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Hour 3 - King of the Merch · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Boom shaka Laca. It's our number three, our number three,
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Speaker 1: and a rare and appropriate NBA story, more of a
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Speaker 1: marketing story than anything. Which side of the aisle do
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Speaker 1: you fall on with Lebron James having his own uniform patch.
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Speaker 1: It used to be in the NBA that everyone wore
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Speaker 1: the same exact uniform and it was a team sport,
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Speaker 1: but not anymore. Also, how do you categorize the Seattle
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Speaker 1: Seahawks of the NFL looking to crack down on season
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Speaker 1: tickets being resold acting as bullies the Seattle Seahawks. And
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Speaker 1: is Ben Johnson's troll behavior in Chicago a problem with
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Speaker 1: the Bears. He was called the troll by a member
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Speaker 1: of the Green Bay Packers. All of that and more
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Speaker 1: right now a fumbo ruski kind of an hour here,
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Speaker 1: an hour number three, the King of the Merch, the
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Speaker 1: King of the Merch. Welcome in the beginning. It's another
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Speaker 1: So our lead. This hour is from the Land of Lebron.
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Speaker 1: Another malar monologue, abount Lebron James. Yes, another day, another
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Speaker 1: drama orama with Lebron get it done. So we learned
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Speaker 1: that Lebron James had made a marketing move. It was
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Speaker 1: highly promoted. Lebron debuted a special edition patch on his
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Speaker 1: jersey to celebrate the twenty third NBA season, a record
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Speaker 1: setting accomplishment for Lebron. It's important to note that no
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Speaker 1: other Laker player will wear this. It is Lebron making
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Speaker 1: it all about Lebron and only Lebron will wear this patch.
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Speaker 1: It started on Monday nights. The Sacramento Kings were the
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Speaker 1: appointment Lakers lost to one of the worst teams in
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Speaker 1: the NBA. The Curse of the patch, the Curse of
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Speaker 1: the patch. It debuted on in Sacramento. Now this is
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Speaker 1: so dopey. So the NBA is like, well, this is
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Speaker 1: the reason we did it in Sacramento is because Lebron
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Speaker 1: James made his debut there back in three and that's
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Speaker 1: why we did it. Okay, So Lebron will wear the
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Speaker 1: patch for the remainder of the season and for those
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Speaker 1: of you that are blind, like Stevie Meatballs and some
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Speaker 1: of the other blind members of the Malad Militia. So
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Speaker 1: it features Lebron's signature. They call it the signature chalk
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Speaker 1: toss silhouette and throwing chalk in the air everywhere. It's
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Speaker 1: got stripes featuring the cadavers, the heatles, and the purple
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Speaker 1: and gold historians. So it all ties back. It all
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Speaker 1: ties back to Lebron's day, tug at the heartstrings. Now
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Speaker 1: the competitive the commemorative pas. That's right, Little mag Maggie's
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Speaker 1: all growing up. By the way, that was a little
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Speaker 1: girl that called up the show years ago. She's all
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Speaker 1: growing up, she has a kid. Maybe not anyway. So
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Speaker 1: the commemorative patch, the first ever NBA specific badge for
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Speaker 1: a player, and a longevity milestone. Now, the public reaction
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Speaker 1: has been split down party lines. With everything Lebron does,
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Speaker 1: it's always split down party line. So that's a good
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Speaker 1: jumping off point. Let us discuss the question which side
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Speaker 1: of the aisle? Which side of the aisle do you
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Speaker 1: fall on? With Lebron James having his very own patch,
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Speaker 1: isn't he special? He's got his own patch. So I've
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Speaker 1: got Starbucks reward card, foam Finger and pyop 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 some spaghetti in meatballs delicious. That's a
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Speaker 1: big the meatball, all right. So first of all, I
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Speaker 1: think you know which side of the ile lie I'm on.
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Speaker 1: But I give this one a super duper eye roll,
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Speaker 1: is what I give this Lebron James, a personalized patch
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Speaker 1: for playing a long time. Let's think about that. Let's
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Speaker 1: workshop that, so you get a pack. I've been here
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Speaker 1: at Fox Sports Radio for pretty much my entire adult life.
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Speaker 1: I've been here coming up on twenty five years. I've
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Speaker 1: worked for Fox Sports. Why don't I get a patch?
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Speaker 1: I want to patch? Why did I get a patch?
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Speaker 1: It's so dumb, right, it's like getting a gold star
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Speaker 1: because you did not end your gym membership and you're
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Speaker 1: still going to Jim oh Ukay, congratulations. It's really now
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Speaker 1: the record. I'm not gonna say the record doesn't matter.
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be that douche. I was called woke
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Speaker 1: early in the show, so I guess if I'm woke,
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Speaker 1: I gotta love Lebron. But no, So here's the thing
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Speaker 1: with Lebron, Right, congratulations, you played a long time. Good
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Speaker 1: for you, and you're going to celebrate this by putting
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Speaker 1: a NASCAR like bumper sticker on your uniform saying, essentially
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Speaker 1: sponsored by me, I'm good to pat myself on the back. Now,
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Speaker 1: Kareem abdul Jabbar, he broke records. You know what he
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Speaker 1: did after he broke the record? He went home. Lebron
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Speaker 1: James breaks records and he prints merch is what he does.
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Speaker 1: And it's the most Lebron thing ever. It is just
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Speaker 1: so Lebron. And I was always taught. I know, I'm
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Speaker 1: old and this is you know what's wrong with you?
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Speaker 1: It was a team sport. One of the things that
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Speaker 1: they used to brag about in all these sports as well,
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Speaker 1: it's a team. Yeah, there's players that are better than
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Speaker 1: other players, but they always wear the same uniform. They
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Speaker 1: play on the same court. The baskets ten feet high,
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Speaker 1: the charity stripes the same distance for every player on
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Speaker 1: the court, the three point lines the same distance. And
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Speaker 1: we don't separate that that even though some are more
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Speaker 1: talented than us, we don't want anyone to stand out
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Speaker 1: that much from everyone one else. And so now not
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Speaker 1: so much. If you look at the Book of King James.
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Speaker 1: Now on page two, on page two, it says, well,
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Speaker 1: this is just all about Lebron. But deeper on the
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Speaker 1: Book of King James, page seven sixty four, it says,
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Speaker 1: thou shalt monetize every single dribble dribble, dribble dribble. That's
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Speaker 1: thirty bucks right there, ten dollars dribble, dribble, dribble drip. Now,
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Speaker 1: James didn't just break Kareem Abdul Jabbar's record. He has
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Speaker 1: now officially branded the record and the chalk Toss silhouette
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Speaker 1: the greatest player of all time in the NBA is
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Speaker 1: Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan did that celebration when Lebron James
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Speaker 1: was a little boy, and clearly Lebron liked it, because
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Speaker 1: Lebron is literally saluting himself for stealing the celebration that
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Speaker 1: Michael Jordan did. And you're gonna make a patch out
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Speaker 1: of it. Well, okay, so Jordan did this and he's
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Speaker 1: the greatest, So I'm gonna do a silhouette and I
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Speaker 1: ripped it off from Jordan. And it's not the NBA
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Speaker 1: honoring long Jay, you know, having a long career and
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Speaker 1: longevity and all that stuff. It's not about that. It's
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Speaker 1: Lebron cutting the ribbon on his own ego museum, like
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Speaker 1: the Museum of Lebron. Now, meanwhile, the people that make
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Speaker 1: trading cards, people at tops are waiting in the parking
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Speaker 1: lot like a raccoon behind a dumpster, ready to eventually
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Speaker 1: turn all those patches into trading cards. Now, from what
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Speaker 1: I understand, and I'd be wrong on this, I was
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Speaker 1: told that every game Lebron will wear a different patch
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Speaker 1: on his jersey and they're gonna cut the patches off
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Speaker 1: every game, and then of course they'll be put into
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Speaker 1: trading cards and sold on the collectible's market. And I'm
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Speaker 1: sure Lebron didn't get any money out of that. I'm
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Speaker 1: sure he's making no money on that all. So it's
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Speaker 1: not a tribute. It's more of a yard sale. It's
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Speaker 1: a yard sale and Lebron slapping the private badge right
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Speaker 1: there on his chest. And I don't do Mount Rushmore.
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Speaker 1: I know that's not Mount Rushmore. If anything, it's Mount Me.
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Speaker 1: It's Lebron saying I'm on Mount Me. That's what I'm
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Speaker 1: on Mount Me. And is it true that Lebron James
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Speaker 1: also is he also soft launching a farewell tour? Is
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Speaker 1: this it? Or will we see next season? A twenty
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Speaker 1: four on his uniform and then twenty five? Now I
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Speaker 1: heard from someone the other day that Lebron wants to
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Speaker 1: play two more years because everyone loves round numbers. Twenty
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Speaker 1: five years, that's what he's looking for, two more years
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Speaker 1: of Lebron. It's also conceivable just quits and says that's it.
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Speaker 1: It's not as great as he was, although he's really
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Speaker 1: old and he's still playing and all that, and so again,
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Speaker 1: Confetti first retirement later, Confetti first retirement later, Meanwhile, we
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Speaker 1: moved back to the NFL to Seattle, and a tough
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Speaker 1: day for the Seattle SS rather embarrassing the franchise getting
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Speaker 1: ready for the first playoff game. They did not play
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Speaker 1: on wildcard weekend. They play in the divisional round, and
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Speaker 1: they made headlines and a lot of shame in Seattle.
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Speaker 1: The twelves are not happy right now because the Seattle
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Speaker 1: Seahawks have escalated tensions with their fans. What yes, they
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Speaker 1: have announced through several emails that have gone viral here
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Speaker 1: enhanced enforcement of anti resale policies. That's some legal mumbo
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Speaker 1: jumbo that makes money. So the Seahawks sent out targeted
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Speaker 1: warnings to season ticket hole. There's listing playoff tickets on
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Speaker 1: secondary websites that you know, things like stub Hub in
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Speaker 1: those places. So the Seattle NFL team, Seattle NFL team
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Speaker 1: is using digital tracking. Whoa digital tracking to revoke season tickets?
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Speaker 1: Deem improperly used primarily for profit. You said, have a
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Speaker 1: board op here named Jerry, my old board op, and
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Speaker 1: he'd make a bunch of mistakes and he always said profit, dude, profit.
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Speaker 1: There's always his line. So anytime I hear profit, I
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Speaker 1: hear profit. Dude profit, all right. So now keep in
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Speaker 1: mind that this is actually being celebrated, celebrated by some
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Speaker 1: dopes as a defense of the true fans. This is
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Speaker 1: what the twelves are, the real Seattle fans, all right.
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Speaker 1: So question is how do you categorize the Seattle Seahawks.
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Speaker 1: And they're not alone in this, but we're gonna focus
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Speaker 1: on them because that the story just popped up this week.
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Speaker 1: So the Seattle Seahawks looking to crack down on season
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Speaker 1: tickets being resold. These are people that paid their money
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Speaker 1: for these tickets. They own the tickets, and the Seahawks
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Speaker 1: are like, listen, you sold too many tickets. Where ever
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Speaker 1: going to give you tickets again? That's it, all right?
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Speaker 1: So here's how I categorize it. The Seattle Seahawks are
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Speaker 1: playing mall cop is what they're doing here. They're acting
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Speaker 1: like mall cops with the season tickets. And I don't
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Speaker 1: like it. Leaves a bad taste in my mouth that
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Speaker 1: you are shaking down your own customers, your own fan base,
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Speaker 1: for the crime of selling what, let me check my
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Speaker 1: nose here, something they already bought. It's like, well, no,
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Speaker 1: I bought that, Well, I know you bought it. But
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Speaker 1: you're not allowed to do that. We're not going to
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Speaker 1: sell you anymore. But I bought it, I paid for it,
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Speaker 1: I paid full money, and I'll paid for it again
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Speaker 1: and I have my right to renew it. Well, no,
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Speaker 1: you can't do that. We don't want you. We don't
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Speaker 1: want you. But every seat was filled and all that,
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Speaker 1: and it doesn't matter, it doesn't mean. And the bull
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Speaker 1: crap about protecting the real fan. The Seahawks are like, Wow,
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Speaker 1: we're doing the real fan. We're protecting the real fancy.
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Speaker 1: We want our fans of the stadium. That is PR
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Speaker 1: Public Relations Colonne. You smell that PR Colone, And I say,
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Speaker 1: pay you out to the PR Colonnes. What I say
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Speaker 1: it fools, dumb people, low information fans get fooled by this.
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Speaker 1: They do. Let me tell you what this is about.
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Speaker 1: After a minutes long Mallar deliberation, this is about the
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Speaker 1: Seattle football team trying to get a second bite out
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Speaker 1: of the same hot dog. That's what they want. Once
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Speaker 1: you hand the team your money, the seed is yours,
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Speaker 1: right period. A willing seller, This is I understand. So
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Speaker 1: a willing seller and a willing buyer get together and
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Speaker 1: they make a deal. I think that falls into the
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Speaker 1: capitalism basket. Oh you shouldn't say that. I don't think
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Speaker 1: it's contraband. Does anyone think it's contraband? I don't think
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Speaker 1: it's contraband. And the Seahawks they want it both ways.
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Speaker 1: That's what rubs me the wrong way is how dirty
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Speaker 1: this is for the Seattle Seahawks. They juice up the
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Speaker 1: prices on these tickets right this. It's like a crooked
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Speaker 1: carnival game the price of these tickets. Then the NFL
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Speaker 1: teams partner with the ticket platforms that sell the tickets
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Speaker 1: on the secondary mark, and now they're spying. It's like
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Speaker 1: Big Brother holding a foam finger monitoring what you're doing
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Speaker 1: with your tickets. It's a shakedown dressed up as virtue.
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Speaker 1: How could you support that? A shakedown dressed up as virtue.
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Speaker 1: They're basically turning the season ticket holders into unpaid ticket brokers,
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Speaker 1: all right, and you're threatening to kneecap them for doing
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Speaker 1: exactly what many of you have told me over the years,
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Speaker 1: the math of quires. Now, I've never had season tickets
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Speaker 1: to an NFL team ever, but I've been told by
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Speaker 1: some of you that have over the years. Because we've
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Speaker 1: talked about this issue in the past, it pops up
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Speaker 1: every once in a while. That the math on this,
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Speaker 1: even if you're a real fan, the math is that
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Speaker 1: you often if you have legitimate off of people working
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Speaker 1: two or three jobs trying to make enough, and it's
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Speaker 1: a guilty pleasure. You're a football fan, so you want
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Speaker 1: the tickets. So you buy the tickets, and you have
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Speaker 1: to sell one or two big games a year just
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Speaker 1: so you can pay the price gouging from the NFL
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Speaker 1: team for the other games. And so the math man,
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Speaker 1: you know, you raise the ticket prices. They've done that.
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Speaker 1: Every team raises the price. They never lower them. They
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Speaker 1: never announced, you know, we were bad this year, let's
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Speaker 1: lower the ticket like the Raiders have sucked. Are they
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Speaker 1: gonna lower ticket? No, of course not. They're not gonna
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Speaker 1: lower tickets. So they raise every team raises the prices.
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Speaker 1: Then they also they have their finger in the resale
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Speaker 1: market because they also put tickets on the resale market.
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Speaker 1: Then they cry foul when the people that paid for
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Speaker 1: the tickets at face value do what they're doing. Hello,
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Speaker 1: So they've turned the twelfth man into the twelfth revenue stream.
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Speaker 1: And I don't like. I don't like all right now
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Speaker 1: final two shit Cago, we go the Windy City. Ben Johnson,
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Speaker 1: show me your Johnson. Ben Johnson's in the crosshairs and
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Speaker 1: he's not apologizing for a polarizing weekend. The Saturday game
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Speaker 1: of the weekend, the green Bay Packers the Choking Cheese.
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Speaker 1: They blew a twenty one to three halftime lead in
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Speaker 1: an epic fourth quarter meltdown as Chicago wins that game
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Speaker 1: NFC Wildcard Round, the Bears advancing to take on the
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Speaker 1: aforementioned Seahawks this weekend, and you had the drive by
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Speaker 1: dap not really a handshake drive by with Green Bay
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Speaker 1: coach Matt LeFleur. You had the emphatic f the Packers
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Speaker 1: from Ben Johnson, the declaration of the locker room, and
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Speaker 1: the Bears coach, when asked about all this, doubled down.
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Speaker 1: He doubled down on how he celebrated after the emotional win,
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Speaker 1: had Soldier field, which made you fee me very happy
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Speaker 1: your feeling and all that. So it was under the microscope.
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Speaker 1: It was under the microscope, now, Ben Johnson said, of
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Speaker 1: the hullabaloo, he said, well, let me tell you. Here's
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Speaker 1: Ben Johnson, his own words. Here's the back and forth.
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Speaker 1: Take a list. You're f the Packers.
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Speaker 2: Comment that, yeah, after the game had gon viral?
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Speaker 3: Since then, what do you make of that?
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Speaker 2: And I g guess how much does George McCaskey maybe
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Speaker 2: give you feedback on that?
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Speaker 4: Maybe embrace to take those.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, like like I said before, there's there's
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Speaker 1: a rivalry that exists between these two teams, something that
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Speaker 1: that I fully recognize and I'm a part of. And
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Speaker 1: uh yeah, I mean there's I just I don't like
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Speaker 1: that team. So George and I have talked and we're
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Speaker 1: on the same page, all right. So he says it's
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Speaker 1: a rivalry and I don't like that team? All right? Fine, Well,
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Speaker 1: now entering the chat is Xavier McKinney, who is a
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Speaker 1: defensive player safety for the Packers. And while he started
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Speaker 1: out complimenting Ben Johnson, he did the old but he
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Speaker 1: said that the coach Ben Johnson. He liking Ben Johnson.
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Speaker 1: This is a Green Bay player to a troll for
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Speaker 1: his activity over the weekend. So question, is Ben Johnson's
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Speaker 1: troll behavior a problem for the Bears? All right? So
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Speaker 1: this is the antithesis of a problem. This is one
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Speaker 1: hundred and eighty degrees from a problem. The reason you
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Speaker 1: hired Ben Johnson is to get a version of Dan
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Speaker 1: Campbell because Ben Johnson's from the Dan Campbell Lions thing.
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Speaker 1: He didn't go out and say bite kneecaps because that's
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Speaker 1: Dan Campbell. So instead he won a different direction. But
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Speaker 1: calling the Bears coach a troll is not an insult.
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Speaker 1: It is not an insult to call Ben Johnson a trol.
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Speaker 1: It's not. It is a scratch and sniff sticker. Congrats,
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Speaker 1: good job by you, you nailed the report. It's a psyop,
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Speaker 1: is what it is. Ben Johnson is using psychological warfare.
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Speaker 1: He's doing what the top modern coaches today do. They
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Speaker 1: weaponize annoyance. The really good coaches are able to weaponize annoyance.
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Speaker 1: If you're irritating the opponent, if you're rubbing the opponent
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Speaker 1: the wrong way, you're in their head. And if you're
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Speaker 1: in their head basic psychology, you're already winning. You're already
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Speaker 1: they're thinking about you, and they're not thinking about something
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Speaker 1: else that's more important to do their job, and that
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Speaker 1: hurts them. So what did Ben Johnson actually do that
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Speaker 1: was so taboo? He did give the quick drive by
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Speaker 1: handshake and he bounced, but it was still technically a handshake.
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Speaker 1: There's no timer. As we said on the Weekend Fifth
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Speaker 1: Hour podcast about this, the rule book doesn't say you
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Speaker 1: have to linger, It doesn't say you have to hug.
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Speaker 1: Should Ben Johnson have baked cookies from Matt Lafleur? Should
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Speaker 1: that happened? He didn't make cookies. He could have baked
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Speaker 1: cookies for him. And then he gave that raw pep
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Speaker 1: talk in the locker room that should have been a
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Speaker 1: private moment. Should have been a private moment. However, everyone's
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Speaker 1: engagement farming, so it was made public. And the Bears
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Speaker 1: have had many coaches since they last were good, and
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Speaker 1: almost all of them have been vanilla baring milk toast
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Speaker 1: forgettable Ben Johnson right now. No, the Bears as a
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Speaker 1: franchise were hibernating for many years, and Johnson's trying to
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Speaker 1: turn them into something with some teeth. And you do
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Speaker 1: need a villain in a rivalry. You need a villain.
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Speaker 1: It's just simple, simple, the way it works, and so
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Speaker 1: you have to irritate sometimes to get that done. He
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Speaker 1: did it, and McKinney calling him atrol is proof that
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Speaker 1: it worked. Unfortunately, for the Bears are going to lose
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Speaker 1: the Rams this weekend, so it's not gonna work this weekend.
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Speaker 1: Guy's named Ben Stanton. For guy's name, Ben all Right's
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Speaker 1: Drake May planned on celebrating his first career playoff win
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Speaker 1: with a blank the answer right now? What is the answer? Well,
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Speaker 1: Hold on a sec Ocho Texto says he's celebrated by
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Speaker 1: pretty good. Bob in Florida says he was going to
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Speaker 1: celebrate with the Robert Kraft massage at the Orchards of Asia.
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Speaker 1: Baseball Furden Dog says a trip to Jupiter massage parlor.
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Speaker 1: That's the same line there, Milkman Mike says, celebrate with
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Speaker 1: strippers at Blind Scott's place. Well, blind knows Blind Scott's
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Speaker 1: like the insider in Boston. Now, strippers are people too.
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Speaker 1: The cheap street walker guests by Nick. Who else do
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Speaker 1: we have a Deshaun Watson massage by Scrooge in the
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Speaker 1: Bay Area. Alf the Alien Opiners says that Drake May
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Speaker 1: celebrated his first playoff victory with a stratomatic football tournament.
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Speaker 1: Who else eating his favorite pizza? Don't send me that King, Roy,
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Speaker 1: you schmuck? What else do we have? Double order of
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Speaker 1: Minnesota one with the Three Amigos as his answer. Shots
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Speaker 1: bar from Tim. Why not Christopher went? Orchards of Asia
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Speaker 1: day spa ovaltine guessed by Philler up Phil and Mike
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Speaker 1: the Leprecaun said he visited the Leprechaun Lodge to celebrate Nashville.
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Speaker 1: Phil said the answer is a big plate of Nashville
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Speaker 1: hot chicken. Taste, Lara, do you have an answer? Is
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Speaker 1: the malor riddle of the day. Patriots quarterback Drake May
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Speaker 1: planned on celebrating his first career playoff win with a
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Speaker 1: blank with a trip to Disney World. Disney World. Have
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Speaker 1: you been to Disney World? Have you? Yes? You have? Okay, no,
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Speaker 1: The the correct answer is a game of ping pong
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Speaker 1: with his brothers. He wanted to play ping pong. Oh,
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Speaker 1: what a stud, I'd say, he gets all the chicks.
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Speaker 1: But he's already I think he's married or whatever. So whatever. Good.
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Speaker 1: We have Malard's Mountain of Money coming up in a
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Speaker 1: say hello to Andrea. She's the astrology insider and she's
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Speaker 1: in Berkeley, and she's about to tell you what the
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Speaker 1: stars say will happen for Aaron Rodgers? Did he play
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Speaker 1: his last game? The Steelers blown away in the fourth quarter?
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Speaker 1: And now we go to the woman who looks at
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Speaker 1: the stars, Andrea.
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Speaker 5: Yes, hello, Ben, how are you?
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Speaker 1: If I was any better, I'd be a Steeler, but
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Speaker 1: not a pet spark Steeler because they're going on vacation.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, it's so interesting. I watched the game
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Speaker 5: and I hear Aaron Rodgers in the background.
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Speaker 1: Yes, it's Once you hear it, you cannot unhear it.
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Speaker 5: Yes, exactly, we'll put on that. And I actually have
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Speaker 5: his birth data, and I think I mentioned he's into astrology.
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Speaker 5: Have his time of birth and place of birth. So
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Speaker 5: December second, nineteen eighty three, Chico, California, two fifty pm.
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Speaker 5: He's actually a client of a Colleagle mind and he
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Speaker 5: has an astrology tattoo, so he's totally into it.
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Speaker 1: And so what is his astrology tattoo? Is it the
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Speaker 1: planets lined up? Sagetarius a sign?
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Speaker 5: Gotcha?
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Speaker 1: Gotcha?
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Speaker 5: And I actually, you know, you were right about the
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Speaker 5: Ayahuasca journey and I actually wrote about that two years ago.
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Speaker 5: Time has flown by for the athletic. When I did
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Speaker 5: his sports astrology, I posted it up on your Twitter
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Speaker 5: x feed.
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Speaker 1: So I'm looking at these Sagatarius logo. So it's an
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Speaker 1: arrow pointing up to the right, which.
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Speaker 5: Is an explorer you know here spirit and he embodies
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Speaker 5: that energy. So the interesting thing is that he's forty two.
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Speaker 5: You know, they kept saying that a lot, and forty
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Speaker 5: to forty two is quote the midlife crisis, when people
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Speaker 5: you know, change their life path, some retire and go
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Speaker 5: on to other jobs, renewed, invent their life. So he's
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Speaker 5: in that zone, so to speak. And I'm sure you
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Speaker 5: heard when they asked him if he you know, this
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Speaker 5: is the last game, who plays the Steeler? He's like, well, now,
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Speaker 5: it's not the right time to make an emotional decision
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Speaker 5: like that. So the thing is, you know, he's not
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Speaker 5: so much to just like retire and you know, take
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Speaker 5: it easy somewhere. It's got too much fire in him
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Speaker 5: and that free spirit energy. So you know, whether he
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Speaker 5: keeps on playing, but he's going to really still be
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Speaker 5: very active. He's not the type that goes to Florida
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Speaker 5: and kicks back on a beast for a while. Not
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Speaker 5: that there's anything wrong with.
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Speaker 1: That, but you know, he's, well, he goes to a
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Speaker 1: beach in Malibus r Right.
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Speaker 4: But no.
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Speaker 1: I mean, the great thing about the NFL is if
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Speaker 1: people think these guys are spending twelve hours a day
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Speaker 1: playing football year round, they're not. And they have a
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Speaker 1: good work life balance like Rogers has done playing football.
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Speaker 1: And if even if he came back and played again,
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Speaker 1: he could skip all out of the offseason stuff, show
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Speaker 1: up sometime in July to a mini camp and then
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Speaker 1: training camp or whatever. So it's a lot of that's
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Speaker 1: a lot of downtime, a lot of downtime, right, and
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Speaker 1: he has.
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Speaker 5: A spiritual path and he enjoys doing a lot of
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Speaker 5: other things. And he's said here he is voted to travel.
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Speaker 1: So all right, let's get down to business. Yep, sum
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Speaker 1: this up in a tremendous sentence or two.
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Speaker 5: Well, he has a lot of fire in himseif. So
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Speaker 5: I think that he's going to still want to do
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Speaker 5: something in the NFL, and if it's not playing, it's
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Speaker 5: something having to do with similar vibes that keep him
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Speaker 5: in the zone of football. But he really does, you know,
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Speaker 5: not just want to kick back and retire as too
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Speaker 5: much energy in him. But forty two is the midsize crisis,
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Speaker 5: so it is expecting unexpected, but he's kind of the
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Speaker 5: poster child bend.
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Speaker 1: Yeah for expected. Well, very very good, Andrew, thank you
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Speaker 1: and virgo in service on. Thank you so much.
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Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
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Speaker 1: All Right, there she go our friend Andrew. Let's say
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Speaker 1: hello to James. There she goes the astrology insider. James
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Speaker 1: is in Houston. Hello James, Welcome James, James. Oh, we
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Speaker 1: got another another guy named James sleep Benon. Hold on,
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Speaker 1: sac James, hold On, Sir, James. Oh, that's good. Hold
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Speaker 1: on a second. I'm thinking that's good.
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Speaker 3: That's good to the can it happen?
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Speaker 1: Cool? But you're you know where I'm going with this. Okay,
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Speaker 1: Hold on a second. You're listening live to Fox Sports
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Speaker 1: Let's go now to Minnesota, and Minneapolis will say hello
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Speaker 1: to hollering James.
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Speaker 3: James.
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Speaker 1: You runed it?
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Speaker 3: James.
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Speaker 1: Why are you awake?
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Speaker 5: Baby?
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Speaker 1: Floyd James?
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Speaker 3: All right, put you on hold.
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Speaker 1: Let's just enjoy James and James. James in Houston. James, James,
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Speaker 1: there it is.
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Speaker 3: That's a good one.
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Speaker 1: He's dreaming of C. J. Stroud right now. Yeah, on thighs,
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Speaker 1: James is he's actually doing some cosplay. This is how
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Speaker 1: the Steelers offense played in the fourth quarter. And that's
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Speaker 1: right there. Hmm. You know, all right? Well, thank you, Jim.
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Speaker 1: Tremendous call. Yeah, I know, I know. Do you think this?
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Speaker 1: You think that Texans are gonna win the Super Bowl? No? Okay,
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Speaker 1: I don't either.
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Speaker 5: I don't either.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know you think they got a chance to
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Speaker 1: beat the Patriots?
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Speaker 3: Did you do?
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Speaker 1: Is that right? All right? Yeah? What about Aaron Rodgers.
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Speaker 1: You think he's going to retire? You do? How about
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Speaker 1: Mike Tom No, okay, I don't even right. Well, this
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Speaker 4: Do you have what it takes to get to the top?
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Speaker 4: Probably not? All?
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Speaker 1: Right, Here we go, it's time out for Mallard's a
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Speaker 1: mount of my mike. I probably should plug this computer
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Speaker 1: Let's welcome in our this thing is about to die.
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Speaker 1: Let's say hello. To who do we have. We've got
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Speaker 1: Jed who fled? Who's in the redneck Riviera in Florida? Hello,
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Speaker 1: Jed who fled? Welcome.
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Speaker 2: I've got a plug too, but I think it's a
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Speaker 2: different kind of plugs.
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Speaker 1: Whatever you do in your personal business is your business.
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Speaker 1: I don't all right, who do you? Who do you
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Speaker 1: want to partner.
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Speaker 5: Jeff Cooper, dude, the guy who knows what a plug is?
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Speaker 1: Okay? And we have Elive from Fresnel or we sed
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Speaker 1: to work with a guy named Eddie. That's from President.
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Speaker 1: What's going on? Eli? Welcome?
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Speaker 4: What's going on?
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Speaker 1: Sound excited to be here? Eli? Absolutely as I am.
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Speaker 4: I to be alive.
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Speaker 1: It is good to be alive. I'm pretty sure it
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Speaker 1: beats the alternative, but who knows, maybe the alternative is better.
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Speaker 1: All Right, Anyway, here we go, Eli. You're gonna play
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Speaker 1: the game. You're gonna partner up with who do you want?
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Speaker 1: You want the Lorena or me?
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Speaker 5: Wow?
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Speaker 1: I want a winner.
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Speaker 4: Let's do it man, all.
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Speaker 1: Right, but we're gonna say LORAINO, I'm sorry, Lorraine. No
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Speaker 1: one ever picture for.
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Speaker 3: This game, and I'm a loser. It's fine.
35:16
Speaker 1: Well, let's play the game coop what are categories here? Please?
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Speaker 6: All right, gentlemen, this was supposed to be the Orlando
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Speaker 6: Blum Edition, but due to technical difficulties, we're doing the
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Speaker 6: Howards turn Edition.
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Speaker 1: No, it's because I got called woke, So Howard's woke.
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Speaker 3: That's right? Okay, yeah, good point.
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Speaker 6: He turned seventy two years old yesterday. The categories are Baba, Booie,
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Speaker 6: Robin Quivers, Stuttering, John, and private parts.
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Speaker 3: Jed? Which category would you like?
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Speaker 5: Jary?
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Speaker 1: Got you say?
35:43
Speaker 5: If you're gonna be bad, be grateful?
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Speaker 2: Bob and Booie?
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Speaker 3: All right? And Eli, how about you? What category would
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Speaker 3: you like? I'm sorry you cut out when you were
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Speaker 3: naming them.
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Speaker 2: I'll take the second one though.
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Speaker 3: Robin Quivers Quivers?
35:58
Speaker 1: All right? Do you know who that is? All right?
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Speaker 3: All right, Jed, you and I are up first.
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Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 6: These athletes all had funny sounding nicknames, right Robin?
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Speaker 1: All right?
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Speaker 6: Forty five seconds on the clock. Let's begin. This guy
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Speaker 6: is a wide receiver. He used to be on the Steelers,
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Speaker 6: and he was on the Kansas City Chiefs. His first
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Speaker 6: name is like a candyde all right, that's fine. This
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Speaker 6: guy has the most championships of anybody in Major League baseball.
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Speaker 6: He was a catcher for the Yankees. Yes, uh, this
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Speaker 6: guy wore jersey number eighty five for the Bengals wide receiver.
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Speaker 6: Well there, I hear you're no no, yes, uh yeah, Okay.
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Speaker 6: This guy's nickname was Boogie. He was a center for
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Speaker 6: the Kings. Yes, this guy was a defensive powerhouse for
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Speaker 6: the Ravens. Not Ray Lewis, but he was on the
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Speaker 6: defensive line. Peter Boy No, no, Swaggy p for the Lakers. Nick,
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Speaker 6: how many points is that?
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Speaker 1: Ninety? Jana, You gotta get back on the drugs man.
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Speaker 3: All right, Young, Nick Young.
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Speaker 1: Nick Young. Okay, we're up here, Eli, Robin Quivers. These
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Speaker 1: were some of the best sidekicks in sports. Okay, sidekicks
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Speaker 1: you allow? You ready to go? Yeah? All right, forty
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Speaker 1: five seconds of the o'clock. We're on our way and go.
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Speaker 1: Michael Jordan's sidekick with the Bulls. Yes, Karl Malone's point
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Speaker 1: guard for the Utah Jazz.
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Speaker 5: John.
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Speaker 1: Yes, he played with Babe Ruth in the Yankees. He
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Speaker 1: said the all time. Yes, yes, play by play guy,
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Speaker 1: you had John Madden, but the play by play guy
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Speaker 1: was blank. I don't know, Okay, Peyton mannings go to
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Speaker 1: receiver for the Indianapolis Colts, plays for the.
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Speaker 4: Cardinals, for the Cardinals.
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Speaker 1: Oh god, all right, not god. It is Jerry Rice's
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Speaker 1: other wide receiver for the Niners in the eighties, for
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Speaker 1: Joe Montana.
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Speaker 5: I'm in my twenties. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: All right, well, I.
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Speaker 3: Don't know how you managed.
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Speaker 1: They got sixty. The other one was actually, uh earl.
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Speaker 1: All right, we gotta keep going. Hurry up. Pick a
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Speaker 1: guy stuttering, John, are private parts, Jenny? Oh no, no, the.
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Speaker 3: Private parts. He's had private party.
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Speaker 1: All right. These athletes have all revealed their private parts
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Speaker 1: over the years. All right, forty five seconds of the clock,
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Speaker 1: run away go the King of the Lakers, The King
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Speaker 1: of the Lakers. Yeah, yes, A tough guy for the
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Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors. He's a forward, not Steph Curry, the
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Speaker 1: other guy center, come on the Warriors. Yeah, he's like
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Speaker 1: a forward center. Yeah there, all right, quarterback for the
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Speaker 1: Packers before Aaron Rodgers. Oh yes, uh, let's see. Pitcher
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Speaker 1: he was with the Giants is year, played for the
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Speaker 1: Tigers and the Chief Astros starting pitcher in baseball. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: there you go. All right, that's good, and I think
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Speaker 1: that's enough. We're out of time, you lose cool, you.
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Speaker 3: Lose another cheater again using Movi.
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Speaker 1: That's called coaching Coop. That's coaching