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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Mahler
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  Speaker 3: It is a.
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  Speaker 1: Quiet neighborhood right now. Welcome in the beginning. How about
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  Speaker 1: other night of the Benmahler Show, the Old Day Night doubleheader.
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  Speaker 1: is from the waiting game, and we continue to be
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  Speaker 1: stalkers behind these microphones in the middle of the night.
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  Speaker 1: We're hiding out in mister rogers neighborhood. In fact, we
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  Speaker 1: are actually broadcasting in his neighborhood. This show reaching Malibu Boo,
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  Speaker 1: where Rogers hangs out. But it is our obligatory malar
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  Speaker 1: monologue on Aaron Rogers and his employment. And if you
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  Speaker 1: have not been following this because you got stuff going on,
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  Speaker 1: I got it. Perhaps you've missed it. So watch the
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  Speaker 1: show back in the day called the First forty eight.
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  Speaker 1: They don't get a big lead in the first forty eight,
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  Speaker 1: very tough to solve the case. Well, first forty eight
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  Speaker 1: have come and gone, and radio silence, not on this show,
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  Speaker 1: but radio silence for Aaron Rodgers and nothing zippo. Lack
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  Speaker 1: of decision. Apparently not about the money, of course, it's
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  Speaker 1: always about the money. But the former NFL GM is
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  Speaker 1: saying that these Steelers are being held hostage in Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 1: The offer has been made. It's all about Rogers and
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  Speaker 1: these twiddling his thumbs is what he's doing right now.
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  Speaker 1: And it's up to him. And so the suspense is
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  Speaker 1: building between the Steelers, the Giants, and even the Vikings, suppose,
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  Speaker 1: so let us discuss the question. Pittsburgh has made an
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  Speaker 1: offer to Aaron Rodgers. The delay supposedly not about the
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  Speaker 1: money Rogers signed off on that. If you believe the
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  Speaker 1: reporting and a former NFL GM is saying that Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Rodgers is holding the Steelers hostage very dramatically, how do
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  Speaker 1: you assess this one? So I said to it this way.
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  Speaker 1: I've got grandfather clock, taste buds and a bag of umbrellas,
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  Speaker 1: and we will combine these three very random things together
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  Speaker 1: and we are going to make some Canadian cheesy snacks,
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  Speaker 1: which are my new favorite cheesy snack. A listener Nico
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  Speaker 1: sent us a bunch of snacks from Canada, and these
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  Speaker 1: things are amazing, real cheese, unlike the crap we get
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  Speaker 1: here in the States. All right, So a my first
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  Speaker 1: thought on how I assess the Aaron Rodgers story is
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  Speaker 1: the R word rubbish, right, rubbish. The Steelers. I don't
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  Speaker 1: believe in the overly dramatic hostage drum. I think they're
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  Speaker 1: being held hostage. If they have been held hostage, it's
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  Speaker 1: only because they put all of their eggs in the
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  Speaker 1: Rogers basket and they have no other backup plan. They
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  Speaker 1: are free to go out and sign any other quarterback
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  Speaker 1: they want. And Aaron Rodgers at this point, he's operating
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  Speaker 1: like a grandfather clock. But that grandfather clock is not
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  Speaker 1: set to Eastern time, Central time, Mountain or Pacific. It's
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  Speaker 1: on island time. He's living the island life and that
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  Speaker 1: grandfather clock, and Rogers is out there relaxing. He's in
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  Speaker 1: no rush, La la la la la, he's saying in
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  Speaker 1: a Sunday drive. He's working at his own speeding. It
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  Speaker 1: could be that he's out there somewhere and he's waiting
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  Speaker 1: for some europop little ace of Basse back in the
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  Speaker 1: day and he wants to see the sign and then
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  Speaker 1: he can say I saw the sign and it opened
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  Speaker 1: my eyes, and he hasn't seen the sign yet. Could
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  Speaker 1: also be that he's waiting for his pal Joe Rogan
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  Speaker 1: to come over with a jug of ayahuasca and that'll
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  Speaker 1: give him wisdom. But the way we look at it,
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  Speaker 1: Rogers has the Steelers, the Vikings, the Giants, and mystery door,
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  Speaker 1: which is what retirement. But Certaly seems like it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be the Steelers, maybe the Vikings, or I can't
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  Speaker 1: imagine the Giants. The Giants are on the back burner
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  Speaker 1: at this point. But if anything breaks overnight, we are
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  Speaker 1: at the watch tower. We're at the guard track all
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  Speaker 1: night long, and he happens in the wee hours of
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  Speaker 1: the morning, we will give it to you first right here,
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  Speaker 1: So no need to worry about looking at any of
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  Speaker 1: those bogus algorithms on social media. We got you covered now.
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  Speaker 1: Beat So, Aaron Rodgers did pop up in the tabloids
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  Speaker 1: in the last day or so. Rogers was spotted alone
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  Speaker 1: by the paparazzi from the Daily Mail, that's a tabloid
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  Speaker 1: in London. Rogers was sashetting his way down the beach
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  Speaker 1: there in Malibu, and he had a blanket wrapped around
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  Speaker 1: him in the upper part of his body. He had
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  Speaker 1: some earphones on. Now the pundits claimed that Rogers was
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  Speaker 1: contemplating whether or not he wants to keep playing in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. And this has bounced all over the pinball machine.
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  Speaker 1: Does this count though? This photo and I'm describing it
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  Speaker 1: for our blind listeners, and if you haven't seen it,
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  Speaker 1: or you can't see it. It's just Rogers. It's kind
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  Speaker 1: of at sunset there. Rogers is on the beach. He's
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  Speaker 1: got what appears to be swim trunks on, but he's
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  Speaker 1: got a blanket wrapped around him and headphones, and he's
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  Speaker 1: got a hat on backwards and I'm sure Cowhard probably
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  Speaker 1: don't like that. And then he's wandering around. So does
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  Speaker 1: this count as a powerful moment as it is being
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  Speaker 1: described in the tabloids? Is that a powerful moment? So
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  Speaker 1: let me check the old taste buds on this, because
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  Speaker 1: I think this was a little too rich for our
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  Speaker 1: taste buds, that this is a powerful moment. No, methinks
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  Speaker 1: that's a bit too dramatic. It's all about interpretation, right,
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  Speaker 1: Some are saying powerful moment. I saw it as a
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  Speaker 1: regular occurrence, and I would argue that if you go
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  Speaker 1: to that beach, or any beach at sunset, you will
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  Speaker 1: see people, whether it's Aaron Rodgers or other people walking
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  Speaker 1: along the shore. In this case, Rogers just a guy
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  Speaker 1: living in Malibu. He's living the lifestyle, enjoying the Pacific Ocean,
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  Speaker 1: those majestic views of the deep goop lucy out there
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  Speaker 1: looking at all the water and the waves and all that.
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  Speaker 1: But yea Rogers had a blanket wrapped around him, and
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  Speaker 1: because it was a little chili California Chili at sunset,
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  Speaker 1: and he was wearing headphones because he was probably listening
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  Speaker 1: to the Ben Maler Show podcast what else would you
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  Speaker 1: listen to? And he was also trying to avoid social interaction.
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  Speaker 1: Now I've done the same thing. I've gone out and
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  Speaker 1: I used to go to games a lot and sit
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  Speaker 1: in press boxes, and I would often wear headphones because
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  Speaker 1: I didn't want someone to talk to me, and sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't even have anything on. But I've noticed that
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  Speaker 1: some people, they're called schmucks. They'll talk to you anyway,
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  Speaker 1: but oftentimes if you're wearing headphones, people will not bother you,
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  Speaker 1: and if they do come up to you, you just point
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  Speaker 1: at your headphones. Now, others have pointed out that it's
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five and Aaron Rodgers was not using wireless headphones.
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  Speaker 1: He had wired headphones, and this was pretty wild to
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  Speaker 1: many people. Rogers likely worried about what the evil rays
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  Speaker 1: from Blue Tooth, some kind of things interfering with his
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  Speaker 1: brain waves, the Bluetooth rays or something like that. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, when Aaron Rodgers is prepared to pick a
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  Speaker 1: team because he's going to visit what some kind of
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  Speaker 1: darkness cabin somewhere, and and he'll have the costco sized
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  Speaker 1: drum of ayahuasca and then meditation, and he'll go hug
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  Speaker 1: some trees and he'll be ready to go. All right, now,
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  Speaker 1: last word, So we now head below below the Mason
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  Speaker 1: Dixon Line State sponsored NFL Media, the prop of the
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  Speaker 1: news service of the NFL reporting that the Atlanta football
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  Speaker 1: team will not will not be dumping Kirk Cousins, not
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  Speaker 1: my cousin, not your cousin. Kirk Cousins. In a plot twist,
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  Speaker 1: the former Viking, former Redskin, current Falcon quarterback the boys
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  Speaker 1: from Georgia will be handing him some extra money, but
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  Speaker 1: he'll be hanging out as a highly paid backup behind
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  Speaker 1: Michael Pennix Junior, rather than being let go and kicked out,
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  Speaker 1: get out of here and all that. So the plot
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  Speaker 1: thickens here, and this begs the question, why are the
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  Speaker 1: Falcons holding on to a quarterback they clearly don't want
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  Speaker 1: anymore in Kirk Cousins, And they're gonna end up paying
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  Speaker 1: him an extra ten million dollars and that payment movie
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  Speaker 1: coming down in a few days. So after a minutes
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  Speaker 1: long Mallard deliberation, I have determined that what the Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: football team is doing is they have a bag of
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  Speaker 1: umbrellas and they're waiting with that bag of umbrellas for
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  Speaker 1: the downpour. They're waiting for the storm. They're waiting for
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  Speaker 1: the rainy day. And we all know if you're in
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  Speaker 1: a city, doesn't matter where you are. I've been in
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  Speaker 1: many cities when the pop up rainstorm happens, and what
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  Speaker 1: always takes place, some JIBBRONI walks out of a store,
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  Speaker 1: usually like in a trench coat, and he's got a
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  Speaker 1: bag of umbrellas. And back in the old days and
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  Speaker 1: you get a bbroll for like five bucks I think
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  Speaker 1: it's ten, fifteen, twenty bucks now cash only, cash only,
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  Speaker 1: but you got like a bag or a bucket of umbrellas.
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  Speaker 1: And that essentially that's what Cousins is. He's a he's
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  Speaker 1: an umbrella. And the falcons are waiting for a rainy day,
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  Speaker 1: and once once a few sprinkles happen, they'll they'll sell it.
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  Speaker 1: Think of it like the falcons are in the Nerve
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  Speaker 1: center at the Football Pentagon and they're waiting for the infestation,
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  Speaker 1: and that that injury infestation, the injury bug starts biting, nibble, nibble, nibble.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't even have to bite, it could just nibble,
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  Speaker 1: and then the dirty birds will turn on a neon
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  Speaker 1: light and say, hey, we are open for business. So
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  Speaker 1: if Jared Goff somehow goes out hunting and steps on
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  Speaker 1: something he shouldn't step on and is not able to play,
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  Speaker 1: the Lions can call the Falcons. If Patty Mahomes is
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  Speaker 1: somewhere in Texas and he ends up in an accident
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  Speaker 1: with a deep friar at a waterburger, then don't worry.
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta's got a quarterback for you. I'm sure Josh Allen
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  Speaker 1: be injured on the back nine at Augusta, then hey,
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  Speaker 1: he can go to the injury tent and call who
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna call. You're gonna call the Atlanta Falcons and
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  Speaker 1: get your hands on Kirk Coussin by the bing by
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  Speaker 1: the boom, Just like that, Yeah, just like that.
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from baseball. We'll get
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  Speaker 1: back to Aaron Rodgers. Watch our breathless around the clock
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  Speaker 1: coverage of Aaron Rogers in the waiting Game, which is
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  Speaker 1: reminiscent if you remember a couple years back when Rogers
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  Speaker 1: was debating where he was going to play and leaving
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  Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers. There was a pretty lengthy delay
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  Speaker 1: in that period of time. So it's not that unusual.
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  Speaker 1: It's just that everyone seemed to indicate things We're going
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  Speaker 1: to move along at an expedited and they did not.
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  Speaker 1: And we're going back to Sunday. We're now into Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: And Sunday night there there were people whispering, well, Rogers
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  Speaker 1: is going to agree to a deal on Monday, and
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  Speaker 1: then it was well Tuesday, and then it's Wednesday, and
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  Speaker 1: now here we are on Thursday and bubkus. But I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to talk some baseball a big star. I have
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  Speaker 1: not done a Mallard monologue, a full malle of monologue
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  Speaker 1: about this guy in years.
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  Speaker 3: Why would I.
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  Speaker 1: He's not playing anymore, but a big league star from
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  Speaker 1: baseball past. He's still dishing out hot takes. You get
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  Speaker 1: a hot take, you get a hot take, You get
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  Speaker 1: a hot take. We're talking about Barry Bonds. Balco Barry
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  Speaker 1: who recently touched on several topics. Now, if you didn't
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  Speaker 1: hear what he had to say, maybe not on analytics.
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  Speaker 1: Bond said, I believe I'll give a little taste of this.
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  Speaker 1: Bond said, I believe Major League Baseball has already recognized
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  Speaker 1: analytics works in some aspects of the game, Bond said,
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  Speaker 1: but not in the core of the game. He said,
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  Speaker 1: there's one aspect of it, analytics. It's not fun. He said,
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  Speaker 1: to me, it's boring, Bond said. He talked about Cooperstown.
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  Speaker 1: He was asked about being ostracized from the Hall of
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  Speaker 1: Fame because he's the face of steroids. Other steroid guys
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  Speaker 1: are in the Hall of Fame, but Bond's not allowed in.
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  Speaker 1: He said, why not kill that bird and let it go.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you want to keep beating the drum? Bonds lamented,
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  Speaker 1: there's no need to keep beating that drum. Okay, Now,
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  Speaker 1: Bond's Barry Bonds gave the money quote and that was
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  Speaker 1: about the biggest star in baseball today, the Doyers star
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  Speaker 1: sho heo Tani. Barry Bonds said shoe Haotani should not
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  Speaker 1: pitch again, he said, quote, if you're daching and doing
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  Speaker 1: what you're doing, why fix something that ain't broken. Bond said,
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  Speaker 1: there's a de thought. He said, pitching again, question Mark,
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  Speaker 1: that's a lot of concentration. He might get hurt again.
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  Speaker 1: They're asking a lot, Bond said, indicating that he did
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  Speaker 1: not support Otani returning to the mound now. Bond's also
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  Speaker 1: said that if Otani does pitch, he should come out
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  Speaker 1: of the bullpen if he comes back, if he pitches
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  Speaker 1: at all, and then people pointing out, well, he can't
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  Speaker 1: really do that because he'd be in the game. You
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  Speaker 1: might have to bat. You can't be out in the
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  Speaker 1: bullpen warming up and Otani did not pitch for the
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers last season. He was recovering from Tommy John surgery,
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  Speaker 1: his second Tommy John surgery on his right elbow, and
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  Speaker 1: he still picked up the MVP. Was the American League
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  Speaker 1: MVP in Anaheim National League MVP with the Doyers, but
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  Speaker 1: last year is a designated hitter, first member of the
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  Speaker 1: fifty to fifty club fifty home runs, fifty solen bases
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  Speaker 1: in one season with fifty four and fifty nine respectively.
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  Speaker 1: So let us discuss Barry Bond says it's best for
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  Speaker 1: showy Otani to give up pitching. Thumbs up or thumbs
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  Speaker 1: down on Barry Bond saying it's best for Otani to
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  Speaker 1: give up pitching. So I've got bubble wrap, Pilgrimage, and
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  Speaker 1: yellow and we will combine all of these things together
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  Speaker 1: and we are going to make some cracker jacks and
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  Speaker 1: soft pretzels, is what we're going to make. So num burr,
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  Speaker 1: I said, numb burn. So I'm gonna go thumbs down
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  Speaker 1: on this. I'm going thumbs down on Barry Bond saying
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  Speaker 1: that Otani should not pitch again. In fact, I fundamentally
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  Speaker 1: disagree Bury the Bozo on this one. Otani shouldn't pitch.
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  Speaker 1: The logic is because he could get hurt. What in
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  Speaker 1: the world didn't he get hurt with the Angels and
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  Speaker 1: then went out and hit fifty home runs while not
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  Speaker 1: being able to pitch, So if he gets hurt, he'll
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  Speaker 1: just go back to being a designated hitter. I don't
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  Speaker 1: see what the problem is. They tell me you're a
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  Speaker 1: loser without telling me you're and then Bonds he said, well,
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  Speaker 1: I can be a relief fisher, and we was pointed
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  Speaker 1: out that he can't and but the whole he could
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  Speaker 1: get hurt. Thing that that that is one of my
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  Speaker 1: pet peeves. Right, it sounds like Bonds is the prince
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  Speaker 1: of paranoia and the crap we dealt with five years
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  Speaker 1: ago out of an abundance of caution. Just don't do anything.
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  Speaker 1: Don't leave your homes, you know, hide in the corner
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  Speaker 1: and suck your thumb and the fetal position. You can't
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  Speaker 1: play scared now, you can't do that. And what are
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  Speaker 1: you gonna wrap Otani in bubble wrap and put him
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  Speaker 1: in a box with foam peanuts because he might get injured.
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  Speaker 1: Otani could get hurt. Maybe his elbows snap when he's
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  Speaker 1: brushing his teeth, he reaches for the mouth wash and
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden he feels a snap. Or his
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  Speaker 1: ankle could get sprayed walking to make a cup of
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  Speaker 1: coffee in the morning, which so many people do. Or
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  Speaker 1: maybe that the scrambled eggs will will will fall into
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  Speaker 1: his lap and burn his groin and he won't be
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  Speaker 1: able to play go on. Ifs and butts were candy
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  Speaker 1: and nuts, you'd get hurt every day. Otani is a
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  Speaker 1: value added as a pitcher until Proveno has Now he's
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  Speaker 1: had two major operations on his arm, and the comps
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  Speaker 1: are not great. If you look at the people that
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  Speaker 1: have had multiple Tommy John ligament replacement operations, it does
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  Speaker 1: not go well. Generally speaking, if you have two reconstructive surgeries,
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  Speaker 1: you're cooked. It's over as far as pitching, So we'll
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  Speaker 1: say it's conceivable that Otani is done as a pitcher.
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  Speaker 1: That's why the Dodgers added eighteen starting pitchers, because half
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  Speaker 1: of them will have Tommy John surgery by the All
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  Speaker 1: Star break. Now page two, major League Baseball's regular season
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  Speaker 1: has what we call here in the United States a
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  Speaker 1: soft launch, and this is going to become the new normal.
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  Speaker 1: Back in the old days, the baseball season would always
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  Speaker 1: start in Cincinnati. The first professional sports team had the parade.
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  Speaker 1: It was a big deal. But over the years, baseball
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  Speaker 1: has a sold a soul the games to countries around
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  Speaker 1: the world. And the salt launch is early next week
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  Speaker 1: in Japan, and it's great for us because the games
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  Speaker 1: will start at six am Eastern. Our show ends at
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  Speaker 1: six am Eastern three am in the West, and the
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  Speaker 1: Cubbies and the Dodgers will be playing two real games
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  Speaker 1: in Tokyo. So how would you describe the sho Heotani
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers season opening trip to Japan. So Dodgers have made
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  Speaker 1: their way to Japan. They flew on Wednesday. Cubs are
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  Speaker 1: there as well, so this is like a religious pilgrimage
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  Speaker 1: to the mecca of baseball. From everything we're hearing, Shoeotani,
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  Speaker 1: just imagine, if you will, Otani is like Robin Hood
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  Speaker 1: and the rest of the Dodgers are his band of
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  Speaker 1: Mary Matt. Now, there are some other players from Japan
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  Speaker 1: that are on the Dodgers and the Cubs, but from
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  Speaker 1: what we're hearing, Otani is the baseball deity. He is omnipresent.
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  Speaker 1: There is a sense of awe and mystery in his
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  Speaker 1: mere presence in his native Japan, like some kind of
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  Speaker 1: divine power from another world and Major League Baseball. I
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: gotta give him credit, right because there's like there's a
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: barnstorming tour and all that. But they are laughing all
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: the way to the bank, presenting this as an act
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  Speaker 1: of goodwill, a trip of goodwill to give baseball to
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: the people of Japan, even they have baseball there. But
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: there are roughly I did some math on this, so
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: there's roughly one hundred and twenty five million men, women,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: and children that live in Japan. It is estimated that
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: roughly thirty million of those Japanese residents are hardcore baseball fans.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: So if you do the math on that, from accounts
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: at souvenir shops around Tokyo, the Otani two hundred and
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: fifteen dollars Jersey is selling out the standing room only
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: tickets for Cubs Dodgers next week in Tokyo two thousand
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: dollars for standing room a surge in new balance sales
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: because Otani's endorsed them. But wait, there's more. We're told
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: that over one hundred and fifty movie theaters will be
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: streaming the Dodgers opening series in Tokyo on March eighteenth
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: and March nineteenth, So five days away from now, they'll
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: have one hundred and fifteen movies. Can they do this
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: sometimes with concerts or they'll have some big event here
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: in the States where you go, like, all right, you
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: can go and check it out, but for a baseball game,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: just a regular season game, Dodgers and Cubs, one hundred
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: and fifty movie theaters, people will be going. I assume
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: you're eating the popcorn there. I don't know. Maybe they're
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: eating something else and then hanging out watching the game.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: All right, now, last word, last word. So I saw
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: this going around if I died A listener I think
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: his name was Steve in the Greater Nashville area who
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: sent this and he was all excited. It's the proposed
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball expansion team, the Nashville Stars, which was
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: the name of the old Triple A team there. They
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: showed off a logo and a hat on the Internet
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: of what the whole thing would look like if they
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: did get the expansion team in Nashville. So what is
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: the word? What is the word for these things being
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: leaked on the internet? The hypothetical Nashville expansion team hat,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: the logo, So my word is yellow. My word is
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: yellow as in yellow flag. This is a false start
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: penalty five yards and replay the down, get the team,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: and then give out the logo. You're doing things out
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: of order. Bad job by you. You don't have the team.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Everyone assumes you're to get the team. There is a
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: world though, where the Tampa Bay Rays leave Florida and
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: end up going to Nashville, and then you already have
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: a name. I guess you could change the name anyway.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: But the other thing about this I'm saying about Nashville Stars,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: I don't approve. I don't approve the mixplain. We already
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: have a team called the Stars. Now maybe you're not
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: a hockey fan, and they should be the old They
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: should be the North Stars, which is what they were
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: known as when they were in Minnesota. But they moved
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: years ago to Dallas and they're the Stars. And you say, well,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: that's dumb and stupid and all that, but that's what
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: they're known as. They're known as the Stars. And I
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: am now the commissioner of Overnight Sports Radio, and in
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: my world, we do not share names. For example, I
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: believe that the New York Giants or the San Francisco Giants,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: they should flip a coin and one of them should
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: change their name. There should only be one Giants team.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: We shouldn't have a Saint Louis Cardinals and Arizona Cardinals.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: One of them should have to change their name. We
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: should not be sharing names in twenty twenty five in
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: different sports. I know why they did it because the
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: teams were in the same city back in the day.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: It's stupid, right, and the Star nickname is dom do
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: something original, think outside the box. When I think of Nashville,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: I think of a hipster town. I think of the
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: music city country music. How about the Music City Mashers.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: That'd be original, right, Music's how great would that be?
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Imagine that home pinstripe uniform with Music City across the
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: chest plate and the road uniforms with Masher be great.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: And if you don't want to offend anyone because of
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: violence with Masher, just put mashed potatoes on there. Be wonderful.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: How about the Nashville banjo bashers. You put a banjo,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: have your logo a banjo right there, celebrate country music
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: and they have that d there's that famous I don't
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: know famous. My friends from Tennessee wax poetic about it. It's
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: like this Goo Google cluster thing. You can do something
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: with that. But there's other things that you can come
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: up with, other ideas that would be local in flavor,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: that would be original. Don't dude, if you do get
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: an expansion team, Nashville's Stars is stupid. It's dumb. The
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: only way I would allow a Stars nickname back, and
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: I don't support it, is if and I actually told
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: some people with the Clippers years ago to do this,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: and they didn't do it because they didn't listen to me.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: But they should. I said, the Clipper should have changed
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: their name to the Hollywood Stars. That would have been outstanding.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: That would have been a great name. Hollywood Star that works, right,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Tinseltown and lie like Dallas Stars doesn't really work. You
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: don't think of a star when you think of the
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Dallas hockey scene. Nashville Stars, you already have the start.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: The only one that would be acceptab would be the
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Hollywood Stars. And the interlocking and asked logo for Nashville
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Stars is Dollsville is what it is. It's dull, it
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: just is. It's just no no wow. Fact. I need
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: some wow. Fact there's no wow. I need a wow.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: There's no wow.
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• 26:18
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• 26:20
  Speaker 3: Good believe Bliger.
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: McFarlane took to X on Tuesday to say that he
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: hopes Tiger Woods retires after this latest injury of his
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: and he implored Tiger to enjoy your kids. Ben do
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: you think Tiger hangs it up?
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: We don't. Most people that golf enjoy their kids. I mean,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: golf something you do when you retire. So how do
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: you retire from golf? I don't I mean you can.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Couldn't he drive around on a golf cart? I don't know.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Why would you retire from golf? I know he'll never
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: win anything again, but no, all these people all you
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: should retire. He sucked at golf for how many years?
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Who cares? People love Tiger. He's a legend. He wants
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: to keep playing. Let him show up and play next.
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: Rick Patino is about to lead his sixth program to
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: the NZ Tournament.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: What did I say?
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: Just handheld?
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Alright, alright, that's happened.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's about to lead his sixth program to the
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: NCAA tournament, more than any coach in history. But do
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: you think it's time we start talking about Patino as
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: the best coach in the history of college basketball?
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: No, he's He's in that upper class of coaches because
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: he's done it everywhere. And hey, Patino's like the last
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: of the Mohegans. In terms of the bigger than life
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: college basketball coach. There's hardly any of these guys left
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: when he leaves like the next generation. No, he's not
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: the greatest of all time, but he's in the discussion
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: of the top ten fifteen all time coaches. Next.
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: Ben an NBA senior writer, said on Tuesday, we're witnessing
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: one of the great MVP races in modern history between
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: Jokic and SGA.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: Do you agree?
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: No, I don't. There's no buzz nationally. Maybe in Denver
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: and Oklahoma City, but no. I'd say Magic and Bird
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: back in the day a little bit better.
• 27:56
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• 27:58
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• 28:01
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• 28:05
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  Speaker 1: It's now time for time. Horry, Harry Honey, ask Ben Twitter,
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• 28:34
  Speaker 1: of the hour, and now for the reading of the
• 28:38
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• 28:41
  Speaker 4: All right, Ben, We're gonna start off with a question
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: from ferg Dog. Hi Fergie, he wants to know, would
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: you ever date a stripper?
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm married, my wife might have a problem with it.
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: But if you if you were single, yeah, uh yeah
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: I would.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Uh my, yeah, when I was younger, anybody I was,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: I was having issues with dating, So yeah, I probably
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: would have when I was younger, but uh no, I
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: never did. I had a buddy of mine that datd
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: a stripper. She always had a lot of cash. But
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: that's about it. You, Lorenda, Would you date a stripper? Lorena?
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: I hate strippers, Ben really?
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, strippers know all of my brother's friends just nasty,
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: just well, so I would never date a stripper.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Interesting, Cooper Loop who says, I haven't o unbelievable nice. Yeah,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: I went to it was what was the name of
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: the place, the Hollywood Tropic Cana not there anymore, and
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: uh with a buddy of mine and and the stripper
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: like I was kind of I thought she was, and
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: she like was hitting on my buddy. That pissed me off.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: I was upset by that. Uh, what's the next, Coop,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: what do we have? We've got a question from the
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: King Rory h r. He would like to know what
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: is your favorite fruit? Well, I like banana cream pie,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: but bananas are fine. I guess if I in a pinch,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: the go to is the red delicious apple. That's been
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: my go to over the years. The one I've eaten
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: the most of is the red delicious apple. So I
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: go red delicious, but uh, strawberries. It depends on my mood,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: but overall red delicious. What about you, Lorena?
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: I like caramel apples.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Ben that's covered in sugar, that's not It doesn't matter.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: I also like candied apples.
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: I like the ones with the cinnamon.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Hard cooked apple.
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: Is your favorite fruit? Yes? Wow, you both? Caramel apple
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: so boring.
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: Strawberry is good and you can dip it in sugar.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Tell that to Johnny Apple, see the things that's boring?
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: All right? Your schmuck apples?
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: The doctor away?
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: What do you like? What do you like? Kiwi?
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: No, I would go with mango bar He had to
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: google his favorite fruits. What are the best fruits?
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Now?
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: What is also good? Is pineapple? Solid? But I've eaten
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: mostly the apple. I like the pineapple which has apple
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: in it. That's pretty good in a really hot day. Watermelon, Oh,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: man on a hot day. Wonderful. Next, what do we
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: got Timothy?
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: Would like to know Timothy from NKY North.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: That's Northern Kentucky. Coop coming right, that's my guy, Timothy.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: He wants to know what is your favorite flavor cake?
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Yes? So, to me, the most important thing about cake
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: is the frosting. I generally go like a white cake.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: There's this blue cake, this smurf cake that this local
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: bakery has, which I love, and it's got the blue
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: cake with the white frosting, and it's just my go
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: to for cake you when I have birthdays or whatever.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: So that's my favorite. What about you rate it?
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: Oh, this is a really hard one, Ben, there's so many.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Cakes in those but you can only have one. I'll
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: tell you about.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: Least favorites, German chocolate cake.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: I didn't ask your least favorite. I wanted to know
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: your favorite.
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: Maybe maybe carrot cake.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, that is my least favorite. That's the
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: worst answer you could.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: I love the cream cheese frosting on top.
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: It makes me okay, but.
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: The carrot okay, Coop, urry up, turn your mic off
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: that I'm gonna go yellow cake, chocolate frosting.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Not bad, but I like the white cake or the
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: blue cake white frosting.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: Next, JT.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: The Wingman wants to know what was your favorite color
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: crayon in the Crayola sixty four color crayon set.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Well, the one I ate the most of was a
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: child was the blue one. I ate the blue crayon
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: the most, and then I used to eat the crayons
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: when I was in kindergarten. But I green or blue?
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: What about you, Lorena?
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: Oh, there was this one specific pink and I can't
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: remember the first word of it, but it was a
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: pink for sure.
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: All right, cool, My favorite color is orange, But my
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: favorite crayon is Hunter Green.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: Oh, you're so cool
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Hunter Green from Hunter Remember the names of the crayons
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: and