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Hour 2 - The Card Shark of the Bronx · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Boom! Shaka-laka. Mama, there goes that man. It's hour number two.
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Speaker 1: Hour two of the Ben Maller Show. So what do
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Speaker 1: you make of Yankees star Jazz Chisholm's very emotional response
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Speaker 1: for being called out as a stat patter by the
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Speaker 1: Red Sox radio guy? Also, how do you interpret the Dodgers'
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Speaker 1: plans for Shohei Ohtani? It sounds like they're going to
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Speaker 1: shut him down immediately. As a pitcher, no more starts
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Speaker 1: for Otani in 2026, according to Ken Rosenthal. We react
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Speaker 1: to that. And are you surprised that Quetel Marte went
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Speaker 1: radio silent when asked if he had a message to
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Speaker 1: the Diamondback fans who booed his ass all night long
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Speaker 1: last night as he somehow was allowed back to the
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Speaker 1: lineup by the toothless Arizona Diamondbacks franchise? Pretty pathetic. We'll
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Speaker 1: talk about all that and more right now. Here it is,
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Speaker 1: hour number two. I'll call him the card shark of
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Speaker 1: to work. So our lead story this hour from the Bronx,
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Speaker 1: the Yankees head to the West Coast. They played the
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Speaker 1: Angels on Monday night, which meant that Anaheim was filled
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Speaker 1: with transplanted New Yorkers because nobody's going to watch the
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Speaker 1: Angels play. Well, I guess the moms like it because
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Speaker 1: it's cheap tickets, it's a safe environment. Not when the
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Speaker 1: Yankees are there. Anyway, Yankees second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr.,
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Speaker 1: Smooth jazz. Not real smooth, actually. Not real smooth. Sorry,
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Speaker 1: Jazz Chisholm Jr. firing back at Red Sox broadcaster Will Fleming.
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Speaker 1: This after Fleming ripped him. For stealing second base during
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Speaker 1: a matchup over the weekend, the Yankees got a blowout
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Speaker 1: win over the Boston Red Sox. And if you didn't
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Speaker 1: see this, perhaps not. So Chisholm said that he was, quote,
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Speaker 1: at a loss for words, adding, people show you who
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Speaker 1: they are. He defended the steal by arguing the unwritten
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Speaker 1: rules are not actual rules, Chisholm said, noting that that
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Speaker 1: Boston had previously poured on runs against the pathetic New
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Speaker 1: York baseball team in a previous matchup. Now, Will Fleming,
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Speaker 1: the radio broadcaster for the Red Sox, called Chisholm, quote,
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Speaker 1: Bush League. He also called him, quote, selfish and accused
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Speaker 1: him of stat padding. Hard to argue that he was
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Speaker 1: not stat padding. It's just kind of what was going on. Now,
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Speaker 1: Fleming also suggested that the Red Sox pitcher at the time, should, quote,
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Speaker 1: drill Austin Wells, who was the batter, and then get
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Speaker 1: into a Donnybrook fight with Jazz Chisholm. Now, Jazz responded
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Speaker 1: by calling Fleming unprofessional. But wait, there's more. He also
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Speaker 1: went on to say, Jazz Chisholm, that he said years
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Speaker 1: from now that no one will know who this person is.
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Speaker 1: But he's not going to be remembered at all. That's it.
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Speaker 1: Not going to be remembered. All right. So that is
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Speaker 1: a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question.
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Speaker 1: What do you make of Yankees star Jazz Chisholm and
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Speaker 1: a very emotional response to being called out for stat
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Speaker 1: padding by the Red Sox radio guy? So I've got
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Speaker 1: Finger Lakes, Deadpool. And applesauce. And we will combine all
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Speaker 1: of these things together. And we are going to go
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Speaker 1: hocus pocus and extra focus is what we're going to do.
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Speaker 1: So we always start with number one. Number one.
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Speaker 2: Number one. Number one.
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Speaker 1: Number one.
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Speaker 2: Number one.
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Speaker 1: I said all right. So I had no idea that
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Speaker 1: Jazz was a two-sport star. Jazz Chisholm. Not only a
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Speaker 1: baseball player, he's a professional player. In the poker circuit,
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Speaker 1: I could see him at the Bellagio there, and he's
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Speaker 1: playing poker. And in this case, he's pulling out the card,
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Speaker 1: the victim card, from the bottom of the deck, just
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Speaker 1: like that. And I give him credit. He's got enough chutzpah,
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Speaker 1: jazz chisholm, to fill Yankee Stadium, calling someone else unprofessional,
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Speaker 1: while building a career which baseball people will say is unprofessional.
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Speaker 1: He's an acquired taste, jazz chisholm. He would be qualified
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Speaker 1: to do a radio show with Steve Hartman because he's
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Speaker 1: a loose cannon in many ways. And has he talked
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Speaker 1: the talk? Absolutely. Is he good for talk radio, jazz, schism? 100%. Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: But this season, he talked the talk in spring training,
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Speaker 1: talked about going 50 and 50, and then was cruising along. driving, driving, driving,
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Speaker 1: and right into a pothole the size of the Finger Lakes.
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Speaker 1: Just a big old.
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Speaker 2: Pothole.
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Speaker 1: Now, we guesstimate, using malware math, that the Red Sox-Yankees game,
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Speaker 1: I believe this was on Sunday. It was a good
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Speaker 1: weather day. Sunday, Red Sox-Yankees. It's fair to say, based
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Speaker 1: on a malware math guesstimation, that the only people listening
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Speaker 1: to the Red Sox radio broadcast... were friends and family.
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Speaker 1: That's it. That's it. Just a blowout. Why are you
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Speaker 1: going to listen to a blowout? Game's over. It was
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Speaker 1: like 7-1 at that point. Doing something else. So this non-story,
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Speaker 1: and it was a non-story that could have died on
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Speaker 1: the local radio airwaves in Boston, and that's it. However,
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Speaker 1: Jazz Chiz was like, well, no, no, no. Let me
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Speaker 1: get out my vintage 1980s boombox and And I'm going
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Speaker 1: to amplify this thing nationwide. Congratulations on hyping up Will Fleming,
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Speaker 1: who in a very odd coinkydink, I actually casually knew
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Speaker 1: Will Fleming. I worked at the station in Boston there briefly,
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Speaker 1: and Will was just beginning his sojourn. He was fighting
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Speaker 1: for scraps, Will Fleming, because this guy Joe Castiglione was
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Speaker 1: the longtime radio voice of the Red Sox, and they
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Speaker 1: knew he was getting close to retiring. And so Will
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Speaker 1: Fleming was one of the young bucks that they brought
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Speaker 1: in there to take over And so at the time, though,
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Speaker 1: he was not getting that many games, and it was
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Speaker 1: a whole thing. And so how do I know he
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Speaker 1: was not getting that many games? He had to do
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Speaker 1: a show with me at one point, I believe. That's
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Speaker 1: a sign that you're not getting that many games. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: so now we'll see what happens with Jazz Chisholm. And
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Speaker 1: I love that he just played the victim card. Like,
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Speaker 1: this is so emotional. So emotional. I'm pretty sure he
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Speaker 1: was not wearing with earbuds, not playing with earbuds, listening
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Speaker 1: to the Red Sox radio broadcast and had no idea
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Speaker 1: about this. Until somebody told him about it or he
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Speaker 1: read it online. But now the executives around baseball watching
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Speaker 1: Jazz Chisholm, second baseman for the Yankees, show everyone that
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Speaker 1: he's not getting paid. When free agency arrives, will he
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Speaker 1: get offered a qualifying offer by the Yankees? Will he
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Speaker 1: take the one-year deal? Will he sign a pillow contract somewhere?
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Speaker 1: The Monopoly board right now. There's not a lot of
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Speaker 1: that monopoly money right now. Plus, you've got the work
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Speaker 1: stoppage on top of that. Talk about a double whammy.
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Speaker 1: You have a ride on the vomit comet on the field,
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Speaker 1: and then you look at the offseason, and it's like, oh, boy.
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Speaker 1: All right, now, page two. To la-la land we go.
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Speaker 1: The Dodgers did not lose on Monday. They did not
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Speaker 1: play on Monday. The Dodgers increasingly appear ready to shut
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Speaker 1: her down. Shut her down now. We're talking about Shohei Otani,
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Speaker 1: the two-sport sensation from another nation who now it will
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Speaker 1: appear will not be a two-sport player anymore. They're going
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Speaker 1: to not attempt to have Otani pitch anymore. Ken Rosenthal
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Speaker 1: tells us the organization, wants Otani to focus on hitting.
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Speaker 1: He has not pitched since way back on July 3rd, today,
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Speaker 1: the first day of September, so you can do the
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Speaker 1: math on that. It's essentially two months away from the mound,
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Speaker 1: and they claim that he has lingering left knee inflammation
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Speaker 1: and a right bicep soreness. Oh, my bicep! Just like that. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: Otani did throw a bullpen session. I always love that,
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Speaker 1: the old bullpen session. through all of 20 pitches. Don't
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Speaker 1: overdo it. Do not overdo it. So 20 pitches in
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Speaker 1: a bullpen session last week. Dave Roberts, I really liked
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Speaker 1: him in that spot. Dave Roberts admitted that Otani is
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Speaker 1: not 100%, which is close to saying Otani is cooked.
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Speaker 1: All right, so Roberts says Otani's bat is hugely important
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Speaker 1: and risking it by pitching is, quote, not worth the squeeze.
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Speaker 1: Look how cool Dave Roberts is. So the question, how
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Speaker 1: do you interpret the D-O-D-G-E-R-S Dodgers and what appears to
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Speaker 1: be a shutdown plan for Otani as a pitcher? All right,
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Speaker 1: so I consider this. This is what I interpreted D-O-D-G-E-R-S.
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Speaker 1: The words, I used my Mallard decoder ring that I
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Speaker 1: got in a box of Cracker Jacks many years ago,
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Speaker 1: and it still works. And I've determined that this was
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Speaker 1: a CS situation, a concession speech by Dave Roberts and
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Speaker 1: the Dodgers. And they are congratulating Cubs outfielder Pete Crow Armstrong,
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Speaker 1: your National League most valuable player. By default, Otani's out
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Speaker 1: of the race today. And so I'm happy for Tree
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Speaker 1: in Chicago, Yafimi, all the boys there in the Windy
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Speaker 1: City that listen as they're driving around doing their thing
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Speaker 1: in Chicago. So your guy, how would Pete Crow Armstrong
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Speaker 1: not win the MVP right now? I know there's a
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Speaker 1: month to go, and the plan was always Otani's going
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Speaker 1: to come back. He's going to win three or four
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Speaker 1: games down the stretch, and he's going to hit seven
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Speaker 1: big boppers, and the Dodgers are going to win the
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Speaker 1: MVP with Otani, and that's it. Well, that's not going
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Speaker 1: to happen. It's not happening, so forget about it. He's
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Speaker 1: bowing out of the race. That's it. And the Dodgers
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Speaker 1: paid $ 700 million for Superman. And for the rest of
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Speaker 1: the season, they're asking Superman, listen, do not jump off buildings.
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Speaker 1: Stop jumping off buildings, will you please? Okay, fine. So
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Speaker 1: they spent several months trying to get Otani back on
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Speaker 1: the mound. They said he'll be okay. We're going to
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Speaker 1: get him back. Only to discover that they already had
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Speaker 1: plenty of arms. They didn't need Otani. And you don't
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Speaker 1: need Otani pitching when your starting rotation already looks like
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Speaker 1: an all-star pitching staff with great dental coverage and a
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Speaker 1: nice espresso machine, courtesy of your former Detroit Tiger pitcher,
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Speaker 1: Tarek Skubal, who came over there. And besides, they keep
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Speaker 1: calling Otani the two-way player. Right now, however, the roads,
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Speaker 1: both ways, both roads for Otani lead directly to the
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Speaker 1: trainer's room. And that's that. So his body is saying, no, no, no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: cannot do it. However, of course, like all big corporations,
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Speaker 1: any conglomerate, you have to have three meetings with the
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Speaker 1: medical staff. You have to have a bullpen session and
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Speaker 1: then need a translator code. A special code to figure out, well,
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Speaker 1: maybe we shouldn't pitch Ohtani the rest of the way there. Now,
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Speaker 1: since August 8th, they're talking about Ohtani's bat. Since August 8th,
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Speaker 1: Shohei Ohtani is batting a robust 207 with limited power. P.U.,
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Speaker 1: What stinks? Well, that's Otani lately. So unless the Dodgers
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Speaker 1: can go out, and we'll see if they have any
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Speaker 1: money left after the feds get done with the Dodgers
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Speaker 1: ownership group, they can go out and find some Deadpool DNA.
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Speaker 1: Get that Deadpool healing ability, that artificial regeneration, because you're
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Speaker 1: going to need it. It's time to pack up the
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Speaker 1: old circus train and say, no, no, no, we're not
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Speaker 1: going to put anything in the steam engine. We're going
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Speaker 1: to shut that circus train down and put away the–
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Speaker 1: human cannonball and retire the novelty act, at least for
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Speaker 1: the rest of this year. And there's a chance that
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Speaker 1: Otani doesn't pitch again, that this is it, that Otani
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Speaker 1: just settles in and he's at the end of his
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Speaker 1: athletic prime. Otani's 32. That's usually the time outside of
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Speaker 1: steroids that you slow down. So just have Otani focus
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Speaker 1: on hitting and that's it. And that's all right. Final
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Speaker 1: point to Arizona. And there was a special sound at
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Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks Phillies game last night. I don't know if
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Speaker 1: you heard it. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>.
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Speaker 3: <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>.
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Speaker 1: <HAL> Just like that.
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Speaker 2: Why?
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Speaker 1: It was Cattell Marte returns night. He was back for
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Speaker 1: how long? How messed up are the Arizona Diamondbacks? Holy
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Speaker 1: crap on a cracker, Batman. So, Cattell Marte, two weeks
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Speaker 1: after going AWOL and not showing up to a game
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Speaker 1: at Fenway without notifying the team, the gutless Arizona Diamondbacks
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Speaker 1: welcomed him back. I'm not kidding. Marte blamed it on a, quote,
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Speaker 1: moment of frustration. What is he, a child? They said
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Speaker 1: it was a moment of frustration, saying his knee hurt. Oh,
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Speaker 1: my knee! Boo-hoo-hoo! I can't show up to work! Yeah. Oh,
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Speaker 1: my God. And so he says he tends to withdraw
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Speaker 1: when things are not perfect, when any kind of problem
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Speaker 1: pops up. He does that, and it's not new. This
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Speaker 1: is now not the first, not the second, not the third.
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Speaker 1: How about the fourth straight year? that Quetel Marte has
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Speaker 1: missed at least one game when Arizona was depending on
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Speaker 1: him in a key late-season situation. And so four years.
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Speaker 3: In a row.
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Speaker 1: Now, the money quote, which has gone viral because it's
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Speaker 1: so over the top. So Quetel Marte, prior to the
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Speaker 1: Diamondbacks-Phillies game, we'll get to that in a minute, but
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Speaker 1: prior to the game, he was asked if he had
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Speaker 1: a message from For the Diamondback fans. Now, I think
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Speaker 1: we can all agree that is a leading question. That
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Speaker 1: is whoever asked that question was expecting the layup line answer.
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Speaker 1: That is like going to Topgolf and just teeing it
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Speaker 1: up and you're at the driving range. And you're having
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Speaker 1: a great time. It's the easiest question. So, hey, Cattell Marte,
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Speaker 1: do you have anything to say to the fans? Oh,
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Speaker 1: I feel so terrible for the fans. Oh, my God.
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Speaker 1: Did he do that? No. Cattell Marte just sat silently
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Speaker 1: and shook his head and offered bupkis. That's it. So
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Speaker 1: the question, are you surprised that Cattell Marte went silent
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Speaker 1: when asked if he had a message to the Diamondback fans? So,
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Speaker 1: two words, hell no! Am I surprised? Are you kidding me?
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Speaker 1: Not even a little bit surprised. I would have been
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Speaker 1: surprised if he had said that. Quetel Marte was handed
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Speaker 1: the easiest softball imaginable. Underhanded. Anything for the fans. And
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Speaker 1: somehow he saw wing-bada-whiff!
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Speaker 2: Whiff!
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Speaker 1: Whiff! He whiffed. The guy had to memorize... The Sports
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Speaker 1: Apology Starter Kit over at SportsCliché. com. And something like, I
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Speaker 1: love the fans. I'm sorry. I'll do better. I apologize.
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Speaker 1: I know you work hard for your money and you
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Speaker 1: wanted to see me play, even though it was a
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Speaker 1: road game. But nonetheless, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: 15 seconds of corporate applesauce is all he had to serve.
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Speaker 1: 15 seconds of corporate applesauce. And apparently even that was
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Speaker 1: too much work. Now, Marte asked his teammates for forgiveness,
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Speaker 1: but had absolutely nothing for the paying customers. So there
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Speaker 1: you go. Now, then again, he does not like to
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Speaker 1: always show up to work. And when he doesn't show
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Speaker 1: up to work, he often doesn't let anyone know that
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Speaker 1: he's not showing up to work. So there you go.
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Speaker 1: Why would you expect him to say, hey, I'm going
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Speaker 1: to send a message? And to be fair, like a
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Speaker 1: lot of those messages are kind of hokey anyway. But
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Speaker 1: usually you do it. You play the game. And so
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Speaker 1: it's clear based on a minutes-long deliberation of the available
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Speaker 1: information that Cattell Marte is a product of the Arizona
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Speaker 1: Diamondbacks incompetence. They have helped create the monster. Now, ultimately,
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Speaker 1: it's on Marte. However, he's certainly being supported by the
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Speaker 1: Arizona baseball team. Like, what are you doing? So when
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Speaker 1: you're 116, I think that's his contract, $ 116 million star
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Speaker 1: is unprofessional. Magically, when you're the Arizona Diamondbacks, that gets
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Speaker 1: rebranded as complex. It's a complex situation. That's it. And
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Speaker 1: a serious organization would not continue to enable this kind
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Speaker 1: of activity. Instead, the Diamondbacks are not a serious operation
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Speaker 1: because they're like, hey, if you want to come hang
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Speaker 1: out and swim in the pool, go knock yourself out.
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Speaker 1: And that's it. You can disappear during the playoff race.
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Speaker 1: We don't care. We just want you to come back
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Speaker 1: because we love you. We really care about you. I
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Speaker 1: know you screwed us over a million times, but we
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Speaker 1: love you. It's like a bad relationship, toxic relationship that
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Speaker 1: you've got going on here. So my advice to the
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Speaker 1: Diamondback fans, I'm very proud of you. My friends in Arizona,
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Speaker 1: way to go. Channel Dave Chappelle from Half Baked. Of course,
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Speaker 1: that movie more known for the memes than anything else.
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Speaker 1: And that famous Dave Chappelle meme. Boo that man!
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Speaker 4: Boo! Boo!
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Speaker 1: Boo that man! Boo!
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So every trip to the batter's box. Let him hear
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Speaker 1: the soundtrack of accountability because the Diamondbacks are gutless and toothless.
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Speaker 1: They don't issue accountability as a franchise. They like to
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Speaker 1: get kicked in the nuts. So the fans have to
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Speaker 1: do it because the people that run the Diamondbacks apparently
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Speaker 1: don't have the balls to do it. It is the
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Speaker 1: So right to it we go. Hollywood, Florida. Hooray for Hollywood.
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Speaker 1: And we say hello to the man, the myth, the legend.
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Speaker 1: The one and only Weed Man Hippie. Now, Weed Man,
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Speaker 1: there were a couple of people that said, where's Weed Man?
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Speaker 1: I need, where's my guy? And I said, he's not here.
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Speaker 1: And then I even had to show a photo of
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Speaker 1: you to a couple of people. They wanted to know
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Speaker 1: what you look like. And they said you look just
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Speaker 1: like they thought you would look, Weed Man. That you
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Speaker 1: have the look of a guy that you would assume
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Speaker 1: would be named Weed Man Hippie.
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Speaker 2: That's great. Hey, I saw Coop in Adventures of Ragtime.
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Speaker 2: He was like seven, eight years old. He was great.
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Speaker 1: Is that the one with the pony?
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: It's a miniature horse, Lorena. We just talked about that
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Speaker 1: the other day. I know.
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Speaker 3: Isn't that weird?
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Speaker 1: How did you end up watching that?
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Speaker 2: Wow, I just looked it on YouTube. There's a movie
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Speaker 2: that said Justin Cooper, so I watched.
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Speaker 1: It's on YouTube?
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Apparently. Look at that. Oh, my gosh, I'm going to
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Speaker 1: watch it later if it's on YouTube.
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Speaker 2: Stop.
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Speaker 1: It's a terrible movie. It's really bad.
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Speaker 2: How about that?
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Speaker 1: Straight to YouTube. Did you enjoy the movie?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was good. It was good.
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Speaker 1: See, look at that. How much weed were you smoking
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Speaker 1: while you were watching?
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Speaker 5: Plenty.
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Speaker 1: I loved seeing Cooper. Yeah, of course.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: All right, well, here we go, Weed Man. Let's start
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Speaker 1: with this now. Many people say, well, you got to
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Speaker 1: ask Weed Man about Dijon Love. Do you know who
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Speaker 1: Dijon Love is?
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Speaker 2: No, who is that?
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Speaker 1: Oh, my God, Weed Man.
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Speaker 4: Who is it?
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Speaker 1: He's my favorite 49er wide receiver.
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Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
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Speaker 1: No, no, this is the guy that pretended to be
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Speaker 1: a 49er wide receiver, and he got a bunch of
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Speaker 1: seemingly all-attractive young women to send him money. Wow, cool.
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Speaker 1: That's very cool. Now the story, we were going to
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Speaker 1: mention this earlier, but according to the New York Post,
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Speaker 1: they claim before he pretended to be a 49er wide receiver,
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Speaker 1: he used other fake athletic identities. He claimed to be
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Speaker 1: a professional basketball player overseas. Wow. That is so cool.
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Speaker 2: I would do that.
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Speaker 1: Well, the only problem is he got arrested for it
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Speaker 1: because he wasn't these, and I guess he was like
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Speaker 1: sleeping with it. How about the women though, Weed Man? Wow.
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Speaker 1: I would think that, I've seen so many videos of
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Speaker 1: like seemingly attractive young women posting videos of, hey, yeah,
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Speaker 1: this guy, I, you know, talked to him. Like, wouldn't
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Speaker 1: you not want to let people know that you were
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Speaker 1: that gullible, that you fell for that?
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: It seems odd to me that they're posting videos.
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Speaker 2: But that 1.6 million or something like that? Wow.
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Speaker 1: 1.3 million. That's like you make, right, Weed Man?
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Speaker 2: Yeah. That'd be great.
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Speaker 1: All right. Let's see here. Alf the Alien O'Piner writes in.
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Speaker 1: He says, Weed Man, have you ever tried Viagra?
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Speaker 2: No, I wish.
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Speaker 1: You wish. All right. Yeah, I did.
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Speaker 2: That'd be great.
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Speaker 1: All right. Yafimi, Chicago guy, says, if Mallor allowed you
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Speaker 1: to live at his house, would you move to California?
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Speaker 2: Absolutely. Yes.
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Speaker 1: Well, Weed Man's got extra rooms, and I don't have
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Speaker 1: any space. Weed Man's, or Coop, rather, has rooms for you,
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Speaker 1: Weed Man, so you can live with Coop. How about that?
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Speaker 2: Oh, that'd be great. I'd love that. Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 1: It'd be wonderful. All right, Mark writes in, otherwise known
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Speaker 1: as Mark from Queens on the show. He says, ask
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Speaker 1: a Weed Man. Hi, Weed Man.
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Speaker 2: I used to live in Queens.
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Speaker 1: There you go. What three or more drug combo would
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Speaker 1: you do?
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Speaker 3: Sleep.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. What three or more drug combo
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Speaker 1: has made you pass out or black out for the
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Speaker 1: longest time, longest period of time? That's Mark from Queens.
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Speaker 2: I never blacked out. I don't even sleep now. I
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Speaker 2: never sleep. I wish I could sleep.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure there's something you could take that would. It'll
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Speaker 1: cause you to sleep. Jonathan in Delaware writes in. He's
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Speaker 1: dealing with some stuff right now, a little minor health stuff,
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Speaker 1: so he's with us on the overnight. Sorry, Jonathan. He says,
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Speaker 1: Ask a Weed Man is such a good segment. I
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Speaker 1: love that guy. Any advice to Jonathan from Weed Man Hippie,
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Speaker 1: Jonathan in Delaware?
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Speaker 2: Feel better. Definitely feel better. I feel bad that you
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Speaker 2: don't feel good. Just....
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Speaker 1: Feel better? Okay. All right. That's it. Andy in Lionel Lakes,
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Speaker 1: Minnesota writes in on Ask a Weed Man. Our friend Billy,
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Speaker 1: a man that sat on a lifeguard tower on the
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Speaker 1: beach in Miami during a hurricane.
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Speaker 2: I did that.
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Speaker 1: Was that a cat four? What was that? I forget
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Speaker 1: how powerful it was.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was so bad. And I had to run
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Speaker 2: off the lifeguard stand into the hotel. It was terrible.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Made for good radio. Did make for good radio.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Andy in Lionel Lakes, Minnesota says, with Labor Day weekend approaching,
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Speaker 1: are you going to be celebrating Labor Day or are
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Speaker 1: you just going to call it another Monday?
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Speaker 2: Another Monday? I've never had labor in my life, really.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. You've made it this far without having to really labor.
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Speaker 1: That's pretty impressive.
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Speaker 2: Very impressive.
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Speaker 1: All right. Who's next? Analog Al says, pick one. A
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Speaker 1: great bowel movement. Fantastic make and whoopie or Acapulco gold.
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Speaker 1: You can only have one, Weedman.
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Speaker 2: Make and whoopie, definitely. No doubt.
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Speaker 4: Look at you.
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Speaker 1: What a stud. What a big stud you are. You're
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Speaker 1: a lover, Weedman.
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Speaker 2: Oh, man.
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Speaker 1: I am. Ultimate ladies' man. Where's Lisa? Is she up
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Speaker 1: with us, Lisa? Is she there?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Lisa, you there?
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Speaker 1: Hi, Lisa.
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Speaker 3: Hi, Lena.
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Speaker 4: Hi, Ben.
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Speaker 3: Hi, Lisa.
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Speaker 1: How are you? Let's do a reality show, get you
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Speaker 1: guys back together. Wouldn't that be great?
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Speaker 2: That would be great.
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Speaker 1: Reunited and I do think they have planes that fly
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Speaker 1: out of JFK pretty regularly to Miami. I think that's
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Speaker 1: not that. And vice versa. Bozo, the district attorney, writes in, says,
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Speaker 1: hashtag ask a weed man, of course. This is your
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Speaker 1: buddy Bozo Weed Man.
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Speaker 2: Bozo the clown. That's great.
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Speaker 1: He says, if you could get a second chance at
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Speaker 1: life starting over, what would you change?
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Speaker 2: Well, I still have the toy store, that's for sure.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: The problem with that, though, is there's not a lot
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Speaker 1: of toy stores left anymore. You know what I mean? Like,
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Speaker 1: that's the toys for us.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I heard that.
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Speaker 1: Even Lisa's laughing. Even Lisa's like, you might want to,
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Speaker 1: you'd have to branch out. You'd have to get into
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Speaker 1: some other things. You know what I'm saying?
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Speaker 2: So where do people buy toys now?
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Speaker 1: This thing called the interweb. Amazon. Amazon, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 2: Walmart. I wish I bought Amazon as a stock way
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Speaker 2: back when. That was the best stock. I would have
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Speaker 2: still been rich. That would have been great. I can't
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Speaker 2: believe I didn't get Amazon.
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Speaker 1: Or Apple. If you bought Apple stock in 1982, that
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Speaker 1: would have been good for you, too.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: All right, Late Night Drug Tester writes in. He says, hey,
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Speaker 1: Weed Man, how come we haven't come up with a
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Speaker 1: word that rhymes with orange?
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Speaker 2: So what in the world rhymes with orange? What does? Orange, squash, squash.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. What word rhymes with orange?
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Speaker 1: Well, that's the bit. See, there's nothing that rhymes with
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Speaker 1: the word orange.
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Speaker 2: Wow, really? I guess not.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I'm thinking about it.
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Speaker 1: And any solution?
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Speaker 3: Nothing.
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Speaker 2: Nothing runs as far as that's funny. All right.
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Speaker 1: Fergdog says, Weed Man, did you ever figure out to
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Speaker 1: get Zoom on your phone so you can be part
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Speaker 1: of the fifth hour of mail?
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Speaker 2: I'm still trying to get Zoom. I can't get it.
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Speaker 2: It's amazing. It never fully loads up.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. All right, well, we are efforting. There might be
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Speaker 1: some new technology. This gadget that I may or may
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Speaker 1: not have acquired that conceivably would allow you, Weed Man,
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Speaker 1: to be part of the show without getting the Zoom app.
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Speaker 2: Oh, that'd be great. I'd love that.
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Speaker 1: I haven't tested it, though. See, I might have to
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Speaker 1: test it. You'd be my guinea pig. We'll see if
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Speaker 1: it works, you know.
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Speaker 2: I'd love to do your show on the weekend. I'd
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Speaker 2: really love to do that.
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Speaker 1: Well, not every weekend. We've got Robbie the Mariner fan,
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Speaker 1: and we've got Dante in Vegas, JT the Wingman. Now,
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Speaker 1: we might start doing the round robin. We have multiple
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Speaker 1: celebrities pop up on the Fifth Hour Podcast mailbag. We
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Speaker 1: are considering that. We're efforting that.
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Speaker 2: I'd love to do that. Anytime you could get me.
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Speaker 1: To do that, I'll do it. You always answer your phone,
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Speaker 1: Weed Man.
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Speaker 2: Yes, yes.
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Speaker 1: You never do that. Well, that one time you stopped
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Speaker 1: answering the phone there, but that... Well, forget about that.
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Speaker 1: When you were in jail, right? Because you couldn't answer
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Speaker 1: your phone.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: All right. Let's see. I saw... I'll.
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Speaker 2: Still try to download you, but I'll still try to
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Speaker 2: do it.
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Speaker 1: No, it's not going to work. It's not going to work.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, a listener says, Weed Man, are you excited?
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Speaker 1: McDonald's is bringing back spicy McNuggets. I guess this is
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Speaker 1: only in Texas, though, I think, right?
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Speaker 2: It doesn't do me any good.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're not.
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Speaker 2: And there's not a McDonald's near me. I don't even
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Speaker 2: know where McDonald's is.
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Speaker 1: What's your favorite fast food restaurant, Weedman?
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Speaker 2: There's none over here. I go to CVS.
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Speaker 1: That's your favorite fast food restaurant? What, do you get
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Speaker 1: Snickers bars over there?
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, all kinds of ice cream and frozen dinners. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 3: There are three McDonald's in Hollywood, Florida.
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Speaker 1: Weed Man.
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Speaker 2: Really? Not near me.
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Speaker 1: When Weed Man says not near him, it means within
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Speaker 1: a one block radius of his house. Right?
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I got the Weed Show right down the
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Speaker 2: block from me. That's good.
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Speaker 1: All right, well, it's too bad. I saw Domino's is
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Speaker 1: giving away free pizza if you buy a Big Mac, Whopper,
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Speaker 1: or other fast food favorite. So you try to get
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Speaker 1: a free pizza, Weedman. But again, we learned that on
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Speaker 1: your birthday, you always have to get apps, and you
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Speaker 1: don't do apps. You're not an app guy, so it's
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Speaker 1: not going to work. And I'm also impressed, Weedman. You've
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Speaker 1: made it through the entire segment without mentioning a certain
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Speaker 1: person that rhymes with burrito.
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Speaker 2: Burrito, yeah. I wish burritos could be food.
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Speaker 1: You haven't mentioned that, and you have not mentioned that
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Speaker 1: there's a weed shop down the street. So I'm happy
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Speaker 1: that you didn't mention that either. So that's good.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: Any other final thoughts here, Weed Man? Are we good? Yes,
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Speaker 1: we're good here.
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Speaker 2: I love you, Danny.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 2: You have to make the world a better place to live.
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Speaker 1: Yes, we do.
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Speaker 2: You have to stop fighting around God. We have to
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Speaker 2: change the world.
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Speaker 1: Change the world.
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Speaker 2: Let's make the world better now. Let's love the world.
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Speaker 1: All hug each other.
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Speaker 2: Put love in it. Make it better.
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Speaker 1: Yes. FergDog says, more Weed Man on the fifth hour,
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Speaker 1: less Robbie, please. It's time we class up.
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Speaker 5: Good.
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Speaker 1: That's great. FergDog and Robbie, the Mariner fan, rivals. What
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Speaker 1: is going on? I thought Fergdog loves everyone. He found
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Speaker 1: his rival.
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Speaker 4: All right.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Weed Man. There he goes, the great Weed
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Speaker 1: Man hippie in Hollywood, Florida. And we appreciate him. As
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Speaker 1: we press on, it is the Ben Maller Show. And
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Speaker 1: time now for the Insta trivia. We'll go to football.
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Speaker 1: Blank was a 12th round pick, became famous for playing
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Speaker 1: all seven positions in on his team's defensive front seven,
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Speaker 1: defensive end, defensive tackle, nose tackle, all four linebacker spots.
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Speaker 1: And that versatility earned him the nickname the Albino Rhino. Again,
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Speaker 1: Blank was a 12th-round pick, became well-known for playing all
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Speaker 1: seven positions on his team's defense on the front seven.
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Speaker 1: Defensive end, defensive tackle, nose tackle, all four linebacker spots.
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Speaker 1: And that versatility earned him the nickname the Albino Rhino.
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Speaker 1: That is the Insta Trivia. The answer. We'll get to it.
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Speaker 1: We'll do it. Next.
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Speaker 4: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maler
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Speaker 1: It's the reason we have all these freaking cameras and
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Speaker 1: lights in here, so you might as well watch the videos. Otherwise,
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Speaker 1: what's the point of wasting all the money on these
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Speaker 1: freaking lights and these cameras and all that? Thank you.
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Speaker 1: Time now for the payoff on the Insta Trivia. Blank
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Speaker 1: was a 12th-round pick, became famous for playing all seven
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Speaker 1: positions in his team's defensive front seven. Defensive end, defensive tackle,
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Speaker 1: nose tackle, all four linebacker spots. That versatility earned him
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Speaker 1: the nickname the Albino Rhino, one of the great nicknames
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Speaker 1: in NFL history. That's the question. What's the answer?
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Speaker 2: Femi.
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Speaker 1: Going with Hulk Hogan. Alf the Alien Alpiner says Newt Rockne.
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Speaker 1: Who else do we have? Former Viking Jeff Simeon from
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Speaker 1: Areek in Minnesota. Alex Karras from Analog Al. Ross Perot
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Speaker 1: from Maler Propke. I didn't have that. On my bingo card,
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Speaker 1: the Rhinos, Arch Enemy the Hulk from Michael in Tulsa,
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Speaker 1: Larry Zonka from Dat Dude, Randy White, guest by Eek
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Speaker 1: in Roseville, Minnesota, Caitlin Clark from JT the Wingman, Chip
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Speaker 1: in the Qs, got it right. Shocker. Zach Thomas from
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Speaker 1: Mediocre Kabuki. Who else do we have? Jim Brown from
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Speaker 1: Steelers Nasty. The Waterboy from Filler Up Phil. Do you
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Speaker 1: have an answer, Lorraine? Going with Quagmire. Giggity, giggity, giggity, giggity. Oh,
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Speaker 1: it's Broncos legend Carl Mecklenburg of the 1980s Broncos. The
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Speaker 1: albino rhino. Here we go. Here we go.
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Speaker 4: It's Maller.
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Speaker 1: How about that?
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Speaker 4: To the third degree.
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Speaker 1: This is when Big Ben gets grilled. And to the
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Speaker 1: coop-a-loop we go.
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Speaker 3: Ben, yesterday you talked about Will Levis getting waived by
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Speaker 3: the Titans. Yeah. Well, he went unclaimed on waivers. He
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Speaker 3: is now a free agent. Do you think he'll get
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Speaker 3: a backup quarterback role with anybody, or is he headed to, like,
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Speaker 3: a practice squad somewhere?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, at this point, usually what happens is they kind
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Speaker 1: of wait until the first week of the season, and
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Speaker 1: then they'll add players. And he'll definitely end up on
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Speaker 1: an NFL roster before the end of the year, no
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Speaker 1: matter how many negative plays he has, because, as you know, Coop,
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Speaker 1: There are supply chain shortages at the quarterback position. So
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Speaker 1: even bad quarterbacks keep getting jobs. Next! Well, college football
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Speaker 1: started over the weekend.
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Speaker 3: And the announced attendance at the USC Trojans with the
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Speaker 3: Coliseum was 51,144.
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Speaker 1: Apparently, it looked like a lot less than that. About
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Speaker 1: 4,000 people were there.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, to the point where the USC even had to
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Speaker 3: make a statement about it.
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Speaker 1: Some people were blaming the heat. Do you think that
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Speaker 1: was the problem, Ben? No, that's a cop. It was
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Speaker 1: really hot. Obviously it was hot. It felt like the
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Speaker 1: South in Southern California. However... The real issue here, Coop,
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Speaker 1: is they're playing a bad team, San Jose State, and
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Speaker 1: people aren't fired up for Lincoln Riley. That's the problem.
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Speaker 1: It's a Lincoln Riley problem.
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Speaker 4: Next!
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Speaker 3: So Jonathan Kaminga is now on a two-year, $ 12 million
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Speaker 3: contract after turning down a three-year, $ 75 million offer last summer.
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Speaker 3: His agent's getting a lot of heat. Some think he's
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Speaker 3: closer to the first contract worth than the second contract worth.
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Speaker 1: What do you think he is? I think he's your
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Speaker 1: typical run-of-the-mill NBA player's marginal.
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Speaker 4: How did we do?
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Speaker 1: You passed this edition.
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Speaker 3: I won!
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Speaker 1: I passed! Hey, I passed, Andre. I passed!