powers at this multi
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  Speaker 1: million dollar business that we work at to talk about
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  Speaker 1: what's going on today.
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  Speaker 4: We have to worry about today. So today, as I.
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  Speaker 1: Talk to you one on one, me to you the
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers are a sad sack operation, and I realize they
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  Speaker 1: are the reigning champions of baseball. However, Dave Roberts gives
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  Speaker 1: me no confidence and I'm gonna die on that mountain.
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  Speaker 1: The team this week has been crumbling and Dave Roberts,
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  Speaker 1: you watch him there standing in the dugout and it's
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  Speaker 1: like his mind is wandering, like he's trying to remember
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  Speaker 1: it showed him in the dugout. It looks like he's like,
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  Speaker 1: maybe I left the oven on my home before I
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  Speaker 1: left on the road trip. You know, it's like, maybe
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  Speaker 1: I should I call somebody. I think the oven's on
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  Speaker 1: in my kitchen.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what. It's like. He's got that look.
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  Speaker 4: And then you watch him later in.
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  Speaker 1: The game and it's like he's he's doing a wine
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  Speaker 1: tasting at awake. With the Dodgers offense and the team,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, in this moment, they are spiraling into the
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  Speaker 1: alligator death role against the cheating Astros who then got
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  Speaker 1: swept by Cleve What frauds the a holes are right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean of course, you get up for the Dodgers,
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  Speaker 1: brought those trash cans out for the Dodgers, and you
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  Speaker 1: played the Cleveland Guardians and got swept.
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  Speaker 4: How embarrassing. Anyway, it's about the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 1: So they got smashed by the cheating a holes and
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  Speaker 1: now the Brewers. So it's one of these things where
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  Speaker 1: you step right up again. It's like the State Fair.
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  Speaker 1: You win a stuffed animal, beat the Dodgers. Right now,
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  Speaker 1: this week everyone is drowning and shredding, the Dodgers and
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  Speaker 1: the smaller bite sized pieces. Now it's moments like these
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  Speaker 1: when I see Dave Roberts in the dugout that I
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  Speaker 1: long for the good old days. I need a Oigi board.
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  Speaker 1: I need a Wigi board to someone that I knew
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. We weren't friends, but he knew who
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  Speaker 1: I was, and we chatted when we ran into each other.
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  Speaker 4: The sweet spirit of the late great Tommy Lasorda. Oh man,
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  Speaker 4: what are you doing? Just bear with me? Lasorda.
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  Speaker 1: If he was managing a team, he never had a
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  Speaker 1: team as talented as this current Dodger team. But if
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  Speaker 1: Losorta was managing a team, this good right. And he
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  Speaker 1: watched a week of baseball like this. If he were
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  Speaker 1: around to have witnessed the malaise of this baseball team,
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  Speaker 1: he would have already thrown a fit volcanic. They would
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  Speaker 1: have gotten FEMA involved because of what Lasorda was doing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you would have had the media meltdown. My opinion the
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  Speaker 1: king was of performance, My opinion of the bullpens.
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  Speaker 4: What do you think?
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  Speaker 1: My opinion is went on unsucked and it's just it's great.
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  Speaker 1: So he would he would coach the sorta would coach
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  Speaker 1: like third base, we gotta fire.
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  Speaker 4: The team up, go third base.
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  Speaker 1: He'd take a gatorade cooler, toss it down like he
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  Speaker 1: was spiking football, give a speech that would make Vince Lombardi,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just you know, shaking in the boots or
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  Speaker 1: in this case, the grave.
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  Speaker 4: But Dave Roberts, on the other.
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  Speaker 1: Hand, he has the aura of a guy trapped in
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  Speaker 1: a medically induced coma when you watch and certain guys
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  Speaker 1: have just stopped hitting. Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts for
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  Speaker 1: the last really not just the last six games. Prior
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  Speaker 1: to that, they've not performed. The big bullpen picked ups
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers got. They spent a lot of money on
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  Speaker 1: Tanner Scott. All the Nerds had their pants down for
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  Speaker 1: Tanner Scott, Kirby Yates and these guys me god Arson squad.
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  Speaker 1: Tanner Scott leads baseball with six blown saves. That was
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  Speaker 1: their big addition to the bullpen. Tanner Scott and Kirby Yates.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone talks about how great his stuff is.
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  Speaker 4: And I watch it. I'm like, well, he looks like
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  Speaker 4: it's an Italian restaurant.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of meatballs there. No, I do realize
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  Speaker 1: that in the big picture, the wide angle lens, the
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  Speaker 1: famous quote from Lou Holtz that you're never as good
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  Speaker 1: as everyone tells you you are when you win. You're
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  Speaker 1: never as bad as they say when you lose. I
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  Speaker 1: get all that, but we have to worry about today, right,
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  Speaker 1: And there's a lot of people and I get this,
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  Speaker 1: you know, people like the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 4: Listen to the show.
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  Speaker 1: We're on the Dodger flagship in LA that's our our
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  Speaker 1: flagship on Fox Sports Radio. So we have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of Dodger fans that listen to the show and Dodger
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  Speaker 1: fans around the country, and they always push back against me.
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  Speaker 1: They say, well, you're too emotional, right, And these people
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  Speaker 1: just assume the Dodgers are going to flip the switch
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  Speaker 1: because they have so much talent, And is that how
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  Speaker 1: it works? Is I always thought baseball it's not the
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  Speaker 1: most talented team that wins. And at the moment, to me,
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  Speaker 1: that's hard to swallow. I mean, a week from now,
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  Speaker 1: when seven games in a row or something that we
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  Speaker 1: can we visit it. But I realize that when you
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  Speaker 1: get to October, all that matters is who does better
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  Speaker 1: in the moment. I understand that I've preached about that.
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  Speaker 4: For a long time.
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  Speaker 1: But in this particular chapter, the Dodgers find themselves in
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  Speaker 1: a deep dark place and someone needs to Maybe Dave
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  Speaker 1: Roberts can hire someone to hand the players a torch
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  Speaker 1: and a map.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe just a well, not a torch, how about an.
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  Speaker 1: LED flashlight with one thousand lumens in a bright, reliable illumination,
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  Speaker 1: and then like a map, and then they're maybe GPS
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  Speaker 1: on the phone. Just get him out of there, Just
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  Speaker 1: get him out of there right now.
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  Speaker 4: Turn the page. So we go now to Queens.
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  Speaker 1: The gift that keeps giving the New York Metropolitans outfielder
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  Speaker 1: One Soto. One Soto, the highest fed player in Baseball
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  Speaker 1: so one, Soto was asked if he would have liked
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  Speaker 1: to have made the All Start. He was asked recently
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  Speaker 1: about that. Now Soto is not named initially to the
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  Speaker 1: All Star Game, he might end up on the roster
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  Speaker 1: by the time the game comes around next week. But
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  Speaker 1: Soo was asked about this, and he responded by saying,
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  Speaker 1: what do you think you said?
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  Speaker 4: Did you see this? Hear about it now?
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  Speaker 1: So Juan Soto responded by saying, what do you think
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  Speaker 1: I think? Sodo said, it's a lot of money on
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  Speaker 1: the table if I make it close quote. So it
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  Speaker 1: is true Soto will miss out on one hundred thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars incentive in his contract for not making the All
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  Speaker 1: Star team. Okay, so, Juan Sodo, here's the question, Juan
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  Speaker 1: Soto of the Mets complaining about missing out on a
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  Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars All Star contract bonus. What does this
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  Speaker 1: say about Juan Soto? So, I'm gonna go first, and
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  Speaker 1: then if you want to chime in later, you can
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  Speaker 1: call it it's confirmation. Now he's obviously not just a ballplayer.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, you could argue he's not a ballplayer. He's
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  Speaker 1: a soldier of fortune. He'd been that way with Washington
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  Speaker 1: and San Diego and with the Yankees. He is a
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  Speaker 1: mercenary in cleats. He doesn't use a machete. He uses
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  Speaker 1: a baseball bat.
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  Speaker 4: One.
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  Speaker 1: Soto is just playing baseball. No no, no, I checked
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  Speaker 1: that he's playing the market. Now he's playing mark Now.
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  Speaker 4: Good for him.
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  Speaker 1: He got a seven hundred and sixty five million dollar
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  Speaker 1: contract with the Metropolitans, and now he's apparently upset because
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  Speaker 1: he missed out on let me check my notes here,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred thousand dollars all star bones. Do you realize
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  Speaker 1: what that's like. That's like Jeff Bezos complaining because his
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  Speaker 1: super yacht didn't come with the Wi Fi hooked up
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  Speaker 1: in there. Yeah, buy extra WiFi, Like you gotta be
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  Speaker 1: joking right now. We did the malormath, and malarmath is
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  Speaker 1: a version of math. It is not always accurate, but
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  Speaker 1: we believe one hundred thousand dollars out of seven hundred
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  Speaker 1: and sixty five million is point zero one three percent
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  Speaker 1: of the contract that Soto got to play in Flushing.
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  Speaker 1: So you don't really have to worry about where Sodo
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  Speaker 1: stands when it comes to love.
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  Speaker 4: Of the game.
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  Speaker 1: Now there is love from Juan Soto, the love of
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  Speaker 1: the direct deposit. When someone says it's not about the money,
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  Speaker 1: it's always about the money. But for Juan Soto, he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't even play the game like there's something somewhat refreshing,
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  Speaker 1: which is very odd when it comes to Wan Soto
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  Speaker 1: that he doesn't even bother pretending he doesn't give you
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  Speaker 1: cliches about I just want to make the Mets great
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  Speaker 1: and I'm here to help my teammates and all I
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  Speaker 1: love the met fans, No, key, don't give a crap
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  Speaker 1: about the Mets fans. Right, So my advice if you
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  Speaker 1: do like the Mets is to buckle up, cause that's
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  Speaker 1: your problem. Hey, my problem. You got fifteen years, almost
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  Speaker 1: an entire generation of that JIBBRONI okay, fifteen years to
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  Speaker 1: watch Juan Soto as he counts commas in his contract
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  Speaker 1: while you're counting wins and losses and strikeouts and home
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  Speaker 1: runs and all that. And so he went to the
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  Speaker 1: Mets not because he wanted to be a Met. He
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  Speaker 1: went to Queens because not about the legacy. Who gives
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  Speaker 1: about legacy. It's all about his portfolio, and he's showing
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  Speaker 1: you it's like if somebody shows you what they are.
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  Speaker 1: Believe him all right? Now, last word, we stay in
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  Speaker 1: New York, we go to the Bronx, a high profile
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  Speaker 1: roster move. So the New York Yankees have designated two
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  Speaker 1: time batting champion DJ Lemayhew.
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  Speaker 4: Remember him, used to be good, used to be good.
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  Speaker 4: Not good anymore.
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  Speaker 1: So they've designated for assignment, which is Baseball's way of
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  Speaker 1: saying you've been fired.
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  Speaker 4: It will end his seven year roun.
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  Speaker 1: In the Bronx, and he's owed twenty two million through
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  Speaker 1: next season. So how does that taste in the Big
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  Speaker 1: Apple for the Yankees? How does that taste? So I
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  Speaker 1: would advise you, I'll tell you how it taste. So
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  Speaker 1: get your bib, get a napkin, get your knife in
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  Speaker 1: the fork, because this tastes like crow.
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  Speaker 4: With a side of fletmeon right, in all seriousness, this
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  Speaker 4: is a perfect way to lose a job.
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  Speaker 1: It's like DJ lem Mayhew appeared on Family Feud with
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  Speaker 1: the Great Steve Harvey, and you know he was on
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  Speaker 1: there doing this thing and they made a mistake. They
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  Speaker 1: made a mistake, and they gave him twenty two million
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  Speaker 1: dollars by mistake. You talk about the fast money around
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  Speaker 1: Holy canoley, right, and that's not Hey, we're gonna cut
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  Speaker 1: ties with DJ le Mayhew.
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  Speaker 4: We're gonna cut a No, we're gonna cut a check
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  Speaker 4: and hope nobody reads it. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: It's like you hear about this story every once in
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  Speaker 1: a while. It always makes the you know, it makes
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  Speaker 1: the internet news that somebody's gonna get married. There's something
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  Speaker 1: that happens right before the wedding. You know, somebody sleeps
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  Speaker 1: with somebody else or whatever, and so the wedding ends
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  Speaker 1: up getting canceled three days before the wedding.
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  Speaker 4: Right, and you still got to pay for the open bar.
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  Speaker 1: You still do it. You don't have to, but you
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  Speaker 1: still do it. But DJ the Mayhew at this point,
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  Speaker 1: the way he's performed recently a vinyl record in a
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  Speaker 1: streaming world. Now he's thirty five, he hits like a
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  Speaker 1: guy who should be. I mean, I'm a forty five.
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  Speaker 1: He's had toe injuries, he's got the range of a
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  Speaker 1: trash can. Uh. The contract has aged about as well
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  Speaker 1: as room temperature sushi. At this point, there's no zip.
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  Speaker 1: When he makes contact. The nerds get all upset because
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  Speaker 1: they look at the numbers, all, oh, that's not good
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's that's terrible. There's like caution tape wrapped
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  Speaker 1: around his legs at this point, and it's it's bad.
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  Speaker 1: So again, the Yankees knew when they signed le may
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  Speaker 1: this was likely the way it was gonna end, and
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  Speaker 1: so don't let a falling star fall on you. The
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  Speaker 1: Yankees can afford it, So we're not going to sit
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  Speaker 1: here and have a bake sale for the New York Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: But le Mayhew is now going to try to hitch
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  Speaker 1: a ride with another contender because it's unlikely that le
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  Speaker 1: Mayhew will go to a bad team, although the Angels
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  Speaker 1: like to pick up guys like this. So while the
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  Speaker 1: Yankees have already moved on and they now have the
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  Speaker 1: sweet sound of Jazz Jazz Chisholm in their lineup full
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  Speaker 1: time at second base, DZL Mayhew will now go to
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  Speaker 1: the transfer portal with his pockets filled filled to the.
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  Speaker 4: Brim with twenty two million large. Not bad, not bad. Again,
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  Speaker 4: I was mentioned when these things happen, it's like especially coaches,
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  Speaker 4: not so much players.
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  Speaker 1: But I'll do rants about coaches get fired, and I'll
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  Speaker 1: just slay them behind the microphone. Inevitably, some dope will
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  Speaker 1: send me an email a heartfelt message, and they'll tell me, well,
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  Speaker 1: it's very mean. They lost their job, and I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: what are you talking about. They lost their job and
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  Speaker 1: they won an amount of money, a payout which is
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  Speaker 1: larger than the lottery in all all the states that
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  Speaker 1: have the lottery. So like, I'm not going to sit
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  Speaker 1: here and cry about that. I mean, maybe you will,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm not.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, what's up everybody?
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• 21:00
  Speaker 1: begin in the Grand Canyon State. Everyone's talking about this
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: raising Arizona, at least raising the payroll of Arizona money.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Many money, big money, big money, big money. No waymies
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: stop right in the valley, the Valley of the Sun.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: So if you didn't see this or hear about it,
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: news came down kind of late in the day. D
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: book got paid. So let us discuss the question.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Sun superstar Devin Booker has agreed to a two year,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: one hundred and forty five million dollar max extension that
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: keeps him under contract through the twenty twenty nine twenty
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: thirty season. And now this has led the Phoenix fanatics,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: the Marching and Chowder Society of the Suns there praising
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Devin Booker for his loyalty to the land of the Cacti.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: Is that how you see it?
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Do you agree with the sentiment of a good chunk
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: of the fan base of the Suns that this is
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: a loyalty play by Devin Booker. So I've got kidney, Spago,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: and Deli counter, and we will combine all of these
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: things together and we are going to.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: Make a crackpot.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Now, crackpot is a person that thinks this is because
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: of loyalty's that's a crackpot, all.
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: Right, absolutely not.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: I am one hundred and eighty degrees the opposite direction
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: now must be a different dimension that I resided than
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: the people that are saying that in the multiverse. And
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: this is not a contract that Devin Booker got. This
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: is a jackpot. I did the malor math, and if
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: my math is correct, that is seventy two and a
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: half million dollars per year. He won't even play seventy
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: two games a year for the Sons. It's powerball with
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: a jump shot. Good for him. And yet, somehow, some way,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: there are so many fanboys out there that an obvious
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: money move here. And you have the low information Neanderthal
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: knuckle dragging fan you know who you are treating this like.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Devin Booker just donated a kidney to a hospital in Phoenix.
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: Like, oh my god, he stead he's so loyal, Who
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: my god, It's just amazing, and they're clutching their foam
• 23:33
  Speaker 7: fingers and they're they've got that little gorilla mascot stuffies.
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: It's not about loyalty. Devin Booker's rich.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: He was already rich. Now he's richer than rich. He's
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: not giving the Sons a hometown discount. He's not sacrificing
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: or anything like that. So stop he cashed in like
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: this is like a hedge fund manager on insider info, right,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: he got insider him.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: It is a hometown heist, is what it is. And
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: Devin Booker he.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Didn't stay with the Suns because he loves the desert
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: sunsets and loves hanging out in a town where it's
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty degrees part of the year, or
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: the Southwestern cuisine.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: He stayed because the.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Suns offered him every dollar they legally could offer him
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: under the salary cap, and he said, yes, please, I
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: will take that. And I'd also like a statue to
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: gout in a doggy back? Can you put a statue
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: to go.
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: In a doggyback? So this is not a feel good story.
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: I have no problem Devin Booker getting paid. He's a star.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: It's not my cup of tea and all that. But
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: I'm not a Suns fan. So if you like him, great.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: He puts up numbers. I feel like they're empty numbers.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: And you know, let's stop pretending it's a capitalism move.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: That's fine, but let's stop pretending this is some kind
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: of Disney movie. I see this reaction, I'm like, is
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: this real? Are there actually people that are living amongst
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: us in the sports world that are like this.
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: He didn't fall on a grenade. I mean, what are
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: you doing? He didn't rescue people, you know, like they
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: I saw. I was reading the story that tragedy in Texas.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: The flood and this horrible story, and there was a
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: guy from the Coast Guard, this like first mission ever.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: This guy in his.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Twenties, I think he's twenty six, and he rescued, like,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: helped rescue one hundred, one hundred people more than that.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: It's just crazy.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: That's that's a that's a hell of a story anyway,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: all right now, Page two to La we Go, La
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: La Land. So the new details out on the fallout
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: from the Lakers record smashing ten ten billion. That's ten million,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: ten billion, ten million, yeah, right, ten billion dollars sale.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: So we are now hearing that it is official. The
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: deal allows Genie Buss to remain as the team's acting
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: own Of course, the NBA won't say owner, they're woke.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: They say governor. Anyway, for at least five years.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Different report, however, from Front Office Sports says that Genie
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Buss will only be able to stay for at most
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: five years.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Either way, she is sticking around. The Bus family legacy
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: will continue for a few more years.
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: So where do you stand on lame duc Genie Buss
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: continuing to be the face of Laker ownership.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: At league meetings, she has a seat at the table
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: even though she agreed to sell the franchise.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: All right, So when I first heard about.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: This, I was like, wow, this is just it was crazy,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: and I said, well, maybe this won't actually happen, but
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: it appears to have happened now. So this feels like
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: something you would This kind of a deal feels like
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: something you would write on a cocktail napkin at Spago
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: during happy hour. It reminds me of one of my
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: favorite radio stories. There was a guy named Gene Autry.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: You probably don't know who that is if you're below
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: a certain age, if you're really old, you know who
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Genautry is. He was known as the singing cowboy back
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: in the old days of country music, Gene Autry, and
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: he owned a bunch of radio stations on the Angels,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: a bunch of radio stations. And I heard from somebody
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: that worked at one of his radio stations, worked at
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: the old KMPC, that Gene Autry at the holiday party,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: at the Christmas party would get completely hammered and would
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: he was very friendly. You know, there's different kinds of drunks.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: There's the angry drunk, there's a happy drunk. There's the
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: I will give out ridiculous contracts. So there was a story,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: famous radio story that was told early in my career
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: by somebody that worked for gen Autry that on the
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: back of a napkin at a restaurant in Hollywood, he
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: signed one of his DJs to a lifetime contract that
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: did stand up in court.
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: And that reminds me of he is. Like Genie bus
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: probably was a Spago.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: She had a cocktail of a happy hour there and
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: she somehow finagled I'll get five more years over at
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: half five more seasons minimum or at the most.
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: Either way, that is not.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Governance, is it is cosplays. I mean, this isn't about basketball.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: It's not about winning championships. It's about ego, right, It's
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: all about optics and ego. It's about walking into the
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: arena there down on skid Row in LA and watching
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: nineteen thousand people nod and oh, look at that royalty.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: You know, it's about making sure that she sticks around,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: because that's what it's all about.
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: The Lakers sale agreement. It's like a prenup, very.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Bizarre, right, It's got this clause in there where it's
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: like institutional sentimentality.
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: It's not a business.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: It's like performance art in really expensive heels. At this point,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: and my belief maybe I'm wrong on this, but I
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: have always said that the person that has the checkbook,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: the person that writes the checks, is the one with
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: the power.
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: So in this particular story.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: That would be Mark Walter and the Guggenheim partners who
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: bought the Lakers. They own the Dodgers, also not Genie Buss.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: So the blueprints have changed. They've transferred over the deed
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: to the team and Genie Buss is going around as
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: the figurehead.
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: She's like the Queen of England, being.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Trotted out for ceremonial appearances, have a spot of tea
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: while the real power brokers play geopolitical chess. Mark Walter
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: and all them behind the.
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: Velvet rope and all that stuff.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: But Gen you can walk on the red carpet, but
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: they'll take care of the business in the back.
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: Now final point.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: We now go old guy radio.
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: Who that's right, We're doing old guy radio.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: So we flashback to a by God era long long
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: ago and a much different world in the NBA. So
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: we learned that frank Leyden You might not know who
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: that is. Frank Laden, a man that had the gift
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: of gab, former coach of the Utah jazz.
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: Led them to the playoffs for the first time. He's dead.
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: Now when I found out, we were like, I didn't
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: even know he was still alive.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, frank was an old guy when he was
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: working in the NBA, but he made it all the
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: way to.
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: Ninety three ninety three.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: So I wanted to spend a few minutes going down
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: memory lane. I think it's important when someone that touched
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: my sports fandom and I certainly wasn't a Utah jazz fan,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: but someone that touched my fandom passes away. I think
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: it's the proper respect. We used to do a six
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: line tribute. Then they changed the phone system and now
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: we can't put six lines on the air, so that
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: went to hell. So the question what are you going
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: to remember about long ago jazz coach? And he was
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: the jam well for years, Frank Layton. So the first
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: thing is a life well lived? Ninety three is a
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: great run ninety three. I mean we'd all take that
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: right now, we'd sign up for that. Say give me
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: ninety three.
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: I'm good. I'm pretty good.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: The bigger than life personality, and I was thinking about
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: it when I was coming into the studio. Frank Layden's
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: life story like an old school Hollywood comedy. It really
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: is like an old school Hollywood company. So if you
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: don't know his backstory, this is a street wise guy,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: fat guy from Brooklyn, you know, typical over the top,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: in your face New York guy, right out of Central Casting,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: and he ended up coaching the New Orleans Jazz He
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: then got dropped into Mormon country and it's like he
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: took some kind of wrong turn. I think he was
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: coming out of the Holland Tunnel and he went the
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: wrong way and then he ended up waking up in
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: someplace in Salt Lake.
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: City holding a clipboard. In the early nineteen eighties, now.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: You understand it was a much different time in professional sports,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: this corporate bull crap we have today in sports. Frank
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Laydon was a byproduct of a mom and pop era.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: In the NBA, he was the coach, he was the
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: general manager, but it looked like he belonged behind the
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: deli counter, yelling next, right, who's got next?
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: What do you want? So pastrami? What do you want? Corn? Beef? Yeah, okay,
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: roast beef, turkey, haym, what do you want?
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Like? He could have been a taxi cab driver in
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: another life and nobody would have thought anything of it.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: And he didn't waste his time crunching analytics and player
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: efficiency ratings and all that crap. Didn't worry about it,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: didn't need a computer back then, when the computers were archaic.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: When he was doing his thing, he had a rotary
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: home landline, rotary phone, no cell phone, and he picked
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: players on gut instinct. Oh my god, if you went
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: into the front offices of basketball, baseball, and football and said,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: all right, no computers, no analytics.
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: You just got to go by your gut.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: How many people would resign, how many people would have
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: a heart attack. But back then it was just the
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: way you did things right. But the thing that I
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: remember also about Frank.
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: Layden the charisma that you can't teach.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: And I was waxing poetic about my early days. It
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: was I started in the radio business as a reporter,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: but it was it was in the early relative early nineties,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: and a lot of the guys from the eighties were
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: still in the NBA, and it.
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: Was such a different era.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: Like Doug ma and Frank Layden and these big personalities
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: goofball coaches, and it was wonderful to get sound as
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: a radio guy because they just gave the most ridiculous quotes.
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: It was wonderful.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: But Frank drafted John Stockton and Carl Malone back to
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: back years, yeah, back to back years in the draft,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: and one year we got stocked. In the next year
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: we got Carl Malone Hall of Famers to the all
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: time greats. And I'll bet you dollars to donuts that
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: Frank Laydon spent more time choosing what kind of hogi
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: he was going to have at lunch than he did
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: scouting or you know, there was no algorithms or anything
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: like that, so he didn't think about predictive models or
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: any of that stuff. All right, please, Yeah, the idea
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: of analytics, Frank Layden was from an era where you
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: shoo a hand, you made a joke, you know, you
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: told the zinger a one liner, a wise crack, and
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: he coached with a towel. Frank Laydon slung over his shoulder,
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: was already sweaty at the old Salt Palace there in
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Salt Lake City, and it always looked like he when
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: he was coaching, it looked like he was working at
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: the YMCA and he was going to clean the court
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: and grab the mop. And his news conferences would be
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: stand up comedy.
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: It was back in those days.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: You just criticize the players, and that's just it just
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: goofun Now, if you criticize the players as a war tribunal,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: you lose the locker room. Back then, you know that
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: guy's fat, that guy's out of shape. You know that
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: guy's a loser. That guy should know. But it was
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: a different time. And and Frank Laydon was a throwback
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: again to a time when the NBA was like.
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: Half game, half vaudeville. And listen, younger, young peoples. Oh
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: it was terrible. Yeah, you know that.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: Losers like that podcaster JJ Reddick like to rip the
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: old days.
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: But Frank Laydon, I mean it was. It was great.
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: I have fun memories. So rest in peace, Frank Laydon,
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: a life well lived.
• 35:43
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• 35:45
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: Here we all the degree, this is one big event.
• 35:56
  Speaker 8: Gets grilled and Cho's wide receiver Marvin Mim said on
• 36:01
  Speaker 8: a radio appearance that quote, you can really feel that
• 36:04
  Speaker 8: the times are changing for us, referring to the Broncos.
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: Ben.
• 36:08
  Speaker 8: Last year, the Broncos snapped a streak of eight years
• 36:10
  Speaker 8: without making the making it to the playoffs. Do you
• 36:12
  Speaker 8: think a streak of making it to the postseason has begun?
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: So the math is no on this. It is about
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: the bow show, Bow Nicks.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: He's at the launching pad, does he go up, up
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: and away with Sean Payton? Denver is going to have
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: a pretty good defense. They figured it to be right, there.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: You can't say it's the start of a streak because
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: you look at the AFC, the Chiefs are still right
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: there in the penthouse. You've got Buffalo and Baltimore the
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: top teams. But then you look at the wild Cards
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: and so it's the Chargers. The Broncos are in the
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: mix with the Ravens, the Bengals. I think the Patriots
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: will be better this year, and so no, I'm gonna
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: go knowing that next.
• 36:51
  Speaker 8: According to analysts and betting markets, Zach Wheeler and Paul
• 36:55
  Speaker 8: Skeens are neck and neck in the nl CY Young race.
• 36:57
  Speaker 8: Who do you think should win?
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: Well?
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball would like they don't vote on this,
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: the writers vote on this, but they would like Paul
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  Speaker 1: Skeens to win. It's a good story. The pitiful Pirates
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: breakout star. He's got the social media influencer, you know,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: woman in his life and the whole thing. Zach Wheeler.
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  Speaker 1: Though he actually pitches in meaningful games. It's very odd
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  Speaker 1: because normally these things are decided the last month of
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  Speaker 1: the season. The Pirates, they're not going to play any
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: meaningful games till the grape Fruit League next year. So
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: he's Paul Skeens is gonna have to dominate and then.
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  Speaker 1: But I think because of the meaningful games, I give
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: it to Zach Wheeler next.
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  Speaker 8: Chiefs Jim Brett Veach said this week that Travis Kelcey
• 37:37
  Speaker 8: may not have it every week, but he can find
• 37:39
  Speaker 8: it when they need it.
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  Speaker 9: Ben, Do you think that will be the case for Kelsey, Well,
• 37:43
  Speaker 9: he didn't have it in.
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  Speaker 4: The Super Bowl. It looked like he was.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: Sleepwalking in the Super Bowl, which was the biggest of
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: them all, the granddaddy of them all. He's gonna turn
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  Speaker 1: thirty six during the NFL season. Let's put it this way.
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  Speaker 1: He's not going to lead the Chiefs in statistics. I
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: wouldn't be betting on him dominating this year.
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  Speaker 9: How did we do?
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  Speaker 8: All right, Ben Perito would like to know have any
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  Speaker 8: of you let loose in Tijuana in your party days? Uh?
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  Speaker 4: No, No.
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  Speaker 1: I was real close to it in San Diego, and
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: I worked down there years ago, but I haven't spent
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: spent much time in Tijuana, although I did hear some
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: amazing tales about certain shows involving animals you'd see at
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: a zoo Lorena.
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  Speaker 10: I don't know if it was Tijuana. I think it
• 39:19
  Speaker 10: was wherever Papa's and beer is. But I definitely had
• 39:22
  Speaker 10: enough Margarita's to fall asleep on the way back across
• 39:24
  Speaker 10: the border.
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  Speaker 4: Was it? Was it just across the word because Tijuana
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: was like right across the.
• 39:30
  Speaker 10: Yeah, it was literally just right across the way. Yeah,
• 39:33
  Speaker 10: I was probably in Tijuana.
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you were in Tijuana for sure. Cool.
• 39:36
  Speaker 8: I have driven through Tijuana. I have never stopped in Tijuana.
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: Where were you going?
• 39:41
  Speaker 8: I was going to via di Guadaloupe. It is the
• 39:45
  Speaker 8: wine country of Mexico.
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: Ooh, oh, okay, very good. I know that surfer Todd
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: the comedian.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: He likes going to Baja California surf great surfing down here.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: Just gotta have money to pay off the federal allies
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: in the cartel.
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: All right, let's see what is next year? What do
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: we have?
• 40:01
  Speaker 9: What is Ferg Dog would like to know, high Ferg
• 40:05
  Speaker 9: Hi Fergie?
• 40:05
  Speaker 8: Is there anything that you no longer eat after it
• 40:08
  Speaker 8: made you throw up or you almost choked on it?
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: Yes, Rocky Mountain oysters, that was disgusting. I don't eat that,
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: And I'm sure there's some other things, but that's the
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: first thing that popped in my head.
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: That Bible video from years ago. What about you have
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: a raina?
• 40:24
  Speaker 10: Oh my goshuh Nacho cheese jerritos?
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: What Yeah?
• 40:30
  Speaker 10: I got sick on those one time when I was
• 40:32
  Speaker 10: camping when I was little, and they just don't taste
• 40:34
  Speaker 10: the same. Ever since, they always remind me of vomit.
• 40:36
  Speaker 10: Now whenever I eat them.
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: I got food poisoning.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: I went to the Crazy Chicken and they didn't cook
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: the chicken right one time.
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  Speaker 4: But no, I haven't really been back there since that happened. Cool.
• 40:50
  Speaker 8: So when I was a kid, and I don't think
• 40:52
  Speaker 8: it was related to the food at all. And I
• 40:54
  Speaker 8: don't know what happened, but I threw up eating a
• 40:57
  Speaker 8: sugar donut, and for at least ten to fifteen years,
• 41:03
  Speaker 8: I did not eat any sugar donuts.
• 41:05
  Speaker 9: But now I'm back on the sugar donut game.
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  Speaker 4: At what point did you cross back over?
• 41:11
  Speaker 9: That was probably late late teenage years.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, thank got you? All right? What is next?
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  Speaker 2: Here?
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  Speaker 9: What's next, donkey sausage?
• 41:49
  Speaker 8: Hi, Donkey would like to know for everybody bed or
• 41:54
  Speaker 8: couch for a nap?
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm definitely a team cow jump team sofa. You know,
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: settle in there, you get the pillow and you kind
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: of lean on your side, get the TV on.
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: Definitely, definitely.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: I feel like when you go to bed it's got
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: to be for the full night, not just for a nap.
• 42:12
  Speaker 9: What about you of a rain I am team bed Ben.
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: Bad answer, you lose, you get nothing that's wrong. Cool.
• 42:23
  Speaker 9: So it really depends.
• 42:24
  Speaker 8: If I am super tired because I got like very
• 42:27
  Speaker 8: little sleep the night before, then I might go for
• 42:30
  Speaker 8: a serious nap, an ultra nap. And in that case
• 42:33
  Speaker 8: I will go to the bed, but just for your
• 42:35
  Speaker 8: regular run of the mill naps, couch all the way.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: Normally Friday, I gotta I record like podcasts on Friday.
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: Like and so I usually by the end of that
• 42:46
  Speaker 4: I'm just like gassed and I'll.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: Lay down and take a I won't even realize about fallsey.
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: What's next? What do we ever? It's ask Ben. Your
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: questions are answers.
• 42:54
  Speaker 8: The King Rory would like to know hiking best brand
• 42:58
  Speaker 8: of bottled water.
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: I think they're all the same.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: I don't really, I don't care whatever whatever is in
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: that side Kirkland I use, I guess we mostly in
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: the house we have Kirkland brand water, which is fine.
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: So I just used that.
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: I don't I don't really taste. I don't taste the difference.
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: If I taste something in the water. It sucks.
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: What about you, Lorrena.
• 43:19
  Speaker 10: You know it's not about just taste, it's about the bottle.
• 43:22
  Speaker 10: I'm a big fan. I'm a big fan of Smart water,
• 43:26
  Speaker 10: and I love the suction top that it has, like
• 43:30
  Speaker 10: just squirt it.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: Why don't you just use the fun Do you buy
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: a bottle and then just fill it up with tap water?
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: Ew?
• 43:36
  Speaker 9: That is one of these California tapwater.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: That is one of the biggest waste bottled water. One
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: of the great hustles of all time is convincing people
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: to buy bottled water unless.
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: You're in Flint, Michigan. Okay, all right, uh.
• 43:51
  Speaker 8: Coop, I have Kirkland at home, but I do enjoy
• 43:55
  Speaker 8: a nice Fiji water or yeah, smart water is good
• 44:00
  Speaker 8: as well.
• 44:00
  Speaker 4: All right, quickly, what's next? What are we ha here?
• 44:03
  Speaker 9: We've got We've got a question from Have you ever?
• 44:07
  Speaker 8: Freddie wants to know have you ever broken a bone before?
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: Nothing major? Just like a finger and toes a Lorena?
• 44:13
  Speaker 8: No?
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: Never, Oh your.
• 44:16
  Speaker 9: Due, Coop, Nope, not a single one, no wow
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: One team, no break team, no break