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Hour 1 - International Debacle · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: from the Fifth Hour podcast here on the Ben Maler
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  Speaker 1: Show and our number one, it is all about ball,
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  Speaker 1: at least at the beginning here. Did President Trump cross
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  Speaker 1: the line lobbying FIFA to lift a red card suspension
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  Speaker 1: for one of the stars of Team USA? And people
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  Speaker 1: upset with that? Also does Belgium, who plays Team USA
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  Speaker 1: today in the World Cup in Seattle? Does Belgium Soccer
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  Speaker 1: have a winnable case to block the USA star ballagoon
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  Speaker 1: from playing in the World Cup? Also in baseball, are
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  Speaker 1: the Angels really going to hold on to Mike Trout
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  Speaker 1: again at the trade deadline? We'll talk about that and
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  Speaker 1: more right now, because that's baseball, Susan, It's our number one.
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  Speaker 1: An international debacle, well not quite a debacle. Welcome in
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  Speaker 1: never been accused of. Wayne is the first person that says, man,
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  Speaker 1: Wayne the curmudgeon was complaining. He also wants to talk
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  Speaker 1: nothing but basketball, which maybe we will just with the
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  Speaker 1: entire show when there's nothing going on in basketball, well
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  Speaker 1: just the whole thing on basketball, just to annoy and
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  Speaker 1: annoy him, Wayne from the roof. But he did have
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  Speaker 1: a good point. Even though he's a curmudgeon and needs
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  Speaker 1: to get out and get his feet on the grass.
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  Speaker 1: Wayne did have a good point. He said, Ben, can
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  Speaker 1: are gross, but they doesn't They don't The gross people
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  Speaker 1: I say, all right, now we will get back to
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  Speaker 1: the live reads. We now pause the live reads. I
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  Speaker 1: know this is always when people turn the show off.
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  Speaker 1: We actually give you content. This is the worst part.
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  Speaker 1: I know, it sucks. I just deal with it. It's
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  Speaker 1: it up Buttercup before we have another live read. But
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  Speaker 1: our lead this hour is from what everyone's talking about.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna start with the soccer.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Am I gonna do a deep dive on Mexico losing
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  Speaker 1: to the brit No? Did I watch the game? Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Was it entertaining? Absolutely? Am I gonna sit there and
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  Speaker 1: do a minute by minute? No? I also saw for
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  Speaker 1: the weekend Canada loss to Morocco. So they're out. The
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  Speaker 1: only country left I am told representing North America is USA, USA, USA,
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  Speaker 1: and none of that. But Team USA, well, they're still
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  Speaker 1: live and they got a surprise assist. Now. I know
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  Speaker 1: in in basketball they say the sixth man and in
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  Speaker 1: football they say the twelfth man. In American in football,
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  Speaker 1: like what's the soccer equivalent of that? I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: but we in USA a little international drama, a rama.
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  Speaker 1: Sign me up for it. I'm in. If you have
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  Speaker 1: not heard by now, perhaps not the Team USA squad
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  Speaker 1: which will be in action in the Great Pacific Northwest
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  Speaker 1: later on. And they got help from the Big Cheese,
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  Speaker 1: the Big ragou in the White House, President Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: intervening to help America in the world. I'm not making
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  Speaker 1: this up, by though, I'm not so apparently, if you've
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  Speaker 1: been paying attention on Fox one and by your stuff
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  Speaker 1: at home depot and all that. Florian Balligan has told
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  Speaker 1: that big star he's scored a bunch of goals as
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  Speaker 1: the high goal scorer for Team USA, and he was
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  Speaker 1: suspended red card violation. Oh except he wasn't. Not anymore
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  Speaker 1: psych The President intervened and the people at FIFA lifted
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  Speaker 1: the suspension, allowing Balligan to play for Team USA and
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  Speaker 1: their World Cup matchup against Belgium that'll be in Seattle,
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  Speaker 1: essentially just hours hours from now, many hours, but hours
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  Speaker 1: from now. So FIFA announced that the suspension had been
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  Speaker 1: lifted for the Round of sixteen matchup. Now, to say
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  Speaker 1: this is unorthodox is the understatement of understatements, and the
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  Speaker 1: good folks in Belgium they're going to stop sending waffles
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  Speaker 1: our way. They're so upset with this. Penty and I
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  Speaker 1: saw this going around. So this is apparently the first
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  Speaker 1: time since nineteen sixty two, which I'm told by Lorraine
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  Speaker 1: is a long time ago, since nineteen sixty two, that
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  Speaker 1: a red card during the World Cup did not result
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  Speaker 1: in a suspension. So let's see in nineteen sixty two,
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  Speaker 1: seventy two, eighty two, ninety two to twelve twenty four
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  Speaker 1: or twenty twenty two, and then you can add four
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  Speaker 1: more years on top. It's been a while. Now. How
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  Speaker 1: do you think that the kind folks in Belgium responded
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  Speaker 1: to this? Do you think A who cares? We're fine,
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  Speaker 1: we don't, we'll beat them anyway. B outrage, outrage, outrage
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  Speaker 1: or C. Bring in the lawyers, bring in the lawyers. Well,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of B and a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: C is the answer, we are told the Belgium Soccer Association,
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  Speaker 1: I guess that's a thing. They said it was astonished
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  Speaker 1: by the dramatic U turn by FIFA. So they're upset
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  Speaker 1: and they're investiging all legal options. Now we are told
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  Speaker 1: there are reports that they have lawyered up, that they
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  Speaker 1: have gone the legal route, and they are trying for
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  Speaker 1: the old Hail Mary, trying for the old hail Mary here.
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  Speaker 1: So that is a good joey off point. Let us
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  Speaker 1: discuss the question. We'll start with this before we get
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  Speaker 1: to the legal part of it. Did and then people
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  Speaker 1: upset with President Trump? Of course everything Trump could do anything,
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  Speaker 1: and people have to people be upset with them. Anyways,
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  Speaker 1: the question is this, did President Trump cross the line
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  Speaker 1: lobbying FIFA to lift this red card suspension from this
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  Speaker 1: bolligan guy who's supposedly the big stud of Team USA.
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  Speaker 1: So I've got bass masters, Kazoo and Churos and we
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  Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together and we are
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  Speaker 1: going to make a delicious, properly made cinnamon roll with
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  Speaker 1: the ooey gooey goodness right in the middle of that
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  Speaker 1: ooeie gooey goodness. That's what we're going for, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So Hey, to answer the question, did the President cross
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  Speaker 1: the line here by contacting FIFA? Absolutely not. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know anyone could say that cross I didn't cross the line.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't cross line. FIFA erased the line, all right,
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  Speaker 1: And you can't blame the salesman for making the pitch.
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  Speaker 1: You can't you blame the buyer for saying, yes, somebody's
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  Speaker 1: making an elevator pitch. And I said, oh man, uh,
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  Speaker 1: and I fall for these. I'm the biggest suck. I
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  Speaker 1: remember we had this guy used to call the show.
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  Speaker 1: He's retired now as a call he couldn't handle the
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  Speaker 1: rigors of being a celebrity caller, Blind Scott and Blind
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  Speaker 1: Scott years ago said, oh man, I'm making so much
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  Speaker 1: money in the stock market. He said, hey, why don't
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  Speaker 1: you invest? I got some stock and he was sending
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  Speaker 1: me all these things and I ignored him, and he said, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I got this weed stock. Oh yeah, yeah, you can't miss.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone loves the weed, you know. So it's the only
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  Speaker 1: thing that went bad, like Anny stock. Now, but I
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  Speaker 1: bought the pitch. That's on me. It's not on him.
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  Speaker 1: It's on me. I fell for the pitch. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: the president literally wrote a book before he became president
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  Speaker 1: of the Art of the deal. So why is any man,
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  Speaker 1: woman or child shocked that he picked up the phone?
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  Speaker 1: Because he's buddies with the guy that runs FIFA and hey,
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  Speaker 1: I got a little problem here. And that's it. It's
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  Speaker 1: bass masters rule number one of the bass masters. You
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  Speaker 1: cast your line and eventually something's gonna bite. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you got to put the line out there, otherwise you're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna catch anything.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 1: Don't hate the fisherman because the fish jumped into the boat,
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  Speaker 1: like the fish there on the Mississippi River where I
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  Speaker 1: want to be on a boat, go through that at
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  Speaker 1: some point that you know, you turn the engine on,
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  Speaker 1: all the fish go crazy. It's like an invasive species
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  Speaker 1: of fish and they jump everywhere and they jump on
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  Speaker 1: the boat and they oh, man love to do that anyway.
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  Speaker 1: So Belgium should not be mad at President Trump. They
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  Speaker 1: should be absolutely furious with FIFA. That's that's it. There's
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  Speaker 1: really not much else to this other than that calling
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  Speaker 1: and asking for the suspension to be overturned is not corruption.
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  Speaker 1: It's not the people at FIFA deciding yeah, that's a
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  Speaker 1: good idea. Why not. That's the issue. That's it. The
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  Speaker 1: real story here isn't the White House calling up. It's
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  Speaker 1: that FIFA. A answered and B said absolutely, can we
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  Speaker 1: have another yes, A s if a single phone go
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  Speaker 1: think it was if a single phone call from a
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  Speaker 1: politician can completely change your ruling, then let's be completely
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  Speaker 1: transparent here. The ruling really wasn't that that strong. It
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  Speaker 1: wasn't and so they people at FIFA folded on this one.
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  Speaker 1: They folded big time. Now page two, keeping the theme
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  Speaker 1: going for now. So Belgium we mentioned they have lawyered
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  Speaker 1: up reports on the overnight here that they have lawyered
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  Speaker 1: up in a desperate attempt to fight back against the
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  Speaker 1: FIFA decision to reinstate the star Balligan for USA. So
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  Speaker 1: the question does the Belgium Soccer group does the Belgium
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  Speaker 1: Soccer group have a winnable case to block the Star
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  Speaker 1: for Team USA Balligan from playing in the World Cup
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  Speaker 1: game in Seattle again just a few hours give or
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  Speaker 1: take from right now. So Belgium's case has two chances. OK.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a lawyer. I practiced law on the radio
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  Speaker 1: for many years. I have graduated from the Malors School
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  Speaker 1: of Law, which may or may not be accredited. So
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  Speaker 1: Belgium's case, there's two things that they have. Two chances
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  Speaker 1: that they have. They have Slim and none. And we
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  Speaker 1: are told that Slim is already on a flight outbound
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  Speaker 1: to Bora bora, So good luck on that's that's not
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  Speaker 1: looking good. And this isn't really a dispute, it's a
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  Speaker 1: misunderstanding of authority, that's the issue. Trying to overrule FIFA
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  Speaker 1: at the World Cup is like attempting to overrule gravity.
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  Speaker 1: Now the effort can be made to overturn gravity, chances
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  Speaker 1: of it working not very good. So FIFA runs this tournament.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a closed kitchen the way they run the almighty,
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  Speaker 1: all powerful FIFA here and so you don't and when
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  Speaker 1: you have a closed kitchen, you don't get to send
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  Speaker 1: the chef a note mid meal. So as we understand things,
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  Speaker 1: and we have spent several minutes investigating this and deliberating
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  Speaker 1: over the available information. So under FIFA's Disciplinary Code Article
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven, Yes, did I think when I woke up
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  Speaker 1: I would be talking about Article twenty seven?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 1: I did not. But here we are you and I together,
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  Speaker 1: How amazing. So article twenty seven the suspension authority has
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  Speaker 1: been established for FIFA. Essentially they have free rein, free
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  Speaker 1: rein to govern however the hell they want to govern.
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  Speaker 1: So good luck Belgium is swinging a foam gavel against
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  Speaker 1: a brick wall, hoping that they can knock the brick
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  Speaker 1: wall down with the piece of foam. Not gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: So Article twenty seven does not misapply anything. It's literally
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  Speaker 1: designed to let FIFA say, we'll enforce this later. That's it,
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  Speaker 1: we'll force this later, as I understand, so they have
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  Speaker 1: the hammer. FIFA and Belgium brought kazoo. Now, kazoo's a
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  Speaker 1: fun thing. People smile when when they see kazoo, they
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  Speaker 1: hear the kazoo, they see it, they smile. So this
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  Speaker 1: is like David versus Goliath, except David forgot the sling
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  Speaker 1: and Belgium's case is not just weak. Based on what
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  Speaker 1: I have read, it is a courtroom, outdoor courtroom, snowball
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  Speaker 1: in and outdoor court room with the heater turned on.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, so like Judge Judy, if she was involved
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  Speaker 1: in this, Judge Judy would dismiss it before the bailiff
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  Speaker 1: finishing all rise, No one would even rise. That's it,
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  Speaker 1: see you later, bye bye. All right. Now, turning away
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  Speaker 1: from that, we go to baseball. What are you talking about? Baseball?
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  Speaker 1: The flea market of baseball. With less than a month
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: now from the swap meet the Midsummer swap meet, which
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  Speaker 1: is not Midsummer. It's passed way past the All Star break.
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  Speaker 1: So the team in Anaheim not very heavenly, the fallen
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: Angels of Anaheim. That team yet again garbage, and that
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  Speaker 1: has fueled trade speculation over the last couple of months,
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  Speaker 1: and lately the uptick linking star Mike Trout to Philadelphia
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  Speaker 1: out of fighting fails. He's from that area. The trade
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  Speaker 1: deadline is August third, and so we have a little
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  Speaker 1: time now. You can pump the brakes. You would assume
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  Speaker 1: on that if you believe the new boss at the
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  Speaker 1: Big A. I say that in air quotes the new
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  Speaker 1: boss at the Big A. So former Fox Sports radio
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  Speaker 1: host and Major League Baseball GM Jim Bowden. Jim Bowden,
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  Speaker 1: who I actually did some shows with back when he
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  Speaker 1: worked here many many years ago. He does some other
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: shows somewhere, I don't know where. He asked the former
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  Speaker 1: Cardinals and current interim Angels GM John Mosaic. He said, listen,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on here? Trout to Philly, what's happening? And
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  Speaker 1: the interim GM said, no, that's not happening. So the
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: question are the Angels really going to hold on to
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  Speaker 1: Mike Trout yet again. So I am nodding my head, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not in my The Angels don't have a Mike
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  Speaker 1: Trout problem, per se like he's not as good as
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  Speaker 1: he was. He's not there. It's hurt right now, which
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  Speaker 1: is usually what he does. He's really good. He's got
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  Speaker 1: the superior hurt gene, got a little Anthony Davis Kawhi
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  Speaker 1: Leonard in him when it comes to injury. The Angels, though,
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  Speaker 1: have an Arty Marino problem. Everyone can agree on that.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone's like, yep, yep, they do. He is the human
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  Speaker 1: gridlock of baseball. Trout is stuck in Arti Marino's bizarro
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  Speaker 1: escape room. Say hey, you can get in, You're not
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  Speaker 1: gonna get out. He's allergic to change. I am convinced,
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  Speaker 1: based on what I know about Arti Morino, that he
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  Speaker 1: would hold on to Mike Trout until Trout is in
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  Speaker 1: his fifties, just to prove a point that no one
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  Speaker 1: my god, there's all these people like freaking out because
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna hear all the lunatics, all the nut jobs,
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  Speaker 1: not about any Rudy writes in and says, mallard dreams
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  Speaker 1: That's what he said, Rudy. You dared me. Rudy. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I was watching Mexico and I the pregame. You thought, nah,
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  Speaker 1: Mexico is an underdog to the Brits. You thought, well,
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  Speaker 1: like that, like no one ever wins in that stadium,
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  Speaker 1: had the altitude. And I was texting one of my
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  Speaker 1: same I hear all the time with our friends in Denver.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, the outo I think is much higher in
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  Speaker 1: Mexico City. But nonetheless, every time the Broncos play a playoff,
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  Speaker 1: game or you know the Nuggets. It's all the altitude. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the altitude. Oh my god, the altitude. It's like, I
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  Speaker 1: can't count on one hand the number of Denver Sports
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  Speaker 1: championships that in my lifetime. And it's not I think
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  Speaker 1: I'd have fingers left over here. The Broncos have won three.
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  Speaker 1: I guess you have to include the avalanche that screws
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  Speaker 1: things up a little bit. The Rockies haven't won and
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  Speaker 1: the Nuggets have won one in my time. So it's
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  Speaker 1: that's always funny, and that obviously the Britz overcame the altitude.
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  Speaker 1: that retired he sold out to the day shift. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if this is the same guy or not.
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  Speaker 1: He sold his soul for money, and we say hello
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  Speaker 1: to Chris in Houston. Hello Chris, welcome, Hello Chris.
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  Speaker 3: You better go get your money.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: There is there, He is right there, the man in
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  Speaker 1: the mid the legend, the one and only.
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  Speaker 3: Steel spewing it sports propaganda overnight, aren't you?
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Well that's a weird you still defending the cheats? You
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: still doing that?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, come on, man, I'm gonna ask those until
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  Speaker 3: I die? Are you crazy?
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: At least they're not that good this year, so that's good?
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: Oh whatever, man, at least we just don't pay on
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  Speaker 2: credit card for I came to win the championship. I mean,
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: put a whole team, the whole super team.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: Can you say buying? Isn't that what you're supposed to do?
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: If you have money, you buy nice things. Isn't that
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  Speaker 1: how that works? That's usually how that works.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Well, that happens when you had when you're not
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  Speaker 2: using a credit card that you can pay five years
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: down the line.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Come on, man, I think they are they are. I
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: think they are on lay away. I think most of
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: these guys are being paid on layaway. Isn't that how
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  Speaker 1: that works? I think so? So?
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: So you know, I had to call because Man, I've
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  Speaker 3: seen the credit across across the border other day that
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  Speaker 3: I Heeart's pulling that axe out again.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: Man had to make sure my guy Cooper.
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: Loop still was there.
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: Bro.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's still hanging on.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: We're all We're all here where everyone's here. And for
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: those that don't for those who don't know, Chris and
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Houston was a celebrity caller. Uh he had all the
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: perks of being a celebrity caller. And one of the
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: greatest nights ever was in twenty nineteen when The Athletic
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: ran his stories saying the Astros were cheating in the
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: playoffs and the World Series and the whole year in
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: twenty seventeen. They were banging on trash ban trash cans
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: and using whistles and contra band. We believe Altuve used
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: the whistle in the alcs and and Chris called up
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: and said, it's all what you say was AI or no?
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Back then, I don't think AI was a thing. What
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: did you say it was?
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: It was I don't watch YouTube, I'm.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Not Oh yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. There were hundreds
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: of videos that popped up of the Astros banging on
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: trash cans and Chris was like, no, that's all fake,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: that's all a fake.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: I'll faight, hey man, astro hem astro loyalists.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Man, Come on, now, we're sports fans.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah. No, I love the fact, Chris, that you died
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  Speaker 1: on that hill, and you did die on that hill.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: I do love that you went down with the ship on.
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: I mean you you die on the hill. That the
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: Clippers made the Final four, and that's not even that's
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: not even a steam.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: So okay, okay, So when you get to the conference finals,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: how many teams are left in the NBA? I'm asking
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: you a question. Just answer the question. How many teams are
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: left in the NBA? How many teams are in the
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: in the NBA when you get to the conference finals?
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, how many of them?
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: God doesn't mean it's color.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: The witness is not answering. Is a hostile witness here,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: you're a hostile witness. You're not answered what answer? He
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: answers four? And if you said how many teams are left?
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Well those are the final four teams left. So thus
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: they were in the final four.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you still don't.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: What doesn't count for you? But everyone else with everyone
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: else with a functioning brain says that it works. Yeah,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: I have a good all right b B. Well Chris,
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  Speaker 1: with his classic Fourth of July weekend shirt. He's a
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  Speaker 1: real mench Femi the Uber eats driver all Star goes
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  Speaker 1: with Kirk Cousins as his answer. Who else do we have?
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  Speaker 1: Malaprop guy says former celebrity caller Sir scratch Off. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he retired with all these guys, I'm telling you the
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  Speaker 1: pressure of being a star caller in the overnight. These
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  Speaker 1: guys can't handle it. They wear out, they get hurt.
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  Speaker 1: It's not easy for these people. Robbie the Mariner fan
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  Speaker 1: says Travis Buzzana. Is that? Am I saying that?
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 1: The guy from Cleveland? Am I saying that? He's a
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  Speaker 1: new guy? You have no idea he's an All Star?
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  Speaker 1: Who else do we have? Brandon ayuc from Jose who
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  Speaker 1: we have? Kobe Yashi guests by Eileen and Page down
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  Speaker 1: Sean in Phoenix with the name I will not attempt
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  Speaker 1: the butcher here, Chip and the Cues, going with Jack
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  Speaker 1: Benny as his answer. Bill's legend. Scott Norwood from Sean
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  Speaker 1: that's the man that made Benoit Benjamin famous. And he's
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  Speaker 1: threatened me. Sean has threatened me. He said, I'm gonna
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: give Benoit Benjamin your phone number. This former NBA player
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  Speaker 1: from the nineteen eighties, and Sean did a documentary about
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  Speaker 1: Benoit on YouTube, and Sean says, I'm gonna give you
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  Speaker 1: bannoyt Snumber's gonna call you all the time. I said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm good, I have doc Mike. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: I need that. Daddy Warbucks from Johnny Q Woody Harrelson
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  Speaker 1: guests by Gil from San Diego, Doug in South Korea,
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  Speaker 1: going with Gardner Minshew as his answer. All right, that's enough.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have an answer? Lorraine? Nah? Yes, I have
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  Speaker 1: to go with my favorite X Men Wolverine. Wolverine. All right,
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  Speaker 1: fin answer, Let's see again? Who am I game? Despite
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: earning over seventy million dollars in my NFL career, I
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  Speaker 1: famously drove a vermodest, twenty year old Nissan for years.
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  Speaker 1: I would often eat lunch in my car during those
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  Speaker 1: days when practice was going on, instead of eating with
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  Speaker 1: my teammates in the team cafeteria. We are none other
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  Speaker 1: than Namdi Assam Wah, the defensive back for the Raiders
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  Speaker 1: and Eagles. He's now in Hollywood. He's been in Hollywood.
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  Speaker 1: This is it's a classic story. I remember talking about this.
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  Speaker 1: He was one of the radio guys in Philadelphia said
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  Speaker 1: and he was a big money pick up for the Eagles.
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  Speaker 1: And then I think he was around the time that
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: Chip Kelly was the coach of the Eagles. Anyway, Namdi
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  Speaker 1: Assimwah couldn't player All Pro defensive back. Not the most
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  Speaker 1: social guy though, didn't you know? And I get it
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  Speaker 1: as an intro for it. I get it, although I
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: put up with more than he apparently put up with,
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  Speaker 1: if you know what I'm saying.