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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Mahler
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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: Radio Viva Las Vegas. Oh, by the way, shameless promotion
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  Speaker 1: coming up in less than a couple of weeks here.
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  Speaker 1: All well, I think we're at the point. Now, where's
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  Speaker 1: two weeks? I be We're exactly two weeks out, all right,
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  Speaker 1: I guess we're a little over. I don't know. It's
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  Speaker 1: the twenty ninth, so this is it's weird because we're
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  Speaker 1: heading into the fourteenth. So yeah, a little over two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Bad job by me, But a little over two weeks
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  Speaker 1: will be in Vegas. If you're in Vegas or able
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  Speaker 1: to make it, we'd love to meet you, mallard, meet
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  Speaker 1: and greet. Well, we go to Vegas right now, and
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  Speaker 1: it turns out I'm not the most popular person with
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  Speaker 1: the Raider fans. I don't know why. They're very sensitive,
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  Speaker 1: these hardened Raider fans very delicate.
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  Speaker 3: They're delicate little flowers.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, Fernando Mendoza, their new savior, their lord and savior.
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  Speaker 1: Fernando Mendoza made his debut kind of you really can't
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  Speaker 1: get too worked up either way on an exhibition game,
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  Speaker 1: and I was flipping around. I you know, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm such a loser. At least I'm getting paid for
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  Speaker 1: the way I look at it. You know, I'm plausibly
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  Speaker 1: getting paid to watch these games. And I was watching
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  Speaker 1: all the exhibition games from the Steelers and the Packers,
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  Speaker 1: the Patriot game. I had that on a bouncing around there,
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  Speaker 1: and the Lions and ben Gals and you name it.
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  Speaker 3: Of the Raiders played against the Cardinals.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that is a dog food matchup if there was
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  Speaker 1: two embarrassing franchises. Their joke. So despite some fanboy reports
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  Speaker 1: about how good he looked, oh my god, I must
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  Speaker 1: have had an issue with my television, listen the reality
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  Speaker 1: on this side.
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  Speaker 3: Heyban, he looked mid. That's where he is. I thought
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  Speaker 3: he would kind of be a mid guy.
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  Speaker 1: And that's as I canna play as a starter Fernando
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  Speaker 1: Mendoza pretty pedestrian, the average six point one yards per
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  Speaker 1: pass against a bunch of backups who will be delivering
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  Speaker 1: packages for Amazon. Not there's anything wrong with that, but
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  Speaker 1: they'll be doing that rather than playing in the National
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  Speaker 1: Football League. So color me not impressed. One thing I've learned,
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  Speaker 1: all right, One thing I've learned here is to never
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  Speaker 1: get too worked up into a lather regarding these exhibition
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  Speaker 1: games either way. But anyway, let's go to the man,
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  Speaker 1: the mid, the legend, Fernando Mendoza. Here, your new savior,
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  Speaker 1: the messiah of Raider Nation. Here he is on his
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  Speaker 1: first appearance in an NFL uniform in a practice game.
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  Speaker 1: Take a liss.
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  Speaker 4: It was an invigorating sperience where there's not many moments
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  Speaker 4: where you feel fully alive, and on the field is
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  Speaker 4: when you feel fully alive, especially in the NFL atmosphere.
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  Speaker 4: So I want to give thanks to that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well it looked pretty. It didn't look like there
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  Speaker 1: was a lot of energy. Am I missing something again?
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  Speaker 1: Must be a bad TV. Here's more from Fernando Mendoza
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  Speaker 1: on a need for speed.
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  Speaker 3: A need for.
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  Speaker 4: Speed, great to get out there, get my feet wet
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  Speaker 4: at first especially the first drive, fell a little sped
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  Speaker 4: up because so much anticipation and excitement. However, I feel
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  Speaker 4: like the cheap my teammates around me protected me very
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  Speaker 4: well and they helped me. They helped slow me down.
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  Speaker 4: And I think because it was a good experience.
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  Speaker 1: And I saw a lot of pressure on Fernando Mendoza
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  Speaker 1: and he didn't seem to be handling it very well.
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  Speaker 1: What do I know?
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  Speaker 3: So color me not impressed. Even if he played well.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't be like, all right, it's great either way
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  Speaker 1: bad or it's a mid like I said, mid the
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  Speaker 1: story though, to me is some other comments made by
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  Speaker 1: the person we just heard there. And if you didn't
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  Speaker 1: hear those comments, perhaps not Fernando Mendoza.
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  Speaker 3: He did this. There's this big expos.
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  Speaker 1: Behind a paywall on the athletic and Mendoza says, you know,
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  Speaker 1: talking about you know, they was asked about living in
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  Speaker 1: Vegas and you know the whole reputation of the debauchery
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  Speaker 1: that takes place in that town. Of course, now the
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  Speaker 1: debauchery costs you a lot more because you've got pay
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  Speaker 1: for parking and everything's ridiculous. But Mendoza says, he largely
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  Speaker 1: avoids the iconic Las Vegas strip. He compared it to
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  Speaker 1: a childhood haunted house. Yeah, yeah, I thought this was fake.
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  Speaker 3: Apparently not.
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  Speaker 1: And even though he signed a contract with fifty seven,
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  Speaker 1: I believe the number was fifty seven million guaranteed. If
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  Speaker 1: I have that right, I believe I am over fifty
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  Speaker 1: seven million guaranteed. Yet essentially he only wears Raiders gear
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  Speaker 1: and off from Adidas, and he also has shut down
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  Speaker 1: social media until the season ends, so that's gonna be well,
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  Speaker 1: the Raider season ends in January, so he'll have no
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  Speaker 1: social media till then. Then wait, there's more. Mendoza also
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  Speaker 1: said the playbook is my girlfriend. Close quote. Playbook is
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  Speaker 1: my girlfriend and has largely decided no, no ladies, You
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  Speaker 1: ladies are toxic. You're toxic to you ladies, and no
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  Speaker 1: partying Poindexter eight partying. And he describes himself as willing
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  Speaker 1: to be quote psycho about football close quote. All right,
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  Speaker 1: that's a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question.
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  Speaker 1: Fernando Mendoza lot to pick a part here. He says
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  Speaker 1: he avoids the Las Vegas trip and the playbook is
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  Speaker 1: his girlfriend.
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  Speaker 3: How does this read to you?
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  Speaker 1: So I got Hunter s Thompson all inclusive, opical resort
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  Speaker 1: and depression era. And we will combine all of these
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  Speaker 1: things together. We're gonna enjoy a one arm bandit the
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  Speaker 1: one arm band, a slot machine. We're gonna enjoy that.
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  Speaker 3: Al right.
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  Speaker 1: So a I would like to thank Fernando Mendoza for
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  Speaker 1: sounding like the biggest square to ever wear the raider's helmet.
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  Speaker 1: All right, this guy not a good quarterback, good SoundBite.
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  Speaker 1: I'll take it. You know, it's gonna be a good time.
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  Speaker 1: Gonna be a good time. I'm enjoying it. I got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of talk radio.
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  Speaker 3: To do, and this guy's good for my business. He's good.
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  Speaker 1: So the strip is his personal boogeyman. Yeah, my boogeyman
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  Speaker 1: is having to pay parking on the strip. That's my book.
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  Speaker 1: I love the strip, the paying the parking part, that's
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  Speaker 1: my boogeyman. And I guess, is there like a blackjack
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  Speaker 1: dealer possibly hiding under his bed? Can somebody check under
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  Speaker 1: his bed to see if there's a Mendoza might have
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  Speaker 1: a like a blackjack dealer or a bed bugs or
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  Speaker 1: something like that. And it just came across like he
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  Speaker 1: has so little self control that like driving past Caesar's
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  Speaker 1: Palace down the strip, and all of a sudden he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna turn into Hunter S. Thompson on a bender because
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  Speaker 1: he happened to see the fountains at Caesar's Palace or
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  Speaker 1: something like that, and spare maybe the playbook is my
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  Speaker 1: girlfriend line.
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  Speaker 3: Now, let me tell you.
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  Speaker 1: When I was a young man in my twenties, radio
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  Speaker 1: was my girlfriend. The reason radio is my girlfriend. No
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  Speaker 1: women would get within ten feet of me. They all
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  Speaker 1: agreed to stay away.
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  Speaker 3: He was, I don't know, some kind of feminine bonding
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  Speaker 3: thing to stay away.
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  Speaker 1: Man. This guy's that with the number one pick in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL draft. I'm guessing he doesn't have that problem anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Somewhere across the Pearly Gates, Al Davis, the Late Great
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  Speaker 1: Al Davis is haunting a hallway, wondering what happened to
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  Speaker 1: his beloved franchise. And I really I'm gonna I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: date myself. When I was growing up, the Raiders were Machiesma.
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  Speaker 1: They were a different breed, The Raiders right that it
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  Speaker 1: used to be the NFL's band of swashbuckling pirate misfits,
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  Speaker 1: right renegades outlaws, The Raiders.
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  Speaker 3: Bad boys, bad boys, bad boys.
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  Speaker 1: Who looked like they would steal your wallet and your
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  Speaker 1: girlfriend at the same time before kickoff. Okay, now the
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  Speaker 1: top pick their savior. Fernando Mendoza is apparently terrified of staying.
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  Speaker 3: Up past his bedtime.
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  Speaker 1: Like what in the world is going on? It's like
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  Speaker 1: the anti Raider And look, Fernando Mendoza doesn't need to
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  Speaker 1: become a degenerate in Vegas. There's plenty of those guys.
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  Speaker 1: Many of them love our show, We love our friend
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  Speaker 1: mouthwash Mic for example.
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  Speaker 3: Right, he didn't have to do that. You don't have
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  Speaker 3: to go down that road.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, but you can visit the strip without turning into
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  Speaker 1: Nicholas Cage and leaving Las Vegas. Like just try to
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  Speaker 1: give a little swagger and a little bit. You know
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  Speaker 1: that the whole thing was.
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  Speaker 3: It used to be just win baby.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, any you tell anyone under the age of
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  Speaker 1: like thirty or even like twenty five, just win baby.
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  Speaker 1: For the Raiders are well that one.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, just lose. That's their slogan, not win, but
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  Speaker 3: just live a little bit, Just live a little I'm
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  Speaker 3: not telling.
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  Speaker 1: You to become the party man, but just live a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, all right, now meanwhile to Seattle, and we
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  Speaker 1: told you about this in the previous episode.
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  Speaker 3: It has now happened.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's over.
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  Speaker 3: It's all over for the Seattle Seahawks. Turn out a
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  Speaker 3: lot not a lot lot? Hey, goodbye?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yep, we have learned that Terry On Arnold
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  Speaker 1: has agreed to join the Seattle Seahawks. What whoa Yes,
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  Speaker 1: the Lions, you might remember, fired Terry On Arnold in
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  Speaker 1: late June. You might think that's harsh. It was less
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  Speaker 1: than a week after he was arrested in Tampa. He
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  Speaker 1: was the first round pick in the twenty twenty four
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  Speaker 1: NFL Draft. The Seahawks coach Mike McDaniel or McDonald rather McDonald, McDaniel, McDonald,
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  Speaker 1: you know whatever. Anyway, Mike McDonald, this guy had, he
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  Speaker 1: had like knee pads on, describing Arnold's workout as a
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  Speaker 1: great visit, great tryout, and of course admitted there's a
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  Speaker 1: he said there were significant issues surrounding him. Oh, let
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  Speaker 1: me see. What do you think those issues were. Let's
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  Speaker 1: take a look. What do you Let's peek behind the curtain. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: why not?
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  Speaker 3: What the hell?
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  Speaker 1: All right, so prosecutors are accusing. Now it's an accusation.
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  Speaker 1: They're accusing Terry On Arnold of being the ringleader, the
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  Speaker 1: man orchestrating a kidnapping and beating the crap out of
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  Speaker 1: three people that he alleged and apparently wrongly had stolen
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  Speaker 1: one hundred thousand in cash and a bunch of other
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  Speaker 1: luxury watches and crap that's overpriced that he bought. Arnold
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  Speaker 1: is facing not one, not two, not three, not four,
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  Speaker 1: not five, not six, not seven? How about eight felony
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  Speaker 1: counts for kidnapping, four armed robbery charges? All right? And
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  Speaker 1: how much jail time you think he's fishing? I think
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  Speaker 1: he's fishing in like ten years? No, all right, maybe twenty. No,
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  Speaker 1: how about life in prison? Okay, he's this is not
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  Speaker 1: a jaywalking ticket. He didn't steal a bag of potato
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  Speaker 1: chips from the store. This is life in prison now.
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  Speaker 1: No trial date has been set and that's where we are.
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  Speaker 1: So the question, are the Seahawks telling us something with
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  Speaker 1: the tarry On Arnold pending addition? Yeah, I mean they're
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  Speaker 1: telling us a couple of things. They have no scruples
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  Speaker 1: and they are so scared of the la Rams the
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  Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks. You don't take a guy like this on
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  Speaker 1: your roster unless you're afraid of the la rams, You're
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  Speaker 1: not good enough, you know it. And this is the
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  Speaker 1: type of move you make. That's it, right, a guy
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  Speaker 1: facing life altering felony charges. And yet the Seattle management
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  Speaker 1: there is like, okay, this is just a harmless footnote.
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  Speaker 1: It's on page ninety seven of the scouting report. You've
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  Speaker 1: got Mike McDonald who looks at potentially facing this guy
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  Speaker 1: facing a life in prison and thinks, well, the.
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  Speaker 3: Guy's got grid, He's got grit.
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  Speaker 1: Terry on'nold has grid plus plus, he's already got a
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  Speaker 1: retirement plan at the all inclusive tropical resort. Where's that
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  Speaker 1: all inclusive tropical resort there, mister McDonald, That would be.
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  Speaker 3: The Florida State prison system.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, now tell me another job where you could gain
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  Speaker 1: employment like this when facing that, in any other job,
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  Speaker 1: you'd be radioactive.
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  Speaker 3: And yet the Seattle Seahawks in the NFL are like,
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  Speaker 3: oh yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I wouldn't be shocked if when this goes down here,
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  Speaker 1: Terry on Arnold shows up and he's wearing handcuffs and
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  Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks spin doctors in the twelves would say, listen,
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  Speaker 1: they're not handcuffs, dummy, They're revolutionary resistant bands. That's what
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  Speaker 1: they are. And he's so good he can play with
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  Speaker 1: those revolutionary resistant bands. You just are mean calling them handcuffs.
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  Speaker 1: You're a boomer. What is going on? You're the reigning
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl champions act like it? Why dumpster dive for
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  Speaker 1: that kind of back. Stop acting like you're the Browns
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  Speaker 1: or the Jets of the Raiders of the Cardinals. It's unbecoming.
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  Speaker 1: You don't need to run a halfway house with shoulder pads.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, now, the good news is the marketing department Seattle.
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  Speaker 1: My friends there in the marketing department, and they will rebrand.
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  Speaker 1: Now years ago, I'm barely old enough to remember when
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  Speaker 1: they were really good. They had an unbelievable defense. They
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  Speaker 1: called it the Legion of Boom. Now, with Terry on
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  Speaker 1: Arnold coming on, they can rebrand it the mug Shot Mafia.
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  Speaker 3: Oh watch out for the mug Shot Mafia. Pretty good,
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  Speaker 3: all right.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing screams championship culture quite like wondering if your newest
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  Speaker 1: defensive back will be able to cover receivers on Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: or he'll have an extended meeting with his attorneys to
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  Speaker 1: figure out what to do next. All right.
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  Speaker 3: Meanwhile, all right, the.
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  Speaker 1: Last part of this, let's go to Buffalo. Follow up
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  Speaker 1: to the follow up, I have been receiving email from
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  Speaker 1: one I don't think this guy lives in Buffalo. He's
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  Speaker 1: a big Bills fan. He's in the suburbs up there
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  Speaker 1: in western New York, and he's very upset that I've.
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  Speaker 3: Taken shots at his beloved Buffalo Bills.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently, the overnight guy taking shots at the Bills is
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  Speaker 1: a big problem for this dude. So he sent me
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  Speaker 1: all this propaganda about the Bills stadium and says, see,
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  Speaker 1: see they didn't mess it up. You're just a hater,
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  Speaker 1: you know that whole thing. So we have a stadium update.
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  Speaker 1: The architect behind that monstrosity, the two point two billion
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  Speaker 1: High Mark Stadium, says that the ghastly obstructed site lines
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  Speaker 1: were not a design mistake or some kind of oversight.
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  Speaker 1: They were intentional.
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  Speaker 4: What.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, the stadium was designed that way on purpose. They said.
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  Speaker 1: They designed a steeper upper deck, more vertical seating bowls,
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  Speaker 1: and they stacked obviously the upper tiers there intended. The
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  Speaker 1: goal was to bring the fans closer to the field.
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  Speaker 1: And create a louder atmosphere and all that. Yeah, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: a person I'm not going to give the name of
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  Speaker 1: the firm the architectause I haven't heard of them, but
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  Speaker 1: somebody that worked for that company, some blowhard executive, defended
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  Speaker 1: the setup, saying, quote, you will find some level of
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  Speaker 1: obstruction in every stadium in the world, while arguing the
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  Speaker 1: goal was better proximity.
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  Speaker 3: And atmosphere close quote.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So the question the Buffalo bills say that
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  Speaker 1: these obstructed seats in their brand new stadium are not
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  Speaker 1: a design mistake.
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  Speaker 3: How does this reshape the story?
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  Speaker 1: All right? All right, so let me take a breath.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So claims that these obstructed seats are not
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  Speaker 1: a design mistake elevate the story from a garden variety
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  Speaker 1: screw up garden variety to biblical incompetence. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Their defense is, yeah, we meant to do that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's our that's ours. We did it. So let me
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  Speaker 3: get this straight.
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  Speaker 1: You spent two point two billion on a football palace
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  Speaker 1: that has if I'm correct, here correct me if I'm wrong.
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  Speaker 3: I jotted down on my notesap on my phone.
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  Speaker 1: It has a vintage nineteen eighties style JumboTron in that stadium,
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  Speaker 1: the kind of a jumbo tron you would see in
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  Speaker 1: like nineteen eighty seven at the Metrodome. Okay, it has
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  Speaker 1: sightlines that are similar to the nineteen thirties, and the
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  Speaker 1: upper deck so vertical that if you climb to row thirty.
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  Speaker 1: According to internet videos that I saw, it does require,
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  Speaker 1: as we said in a previous episode of the show,
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  Speaker 1: a shirpa and an oxygen tank to get to that point, right,
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  Speaker 1: and so what's next? Support columns in front of the urinals, like,
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  Speaker 1: what are we doing here? And they talked about what
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  Speaker 1: we did is for crowd noise. You know what also
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  Speaker 1: create artificial crowd noise?
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  Speaker 3: A roof?
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  Speaker 1: You know what else happens in Buffalo snow, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of snow. I'm just saying, if your goal was to
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  Speaker 1: get a lot of noise, a roof would have done that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: oh you're a viet mean, what's wrong with you? So
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  Speaker 1: this is and it made me I'm wrong on this.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's supposed to be a sparkling new NFL cathedral,
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  Speaker 1: the Tabernacle of Buffalo bill Football, not some of some
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  Speaker 1: kind of archaeological recreation of a Depression era stadium design,
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  Speaker 1: like did they dust off the old blueprints from Tigers
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  Speaker 1: Stadium slash Briggs Stadium back and they say, oh, this
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  Speaker 1: seems like a good idea. And as we pointed out,
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  Speaker 1: is listen, if tickets were affordable and it was something
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  Speaker 1: where it was everyone had a chance to really go there,
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  Speaker 1: and you'd have to spend most of your spendable income,
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  Speaker 1: your disposable income, excuse me to go to these games.
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  Speaker 1: The bills just created this PSL bull crap, one of
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  Speaker 1: the great hustles of our time, and the fans in
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  Speaker 1: Buffalo have handed over.
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  Speaker 3: I think the number I saw.
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  Speaker 1: Was two hundred and sixty dollars to pay the bills
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• 19:22
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• 19:25
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• 19:30
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• 19:35
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• 21:08
  Speaker 1: So our lead story of this our little baseball here
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: at the top and big match up this weekend, the
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Dodgers and the Brewers four game series. It started on
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Thursday night at the Ravine in LA and the Dodgers
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: are back. They get the perfect tonic. They played the
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Royals beat up on the tomato cans there and so
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: now the Brewers come in. Brewers have not been playing
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: well recently either, So that was the matchup. I saw
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: any of that game, perhaps you missed it, and wow,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: what a hot mess Edwin Diaz, Yeah, man, he had
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: dysentery yet again on the mound, coughed up a multi
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: run lead in the night the inning, and Dave Roberts
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: acting like the statue of liberty. He was frozen like
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: a statue watching this happen and took him out too late.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Brewers win the game. The crew get back on track,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: feel good about themselves there against another Dave Roberts liked
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: him in that spot moment there, So we'll wait to
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: get our full review on that series. But the Brewers
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: feeling good about themselves, Dodgers and another embarrassing moment there.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: It's all about the loose bies. I'm sure some Dodger
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: propaganda's say, well, you know, he didn't get any anybody
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: really out, but he looked.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: You know, there's some signs. There's some signs he's about
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: to turn the corner.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Ah, all right, anyway, the real story, don't bury the lead, mama,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: and the real story here is the unrest in Blue Heaven.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: As we have talked about.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: It's bad, like the Gougenheim Partner group, it's not good
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: at all.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: Everything I'm hearing, everything I read.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: This is a big time financial boondoggle that has no
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: end in sight, no really good ending to think about it.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Like the top way this could end would be that
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: all you have to do is sell the Dodgers. You
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: already sold the Lakers, and they just take that whatever
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: money you can get out of that after Capito gains,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: and then pay off the federal government to keep yourself
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: out of some country club jail as a rich person,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: because rich people go to country club jail about.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: Where we are based on the information we have.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: So the other part of this is the there's a
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: lot of pieces in the jigsaw puzzle is sho Hail Tani.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: So we're hearing that the reports.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: I'm sure these were completely organic and we're not leaked
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: by somebody from the Dodger PR department that sho Hel
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Tani is unlikely to exercise his key man opt out
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: clause even if Mark Walter is forced by the federal
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: government to sell the Dodgers because of some illegal dealing financially.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: Now, the report that conveniently.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Popped up in multiple Friendly to Baseball outlets. Friendly to
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Baseball outlets claimed that it was as source familiar with
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Otani's camp, where is Campbelltani?
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: Do is that?
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Like?
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Do we know is that in Riverside? Where's Campbelltani? San Clemente?
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Do we know where that?
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: We don't know where they're not? Now the clause if
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: you don't know, give you the quick thumbnail on this.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: So a Tani ten year, seven hundred million dollar contract,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: he's currently getting paid seven dollars an hour, and most
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: of that money deferred. However, there's an opt out if
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Mark Walter, the owner, or the Dodgers executive Andrew Friedman
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: say bye bye to the organization now Otani's camp.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: This is according to the reporting.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: They believe that Dodgers have proven themselves to be a
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: well oiled machine and fulfilled their promise to reinvest the
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: money saved through Otani's massive contract deferrals into the Dodger roster.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Then you had that longtime gas bag executive Stan cast In,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers executive.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: Who came out there.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Remember I remember when he got very upset with a
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: one of the beat writers. I approached him in the
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: press box. Very classic a couple years back. Anyway, stay
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Casting insisting that the owner of the team, the guy
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: that's his boss, Mark Walter, and his sudden sale of
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: the Lakers completely unrelated to the Dodgers declaring there are
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: no changes here. Wink wink.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: I added the last part that wink wink. I added
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: that that was not his court. I added the wink wink.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: That was my part.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: That was my part, I added the wink wink.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: All right, So that is a good jumping out point.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question show hey, Otani, all right,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: not going to hit the eject button on the Dodgers
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: if they're sold this according to multiple reports, believe it
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: or not, believe it or not. So I've got Lady Gaga,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: my pillow and televangelist, and we'll combine all of these
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: things together and we'll give you the ABC's and the
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: one two threes. We always start out, though, with no
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: one one one one?
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: What stop?
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Stop? I said, stop? What a croc? What an absolute croc? Okay, Seriously,
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: we're not chugging the corporate blue kool aid. Now. I
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: like the Dodgers. I'd like them to succeed. I'd like
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: them to do well. But unlike a lot of you people,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: I have critical thinking. All right, I have critical thinking,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: and that is my my advantage I have over many people.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Otani did not negotiate one of the rarest clauses in
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: baseball history. You can count, I believe, on one hand,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: the amount of people that have had that clause. You
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: don't do that to just waste it. You know, it
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: is an inject button, and you don't certainly broadcast your
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: intentions when you're going to hit it, just like Mark
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Walter did not say I'm gonna buy the Lakers in
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: less than a year, I'm gonna sell them. He didn't
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: say that. He didn't say that, you know, because he
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: didn't realize the FEDS would be off bird dogging him
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: after him. So Otani's Camp Campboltani is that like Camp Pendleton,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: So Campoltani would have to be clinically stupid to telegraph
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: their movements.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: They don't know.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: There's so many unanswered questions here about how how bad
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: is this? Is it legitimately terrible? Is it not as
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: bad as initially reported? So naturally you would think they're
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: sitting there with their Lady Gaga poker face, pretending, pretending
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: everything is pure Dodger Land magic, like we don't know
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: who if the Dodgers, who buys the team? Does Andrew
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Friedman stay or does he leave? Will the new owner
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: keep spending like a drunken sailor or turn the Dodgers
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: back in to Frank McCourt ere a dollar general where
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: they bring back he sop Troy. Nobody knows Didley squat okay,
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: and all these reports conveniently leaking out at about the
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: same time.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: It just makes you go hmmm.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Kind of like that was orchestrated one of those lines
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers, the well Oiled Machine line, which pr person
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: wrote that that's quality, that is absolute quality from supposedly
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Otani's camp. But just to put a bow on this,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: declaring Otani will not walk right now is like walking
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: around the stables there at Churchill Downs. And we have
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: one of our great listeners who tends of the horses
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: at Churchill Downs, walking around the back of Churchill Downs
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: and just wander around and announcing the winner of the
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Kentucky Derby while the horses are eating hay in the back.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: What are you doing all right now?
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Pitch due to the Bronx, to the Brox and the
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Bronx of the Bronx and Brox and Bronx Box Brox
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: broxh Jazz Chisholm not exactly smooth Jazz a miserable season.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Much This may have Yankee fan Jill in Minnesota. She's
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: devastated at Jazz Chishm there, who's continued to suck at
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: a time he cannot suck.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: When Oh for.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Four Yankees had a matinee there in the Bronx three strikeouts,
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: including the final out.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: Yankees lost one nothing to the Seattle baseball team.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: And despite being absolute dog crap all year, Jazz Chisholm
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: does not think that going to the bench would help him,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: of course not. Why would he Nothing else has helped him,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Why would that help him? He said, The only way
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: through the struggles is to continue to play and go
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: oh for four.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: Uh while he said, to keep going through it.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Yes, it's an automatic out when you play the Yankees.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: You're always on the power play when Jazz Chisholm is there.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Because the Yankees lineup is shorthanded. Now his offensive production
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: has fallen into the abyss. Okay, it's somewhere in the
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: East River. Chisholm a six eighty seven ops for the
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Yankees right now at the time we're doing this monologue,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: and that is way down over one hundred points, over
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty points from where it was last season.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: And it's across the board.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Down down down down, down down down down down down down,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: down down down. It's way down now, Chisholm said, you know, he' said, oh,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: it can be okay and all that stuff, but he's
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: carrying a roughly forty percent with rate, and it's not
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: just against one pitch it's not just against breaking balls,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: it's against everything, and he can see it. Here's what
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: he said. He said, he doesn't have an explanation. He said,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: I can't tell you why or else I would be
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: hitting Chisholm, insisting that he isn't mentally defeated. And he
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: then said he believes forty one games can turn a
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: season around, which is the amount of games the Yankees have,
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: give or take here the rest of the way. So
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: the question, can you diagnose what the f is going
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: on with Yankees star Jazz Chisholm Junior, the second baseman
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: from Hell. So yeah, Jazz Chisholm Jr. Let's go back
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: to February, and it was great, it was wonderful. He
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: came out and it was spring training in Florida, and
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: he showed up and he was doing cosplay as a
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: glorious peacock, and he was strutting around as a peacock
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: with his feathers in the air everywhere, and if I
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: remember correctly, he was talking about.
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: A fifty to fifty season in the Bronx.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: And unfortunately he has been not been charged with writing
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: bad checks. He wrote checks he could not cash and
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: no baseball play. Think about this. Of all the players
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball, there is no single baseball player
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six that has destroyed their financial future
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: more than jazz Chism.
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: Nobody has done more damage.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: To their outlook career wise financially than jazz Chism.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: And his big.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Proclamation from Yankee Nation has turned out to be not
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: a dream, more like a nightmare. He wanted the mega
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: mega mega millions in free agency, and instead he has
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: thrown roughly one hundred and fifty million dollars. That's how
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: much he's going to lose into a bonfire and watched
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: it burn, baby burn, and that is generational wealth up
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: in smoke this season. That's how bad jazz Chism has been.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: He bet on himself and right now he's got a
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: cream pie all over the place.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: Right Chisholm wanted the penthouse. He wanted the penthouse.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: As of this moment, he is going to be shopping
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: in the My Pillow section of free agency, one of
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: those pillow contracts we talk about all the time, and
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: he'll be starring in a budget friendly remake of a
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: My Pillow commercial those used to be everywhere, and his
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: likely next contract instead of the presidential suite. He'll be
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: staying at a hostel, right and just going to keep
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: the roof over your head. And you got a lot
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: of people hanging around and all that. One of those
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: one year bounce back pillow deals. Yeah, So it turns
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: out all those tail feathers from the peacock costume were
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: hot air.
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: That's what they were.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: All right, final point, Let's go back to the NFL.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: I am contractually obligated to talk about this, so I
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: wanted to talk about the presentation. All right. Watched a
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: lot of these Thursday exhibition games and my right hand
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: was getting a workout, flipping around the boob tube to
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: practice football, not real football, not real football.
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: We talked about practice football exhibition games.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: So the question, what was your big takeaway from spending
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: about seven hours of your life. We'll be on your
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: deathbed someday and wish you had that time back. What's
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: your takeaway from the malor sampler on the first real
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: night of exhibition NFL television broadcast. So my takeaway is
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: rather simple, and it's the same take I've had for
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: many years.
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: I just like to enhance it.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: It's confirmed, I was read, I got reconfirmed by my
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: take validated. So the exhibition television broadcasts are not football coverage.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: They're not football coverage. It's like going to church, all right,
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: it's going to the tabernacle, every local broadcaster. And I
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: flipped through all these games, the Lions and the and
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: the Patriots there there again. I went down the Raiders
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: and Cardinals. I was watching the forty nine ers of
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: the time. All of these broadcasts, everyone that I sampled
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: on the malor sampler, every one.
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: Of them was.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: It was like watching a televangelist working as a faith
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: healer holding.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: A tent revival out in the boondocks, promising miracles this season.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: It's like they were all passing around this sippy cup
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: with team.
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: Kool aid, is what they were doing. So yeah, it's
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: I understand.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: You check your critical thinking at the door when you
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: are in this environment. And repeat after me. Everybody looks amazing.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: We've had such a great camp all m G. Yeah,
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: these telecasts it's like real estate listings. You know, they
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: ever check if you've ever looked for a house or
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: anything like that. You look at these real estate listings
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: online and everything is charming, potential, a lot of upside,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: which usually means total dump, total dump. And on night
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: number one of the exhibition games, like, every single rookie,
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: according to these guys, is Moses parting the Red Sea.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: What a draft. We nailed it. We absolutely nailed in
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: the draft. Every veteran, best shape of his life, hasn't
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: had a better camp than this one. Yep, every dysfunctional
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: franchise on track.
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: On the road Gloria Road to the super Bowl.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: Like you aren't watching actual analysis, You're attending a three
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: hour motivational seminar where the snake oil is officially licensed
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: with the NFL shield on it. Welcome to the cult.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: It's like, come on, I'm watching the Titans broadcast. I
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: was watching the Charger Texans game and some blowhard from
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: the Texans like, well, the NFL sent us to London
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: because they love the Texans brand.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: No, they didn't, dummy.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: They sent the Texans because they send everybody outside a
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: few glamour teams overseas because they're barnstorming. And that's what they're.
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: Doing because they love the Texans. Okay, it's not so
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: just knock it off. You're embarrassing yourself, is what you're doing.
• 37:32
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• 37:35
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• 37:39
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• 37:41
  Speaker 3: How about that?
• 37:42
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• 37:48
  Speaker 1: Who knew and koopa loop?
• 37:52
  Speaker 6: Now, Ben, I know that you weren't all that impressed
• 37:54
  Speaker 6: with Fernando Mendoza's first NFL showing, but everybody is. I'm
• 38:00
  Speaker 6: super excited about Drew Aller. He had great stat's better
• 38:04
  Speaker 6: than better than Mendoza. I imagine you feel the same
• 38:06
  Speaker 6: way about his showing.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: Yes, I don't. I'm very levelheaded, as you know, Coop.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: I don't just I'm not a reactionary talk show host.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: I don't believe in the ever do I think Drew
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: Aller is the savior of Pittsburgh's quarterback dilemma and all No,
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: I do not.
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: I do not.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: It's nice that he had good numbers and all that,
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: and a Penn State guy the whole thing, and exceeding expectations.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: I don't get excited about that. I'm not. I mean,
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: it's a preseason game number one in the Green Bay
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Packers were totally destrevel next.
• 38:47
  Speaker 6: Now, Ben, there was a report that Luka Doncik had
• 38:51
  Speaker 6: zero idea that the team was going to be sold,
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  Speaker 6: and this came after he talked about how great the
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  Speaker 6: communication was between him and Mark Walter. Do you think
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  Speaker 6: it's surprising that he had no idea that this was coming.
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  Speaker 1: No, because Mark Walter had no idea this was coming.
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  Speaker 1: The FEDS hadn't been bird dogging him. He would have
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  Speaker 1: kept the Lakers, like they didn't buy.
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  Speaker 3: The Lakers to sell the Lakers after a year, Like
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  Speaker 3: they're panicking over there.
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  Speaker 1: They got to figure out how to dig themselves out
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  Speaker 1: of the holder in right now.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, I totally believe that this was not the plan.
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  Speaker 1: And they were embarrassed and they were hoping they wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have to sell the Lakers. They had no choice, so
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  Speaker 1: they had to get rid of them. So they're not
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  Speaker 1: going to announce it. Nobody had this, Nobody knew this
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  Speaker 1: was gonna happen.
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  Speaker 6: Next, New Dallas and Mavericks coach Dusty May was asked
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  Speaker 6: if he would ever return to coaching in the college ranks.
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  Speaker 6: He said, I hope not because that would mean I
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  Speaker 6: did crappy here. Could you see him ember returning to college?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Well, he answered, you know the answer is yes, if
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: he sucks. That's what we always said that the college
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  Speaker 1: job is a fallback job. The NBA is a better life.
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  Speaker 1: It's more money, it's a better lifestyle. You don't have
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  Speaker 1: to deal with the nil bull craft. Of course, he
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  Speaker 1: ran a.
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  Speaker 3: Coach in the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: How did we do Kobo pass this edition? Checking Dinna.
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  Speaker 1: Blame we who? It's Big Ben's lame joke of the week.
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  Speaker 3: Now here we go, Big Ben's lame jokes of the week.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see. Do we have the man, the myth, the legend,
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  Speaker 3: weed Man Hippie? Are you there, Weed Man Hippie?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Ben, I'm here, meet me.
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  Speaker 1: Laugh, don'tkay?
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  Speaker 3: Everything all right with you? Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm good. You seem depressed? Well now I'm good,
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  Speaker 1: all right?
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  Speaker 3: All right?
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  Speaker 1: How old was Mike the Leprechaun when he celebrated his
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  Speaker 1: birthday with cabbage and beans?
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  Speaker 3: No, I gear forty two.
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  Speaker 1: That's how he is.
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  Speaker 3: That's all Georgia and Valdi.
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  Speaker 1: Georgia and Uvalde, Texas. Dad joke, Dave writes, and he says,
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  Speaker 1: what do you call a paper airplane that can't fly? What?
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  Speaker 3: Stationary? That's not a bad Joe. That's pretty good, Dave.
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  Speaker 3: I like that.
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  Speaker 1: That's all that's good.
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  Speaker 3: These are actual jokes in them by actual listeners.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to send jokes in care of Benmaller
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  Speaker 1: Show at gmail dot com. Benmallershow at gmail dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone sawhiw Coople do an offensive joke. Here's a throwback
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  Speaker 1: joke from Tyler in Parts unknown. He says, Ben, did
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  Speaker 1: you hear that we discovered the world's largest island? Wow?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it turns out it was just Lizzo on a
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  Speaker 3: cruise ship. So that's that's all.
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  Speaker 1: Some weed. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Well, this want from Kathy and Madison.
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  Speaker 1: You know why poop pills can be sold as smart pills? Why? Well,
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  Speaker 1: because when you say, hey, these pills taste like Drek,
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  Speaker 1: you're smarter already.
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  Speaker 3: That's Kathy in.
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  Speaker 1: Massaconvy, Dennis and Detroit sent this one in What NFL
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  Speaker 1: record did Joe Flacco set when he started for the
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  Speaker 1: Bengals this week?
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  Speaker 2: What record.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he became the first player to start a game
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  Speaker 1: while receiving retirement benefits.
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  Speaker 3: So congratulations to Joe Flako there where to go? All right?
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  Speaker 1: What's the difference between Mike the Leprechawn and Jed who fled?
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 1: Well, one's a leprechaun and one's an ex con. So there,
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  Speaker 1: that's it right there. That's econ Rooseville, Minnesota. All right,
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  Speaker 1: Joe and Virginia Beach sent this one in. I saw
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  Speaker 1: two w NBA tickets nailed to a fence this morning.
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  Speaker 3: How about that weed man? Wow? Yeah, he says, my
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  Speaker 3: lucky day, free nails. Yeah, all right, Gray.
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  Speaker 1: And where does Loreena go on her days off? Where
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  Speaker 1: as far as possible from her cousin Anthony in Louisiana.
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  Speaker 3: That's Michael in Tulsa.
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  Speaker 1: He said a few, he said. Now, why do Michael
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  Speaker 1: Leprechaun and Marcel and Brooklyn fight so much? Why because
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  Speaker 1: they can't be in the same hot air balloon.
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  Speaker 3: Cannot do it, cannot do it.
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  Speaker 1: That's Michael and Tulsa. George and Rochester, Minnesota sent this
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  Speaker 1: one in on Big Ben's Lame Jokes of the Week.
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  Speaker 1: He says the Lakers were bought for over twelve billion
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  Speaker 1: dollars this week. How about that the big boy. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Tony Romo was relieved it wasn't him after his last bender.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: So now to the weed Man radio roast. Why doesn't
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  Speaker 1: weed Man like being called cheap? Why?
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  Speaker 3: Because he's not cheap, he's broke. There's a difference.
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  Speaker 1: That's Surfer Todd the comedian. This one's from Lucky Tony
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  Speaker 1: in the Bay Area. How can weed Man hippie make
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  Speaker 1: money on the toilet wow? By making weed Man action figures.
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  Speaker 3: Let's just leave that right there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Shane and Leesburg, Alabama writes, and he says, if
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  Speaker 1: weed Man has a one hundred dollars bill in his
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  Speaker 1: front pocket and another one hundred dollar bill in his
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  Speaker 1: back pocket, then what does weed Man have? What someone
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  Speaker 1: else's pants? Hunny, it's a good joke by Shane. I
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  Speaker 1: did you hear that weed Man was offered a job
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  Speaker 1: at the petting Zoo?
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  Speaker 3: Wow?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, he's the perfect fit for working with the pot
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  Speaker 1: belly pigs.
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  Speaker 3: That's when Rob a winner of the Mallard Town Show,
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  Speaker 3: Robert in.
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  Speaker 1: The three two one and any lame, any offensive jokes,
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  Speaker 1: coop or anything like negative?
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  Speaker 3: All right, Why does weed Man hippie hate gardeners?
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  Speaker 1: Why?
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  Speaker 3: Well, they're known to use weed whackers always a problemly Mic, Why.
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  Speaker 1: Did weed Man and not not make it to as
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  Speaker 1: a corporate ceo? As a corporate ceo? Why, oh, he's
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  Speaker 1: always got he's always gotten lost in the weeds.
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  Speaker 3: That's the problem, I.
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  Speaker 1: Say, Mike again, All right, now, did you know that
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  Speaker 1: weed Man is actually not cheap? Right?
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, you just have alligator arms. You literally can't
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  Speaker 1: reach your wallet, weed Man, It's fascinating, surfer Surfer Todd
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  Speaker 1: the comedian. And why does weed Man get disappointed with maps?
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  Speaker 3: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Apparently you cannot tell where the high way is weed
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  Speaker 1: Man the problem? Michael, that's Michael in Tulsa. Who is
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  Speaker 1: weed Man's favorite X handle on Twitter?
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  Speaker 2: Cool?
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  Speaker 1: Well, thank you to the Ben Mausehow that would be, sir,
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  Speaker 1: smokes a lot. You're a big fanm Michael. Don't forget
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  Speaker 1: This one's from Brendan in Boston, He says, did you
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  Speaker 1: hear that weed Man is into.
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  Speaker 3: Arts and crafts?
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: He really loves pottery, big fan of pottery.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, last one, weed Man.
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  Speaker 1: Did you hear that weed Man took a job at
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: the muffler shop because he was getting bored watching YouTube?
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  Speaker 4: Really?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's unfortunate though. You apparently had to quit though,
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  Speaker 3: because you got too exhausted.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's there, you go, fag you wait me Indiana
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  Speaker 1: Big Bess Life Jokes of the Week.
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  Speaker 6: The first Coop Scoop on Entertainment starts.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, and here is Justin Cooper at off.
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  Speaker 2: Welco bet on X take it away and then before
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  Speaker 2: to see me soon.
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  Speaker 1: Did he just book himself on the podcast?
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  Speaker 3: Yep, sounds like it.
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  Speaker 6: All right, thank you, Marcel.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 6: Luckily we have a short abbreviated Coop Scoop on Entertainment.
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  Speaker 3: You're saying I f'd up the clock? Is that what
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  Speaker 3: you're saying. I'm just saying it's a good thing that
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  Speaker 3: we do.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, all right, We're gonna start off in the theaters
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  Speaker 6: and the new movie out this weekend that I want
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  Speaker 6: to highlight is called The.
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  Speaker 1: End of Oak Street.
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  Speaker 6: Now. This is a sci fi slash fantasy thriller. The
• 47:58
  Speaker 6: synopsis goes after a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street
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  Speaker 6: from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown. The
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  Speaker 6: Platte family soon discovers that their very survival depends on
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  Speaker 6: them sticking together as they navigate they're now unrecognizable surroundings.
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  Speaker 6: I believe there are dinosaurs in this movie. I'm just
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  Speaker 6: gonna throw that out there. It stars Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor,
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  Speaker 6: and Chris coy is also in this one.
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  Speaker 3: Oh Chris coy is but a Hathaway. I've heard him,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Chris coy has been in some TV shows and
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  Speaker 6: movies as of late. He's actually gonna be in another
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  Speaker 6: show that I'm gonna mention here in a couple of minutes.
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  Speaker 6: But good reviews on this one. By the way, Anne
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  Speaker 6: Hathaway's awesome. Love her all right. Moving over to television,
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  Speaker 6: we have a new show called Don't Say Good Luck,
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  Speaker 6: and that is available to stream on Netflix. Right now.
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  Speaker 6: And it is a family dramedy centering on a high
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  Speaker 6: school student whose preparations for starring in her high school
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  Speaker 6: musical are interrupted by disturbing who's at home. We've got
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  Speaker 6: Steve Buscemi and John lovetts in this one.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I've heard of both of those people.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, I'm hit man.
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  Speaker 1: I heard of both those guys, John Love It's very
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  Speaker 1: funny man back in the day.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's right. So you've heard both of them because
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  Speaker 6: they were both super famous in like the early nineties.
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  Speaker 3: So Dare You, Dare You?
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  Speaker 6: And last, but not least on Sunday on HBO at
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  Speaker 6: nine PM or streamingun HBO Max. We have a new
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  Speaker 6: TV series set within the DC universe called Lanterns. It
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  Speaker 6: comes from Damon Lindelof, who is the creator of Lost
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  Speaker 6: and Watchmen, And basically it's centers around the Green Lantern.
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  Speaker 1: And I've heard of the Green Lantern. Yes, famous in
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: the like the nineteen thirties. Yes, that is true.
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  Speaker 2: It is.
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  Speaker 6: It doesn't take specific storylines from the comics, but it's
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  Speaker 6: structured as a murder and investigation that draws elements throughout
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  Speaker 6: Green Lantern's history as well as from TV shows like
• 50:05
  Speaker 6: True Detective and Slow Horses, and I believe this is
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  Speaker 6: starring Finn wind Trock of Stranger Things Fame. First of
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  Speaker 6: eight episodes Sunday, HBO, nine PM.
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